EVAP Redo

Now I've replace the rest of the Vapor Line from the EVAP System.  This line comes from the Charcoal Canister, and feeds the Fuel Vapors from the EVAP System to the Intake Manifold via a couple valves mounted on the Intake Manifold.  This line holds the EVAP System Service Port, and a Vacuum Surge Tank, so I replaced 3 links of vapor tubing, and all the hose clamps.  Also replaced the clean air line which goes to the EVAP System by the gas tank...

Speaker Restoration

This shouldn't be a surprise.  The Speakers are Blown...  Well, you take old speakers, and play them loud you're gonna get shredded cones.  Monster Truk is 16 years old this year, and the speakers show it.  The plan is to maintain the acoustic properties of the mount, and replace the speaker with a right size speaker.  Monster Truk has Premium Sound, that is what I want to preserve.

The front door speakers have a kicker box that seals it to the door frame.  This allows the bass frequencies to travel into the door, distributing the bass sound, so it fills the Truk.  This is what it was missing before because the seal was broken, the cone suspension.  The old speakers had a plastic frame, and were glued into the kicker box.

There were several plastic mounting struts that supported the magnet in the middle of the kicker box.  The the cone, and voice coil were supported by the ring around the periphery.  I used a large pliers to break the plastic struts, and then a chisel to cleanup those areas.  Finally to mount the new speaker I fabricated some small wooden anchors that would fit in the small gaps around the periphery of the kicker box.  This is the carnage of removing the old speaker.

Doh! There it is...

Been chasing the EVAP problem for a while.  I've replaced every minor hose in the EVAP System, with hose clamps.  Also replaced the gas cap, lost it, then bought another, LOL!  The problem was right in front of me, literally.  Right on top of the engine, a little to the right of the intake manifold EVAP assembly is a short hose that connects the Body Side of the EVAP System to the Engine Side of the EVAP System.  Short hose, 3 inches long...  The Engine side was loose, and oily.  So I removed the hose, cleaned the hard tubes, and used a new piece of hose with Worm Clamps.  And that was the leaking hose.  I'm going to replace the rest of the hoses in the area also.  That particular hose was petrified, hard as rock...

Puppy Prints...

There is an ongoing battle to stop the muddy Puppy print trail into our house.  This is the latest campaign..  Close to the patio we have some large shady trees, so the grass isn't growing very well in these areas, and they tend to get trampled a lot, so it became sort of a mud pit.  So we decided to pave part of this area, making a path to the garden, and place new sod on the rest.  We learned that Zoysia grass grows better in low light conditions, so we planted Palisades Zoysia.  Its a really nice looking grass.  Also we trimmed the tress considerably so that the grass is getting a lot more light.  So, over this weekend I finished planting the Zoysia sod, and this area is looking a lot better...

South Gate Chain Gang

I replaced another fence post this weekend.  This is one of those posts that I have earmarked 'Working on the Chain Gang."  This is a fence post that has completely disintegrated below the ground, and there is nothing left to grab onto to Pull the post.

Usually my Modus Operandi is to  excavate the ground around the mushroom top of the concrete stump around a broken fence post, then drive a long Screw Eye into the remaining post to get a handle on it.  Then I can use a long lever to "Pull" the Post Stump.  Well, on this one there is no wood left, it is all rotted out.  So I have to bust the concrete stump out of the ground in little pieces.  Double Stump was like this...

This one seemed to be extra difficult, but they all seem like that when you are working on them.  I started working on this one a few weeks ago, then got distracted by other things.  I finally got back to it this weekend, and finished pulling the concrete out, widened the hole for a 6x6 Post, and got the new Post planted.  This one is the Hinge side of the South Gate.  Now it is extremely sturdy, and conversely the Latch side is extremely floppy.  The South side of the Fence is only about eight feet long, and I think I'm going to replace the whole thing.  That means I've got one more 6x6 Post, one 4x4 Post, the Gate, and the Fence Panel.  This is making me hungry...