What Part/s Did You Buy Today for Your Hobby or Project ???

[chargervert]

After blowing the budget on my Hemi engine,I have now resorted to stealing all the parts I bought for my other cars to put one together with the Hemi in it! Why buy parts when you can steal them! lol

 

[Black_Sheep]

LED bulbs for the Stewert Warner gauges in my '58 Apache, hopefully they will better match the LED backlighting in the Speedhut speedo and tach. I also ordered some colored LED bulbs for the dome and courtesy lamps, crossing my fingers that green will look cool with the bright white interior.

 

[Triplegreen500]

Heard a screech (LOUD!) under the hood of my wrangler today.

I'm in N Florida on my way to Miami for 3 months.

Figured "belt" so I checked the tensioner. Felt a little notchy. Bought and installed a new tensioner. Noise still there. Idler felt a little notchy...replaced that too. Lucky I had the tools with me.

Still made the noise intermittently. But never when I was under the hood looking.

Had a screwdriver pressed to the alternator to listen (that was my next step)...and it finally did it while I was there. It was the passenger side of the engine...but not the front. The SIDE. It's what used to be the distributor, that the FSM simply calls "camshaft sensor assembly". Once I found it, I could tap the housing with a wrench and make it do it. Looked online, found this

https://www.jeepforum.com/threads/2005-06-jeep-opda_cps_distributor-failure.1144202/

Yup. Thats the noise. Found a NAPA that had one. Bought it. Marked the old one. Removed it. Marked the new one to match. Installed it. Crossed my fingers...fired on the first crank.

$300 I didn't really have, nor want to spend today...but better here than on the side of I95 I guess.

At least the sun came out for a bit...

 

[Vaanth]

I already have three timing lights, but added this one too. It joins my Craftsman, Dixco Magnum 44, and another Dixco. It is of early 1990s vintage. Thirty years old, but still newer than my others from the 1970s and 1980s.

 

[Budnicks]

a couple days ago actually

$2,568.69 for my Wheels & tires, Lugnuts & register rings
5) Ultra 50-51 16x8" 25mm/5.125" BS machined finish with a clear coat over that
& 5) Falken Rubitrek LT285/75R16 32.8"x11.2"x16" hy-brid AT/MT tires/black walls
for my 1999 Dakota SLT extra cab, 4x4...

To replace my 25 year old Toyos, Open County 32x11.5"x15"s
(4 of them were Just under $600 in 2001, they are $333 + another $80 to mount
& balance today, $413 per just tire, for about $100 each more,
I get tires & new wheels mounted)

I still have 1/3rd or more tread, 42k miles, Toyo's were/are great tires
I'm starting to get afraid of the how old the casing are,
you hear horror stories
mine still have no cracks or splits, hold air perfect, great wear patterns
& it's garaged when not driven

almost the exact same as what I have on the Jeep, 2020 Gladiator, but they are 17"

I wanted new wheels too

old look below,
new tires at about an 1" taller & about 3/4" narrower

I'll post photos when I get the new rims/wheels & tires
supposed to be here 12/26-ish
free shipping mounting & balancing from CustomOffset.com