What did you do to the expy today

[Big Red Monster]

picked up my girlfriend and learned that my radiator no longer wanted to be part of my engine, the bastard starting ******* coolant everywhere. got it home went to get new radiator and 4 jugs of coolant, will be starting early this morning, i need my truck back on the road FAST!

 

[alaskanexpy]

with it getting warmer out all the guys at work are bringing there toys to play with at lunch in the yard. so tonight i loaded up my cushman to bring and play with haha should get a few looks between being weird and the paint!

 

[FordandPolaris]

New PCV valve and hose today, and put front shocks in yesterday. 200,000 miles on the originals is not recommended...

 

[Erich Zeppelin]

Took my 1999 Expedition out in the wilderness, forded a river and two streams, scared the hell out of a couple a moose, fixed a flat, got stuck, got unstuck, mud everywhere, got a dent from sliding into a rock...........a perfect day!

 

[cleaningman94]

Because I am in a different state asked my cousin to bring it to the car wash and ordered 07 tail lights for it. Im itching to see my baby again.

 

[TexasAngel34]

Went to the flea market this weekend... cleaned the baby and now shes dirty again...

 

[bigmatt207]

deep cleaned the inside. just starting to get nice out here and the winter was pretty rough...and i went to mud runs yesterday. still got the outside to do. also learned that i am leaking some fluid out from where the tranny connects to the engine. cute.

 

[b514]

Took out one of the front wheels that's slowly leaking out air (about 1psi/day). Spent a whole hour spraying every inch of it with soapy water but couldn't find the damn leak. So i put it back on and now wondering if I should just inject a bit of tire slime to plug this sucker. Don't wanna mess up the tire or TPMS sensor though, so I don't really have the guts to try the slime yet.

 

[b514]

Finally had time to assemble my air tank, try it out in the garage, install it in the cargo area, and take the air line from the tank under the truck (through the spare wheel access hole).
All that's left to do now is install the horns under the truck and connect them to the air line and then take a wire from the valve to somewhere on the dash where i'll install the horn button.

 

[VexedEX]

Drove it Like I STOLE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[cleaningman94]

Argued with my cousin because she wanted to drive it but she sucks.

 

[b514]

Cursed it a lot. I'm 30miles from home and the **** won't start. All it does is click one of the relays in the fuse box. I get this often when I leave the key in with the engine off for a few minutes or so. If i let it "rest" for half an hour it usually restarts.
Today i left they key in with the engine off for about 20 minutes so that the kids could watch a dvd while their mom was in a store. I let it sit for an hour and still doesn't start. Giving it another 20 min before i call towing.

 

[rburch]

Going to try my hand at bake and paint the headlights!

 

[b514]

I'm finally home. The CAA (canadian AAA) gave me the tiniest battery boost ever and the truck started like nothing had happened. We even took it off the booster after less than a minute and it restarted fine all by itself. Even the technician was surprised. Battery diagnostic came out ok but slightly discharged 11.8V), lights and accessories worked it's just the starter that didn't turn. I would have expected it to turn slowly, but it didn't even try turning.
Do expys have a feature where it doesn't even try to crank if it detects the battery to be too low?
Anyway, looks like i need to drive it more often or plug in the trickle charger at night to keep the battery topped up.

 

[Captain Morgan]

Removed the winch cables at the battery and added different lock washers, added shrink tube to the ends and re mounted.

I removed the grill, the license plate holder, the front bumper shroud and bumper and assorted trim.

I removed the bumper pad from the bumper and cleaned all the removed parts.

The bumper was metal to I scrubbed it a tad with a scotch-bright pad and painted with black "bumper paint". The grill and other black plastic I sprayed with several coats of Krylon Fusion black.

I mounted the Curt Manufacturing 31049 Class III, 2" Front Receiver and the bottom brackets for the Westin 35-1180 Black Brush Guard on the same bolts to the front rails and touched them up with some black "no rust" enamel paint. I also spray painted the Westin bolts and washers with it. There was a small skid plate I removed and put that back on.

Tomorrow I will mount the bumper and plastic parts with new plastic whatchamacallits then add the body of the brush guard and line everything up, torque down the bolts.

I need to buy a new bumper trim molding and bumper filler, the ones I pulled off are crap and were painted with the wrong paint before so not worth dealing with.

Now if you will excuse me, there's a beer and some Aleve call me . . .

 

[2000 Ebony XLT]

Good lord what a day! I embarked on installing a 3/2 lift on my 2000 Expy. Have been PB Blasting it all week. Rear jacked, tires off lower drivers side off no problem. Remove the spring and go to work on the upper shock mount. Well DAMN! It backs 1/8 of the way off then freezes up and wouldnt you know the nut is so corroded its totally round!

Needles to say, 12 hours, 7 different tools, two packs of heavy duty Dremel cut off wheels later and I cut it off. Replacement bolt to be gotten in the morning and finish up the other three corners which, needless to say don't look to be as corroded as the one I worked on today.

 

[Captain Morgan]

Wowza . . that's what I always envision in my head when people say "I did it myself with one eye and a bad arm and it only took me an hour and a half . . ."

Murphy's Law, I never escape it.

Good luck on competing the job, hope you have some pics to show for all that.

 

[rburch]

Tackled my headlights today! Baked them for 18 min at 225 and it was a piece of cake! I was always leery of doing this because if i f@%*ed it up i would have to shell out money to fix it!

Used a green scotch bright sponge to get the reflective stuff off and gave it two coats of gloss black i had lying around and it turned out AWESOME!

After i got them painted my son was driving me nuts to go to the park so i baked the at 200 for about 20 min to dry the paint quicker.

 

[hovocop]

I bought an apple mp3 player with car adapter to replace broken cd changer in golve compartment

 

[panda24619]

decided to put my jvc deck back in. wired it all up and turned on. no power to the speakers. great. now have to figure out whats going on tomorrow.