Homemade cars. Page 5

Small rust bugs on the body of an old car gradually grow into through corrosion. In a good way, you need to cut out the rotten place and weld a patch, but the services of a bodyworker are not cheap, and it is very difficult to weld it with such high quality with your own hands.

On used cars, you can often feel a pulsing or vibration when you press the brake pedal. The reason for this lies in the rust crust on the brake discs. Its presence makes braking less effective, and is also accompanied by a characteristic grinding noise.

The final stage of CV joint maintenance or replacement is the installation of a band clamp on the rubber boot. The problem is that it is impossible to tighten it by hand with sufficient force. As a result, many people simply buy worm-drive clamps separately.

If you need to cut glass, for example, to repair a broken window, and you don’t have a glass cutter in stock, you don’t have to buy one. For a one-time job, you can save money and use a fragment of a ceramic spark plug insulator. He

Typically, turning brake discs is done on a lathe. When such an opportunity is not available, or you don’t want to pay a turner, you can carry out such an operation yourself directly on the machine, using its capabilities. This does not require any

When dismantling a headlight for maintenance, one of its fasteners often breaks off. This is unpleasant, but not a disaster, since everything can be fixed. Anyone can do this; it only requires a soldering iron and 20 minutes of free time.

Very often, chips in the paintwork appear on the car body, especially the hood. Completely repainting it takes time and is quite expensive. If there is no money or desire to do this, then you can solve the problem with chips in another way.

The vast majority of car enthusiasts use bottle hydraulic jacks. They are reliable, compact, have a large load capacity, but are slow. To lift the car, you have to swing the lever dozens, or even a hundred times.

After laying fresh asphalt, or simply when driving in the heat, the bitumen torn off by the tread sticks to the car body. It sticks so strongly that it is impossible to wash it off even with a high pressure washer. However, there is a simple way to

When repairing and servicing a car, it often becomes necessary to jack it up. The reliability of the latter leaves much to be desired, so to be on the safe side, before crawling under the car, you usually place blocks. Having done this

To prevent the garden hose from lying around the area, and also to remain intact for as long as possible, it is better to store it in the shade wound on a reel. In this case, it ages less, does not shrink or crack. You can make such a hose reel

Users of screw and hydraulic jacks are familiar with the process of using them. You literally have to lie down under the car to get them under and lift them up. Having made such a jack, you will be able to lift the car in a second, without lying down or

For a fuel injection engine to work flawlessly, the correct fuel injection mode is important. Over time, the injectors become clogged, so gasoline sprays through them worse. Many drivers ignore this because cleaning them takes time. If you do not want

When using a hydraulic jack frequently, it becomes very annoying to pump its lever to lift the car. To avoid doing this manually, you can install an electric drive on it. To do this, you just need a working motor from the wipers.

For any conditions and needs, be it auto repair or shooting high-quality photos and videos, good light is important. To do this, you can assemble a lamp with very bright homemade lamps. They are made from ordinary LED daylight strip.

The engine compartment becomes dirty with dust, road dirt, insects, as well as leaks of oil, coolant and technical fluids. The motor is covered, as it were, in a cocoon with low thermal conductivity, which leads to its overheating. When the oil warms up it decreases

The most durable zinc coating on steel can be applied by electroplating at home. If the part is small, then it is not even necessary to have a powerful power supply, just batteries are enough. Consider the process of galvanizing steel from A

The rubber from which wiper blades are made is prone to aging. It begins to wear off, becomes faded, and cracks appear on it. If the brushes are still intact but worn out, they can be restored very quickly.

Just a vice in the workshop may not be enough. It is convenient to fix large workpieces with a clamp.You can make it from unnecessary valves and strip scraps.

There has long been an opinion that if you drill the side electrode of a spark plug with a thin drill, the spark will increase. This method revives old worn-out spark plugs and actually makes them spark better. Why does it work and is it worth it?

Often, engine problems in the form of difficult starting, floating speed and poor traction are caused by incorrect operation of the throttle valve. This can be solved by cleaning it. This should be done together with replacing the air filter, or even more often if

I decided to fix the cracks on the plastic panel of my battered truck using a technology I had seen in videos on YouTube. It is based on the interaction of ethyl cyanoacrylate glue (any superglue from the store) and an alkaline compound (soda).

The car heater radiator has very fine honeycombs, so when antifreeze is rarely replaced, it becomes clogged with rusty scale. To avoid freezing in winter, install this filter in front of the cabin heater. It will remove all large and medium fractions from antifreeze,

Carbon deposits accumulate inside the engine cylinder and on the pistons, interfering with the operation of the lubrication system. As its quantity increases, significant oil consumption occurs. At the initial stages, this problem is solved by decoking without disassembly. Let's consider