I have a few updates here - to the shop, the G8, and the Vette!
First of all - the week of Christmas my garage door opener was having some issues - the door would only open about a foot - and would not go any higher. So I called my local garage door company and they where going to send a guy out. The Door tech called me - and since it was a really cold and rainy day - and it was late in the evening he asked me what was going on - told him the problem and he said just turn up the force adjuster knob on the opener to one mark higher. Did that and bam - the door started working again. Since it was crappy weather and late out - the guy didn't want to come out, that saved me the $90
for the service call.
A couple weeks later the plastic gear inside the opener ground itself into oblivion and covered the garage in plastic dust - and the garage door stopped opening again. At the point I wasn't comfortable working on openers - I looked up the part - that plastic gear was $30 plus another $90 service call.
So at this point I would have been $210 in fixing an old 13 year old crap Craftsman opener - the original one to the house. So I started looking up the Liftmaster 3800 online. I called 2 companies about that model and to see how much it would be installed - cheapest quote I got was $900. I said screw that and started to read the instructions several times and started thinking to myself - hey, I can install that on my own. I first found the opener on Amazon for $350+ shipping - I thought that wasnt a bad deal. Then I checked on Ebay and found it for $270 - and free shipping.
I bought it on a Monday - and it arrived here on Thursday from CT - not a bad shipping time at all.
So one LONG Saturday with the help of a buddy - we installed the new opener. The opener install itself probably took 30 minutes - the long part was running all new electrical wires for the 2 sensors, the lock that bolts to the track, the opener button on the wall - and for the remote power source kit that they sell.
I compared running more conduit, the wire, another electrical box, the outlet itself - and the l brackets and condiut adapters - my price was $40 from the hardware store.
I looked up there remote power unit - and got that on ebay for $22 with free shipping.
So for around $300 I got the garage door working again - and well just happen to be installing a lift - so I gained another foot in room from the ceiling!
I took the old opener down the following weekend - and well you can see my thought there.
Now for teh pics:
G8 Update - the Doorman TPMS sensors that I ordered and installed just over a year ago - I had 2 of them crap out on me in one week! They started reading 180psi - or just nothing at all! RockAuto had a limited lifetime warranty on them - and I contacted the manufacturer about them - I unfortunately couldn't get them refunded - just a replacment unit - I wasnt going to put there crap product on my car since its $32 to dismount each tire - I just had Discount Tire replace them with there units.
So yeah - I do not reccomend Dorman TPMS units...
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Corvette update - when I attended the Run thru the Hills event 2 years ago - I promised myself that I was going to buy new rear tires, and new swaybars - well as you can scroll back I already got the tires. I almost bought these on Black Friday - they where $150 off retail price - well I am glad that I didnt since I used that money for the purchase of the lift.
I just happened to look on Ebay for these Pfadt heavy duty racing swaybars - I found them for $300 cheaper then that Black Friday deal!
Yes they are used - but they are in great shape!
These have 3 levels of adjustablity per swaybar - and have those splined Nascar ends that DSE uses.
I plan on installing these after the lift.
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