What did you do in your shop today?

[MPlayle]

Until you are faced with mandatory emissions testing as the San Antonio area will be beginning November this year.  Any CEL light or code is an immediate fail and has to be corrected and reinspected before you can renew your registration.

Thankfully, anything 25 years or older is exempt.  Our classic Minis get a pass.

[94touring]

Also my big floor jack died.  Which made getting the truck off the jack stands tricky. 

[MiniDave]

Boy do I have a deal for you!

I don't remember if it's a 3 ton or 4 ton, but it sure makes it easy to get under a big car or truck to the diff to lift them!

It's too big for anything I have, so we can talk - I just want it out of my basement.

[94touring]

Oh I immediately ordered a new 3 ton off Amazon that will be at my place by Monday.  I thought about driving to HF or Northern Tool to grab one in person but I don't feel like carrying it to my truck.

[cstudep]

I've only got 157k on it.  These engines are good for 3x or more from what I've read.

Rear brakes gone through. Only took 4 hours. There's 3 points of adjustment to them.  I did everything as a YouTube guy explained and wouldn't you know it the thing brakes better now!  I've only been driving it 10 years or more out of adjustment. 

Only 157k! Yeah you have a lot of life left in that one. I have 240k on mine and it runs like new. Know a guy that has slightly over 500k on one. Its a darn near indesteuctible motor if you keep up on the routine maintenance.

Mine was an Arizona truck prior to me getting it and I fluid film the underside, rockers, behind the bed sides, etc..so there in nearly zero rust anywhere on it. I also try to avoid driving it as much as possible in the winter salt.

Care to share the vid on the brakes? Curious now if I have done it correctly.

[94touring]

The frame on mine only has minor rust here and there.  Probably wouldn't be a bad idea for me to treat it at some point but we don't have salt here.

The thing he doesn't show in the video is the hand brake cable needs adjusted after you do the other 2 spots on the drums.  The handbrake adjuster is about midway up the truck.  After I got the drums adjusted and the cable hooked up, it was engaging the handbrake. Once I backed off the handbrake adjuster everything was good to go. There's also the rear bias adjuster.  I added more to the rear on that too. Mine was set almost all the way to the bottom.  Slamming on the brakes testing them nothing locked up on me and the rear end wasn't squirrelly. Definitely more pedal response now.