What did you do in your garage today..?
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I use cut-up cardboard boxes to line the floor. If you want to get fancy, you can get an oil absorbing mat that you can wash and reuse. If you want to get REALLY fancy, get a Stahlbus oil drain valve (I use one on my SXV's oil tank as well as my MDX since the oil drain doesn't protrude below the oil pan).
The stahlbus® oil drain valve
Simple and cheap, I love it.Oven liner.
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Thanks! Never considered that one.I use cut-up cardboard boxes to line the floor. If you want to get fancy, you can get an oil absorbing mat that you can wash and reuse. If you want to get REALLY fancy, get a Stahlbus oil drain valve (I use one on my SXV's oil tank as well as my MDX since the oil drain doesn't protrude below the oil pan).
The stahlbus® oil drain valve
www.stahlbus.com
I'm planning on doing an oil change on the Volt as the computer says it needs it.
Then the bike.
Then the van.
If I care, I just use a flattened cardboard box. Throw it out after the job. Normally I don't care that much and use some oil absorber and then sweep it up.
I use oil mat like this https://www.amazon.ca/Armor-All-AAO...&keywords=oil+spill+mat&qid=1680101412&sr=8-3
I get it from work It works awesome use until saturated
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I use puppy training pads
I like clear plastic rectangles you buy for under office chairs. They’re $20ish dollars and pretty much invisible so you can just leave them there all the time.
Owners could pool their money and buy the course. That never happens. They want to ***** about what others do with their property but aren't willing to put up the money to change the path.
Mad Mike
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I keep a cheap box of kitty litter in the garage. It's great for soaking up little spills.
If you're trying to catch drips before they happen, roll out a cheap rubber runner, $10. Rubber Runner
Same type of issue near here. Developers signed an agreement to keep some green space which became a course. But the land is just so valuable.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/kanata-golf-subdivision-planning-decision-1.5817278
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/clublink-appeal-golf-course-1.6263811
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/kanata-golf-subdivision-planning-decision-1.5817278
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/clublink-appeal-golf-course-1.6263811
Mad Mike
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Developer owns the course, they did offer to sell the land to homeowners, way too expensive. $1.2m/resident.
Town is workjng with residents to oppose development.
Switching from winter setup to summer.
Studded tires off, knobbies back on
Got a 15L Acerbis tank to replace the stock 8.5L tank. I've run out of gas so many times with the small fuel tank. No more! Almost double the capacity!
Tada! Last time I screwed up my wife's Acerbis install - ruined a fuel pump in the process. But this one was more straightforward.
Studded tires off, knobbies back on
Got a 15L Acerbis tank to replace the stock 8.5L tank. I've run out of gas so many times with the small fuel tank. No more! Almost double the capacity!
Tada! Last time I screwed up my wife's Acerbis install - ruined a fuel pump in the process. But this one was more straightforward.
I broke a lever last year. It's easy enough to get the whole lever off, but the replacement doesn't have the lowwr black bit. It's held in by the cylindrical piece, but I'm not sure how to get that cylinder out. It's a really tight fit. Any ideas?
If you're talking about the part in the middle:
Use a socket roughly the same size or just slightly smaller and a ball peen hammer to gently tap it out.
Mad Mike
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Shouldn't be a really tight fit, it's a hardened spanner bushing, it should push out with light pressure. Steel can corrode to aluminum, so a squirt of penetrating oil and a light tap should free it up.I broke a lever last year. It's easy enough to get the whole lever off, but the replacement doesn't have the lowwr black bit. It's held in by the cylindrical piece, but I'm not sure how to get that cylinder out. It's a really tight fit. Any ideas?
When you swap it over, clean it up and lightly grease both sides of the bushing before refitting.
My partner always asks why Canadians park in their drive ways...had to explain the garage was for toys and seasonable stuff like snow shovels etc....gardening stuff, snow tires....etc etc and of course motorcycles.
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Set up my TPMS with velcro today. The two sided tape here did not last long - the velcro should be fine and extremely visible. Will see if the solar panel on the back actually keeps the battery charged.
A new one came with the new lever and it doesn't push right in. I was planning on using a vice to squeeze it in.
I have this mark in the black paint of the Husky garage cabinet door from being outside for a week. I had clear tape over this spot and I’m guessing the sunshine through the tape hurt the paint. I haven’t hit it with any compound or polish yet. Any best practice ideas to fix it or is it not coming out?
