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Posted: July 08, 2009 at 4:07 PM / IP Logged

i like that tip from soundnsecurity also, i will be sure to try it the next time a difficult hood pin install pops up,

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Posted: July 08, 2009 at 5:33 PM / IP Logged

Back to the hood pin and yet another grounding trick on plastic 'cause I've noticed the latest Yaris is ALL plastic on the striker surfaces. We only get the Harrison types here so I take a 4m bolt instead of a self tap or taptype with a corresponding nut and washers with a 4 or 5mm (3/16"?) ring terminal.

German cars, get some fabric backed tape for looming, it stealths them beautifully.

Lastly, all pin switches and siren mounting nuts, bolts etc also the 2 x screws at the rear of DEI sirens, spray em with water retarders, no siren moisture ingress and pin switches that will last for ever.

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Posted: July 09, 2009 at 10:11 AM / IP Logged

howie ll wrote:

I'd like someone to come up with a spray on shrink sleeving or Scotch 33+.

Plast-cote makes a spay thats pretty similar to Scotch 33+ once dry.

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Posted: July 09, 2009 at 11:52 AM / IP Logged

CK, do you mean Plasti Coat flexible rubber?

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Posted: July 09, 2009 at 12:17 PM / IP Logged

howie ll wrote:

CK, do you mean Plasti Coat flexible rubber?

they also make a spray. and yes i meant "Plasti-coat", sorry i cant type today. new tips and tricks - Page 2 -- posted image.

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Posted: July 11, 2009 at 11:40 AM / IP Logged

Here's one I forgot till I came to do a Lexus today. 10mm head bolts, mounted a long way In, tend to fall off the end of the socket and you lose them. Well actually you won't if you place some insulating tape over the bolt head then push it into the socket, you can hold the damn thing upside down and it won't fall off.

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Posted: July 15, 2009 at 9:42 AM / IP Logged

that is a good one howie. use the same principle with teflon tape and itll hold on until you torque it down and it breaks off. i just saw my mechanic friend do that last week. genius

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Posted: July 15, 2009 at 10:39 PM / IP Logged

In response to the "10mm bolt"...Ive used the double sided butyl rubber stuff...Have a few rolls...Also use the "stuff" that comes w/ some speakers sets...stuff a little into driver...and bolt holds great... I know I am an Idiot said in a post... To see polarity on a speaker you can not see...Tear a piece off bottom of broom and slide into area/holes til it touches the speaker...Pop the speaker...If the broom piece pushes out...you have the right polarity...

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Posted: July 15, 2009 at 11:25 PM / IP Logged

Even better than the double stick tape or the teflon tape, Snap-On makes a magnetic socket. Lot easier than having to put the tape over every bolt head. I have no idea if Howie has access to Snap-On tools, if not you may try attaching a piece of a Neodymium magnet to the inside of a socket.

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Posted: July 16, 2009 at 1:18 AM / IP Logged

The comments following my "bolt holding" trick prove what I said at the start, is there anything new? Yes Craig, all my 1/4" drives, a nice 8 and 10mm 12 point ratcheting wrench for alarm sirens, etc etc all snap-on though I use a MAC swivel head 1/4" ratchet, the snap-on one is too expensive, 20 years ago whenever we went on holiday to the US, it was "follow that snap-on van", nowadays prices are about the same over here.

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