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Garage Tips – No Longer Sweating To Death
The garage is actually pretty well insulated, which makes it easy to heat in the winter, and makes it a roaster in the summer. For the longest time I would just ‘sweat it out’ when things got warm and left the main door open as needed. For whatever reason, mosquitos have gotten to be unbearable around our place. So leaving the main door open to the garage was an invitation to getting all of my blood removed via mosquito bites.…
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Garage Tip – Removing a 1 piece Rear Main Seal
Just a quick tip for today! One of the maintenance things I needed to get done on The Mighty Merc was to replace the severely leaking rear main seal. This can be a bit of a pain as there isn’t a good way to pop the seal out of there. After doing a bit of reading, it turns out the Ford 5.0 guys solved this problem a while ago. Simply take a couple of wood screws, hammer them into the…
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Garage Tips – Fuel Injector Cleaning at home
The Cookie Cutter TJ got a ‘new’ set of injectors thrown at it. I ditched the stock 53030778 Chrysler injectors for the Bosch 0208155703’s. I came across a little tip on cleaning out used injectors that worked pretty slick. You take a 5ml syringe, pull the plunger out, and stick a red stray in the other end. That straw will attach to you can of carb cleaner. Nab an injector harness from the junk yard and rig up a momentary…