Sleazy's Garage
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.
In this video, I'm using the maximum motorsports tool to remove the bushings, removing the seals, and attempting to remove the bearings from the 8.8" Ford rear axle. I also begin the process of removing the rust so that I can eventually spray it with a rust prohibitive coating.
I bought an aluminum girdle cover for the 8.8 Ford rear-axle differential from my 1989 Mustang GT that I'm rebuilding. After looking at it out of the box I saw a great place to put a custom etching to add some great customization and personalization to my foxbody restoration project.
Taking apart the 8.8" rear axle from my 1989 Mustang GT. All was going well until I hit a stuck differential center pin that turned out to be a broken bolt. It took forever to get it out but with a little help we were able to smash it out.
Installed some torque box reinforcement plates for the lower control arms. I realized I was missing the upper control arm plates so those will have to wait for another video. Once again, it was great having my father-in-law's help on this one! I'm going to have to take these back out to spray anti-rust and prep it for welding at some point but for now this is fine.