Anyone work on their car outside, in the cold?

[franco90]

I want to kill myself everytime I need to work outside but I've done it, I installed my rear shock mounts when it was 5 degrees F and I was working at night with a small mag lite. It was so cold that the air inside my compressor started to freeze.

The worst I have ever dealt with was helping my dad once(he owns his own business of on-th-road diesel repair) to get 10 new tires on a customers Freightliner during a blizzard, high wind, freezing temperatures, and snow that feels like tiny razor blades, fml.

your : SL.UT sucks

[Nairb]

Yeah, sucks.. doing a dashboard swap and cluster rebuild tomorrow.. OUTSIDE!

But, I live in Florida, and it was about 75+ degrees out today.. so nice.

Sorry dudes.

[E300000]

I want to kill myself everytime I need to work outside but I've done it, I installed my rear shock mounts when it was 5 degrees F and I was working at night with a small mag lite. It was so cold that the air inside my compressor started to freeze.

The worst I have ever dealt with was helping my dad once(he owns his own business of on-th-road diesel repair) to get 10 new tires on a customers Freightliner during a blizzard, high wind, freezing temperatures, and snow that feels like tiny razor blades, fml.

Its not the air freezing, its the warm air rushing through the small cold metal fittings creating condensation on the inside of the fittings then it freezes and blocks the passageways.

[tjmonsen5]

im down at school, where my car is parked in a parking lot. no heated garage like at home.

i guess i added water to my washer fluid over the summer, because my whole bottle was a blue ice cube. i pulled the bottle during 15 degree weather, and brought it inside to defrost.

it was a 5 minute job, but thats about the only thing ive done in the cold so far.

[Simon S]

it's not the cold that gets me -

it's the lack of heat.

['86 325e]

I gotta replace the o2 sensor and drivers side e brake cable (Saturday so I can get it inspected) outside in the cold ass wind and whatever amount of snow decides to build back up. The couple inches we had melted cause it peaked at like 35 yesterday..
But then again, I'd rather have snow if its gonna be cold.. No point in it being cold without snow..:D

[ldsbeaker]

I stopped doing that years ago. Although a cold unheated garage is no fun, either.
I have one of those inside/outside digital thermometers, and it's usually colder inside than out.
I bought a kerosene jet heater. Burns clean, and I have "open" soffets, so it ventilates okay. Will heat the garage up 30 degrees in about an hour. 60 degrees from 30 is pretty dang okay and comfortable. The only thing that sucks is that it needs electric AND kerosene. Kinda counter-productive, but it works.

[TimKninja]

Had to do my Corollas brakes in 22 Degree weather. That isint nearly as bad as what it seems you guise are going thru.

I also did my whole timing belt/waterpump parallel parked on my street. My ricer neighbor was like "Dude your insane". During the day it hit 99 Degrees outside.

Currently I work on my car in an uninsulated two car garage that leaks like a mothafucker .

[rightcoastbias]

Preface this with the fact that I have heat in my garage.

This week I let my wife park in the garage. I decided to paint my valve cover. Ends up the gasket was cracked, so I ordered a new one. It didn't come in for five days. In the mean time I started replacing vacuum lines and shit in 30 deg weather with a heated garage 5 feet away. Couldn't push the car up my drive way into the garage. LoL

[trackjunkie21]

I have a garage, but with soo much tools in it, car will not fit inside, so I must do everything in the driveway. Sometimes I get lucky and can use my dad's lift at work. The boss is usually a dick though.

[ldsbeaker]

The boss is usually a dick though.

Really? Guess it's not your dad's lift, then... It's the BOSS's lift. Which kinda gives him the right to say, get your fucking car off my lift. He doesn't HAVE to ask nicely, since it's HIS, and I'm sure that you're not paying for lift time.



(I don't know why I'm posting this, not trying to stir shit up, fo realz)

For real, though. I'm sure a 12 pack of his favorite tasty beverage or maybe even a $20 every once in a while might cool him down. I know it would if it were MY lift.

[charlescho]

For real, though. I'm sure a 12 pack of his favorite tasty beverage or maybe even a $20 every once in a while might cool him down. I know it would if it were MY lift.

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[Stanley Rockefeller]

I once replaced my entire engine and tranny out in front of my parents house in -5C weather. Did it in 2 days with breaks for peeing and food, while writing my 30 page psychology thesis that was due the following Monday morning.

[ck_taft325is]

I once did all of the coolant, vaccum, ect, lines on my old M42 in -19f wind sheer, with 32mph winds in the driveway. No fun. At all...

My out most layer of clothing was actually stiff from the cold.

[LJ851]

this reminds me of the monty python skit "reminiscing" . "when i was young..."