Thread: Post Whoring - 5.5.1 - We have a turd in the punch bowl

A hot cat left it's mark on me as I tried changing the filter on a gm 3.6L. Bad kitty.

Originally Posted by 02NavyBlue

A hot cat left it's mark on me as I tried changing the filter on a gm 3.6L. Bad kitty.

They get easier the more you do them. I even cheat a little sometimes and spray the whole area in brake kleen to cool stuff down, it's not my brake kleen so I use it up LOL.

Then the fun part is spending 5 minutes cleaning up all the oil running down onto everything.

If I wouldn't have just run out of my long nitrile gloves, and had to use my home box of cheap gloves, I wouldn't have been burned. It was right past my wrist which is usually covered by the long gloves. Oh well, it left a nice red mark and overall wasn't too painful. I've had worse with soldering irons, those burns have a specific type of long lasting pain. The cat is literally 2.5 inches from the oil filter, with no heat shields on the whole back side.

Yeah some oil filters are right above the cat, so the cat gets soaked. Others are above A/C hoses, that's going to degrade the rubber over time.
But man sometimes they come in so hot off the road, being 2 inches away from the cat almost burns. Then the filters being recessed in a tight spot, is hard for the 220° oil to not run down your arm. At that point I just sacrifice a few shop towels for my sake.

brutal in here...

Got another 2 days before the windows can go back down again.

...No. It's hardware, not software so it's not really a good comparison. On top of that software it comes with doesn't support any of the extra PIDs from what I can see. Torque Pro is only as fast as the hardware you use.

Originally Posted by HighOctaneRacing

I saw this and I wonder if it's better than Torque.

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/zubie-ve...&skuId=2047936

You know..if you wanted..you could probably borrow HPT from someone you know

If only you were in Springfield MO...

Many feel that way about where they live.

I'm losing the battle of getting this broke bolt out of my old brackets. Tried heat, vise grips, pounding on sockets (which worked and grabbed but they kept breaking). Gonna try to get someone to weld a nut on the end of the bolt and I'll try to spin it out or just break the bolt or the weld.

accept defeat, and toss that bracket in the trash.

More heat, get that sucker cherry red.

I will if i can get someone with a mig welder because i dont think a arc will work well?, guy down the street that normally welds almost died from some lung surgery or something and can't inhale fumes or weld according to his doc. Maybe I'll ask to borrow it for a split second, how hard can it be to weld a nut on to a bolt right?

I can't ID the bracket but thats a fine pic o the bench grinder lol. Whars the PB Blaster? Consider salvage item vs your time br'er Russo.

This guy needs a cat... but man theres no replacement for displacement-

Its my old caliper bracket that I had a guide pin a snapped off couple weeks back, I don't really need it but I'm a parts hoarder one of the "ya never know when you'll need it" guys. I was going to clean and paint both of them silver.

You need to find someone that has some real torches and heat that b!tch.

I had the same thing happen to me when I put brakes on my mom's Caliber. I tried a bunch of stuff on my own and it wasn't working. I ran over to my uncle's place. He has and oxy/acetylene setup. We put it in the vice and heated that bracket until it was glowing. I put some vice grips on the piece of slider bolt that was sticking out and slowly worked it as the heat started freeing it.

Ten minutes later it was free and I was headed to the parts store to get new bolts.

Went all out and bought A/C gauges, a vacuum pump, some pag oil, and a 30lb R134a can with 1/4" adapter.
Gonna fix my a/c which needs an a/c compressor (leaking at the seams), low side fitting(schrader is leaking), accumulator(for new desiccant), and orifice tube(since it's cheap and they're known to plug up over time). Oh, and I should replace my condenser, it has a nice rock dent from the previous owner, but it's not leaking. hmm..
That's gonna put a dent in my wallet. Got to fix the impala too, so I can make a little back on that.

Blue, yer gonna have some sub-arctic air when ya get done with all that. Hell yea get a fresh condenser too if you can swing it! Better keep smearing grease good though, if your car is gonna last long enough in the salt to use up all the new goodies. Ha. I've always wanted a fresh A/C system, jelly.

So whats this I've heard about a tool now available that swaps the low side Schrader valve while retaining the charge? You seen that?