2022

2022-05 May

2022-05-26 Thursday

  • DONE change cabin air filter for 2017 f150-raptor ~21k miles [2022-05-26 Thu 13:33]

    Steps (costs ~20$):

    1. open glove box (can remove if more room needed)
    2. pry plastic strip/hooks off across top of glove box/dash
    3. take out the 7mm bolts and pull back cover
    4. pull off air filter cover by undoing the plastic clips
    5. replace air filter in the proper direction

2022-05-27 Friday

  • DONE change break pads front and back ~23k miles (rotated tires) [2022-05-27 Fri 13:32]
    • Uneven wearing on break pads drivers rear side was gone while rest had more than half left.
    • Did NOT spin balance/align but no issues thus far.

    Steps (costs ~100$):

    1. Jack from rear pumpkin/front skid plate and place jack stands (too tall for normal floor jacks)
    2. Remove lug nuts then wheels with 21mm
      • rotate tires front to back for even wear
      • torque to 100 psi (calls for 150 psi)
    3. remove caliper with 13mm. Two bolts top and bottom on the back.
      • optionally grease caliper bolts
    4. use c-clap/screwdriver to spread caliper apart
    5. place new brake pads and metal tabs (if provided)
      • used duralast gold cermanic front (DG1414) and back (DG1790)
      • optionally add break pad grease to the side of the pads
    6. pump breaks after reassembly to ensure pressure

2022-07 July

2022-07-17 Sunday

  • DONE oil change for 2017 f150-raptor ~23k miles [2022-07-17 Sun 10:03]

    Steps (cost ~60$):

    1. remove skid plate 10mm (passenger side behind front wheel) for oil plug and drain
      • turn pull out then turn again for removal
        • plastic plug and pan
          • newer models have metal
          • mod kit available
            • chemical sealing is time sensitive on install
    2. remove skid plate (front drivers side) with T-40 torx for oil filter drain
    3. remove old filter with oil filter wrench and apply used oil to seal the new filter around edge
      • Fram PH10575 oil filter.
        • Alternatives: Motorcraft F500-S, STP S10590, Mobile M1-212 (only one not used yet)
    4. Add oil back with funnel
      • 6 quarts of 5W-30 synthetic pennzoil.

2022-08 August

2022-08-01 Monday

  • DONE Investigate router rebooting often.

    Model: Netgear Nighthawk AX12 RAX 120v2 Firmware: 1.2.3.28 Reboots sporadically during day/night. More common when using streaming devices such as rokus/fire tvs. Steps taken:

    1. Added surface with airflow and reseat power connection
    2. Disabled WMM(wifi multimedia) for 2.4 and 5 ghz under wmm tab on the Qos Setup page, to reduce load (speed is not the issue atm)
    3. Went to hidden page 192.168.1.1/Thermal_FAN.htm and verify the Fan temp sensor is NaNC (broken) (set fan speed level?)
    4. Went to hidden page 192.168.1.1/debug.htm and enabled fan always
    5. Returned the PoS and got a refund!

2023

2023-07 July

2023-07-15 Saturday

  • DONE oil change for 2017 f150-raptor 24350 miles [2023-07-15 Sat 14:16]
    • Fram filter again
    • add anti freeze/coolant (red/pink asian even tho ford calls for orange…)

2024

2024-04 April

2024-04-04 Thursday

  • DONE replace 2TB seagate [2024-04-04 Thu 23:17]
    • 2TB 7200 rpm 256 MB cache
    • top left is old and still clicking along…
    • 2 from amazon on 2nd shelf.
    • top right from newegg
    • lost data from being unable to import pool after 'application data loss' from wear/scrub
      • formating the small partition caused error for zpool import
      • had to remove and regenerate zpool cache after reformatting partitions
        • zdb -l /dev/disk-by-id/ showed the labels intact and cachefile had wholedisk property still
    • forgot to add drive screws to trays self fasteners
      • labeled 'drive screws' for future use

2024-06 June

2024-06-06 Thursday

  • DONE update routers [2024-06-06 Thu 16:11]
    • added daily midnight reboot to asus router.
      • despite disabling firmware updates in the setting it seems to check daily for them even after toggling the setting
        • it may be filling up its 'disk' leading to problems as the security files are not cleaned up?
    • added openwrt luci attended sysupgrades and updated linksys to to latest while keeping configuration

2024-06-13 Thursday

  • DONE change firmware [2024-06-13 Thu 14:35]