Finally!

[piece-itpete]

My friend's kids in the hood tend to buy old 'rounded' civics (90s) with issues for $3-400, they fix the issues (almost always minor) and drive them for a year or two. It's almost amazing. Sometimes they have more than 350k when they buy them.

You can also swap the bigger anti-sway bars off of Acuras, bolt on fitment

Pete

[d-ray657]

Originally Posted by piece-itpete

My friend's kids in the hood tend to buy old 'rounded' civics (90s) with issues for $3-400, they fix the issues (almost always minor) and drive them for a year or two. It's almost amazing. Sometimes they have more than 350k when they buy them.

You can also swap the bigger anti-sway bars off of Acuras, bolt on fitment

Pete

The kid's considerably more mechanical than his old man. He feels pretty confident that most fixes would be cheap because there are and have been so many Civics around. Used parts would be plentiful and most every mechanic would be able to work on them if he can't get it done himself.

Regards,

D-Ray

[piece-itpete]

I hope it runs well for him!

Got the plier racks today, $9 ea from MCM. They look great. 'Install' tonight.

In the meantime it looks like the 02 sensor codes my Grand Marquis is throwing are - a bad PCM. Awesome updates will follow.

Pete

[piece-itpete]

The plier racks are awesome.

They're 30" long. http://www.mcmelectronics.com/product/22-15920

It'll only fit in a deeper drawer. I cut one in half and placed the halves in the front and back of the same drawer, so two rows. If you look at this:

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-7FE-4qrfJb...0/102_1478.JPG

It took all the various pliers vicegrips and pipe/clench wrenches etc from half the top drawer and a full thin wider drawer and got them into the same half of the top drawer - win. While they're packed in there pretty well (not spaced nicely like a pro often needs) I know what I have and can ID them all if I look harder than a glance. All the common ones are right at the front. If you buy from MCM and there wouldn't be additional frt a small cut section would be a nice thing on a hobby bench!

Next up is the screwdriver drawer, 'junk' drawer, and 'supply' drawer. I've cut up a couple $1 utensil trays in the screwdriver drawer but so far am unsatisfied. I may try a combination of some trays and bar magnets. I'm going to keep looking for suitable trays for the junk & supply drawer.

One issue with the utensil trays is, there's a fair amount of wasted space in them. The ones I found are similar to this:

http://www.amazon.com/ROMPEIRO-Cutle.../dp/B00F0RXN48

And I've already learned that, where I've hacked up two and put them together, just by cutting the rolled edges off I gain almost an inch. The sloped sides between compartments waste space too. Sounds crazy but it really changes how much fits in one drawer. So I'm going to end up looking for something more along these lines:

https://c1.staticflickr.com/3/2377/3...8ce3ed23a5.jpg

Pete

[JJIII]

You're gonna be so organized you won't wanna work!

[piece-itpete]

I aint messin up ma tuls!



Pete

[piece-itpete]

Topped a skid with plywood, so my boxes of 'saver' and Christmas LPs don't get damaged

I've forgotten how much fun sawing and building with wood can be.

Pete

[piece-itpete]

Swapping the PCM after work today, hopefully the instructions for jumping the coded keys work (their code has to match the PCM).

Then, because my temp tags expire today, I have to drive it illegally for a couple hundred miles to reset the 8 (!) modules that need to reset for echeck.

Pete

[nailer]

You're an outlaw too.

[piece-itpete]

It's just the way I roll.



Pete