The cold is starting to get to me, I have some work I have to do to my Impala, it didn't pass inspection last time ,the steering linkage is loose. Im ready for a dose of warm weather. Just want to get out there with the top down again.

I feel your pain. Nice car. MY "summer car" is in storage, and I have been so busy I haven't been over to check on it for months. It's heated storage, and it has a trickle charger on it, so it's probably OK. I just usually like to go start it up and move it through the gears once a month while it's stored. I hope nothing goes wrong from sitting totally untouched for several months.

I am glad there are no inspections around here. Not even E-check. Just buy whatever POS you want, pay for a license plate, and you're off.

ahh , im tired of this weather if its not snowing its bitter cold . i planed this winter to hide in the basement and work on my tv's and other fun electronics ,all iv been doing is splitting more firewood than planned burn this year ,if im not doing that im working on my late 50's johndeere 1010 crawler that dint plan on using to move snow with ,but this snow is to much for a snow blower to move. and on top of that i have waste oil furnace in my garage for heat that is plugging up because of the cold and i must have got a load real dirty waste oil ,filters are plugging up every other day on it, and not speek of the other normal problems that go along with a vary cold winter, like sons battery freezeing and heater blower motor stops in wifes car ,burns out modual and motor on sunday night and she needs the car in morning , there are more things but who's listing them ,im the guy everyone in the family calls when they have a problem ,man if would get up to 30 deg. would be a heat wave. oh well we just keep pressing on, and soon the spring will be here ,we have to many easy winters around here, and a hard one come's along were not ready . stay warm everyone not much longer now soon it will be tax time.

Coogar's got a deal..... What state is that....? I was in Ga. for 6 years, they just did a butt sniff while on a treadmill at 2000 rpm, but yer bumper could be falling off, no breaks, and on the baldest tires ever, as long as yer car's ass had the right stuff commin out, off ya- go.....

snelson, I got the wife's car apart waiting for a warm day to put the head back on....
my car needs a boot over the shaft on passengers side, Already got a new shaft just in case it's gone by time I get a nice day..... And got the coal stove still apart waiting on an upgrade..... And yah, I gotta now go do a quick fix on the snowblower too this weekend..... Not much time for any tv's........ At least my regular use tv's are no trouble....

Coogar's got a deal..... What state is that....? I was in Ga. for 6 years, they just did a butt sniff while on a treadmill at 2000 rpm, but yer bumper could be falling off, no breaks, and on the baldest tires ever, as long as yer car's ass had the right stuff commin out, off ya- go.....

snelson, I got the wife's car apart waiting for a warm day to put the head back on....
my car needs a boot over the shaft on passengers side, Already got a new shaft just in case it's gone by time I get a nice day..... And got the coal stove still apart waiting on an upgrade..... And yah, I gotta now go do a quick fix on the snowblower too this weekend..... Not much time for any tv's........ At least my regular use tv's are no trouble....

i just finished adapting large hydrulic filter to the primary side of my furnace's pump ,she's working nice now ill have the garage 80deg before long . i finished wife car sunday night i had the parts in stock , its just a pain when everything craps out at the same time. the groundhog says there's only 6 weeks left of winter ,i think the snow piles will be here till july. lol

I just hate doing anything in the cold...... Last year had to do fuel pump in gas tank in 25 degrees......

Usually if one car quits we just use the old 86 prelude we keep as a spare.....

Been depending on that car a lot lately....

I was thinking of a "how do you keep warm" thread...... Sounds like you got a neat little toy in your garage.....

I'm kind of afraid of the heavy metals in waste oil... some nasty stuff is let free when you burn it. I fire up electric heat In my garage when I need to do winter work on the car... not too cost effective but only use it once in a while.

Coogar's got a deal..... What state is that....? Rural north-central Ohio. Some of our bigger cities (Cleveland for sure) have e-check, but still no inspection. The only way you need an inspection is when buying an out-of-state vehicle, or buying a junk car and trying to get a salvage-rebuild title.

Here in upstate NY They don't do the butt sniff, its $25, for safety, $10. for the '86 and my '88 Dodge... Closer to the city its $37. and they do it all.... No money here so the state couldn't get away with mandating the stations buy the butt sniffers.... $50K The station guy said.... Plus this state is the definition of corrupt, so every few years a different company bribes the state so they change companies, and the station owners have to buy new, because yup they ain't compatible..... Pull'em down and bend over....

good thing its only a safety on the 1966, it still uses a lead additive in the fuel...I was thinking not too long ago about the states that didn't require insurance. Seems hard to believe now, I was in California in 1987 the week it became mandatory, and there were people there that weren't happy.

Greetings from the bi-annual butt sniff, mandatory insurance state.... Dang my car and my ass hurt....

68 Torino in the garage waiting on a trans/engine swap.. Seem to have misplaced my Round-tuit..... :D

SR

In IL they only have checks in certain counties around Chicago and St. Louis. And even then its only e-checks, so anything older than 1996 is off the hook. This state is pretty good to classic cars.

What they are tough on though is license, title, and registrations. They really check them over good. I think it was the result of one of our former guvs going to the clink from shenanigans he did while he was Secretary of State (in IL the SOS is in charge of the Drivers Facilities), and they had to clean house. So, you better have all your paperwork in order when you go in.

bgk283 , Time to repave the driveway... :)

I know, I know, its on the list. The list gets longer all the time...

I was out yesterday snowblowing with the trusty 1962 Ariens 10ML60, and the sucker broke right in two :eek:

The mounting tabs on the upper half of the auger assembly broke loose due to metal fatigue. I have never seen anything like that ever happen in the hundreds of snowblowers I have repaired over the years.

Luckily, I had a spare auger housing sitting in a snowbank....I had to rebuild it and make one good one out of two when the 1" thick steel bar that holds the front auger snapped in half, same reason.....and I didn't have chance to dispose of the other housing. Good thing, too.

When I rebuilt it back in December, I caught a 40 degree day and it took me about 3 hours to tear two augers down to nuts and bolts and rebuild it. Since it's in the single digits and -10 to -20 wind chills, screw that, I'm doing it in the house!

The "new" housing is showing drip drying in the first shot, and the second shot is the functioning yet unmountable auger from the machine, sitting on a piece of plywood with towels on it, thawing out.

Yep, that's what's "on the bench" this weekend!!!

Mustve been the most gratifying thing to be able to go over to a snow bank and pluck out the part you needed. I love when that kind of stuff happens, makes me feel like I may be on to something, holding on to spare parts that others might consider junk.

Ha! I use to do minor repairs on my old snowblower in the kitchen too.....
My old one has chain drive and sheer pins that would go if I hit something....
And points that would need cleaning if it sat outside, and I use to keep it outside, so first start was no fun....

Now they live in the garage.... But my old one, our first I found in the woods.... Nice tough machine....
I once chewed up a shovel handle cleaning the shoot. It's single stage all chain drive to auger, no safety stuff, If you walk around to the front and stick yer ------- into it, you'll be missing it.....

On the plus plus side It will cut tall grass, brush, little trees, larger saplings, grind stumps, remove speed bumps, and blow snow, Ice, throw rocks too.....

Has anyone been able to avoid the fuel tank ethanol-enema your carburetor is downstream from? Using the fuel treatment and draining the bowl in spring (come on) doesn't seem to work. The 1998 Honda push mower really has trouble.

My two-stage snowblower is a 1996 funky MTD-clone called a snow-king, with a 5 HP Tecumseh.
Totally jammed up with gunk, I gave it the 2+2 (gumout, B12 etc) treatment and its back to work, after everything got a nice crust on it.

There are a few stations around here that sell ethanol free 89 but I haven't been good about going by and buying a can of it. Costs about 40cents or more per gallon. My poor little Simplicity snow thrower hasn't been started in a couple years. Guess I should at least go out and try it. We really haven't had enough white stuff here to try it this season. I did test my old generator a few weeks ago. Took a lot of pulls but then it ran okay.

We have a waste oil heater at work. I think the boss said we started the winter with around a dozen drums but now are down to the last one. It has really started smoking/stinking, but not in the shop, just from the stack. Walking around in the parking lot, it smells worse than a refinery. Heavy sulfur sorta smell.

On better days I've still been taking the old fleet out. Took the 67 Impala out for Valentine's dinner and today we used the IH pickup, it hadn't been run for about 3 weeks. I've been letting my shoebox Ford run for a few minutes a week-I did take it out a couple weeks ago.

No yearly inspections here, and none at all on the older vehicles. That does get abused a lot. The one-time inspection on late model vehicles is very tough, though. We do them at work and a lot of cars just aren't worth fixing. Had a couple this week that needed over $1500 work to pass.

Ha! I use to do minor repairs on my old snowblower in the kitchen too.....
My old one has chain drive and sheer pins that would go if I hit something....
And points that would need cleaning if it sat outside, and I use to keep it outside, so first start was no fun....

Now they live in the garage.... But my old one, our first I found in the woods.... Nice tough machine....
I once chewed up a shovel handle cleaning the shoot. It's single stage all chain drive to auger, no safety stuff, If you walk around to the front and stick yer ------- into it, you'll be missing it.....

On the plus plus side It will cut tall grass, brush, little trees, larger saplings, grind stumps, remove speed bumps, and blow snow, Ice, throw rocks too.....
That ain't no snow blower that is a gasoline powered wolverine!

yah.... That thing is raw.....

To the O.P.: I had a '64 Impala convertible and it was an amazing vehicle. Winter sucks when you have cool cars lying around!

I hear you Zenith, you believe this winter? Youre not too far away so you know what I am talking about. Ive got ice in the driveway that I don't think will be gone til May

When I go up the driveway or on my street in the little Prelude I feel like I'm in a bob sled. In the driveway it's over the top in the little turn around spot..... I'm sure some area malls the snow will be around till july....

I work in a small business-zoned rural area. There is probably a 12-15ft tall mountain of plowed snow in our parking lot. I had to come in on Saturday, and here are a bunch of kids playing on that snow mountain. There are no houses for miles. Where did they come from? LOL.

its melting here today, the first time in a month iv seen my solar panels ,back to some free electricity .

Here in northeastern Ohio we were snowed on, but good, in the last few (!) storms. I live about a mile from the southern shore of Lake Erie, so it's a bit warmer here than it would be further inland, but still I had plenty of snow. I too have a large mound of plowed snow just down the road from me, but I haven't seen any kids playing in or on it. I'm not sure, but I think perhaps, just maybe, the village I live in could have an ordinance banning kids from playing in snow piles, especially those as big as the one I just mentioned. I wouldn't be surprised if there were such an ordinance, as playing on such a large snow mound could be hazardous, dangerous or even fatal, especially when the snow freezes and becomes ice.

It's warming up here, too. The weather forecast on TV is calling for temperatures in the 50s in the next couple of days, so some of that snow will melt, although the same newscast talked about concerns over the possibility and even the likelihood of flooding once the snow starts melting.

Happens every year; ah, the joys (!) of living on the Great Lakes. I've lived in the region all my life (57 years) and still don't like it, but living in an apartment building at least I don't have to worry about shoveling snow.

its melting here today, the first time in a month iv seen my solar panels ,back to some free electricity .

My solar panels help warm the house, so they get cleaned off first......