I got up good and early to work on both MX-3s today...

[MrMazda92]

Beautiful morning! Cool, crisp air, I took a shower and got ready to do what I needed.

The moment the sun comes up, literally, the moment it's bright enough to begin working, the rain starts....

I have a long list of stuff to do today, headlight swap(wiring upgrade), seatbelt adjustment, swapping exhausts between my 2 cars, putting the right rear wheel on the '93, swapping the '92s brakes to the '93(bleeding brakes after), and putting my new brakes on the '92... Then taking the '93 to be registered, since I sadly haven't had an opportunity to do so yet.

Now I get to do that all in the rain... Go me. I'll probably get half way through the list before I give up in frustration.

[whitete]

go figure , same thing happened to me when i went to delete my cruze control, except it started snowing

[Nd4SpdSe]

I did a front hub/wheel bearing on a 4x4 F150 last night in the parking lot, in the dark, a -8*C. Gotta do what you gotta do

[MrMazda92]

Snow is worse, I'll concede that one whitete

Nd4Spd, you had fun though right?

[WhiteFinish]

Good luck !!

[Nd4SpdSe]

Nd4Spd, you had fun though right?

You know we're miliary when it's 11pm, your tired, cold and making mistakes, and you're still laughing and cracking jokes. It wasn't bad, what little wind had died down after supper, which was nice. Worked under the head/foglights of the Xterra, which are Sylvania Silverstar (headlights are Ultras) which were great to work under.

[Mooneggs]

welcome to oregon

I don't really plan on a specific day for projects anymore... I just have a list and everything ready for when the weather is nice and hopefully it coincides with a weekend

[MrMazda92]

You know we're miliary when it's 11pm, your tired, cold and making mistakes, and you're still laughing and cracking jokes. It wasn't bad, what little wind had died down after supper, which was nice. Worked under the head/foglights of the Xterra, which are Sylvania Silverstar (headlights are Ultras) which were great to work under.

Looking forward to similar experiences myself. As soon as my 9 months of ticket free life are up, I'll be a coastie. That means I'll have to finish school online and part time, but it'll be nice having reliable income again. What wattage are your Silverstars? I'm still debating which 110/100w bulbs I want to run. I'm avoiding blue blinders, I'd rather not cause any accidents, so the bright white of the silverstars appealed to me. I heard many good things about them, but I have no personal experience with them.

[MrMazda92]

welcome to oregon

I don't really plan on a specific day for projects anymore... I just have a list and everything ready for when the weather is nice and hopefully it coincides with a weekend

I've been trying to do that, but I tend to feel lazy on sunny days... At least during the winter, sunny days during the summer are always productive. I don't sleep during summer, I have so much energy!

I bought a TON of oil, both cheap crap and Mobile 1, a handful of filters, a few cans of seafoam, enough electrical crap to do my headlights with leftovers, custom rate GC coilover sleeves, and an MS replica bumper from CS. Not to mention bronzoils, Mcmaster-carr bushings(3rd link), and a bunch of other stuff for the '93... I've still got to find a quality, affordable micrometer to measure my KL01 cores for Colt regrinds, and then I'll be tapped out until tax refunds roll out.

I've got my hands full, damn... I need summer, pretty much NOW.

[ethand]

Hmmm shall I mention that it really only rains like 2 days/month here in Perth, and that it never snows....? Oh, in winter we get most of our rain - probs rains about 8 days/month in winter months, and when it rains, it pours, then stops. hahah
Dunno how I'm gonna cope in Europe this year - it'll be similar weather in Italy in summer as it will be at the same time here in Perth in the winter!!

[Nd4SpdSe]

You know we're miliary when it's 11pm, your tired, cold and making mistakes, and you're still laughing and cracking jokes. It wasn't bad, what little wind had died down after supper, which was nice. Worked under the head/foglights of the Xterra, which are Sylvania Silverstar (headlights are Ultras) which were great to work under.

Looking forward to similar experiences myself. As soon as my 9 months of ticket free life are up, I'll be a coastie. That means I'll have to finish school online and part time, but it'll be nice having reliable income again. What wattage are your Silverstars? I'm still debating which 110/100w bulbs I want to run. I'm avoiding blue blinders, I'd rather not cause any accidents, so the bright white of the silverstars appealed to me. I heard many good things about them, but I have no personal experience with them.

I'm 9004 headlight bulb and I'm using the Silverstar Ultras which look to be 65w. For the fog lights I went with the 893 which was the most wattage (37.5w) I could get in the 89x series bulb (manual lists it's suppose to be an H3 55w).

[MrMazda92]

I decided against 110/100w bulbs... Who knew they were THAT bright.

I'm going with a 65/60 "+80" made by Phillips. Wish me luck, huh?

On a surprising note, JDM headlights are more than 1 pound lighter than USDM.

[Daninski]

Ok, I'm,,,older than most on here and some dirt as well and working outside in the cold just doesn't happen. I got no problem with rain if it's above 40f but freezing cold days your hands are cold and your wrench slips and you pound your cold knuckles into hard cold greasy metal, that hurts. I had a garage I could use any time and if I bought stove oil I have heat too but that's a thing of the past since my friend sold the property.

[MrMazda92]

I don't mind the rain so much as the dark, now that I've got a 20x30 foot concrete pad to park the cars on! Mud made rain a PITA, but darkness is still a problem. A garage will be nice, if I ever manage to have one, since I'll be able to take things apart without the time constraint of putting them back together same day!

You had a good friend there :O None of mine will loan me their garages, except one guy who wants me to clean it first. I don't mind cleaning it, but he would only let me use it for 1 day if I clean it, and it's a 6 car garage he uses for storage.