Sleazy's Garage
This video marks the 1 year anniversary of the first Sleazy's Garage video! I decided to do a quick retrospective on the last year in videos, give a monetary/channel update, talk about where I want the channel to go, and finally thank a lot of friends for their input over the last year. It's a lot of talking though so if you don't want to listen or don't care, feel free to skip it or mute it and watch some highlights of the foxbody mustang build.
This video is mostly just me fighting with the outer pinion bearing race. I noticed some galling/burrs in the seat so I needed some new tools. We get the new axle bearings installed along with new seals, created a pinion setup bearing, and pulled the new wheel studs into the new 31-spline axles. Incredible amount of work over multiple days for not really a lot of progress, but we get there in the end.
I bought a cheap but really highly rated 5" vise from Amazon to replace the tiny one I bought from Harbor Freight. This is a remove and replace of my old vise and some info on why it failed. My workbench really sucks still though.
Starting to put it all together now. In this video I assemble the carrier with new bearings and a new ring gear. My dinky harbor freight vice is not big enough and I ended up ripping it off my workbench.
I bought the cheapest 6-ton hydraulic press that would get here in a reasonable time frame from Amazon and when it arrived the box was in shambles. In this video, I unboxed it and gave it a quick review while also making it do some work. What I got was not exactly what was pictured in the sale page but nevertheless I was extremely surprised by the results. Vevor, "manganese" springs? I use it to press the bearing off the old pinion gear and check the spacer thickness. Also tried pressing out a wheel stud from an old ford foxbody mustang gt front rotor.
Decided to do some tweaks to my Halloween project. In this video I added more lights inside the headlights, added chargers and AUX cables for the speakers, and finally a quick tweak to clean up the garage a little bit. Next update I'm going to put a raspberry pi in with a touchscreen, I think. From my garage to yours, we wish you Happy Holidays, Merry Christmas, and a Happy New Year!
OK, I lied, there's one more video for cleaning up the rear axle. I ordered some new tools so I was able to remove the axle bearings and I was able to get the pinion bearing races driven out. Followed up with a thorough interior blasting of bra-kleen.
Finishing up the clean-up of the rear axle housing. Hitting it with the wire wheel, stripping disc, welding the axle tubes in (poorly), rust encapsulation, and paint. Also includes a sneak peek of the new internals.
Before the unforgiving upstate New York winter, I'm changing the oil, battery, air filter, and wiper blades on my 2016 Ford Edge. The mice left me a surprise in the air intake.
Turning a piece of my 1989 Mustang GT rebuild project into something special I can display in my garage. Includes a spooky Halloween garage dance party! Skip to 10:15 if you want to skip the build and see the finished product.