Showing all posts tagged "Diy"
Always more work to do on the Astra
I freely admit that my '08 Saturn Astra XE is no longer just a daily driver; it's a project car.
The next item up for repair at 115,224 miles is the right (passenger side) CV axle. It's flinging some grease, and is now starting to click a bit.
Th...
Posted on September 22nd, 2023
Cleaning a household fan
We're in the dog days of summer, as the saying goes (although here in Burlington, Ontario, it's been pretty cool [thankfully]). My family back in Iowa and in Oklahoma are dealing with some pretty high temps. Sometimes the A/C just doesn't keep up ...
Posted on August 20th, 2023
New patio table
A while back, the lovely CJD asked me to make her a little table for the patio that she could set next to her chair. Here it is. It's made with cheap lumber (= pine) and a lot of pocket screws. 😛 If you look close, you will see flaws in both the w...
Posted on August 19th, 2023
Replacing an oven lightbulb
Our oven lightbulb burned out (no pun intended), so I replaced it. It is about as simple a #DIY job as one can do.
How many PhD's does it take to screw in a lightbulb? Apparently only one.🙂
Posted on August 19th, 2023
Blower fan barely blowing air in your car?
On our drive from The Farm to Tulsa, at about Kansas City, we noticed that the A/C was not cooling the car as it should. Actually, as it turned out, it was not a problem with the A/C but a problem with air flow out of the vents. Even with fan on h...
Posted on August 3rd, 2023
'08 Astra Oil Pan Resealed!
You've probably heard me talk about it before (on my YouTube channel), but in case not . . . the oil pan (a.k.a., "sump") on my 2008 Saturn Astra was leaking. It was to the point that I was giving my car a good oil undercoating and I could smell i...
Posted on July 1st, 2023