I noticed my car making a weird noise on the right front the other day when I was driving it. That meant I better take the wheel off and inspect it to see what was going on. I suspected the big axle nut was loose as when one gets loose, it makes weird noises from past experience. Never the less an inspection of the unit still is a good idea.
First job today weird noise
So I got the jack out and jacked up the car and got a bunch of other tools out to do the job.
Axle nut is loose
The disc brake parts all looked good and so did everything else, so I checked the big axle nut. It didn’t look loose, so I put the tire back on and lowered the car to stop the wheel from spinning when I put my big wrench on the nut and turned it, sure enough, the nut was loose just a bit, but that’s all it takes.
I tightened up the nut and put the big cotter key back in. I’m not sure why an axle nut comes loose as they have cotter keys in them and the way the thing is made there is no place to wear to come loose. The only thing I can think of is there must be a bit of dirt in there that finally works it way out.
Brake pads are good
I got that done and cleaned up my tools. It’s also good to know the brake pads still have a lot of meat on them. I didn’t get around to testing out my fix, but it should be ok as it’s fixed this type of problem before.
Repairing the oxygen regulator
After a break, I decided to finish the repair on my oxygen bottle regulator for my welding equipment as the parts I needed to repair it had come in.
Here’s the gauge taken apart and the new parts.
It’s a fairly easy repair. I put it all back together and installed the gauge on the oxygen bottle and turned it on and all was good to go.
Toyota’s new gas tank
Another a break, sitting around the yard in the sun for a bit, I worked on the new gas tank for my Toyota Land Cruiser.
Here’s the old tank and the new one on the right. The new one is actually for later years, but will work with just a little adapting. The old tank was leaking gas. I fixed it with epoxy a long time ago and it worked just fine, but as long as I’m getting the old Toyota going again, I thought it would be a good time to repair the tank properly with a new one.
I needed to glue the pads in that the tank sits on so I used some silicone. This is where the new tank will sit.
Personally I think this is a bad choice on Toyota’s part to mount the tank here inside the rig, especially when there is a big space under the back that could hold a good sized tank.
It’s a little late to be thinking about a tank underneath, but maybe I should look into that at least a little and see what it might take to do that.
In the mean time here’s the new tank put into it’s spot which is under the passenger seat.
What pipes are what
I wasn’t sure what all those pipes were used for, so I went online to where I purchased the tank and they had a diagram that made it all make sense.
I wore the blue gloves you can see in the first photo to help protect my hands as they are having some cracked skin problems right now from my corn eating problem body rash.
The gloves helped a lot, but the forces applied to my hands working on stuff caused more cracks unfortunately. All I can do is say ouch, apply ointment and continue on hoping the hands will mend soon.
I got corned the other day
I got into some corn in Breyer’s chocolate ice cream the other day as they changed the ingredients so that is partly what’s messing my hands up and slowing down the healing process. Once I get corned it takes a week or two of misery before things calm down as in mostly whole body itching and red rashes, especially strong about nine hours after I ingest something.
There are over a hundred pictures that are served up randomly every time you visit or change pages. They are of earlier pictures of interest and also some just to remind me of things.
A Sony AX33 4K, a video camera that takes stills too. What am I doing with that? I take pictures from my Kayak a lot. I found I was missing interesting shots, because my pic was being processed in my camera, before it would let me take another pic. Since I like to take what I call action stills, I bought this camera to take videos, that I could make stills out of, but, as a bonus, this camera also came with buttons to just take stills and that's what I mostly do, unless something is real interesting or too far away for my still zooms. My digilat zoom setting for video goes to two hundred x, and sometimes I need that, but usually, I only use the 10x lens zoom. Because this camera is HD and 4K, the quality has to be real good and it has a lot of stabilizers on it which really helps out a lot for taking pics on the water.
The other thing it has that is a must is a view finder and I had to buy Sony's top of the line cam to get it. This is a must for taking pics on the water, as you must hold the camera as still as posible and putting that eye piece to the eye forms a tripod with your arms that helps a lot. The eye piece is also a must as it works way better than a LED screen to see what you are taking a picture of in the daylight as the LED screens wash out easily in sunlight.
I also have another video camera, a Canon VIXIA G30. I use them both to mostly take stills. The Sony takes higher resolution stills than the G30. That was a bit of a disappointment as I bought the G30 to replace an older camera I dunked in the river, but then had to buy the Sony to get higher still picture resolution that the G30 was lacking.
