Originally Posted by dbstepside (Post 4965312)

i'm sure alot of people know this but i keep a box of rubber gloves to change my oil with. keeps your hands clean so no oil on painted surfaces and also after pulling oil filter off i carefully pull glove off my hand and up around the filter so no drips from filter. saw this in a car magazine of my dads when i was a kid. there are some pretty clever tricks listed here, keep em comin i need all the help i can get.

Originally Posted by grayharville (Post 4964758)

I've got one. Have a pesky ground out wire that's draining your battery and you can't find it? I can narrow it down.

1.With the key OFF, remove the POSITIVE battery cable.
2. Place a test light in line with the cable, ie. Positive side touching battery post and negative side touching battery cable terminal.
3. If you have a direct short the light should be dimly lit, since the positive circuit is being grounded somewhere.
4. Have a buddy watch the test light while you begin pulling fuses from the fuse block.
5. Pull fuses and replace one at a time until the light goes off.
6. Note which fuse caused the light to go out. That will be the circuit draining your battery.
7. Inspect wires in that circuit till you find a melted or shorted wire.
8. Repair and feel better.

I ran across this recently while trying to find why my battery was draining, after realizing it was in the radio circuit I found a cut wire grounding out.
I saved alot of time as this only took 5-10 minutes.

I credit this to my dad. Hope it works for anyone who needs it
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Originally Posted by MacGyver72 (Post 4965768)

I'm sure some of you have done or seen this done but if you ever change your own tires (I mean taking one off the rim and putting a new one on), the bead can be difficult to seal at home. (A shop has the blast feature on the tire changer to blow out the bead and seal it.) You can spray WD-40 around the rim then light it. It will cause a small (controlled) explosion enough to seal the bead so you can fill the tire with air. Off-road guys do it a lot when they pop a tire off the rim. Whole lot easier than trying to wrestle with the tire while someone else fills it with air.

Originally Posted by MacGyver72 (Post 4965816)

ha ha ha Not really. I earned the nickname on my motorcycle years ago. I'd done all the common thinks like fix a vaccum hose with a pen, a broken wire with a band-aide, and a fuel vent problem with a pebble but I was dubbed MacGyver when I welded a shifter back together using jumper cables, a car battery and a penny. When you're riding on the road and you have a problem, you have to be...well....creative. ha ha

Originally Posted by MacGyver72 (Post 4965768)

I'm sure some of you have done or seen this done but if you ever change your own tires (I mean taking one off the rim and putting a new one on), the bead can be difficult to seal at home. (A shop has the blast feature on the tire changer to blow out the bead and seal it.) You can spray WD-40 around the rim then light it. It will cause a small (controlled) explosion enough to seal the bead so you can fill the tire with air. Off-road guys do it a lot when they pop a tire off the rim. Whole lot easier than trying to wrestle with the tire while someone else fills it with air.

Originally Posted by flashed (Post 4958109)

If you need to touch up your engine paint and dont want to take everything apart take aluminum foil and wrap anything you dont want painted and paint away.

Originally Posted by RenoKeene (Post 4958365)

Baby stroller tool cart.Found this one at the side of the road where someone put it out for the garbage man. This thing is great, holds lots of tools, rolls in any direction, has locking wheels so it won't roll down the driveway, easy to push over gravel, sand, etc. so I wheel it out to my parts truck with no problem, saves running back and forth for tools. It also folds up almost flat so you can take it with you to help your buddy work on his stuff...and it was FREE.

Originally Posted by Sillyoldman (Post 4966276)

I needed some tire chocks while doing some work. In my garage I spotted an empty box with heavy styrofoam packaging in it. I cut out a 5"x 5"x 10" block out of it then cut it in half at 45 degrees on my bandsaw. Although It was a temporary solution they lasted for quite a few years.

Originally Posted by 68C15 (Post 4966529)

another cheap yet safe option is to get some from the junk yard. second generation Blazers (95-02ish) actually came with 2 small steel ones located near the jack.