I could do it quite a bit faster the second time around. I also cleaned every cover and part I took off. The battery terminals were extremely corroded, so I cleaned those while I was at it.

My old 300ZX Twin Turbo had coil packs, but I think everything was accessible without removing the plenum.

I had an RX7 Turbo that had different plugs front to back, and you're basically changing them by feel since you can't really see them.

The Ford Edge was the most involved take apart for just changing plugs. I guess it's the way new cars are built with the thought they won't be changed more than once every 100K miles.

On the plus side, I did get to use one of my gun torque wrenches, since the torque spec was 89 inch pounds for the plenum bolts. I cranked the Wheeler up to 63 inch pounds, then gave each bolt a tiny bit more.

Perfectly calibrated!

Was it a SAE or metric skosh?

Just my wrists are sore. Always my weak points, and I do know how to PT the soreness away, but you think I do the PT regularly!? Ha.

Anyway those little fake bricks are 7.5 pounds, just a lot of them. The 3/4" drain rock, hauled in different ways. One day my neighbor with a little dumper ATV hauled some loads, but mostly I tow my dumper wagon with my Gravely ZT.

The worst are the 16"x24" pavers for the path to the garden heavy and hard to grip right.

At my age, it was until my wrist popped.

Finished up another leather project. Same design, except I added an external card slot. If I can finish one more, maybe I'll give them as Easter gifts instead of Christmas.

That looks really well done!

Very nice. Bees!



More rocks

The landscaping is looking great. Lots of sweat labor!

I made this


No that's a lie, actually it looked like this. built 15 of them today woohoo

get any clams CQB?

Well, it's not much but since our bushy-tailed little friends have decide they like the view from the top of our wrought-iron porch railings I decided to surprise them with some wider rails made of wooden planks for more comfortable roosting.

Yes, I said that in plural - we just had another one move in, and from the look of her she's either late-stage pregnant with quads or recently pupped. Little smarter than our buddy Lefty, too, beat 3 out of the 4 sections on the puzzle board on her first try.

EDIT: Update - no visit from Lefty so far, but the new girl climbed up to the new top-rail and seemed to like it.

Not fully today, but over the weekend and into today. I was working on the stroked 351w, (393), project in my shop for my daily driven bronco . Friday i dumped off the block at the machinist, and over the weekend i finished porting the heads(gt4O explorer heads, same casting as 90's cobra mustang), and mic'd everything i could, which i hadn't yet. I'll probably go a little more on the heads the next week or so, since they are the limiting factor here. (windsor heads are all crap, aftermarket alum is better, BUT i want heavy duty iron heads, so i wont have any issues for the next 1/2 million miles)

Also mowed my big ass yard and tilled the garden.

Yessir 15, one for each sandcastle!

Different motion you are PT with... Good work on the yard, got the same brand of riser covers as myself I think. Did you use anti-weed underlayment under the rocks? I re-did mine 2 years ago when I bought the house and it looks great still (rocks cover the riser).