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 5 tires & 5 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

 

[Hemirunner]

No purchases here, but the headliner I ordered a month ago finally showed.

 

[Schultz64]

Speed bleeders for the new brake hardware I received from Rbk65. P.s. if you are looking for a quality brake package rbk65 on this site provides! The 10x2 1/2 package I bought is awesome! Arrived without issue due to his great packaging. I am excited to finally install my Moser 8 3/4 rear with new 3:55 gears in my 440. Replaced the spring bushings with MOOG bushings. They said 'made in USA' .

 

[b-body-bob]

Holley Tri power Fuel Bowl - Allstate Carburetor

Outside 6-pack carb bowls. The ones I've got now have the accelerator pump well packed full of epoxy (because they are front bowls from a 4-barrel)

I was looking at new baseplates too because all 3 carbs have bypass holes in the throttle blades. Then I realized the outside carbs have those from the factory. The center hole may help with idle fumes - the car's got a 509 purple shaft and A/T so it might not be exactly happy without over exposing the transfer slots. We'll see.

 

[Vaanth]

NOS USA made shackle bushings from the long defunct Big A Auto Parts, made by TRW (also defunct from what it was, but the name and bits of it live in varied ways):

 

[Dodge-Scatpack]

Santa (aka UPS) delivered the new exhaust for my Bee today.

 

[ckessel]

NOS USA made shackle bushings from the long defunct Big A Auto Parts, made by TRW (also defunct from what it was, but the name and bits of it live in varied ways):
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In my parts career, a Big A store was the 1st I worked at. Later on when the Halffrican was busy extorting companies while in DC, many Mopar dealers got shut down. An old boss from one dealer asked if I would store the inventory he had bought from one dealer, at the ranch I grew up on. Said yes to that. For my "troubles", I got all of the shop supplies. One of those items was a Big A tune up cabinet.

 

[AR67GTX]

New McLeod 11” clutch arrived for the 66 Satellite. Now off to get it balanced.