The Rodding Roundtable
Motorhead Message Central => Rodder's Roundtable => Topic started by: 58 Yeoman on January 01, 2023, 10:14:30 PM
I guess someone had to start a new thread.
So far it has been a wet new year here in Aridzona. Weather guessers say more rain this afternoon.
Sometime this week, we will be at around 60*, then it's supposed to snow the following day. Go figure.
Mid 70s here today but not in this pic. New year, new car.
Looks good.
Taco Tuesday here.. A few items arrive for the RV today. I will be performing a few changes , upgrades, maintenance items on the RV this month.
oh ya, its been raining litely here since 4am. Suppose to move east from here by mid morning. A warning for you guys that are eastward.
I had a return on a rebuilt transmission today. I tore it down with him standing there. He swore there were bearings bad because it was " grinding and squealing and locking the engine up. No damage evident in the transmission. So I charged him $100 for the partial teardown and told him to check his crank endplay. He called later and said he had about 1/4" end play. I told him that was his problem.
Rebuilt the radio section of the dash in the 55 last night. One more little thing done, on to the next.
made the sissy bar for the chopper yesterday . pictures some day :lol:
I am rewiring part of the old truck. It involves rerouting some wiring and adding some wire that is unique to the fuel injection system that I am installing. I think the truck may be the first vehicle I wired. I know it is the first one that I wired without using a kit. Most of the stuff came from a 78 Camaro that I scraped. It certainly is not done the way I would do one today but it has lasted over 30 years. It is fun to go back and look at something you did a long time ago.
I ordered the fuel injection directly from Holley and it is on back order. Monday I will try to get the kit from one of their vendors.
I have been working on the bathroom. I had the tile installed in the shower, and the knobs would not clear the wall. It took me a couple days of thinking, but I figured out a fixture that would let me hold the knobs in my lathe, and it was a 10 minute job to fix the problem.
I saw Mars hiding behind the Moon this morning.
I cut the metal trash can out of the 55 cowl last night and started filling in unnecessary holes.
Dave, are you getting close to the end of the metal replacement?
:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: Nope. I am about ready to put the quarters on it but I need it to warm up so I can prime paint the inner structure. I have one side ready.
Take them to Florida :shock:
To much fish eye down there. :)
Replacing the OEM 1986 door on the park model we live in during the winter. The door was slap worn out , falling apart. New door height is good. New door is 2 inches wider so I had to modify the door frame opening, trim the tin siding back.
I could not find a door that was the same size. The supplier tells me the industry door size was changed several yrs back.
I have the new door about 50% finished. My back was going out , so I stopped for the day
The door looks good, Tony. I've been working on replacing the front floors in the Corvair I bought. I bought repops from Clarks Corvairs. Saved me a lot of work, but it is still a lot of works to preserve the cross braces. I started welding in the right side today, but the batteries died in my welding helmet.
rebuilt the seat pan on a 72 honda 70 tonight . Not mine , its for a buddy. welding wire was thicker than the seat pan , made it interesting ! I guess those bikes are quite sought after now . His is in pretty nice shape compared to the ones he showed me being fixed on the web site . His has been in heated storage all its life . new foam , seat cover ,sprockets , chain , brakes and a carb kit and it should be good to go .
Looking good Phil. That's the first time I have seen the heat duct on a Corvair. Hated the heat in those when I had one.
This is the first time I've ever had/worked on a Corvair, a lot of VW's. The heat channel is all plastic, and has three heater hoses attached from the engine, and they're 4" in diameter. Actually, two are heat and one is fresh air. I just learned this past week to block off the fresh air hose at the engine, so the engine gets more cooling air, and the heater actually works better with it blocked off.
That elbow is a 4" pvc pipe I used to 'expand' the heater hose to help getting it on easier.
Had a buddy with a VW back in the 70s.. He added one of those heaters that burned gasoline drawn from the front tank of the VW. Geez that heater made plenty of heat.
I have worked on a few Corvair powered sandrails, and a ramp side truck. Engine parts for Corvairs were pricey decades ago. Clarks Corvair was the main place for parts back then too. The rampside truck was an automatic... Gutless power is putting it mildly.
Several yrs ago , a buddy went to an auction of motorcycles here. He was texting photos & prices to me of the bikes since we share similar interest in them. The hot item then was the early Honda bikes that were stamped steel welded chassis. From 50cc on up the prices were crazy. These bikes were ruff "as is" to full restored.
I have been working on a semi precision welding table made from junk. I live to repurpose. I got this idea on you tube and them I adapted. Parts are from two old table saws that I have very little money in and an old bread rack from a grocery store that was free. When I am not using it as a weld table, it will have a wooden work bench top. The throat plate is reversible and the vise grip clamping fixture is stored upside down when not in use. You can use the original rip fence and miter gauge to assist in clamp a desired angle. You can use welding clamps through the grid on each end.
I recently read that you can either be a good welder or a good grinder. I think I am more of a grinder these days but a least I can sit down and weld some.
Glad that job is done. Now, on to more fun stuff.
I got a message just a little while ago from a guy in MI, saying he didn't see the messages that I sent him about buying his 69 Corvair, last year made. Said it went into a different folder, or something. His car is still for sale. I told him I already bought one. Nothing like being 4 weeks behind the times. Good luck with the sale.
Finished the outside work on my entry door install on the ol Park model today... My lower back is really angry again tonite. Tomorrow I will rest a bit longer I hope. The inside work is next to trim out the door frame and section of wall board I had to remove. Replacing a few single pane windows will be next.
Tony, I used to go to a local Chiro just about every week. He told me about an inversion table and put me on his once. It worked for me, so I bought my own, Teeter Hang Ups. It was almost new, so I pair around $350 for it, but they come up cheaper on market place, etc. If my back starts bothering me, I just hang upside down for about 5 minutes once a day. Seldom need more than two days in a row. You can take it slowly without hanging completely upside down, but in degrees until you feel comfy going further. (I haven't hung completely upside down yet, and I've had it for a few years.
Now, if I could just find a doctor that could relieve these headaches...
I see some people are making progress. :)
Phil: I have never hung upside down. In 2011 I suffered a serious pinched femoral leg nerve situation. The MRI showed I have 9 defects in the L1 - L5, S1 area, bulged disc, herniated disc. I also have Lumbar Spinal Stenosis , which is a problem that causes pressure on my nerves as they pass thru the narrowed channels in my spine from the Stenosis build up.
After my motorcycle crash on January 13th , 2013.. there was a big flare up of pain and leg numbness. Another MRI indicated the Stenosis had closed the path way more. If I lift too much weight or a lot of bending , lifting , the low back area gets inflamed. I am careful , but sometimes stuff needs to get done. ;) ;)
Ouch! Hope you get to feeling better. My wife tried the inversion table, and couldn't handle it either, but she also doesn't have the same problems you have with your back. Don't overdo it.
Tony: I also have had many back problems over the years, and things are getting worse as I age (75 soon).
Had surgery in 1989 for a herniated Lumbar disc.
Had portions of four Lumbar vertebrae removed in August 2021 to relieve pressure on the spinal cord caused by stenosis and that helped a lot.
After new back pains in 2022, X-rays showed compression/deformation of several discs has gotten worse.
It ain't fun, but things can always be worse! ...I hope you get some relief soon!
In keeping with the bodily complaint theme-My journey into uncharted territory continues...
Kind of like the Tootsie Pop commercial with the owl, but the question is how many months of all only sanding does it take to ruin a bodyman permanently. Have any of you ever known anyone whose occupation requires all minutes to be spent only sanding by hand or machine and who is not physically damaged by that? I don't think its possible. Mental damage is another matter entire. Could you do it?
spent the day on the bike trying to make a seat mount . Almost done .
Opened up two cans of worm yesterday. Had some small holes I needed to repair up in the front of the cowl. One I started to grind out the bondo the area got huge. One I removed the tin work the prior owners had done I found out the inner structure for the door hinge was gone. Left side was a little better but still a lot of work.
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I am not seeing any of your pictures
I'm not seeing the pix either.
Ya, my damage to my low back disc mostly are external , so there is nothing pushing on my spinal cord. Very lucky on that. My back is feeling good again today. Stenosis is weird shat.. Most of my pain - numbness is on left leg - hip side. 8 to 10 yrs ago I had about 1 year where as my bladder filled, it put pressure on my nerves to my left foot. It felt like someone was stepping on my left foot. I'd go take a P and the sensation disappeared. When your doctors scratch their head at the problem , its no fun.
Heavy rain here today, yesterday was a light rain. High AZ country has heavy snow. Just a FYI for you folks east.
Watched a 1966 Batman movie. I had forgotten that movie was made. Many villains in the movie. Joker, Penguin, Catwoman, Riddler... The movie sets, special effects, stunt people were sooo poorly done, yet standard issue for 1966.
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Wow , that looks like when I did cab corners on my 65 merc truck . Someone had done the metal replacement with expanding foam and then a skim of bondo . ::)
Just got profoundly sad news. :( I made my last weld months ago. Feel like puking. Being switched to the unfillable paint helper position. To me that means forced to quit. Life is overwith as soon as I sand myself to death. Mostly there now. Find me staring at wall listening to tinnitus evenings or sitting on edge of bed with head in hands, mornings. Painter said I "do better than anybody" so... it hurts to say this but I can't be allowed to continue to be a bodyman. FML. I have lost. Bring down the curtain please, to hide my shame. I can't look at metal or think about it or nothin' :blank: :'(
IDJ I just read your post . Sorry to hear that . Maybe you could start doing painting videos for youtube . I have spent the last few days watching them . They must be a reasonable source of income for the posters . Custom paint videos get many viewers who I am sure are like me and just enjoy watching the creative process unfold . Thousands of viewers . Mostly small stuff like tanks and fenders for bikes .
I have been dealing with a dead battery on my truck. I installed a new NAPA battery in it about 6 months ago. IT went dead in october, but when I charged it, it seemed to be okay. I then drove it to North Carolina and back, and had no more trouble until last week. I went out to start it and it was DEAD, stone cold DEAD. SO I put a battery charger on it for 24 hours. It was still DEAD. I changed battery charger, 24 hours late still DEAD. So I pulled it out of the truck, and again DEAD, with two different chargers. So I took it back to the store today, and with his tester the best he could get was 0.01 volt. SO now I have a new battery again. 8)
QuoteI have been dealing with a dead battery on my truck. I installed a new NAPA battery in it about 6 months ago. IT went dead in october, but when I charged it, it seemed to be okay. I then drove it to North Carolina and back, and had no more trouble until last week. I went out to start it and it was DEAD, stone cold DEAD. SO I put a battery charger on it for 24 hours. It was still DEAD. I changed battery charger, 24 hours late still DEAD. So I pulled it out of the truck, and again DEAD, with two different chargers. So I took it back to the store today, and with his tester the best he could get was 0.01 volt. SO now I have a new battery again. 8)
Past couple daze the first crank of the day on the Honda Civic it has sounded different as the engine cranks. Not slow, but less excitement ? Wife even commented. I have a small battery checker gizmo that Scotty Kilmer on Utube has said was good... Battery tests fine. The battery is only 19 months old Walmart 51R wet cell unit. It is a PITA to check the water level. Cold this morning the battery tests: 98% SOH and 78% SOC .. yesterday it was 98% SOC
This F-350 is the first vehicle in yrs that the OEM battery has lasted 2 yrs for us. Usually in 12 to 14 months the OEM battery quit. This Honda Civic battery quit about 14 months from new. Honda installed a fresh battery.. That one quit about 16 - 18 months as I recall. I began buying Walmart batterys for the car. 2 yrs or less they quit.
8) >:(
IDJ, are you saying that they don't need your services any longer? Aren't there any other shops around that can use your services. Seems all the work you've posted on here was top notch.
Tony and Frank, they aren't making things like they used to. I see that said on other forums I visit also. So many people saying that the points and condensers of today are worthless. On the Corvair sites, many owners are installing electric fuel pumps because no one makes a good one anymore. Clarks Corvair just announced that they designed their own mechanical pump based on the original style using heftier, longer lasting components and they will be available in August of this year.
They're also saying that the popular points/condenser replacement company (that starts with a P) isn't as good as it used to be. I'm not mentioning the name here, as one time someone complained about that company, and the owner would no longer sell to anyone on that site. Geez.
A couple of years ago the battery quit in the old truck quit. It looked nearly new and I thought I had recently replaced it. I took it to Walmart for them to check. It was bad. I asked if there was any warranty left? They showed me the date. It was 9 years old. I bought a new one of the same model. I hope it last as long.
Time got away from me again
QuoteThey're also saying that the popular points/condenser replacement company (that starts with a P) isn't as good as it used to be. I'm not mentioning the name here, as one time someone complained about that company, and the owner would no longer sell to anyone on that site. Geez.
I used a "P" conversion on a points dizzy decades ago on a GMC 4x4 truck we had. After a few weeks the engine would mis fire, stumble... then it was fine for days. One nite on the way home the engine was mis firing, back-firing flames out the tail pipes. I removed the "P" conversion parts, returned to OEM points and the truck ran fine till I sold it.
Few guys that still use points setup , I hear they look for NOS Echlin NAPA parts. Modern condensers and points are very low quality.
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There was a P conversion in the 63 Galaxie when I bought it, and it worked fine for the 8 or so years I had it. Had to look up online how to set it up when I replaced the dizzy. The Chevy has an electronic dizzy that doesn't even have a name, and it's working fine also.
A few years back, I had to replace the battery in the Chevy, and was surprised to learn it was 18 years old. WalMart. I remember the day I bought it. I was at a Steak and Shake, and the car wouldn't start. WalMart was about a block away, so I walked there to buy it.
Whew I have been through the clothes wringer, mentally. Big sigh of relief this morning. My boss and I had communication errors. Terminology confusion. I had to be ready to quit to get to the bottom of it. A transition is being made from having seperate people doing metal and fill operations, to marrying a bodyman to a job up until final primer. That suits me fine but what went wrong was I was being given the option of marriage style jobs or to pair with the painter. Since I have that experience as well. Focus was given to telling me about that option but no words suggesting that I could keep doing what I have been made it through. I wasn't taking that for granted.
So... (and this is why I hate words like bodywork, which are ambiguous)...
When I said metal work I meant that which is part of every job. We are settling into the market slot between show cars and small stuff, cranking out big full jobs in good quality. Anyway when he said metal work he meant metal specialist not doing fill and prime. Simple as that, almost.
Needless to say, I won't opt for painter work. Got that all out of my system last century. But until he said he was giving me options, I was in a dark place not understanding. Lesson to self. My zodiac tendencies just about derailed my automotive career.
Sometimes things that sound crazy are. Sometimes not. I was worried I had snuffed another thread with my dark cloud personality. Carry on. I am still sanding and will be for longer. Last sparks flew in September or so. Thats a mighty dry stretch but we had hires that bombed who I had to tidy up after. Thats why that.
Whole snafu was way too close for comfort. Metal tools are at home if that tells you anything. :)
IDJ, sounds better.
I put the P conversion in my 350 Chevy distributor in my '46 Chevy in 2003. It was still in it and working great when I sold the car in 2018.
Phil, thanks. The future looks like one or two days a year I might get to touch a welder and the rest is sanding. Mudding primed new parts mercilessly is my current endeavor. One door took two days and the other took three. Hood took a solid four. On the 56 Chevy truck. Was able to use my new cushy stool for that stuff but today its back to the cab roof. For the second to last blocking. Long term sanding fatigue is still considered a myth by them who ain't done half a year of full time hand sanding.
Weather in northern AZ is still heavy snow - cold. Roads , schools closed. Storm may head east?
Installed a fresh dual pane window in the Park model tin can. Old 37 yr old windows leak , latches broke, glass is stained. New window is Vinyl framed window. Not many options for proper size. Single pane window with aluminum frame or dual pane vinyl frame design. Now I need to trim out the inner wall, paint, smile , be happy. The tin can Park Model needs about 5 more windows replaced
got the bike seat mount finished yesterday . Will weld it on tomorrow.
bike seat welded , on to make a tank .
That sounds fun. Need more rage bottles over here at permafrown corral. Finished a round of cab prep. Possible snow day ahead.
I am going to try a few tank shapes and send pictures to my son to see what he likes . I have decided to do the easy method . Make a wire pattern and cover it with green tape , then peel off the tape for a pattern to cut the metal before bending it up in the brake . Looks like I will do some form of coffin tank ,or more to my liking , an 8 sided diamond tank . trying for a late 60's early 70's look . I have been given the OK for black METALFLAKE tank and fenders ! 8) 8) 8)
After all of these years, I'm ready to see C.K. with flake. However, he forgets how to post pics so it may become another urban myth. :)
"Holographic" black?
Watching a Perry Mason show from 1960... there was a 1955 Nomad on the show. Older lady driving it. Its weird seeing so many of the characters smoking and US currency in 500 and 1,000 dollar denominations
I had to remove a steel plug from an aluminum intake manifold that had been in place many years. I spent time yesterday trying different methods. This morning I heated the plug and used an old candle to melt some wax into the threads. It worked like a charm. Sometimes old methods are the best.
I have been experimenting with metalflake from the craft stores . I dont know if you have Michaels in the US but they have a huge selection of flake in a big range of colours and effects . A small container from our dollar store will almost do a fuel tank for $1.50 . I have been watching guys do dry flake on U tube . Spray clear , then apply dry flake , then clear and repeat until you get coverage . 8) My new phone will load pictures to my computer a bit easier but I have to pay attention to where it puts them . I sometimes cant find them to post . I will try to do better . :lol:
Is it holographic black flake you are looking at? Looked to me like thats what its commonly called now. The multicolor sparkle kind, not just black flake. Looks like crushed CDs? We did have a Michael's, not sure anymore. Hobby Lobby took to building stores right next to them.
In desperation, knowing that more months of only all day each day all only sanding is all thats available to me as work, my cornered animal instinct (from bad hands pain, swollen wrists) drove me to lash out against myself. As a last resort looking for any advantage...
I picked up the long-assumed-stupid vaccuum assisted long hand block. Oh, the cumbersome hose. The constant noise. The fundamental wrongness of expecting a velcro faced block to perform the function of a sanding block....
but oh. The new hood that took four or five days to mud blocked out in 2 hours, looks perfect. The two day new door blocked out in an hour and the three day in two. All feels reasonably straight. Vacuum assist makes the sandpaper virtually immortal.
So- either this sanding setup is miraculous and makes poly primer blocking faster by orders of magnitude. Or- the block is lying and nothing is straight. Or- the fill work was of adequate quality.
One of those facts, combined with an adequate and adequately smooth application of primer, just made things go as intended. It was like blocking new GM parts. Done stuff flying out of my stall. But Nomad yet to go and hurry.
Theres that. To it, I'll add that I spied something on the hokey board that hit my spot. While I have always liked the 39 and 40 Fords, alas they are cliche. I like underdogs and unless I like the looks of something, I hardly can like it at all. No make / model has truly floated my boat enough to want one but when I try to noodle out a dream DD I always end up at about a late 30s coupe as making the most sense to me...
Welp, found it. Make mine a 37-38 Buick. Those look killer, stock! Of course I then thought about using a blown 3.8 in a 38 and calling it a 3.8 Special. :shock:
those late 30s chev coupes are larger inside than the model A for sure . I had 2 buddies in high school . one with a 39 chev the other with a 37 chev . both coupes . Not a raving fan of the 39 styling but anywhere from 36 to 38 fill the bill . 37 is everyones favorite but I favour the 36 . I believe that is about when they lost the wood body support but I could be wrong . I had a 36 sedan when I was 13-14 but it got pushed into the rock pile when the farmyard got a big cleanup . ( I think mom wanted her boy to stop daydreaming and concentrate on school ) :( She didnt know about the T tub that I stashed away!!
Yeah my flake question was too stupid anyway. I can't answer why the word holographic has been added to flake. If using craft store glitter I would want to do some tests. The Buick has the coolest grille.
Quik note: Dennys now requires you to fill out an online question page , then print a coupon to receive a phree breakfast on yur birthday. Waitress eggsplained that to me. I said no thanks, I am tired of excessive email and online invasion of my privacy.
Which brings up another item: my wifes CCard info was stolen again. Used in Nashville TN area 3 times. Odd how we were in TN for a couple weeks last year on our travels? YMMV
:o ??? :twisted:
Thats some super-obvious tailgating ^^^. I won't stand for it here either. You win.
Getting ready to drive down to Pomona for the Grand National Roadster Show. Taking a first timer with me. Should be a good time. Leaving Thursday morning long before dawn.
got the OK on a tank shape so should be starting to make the fuel tank later this week .
well, hope the fun stuff is over. We had to cancel the compromised bank account and open new. Bank said the criminals were still trying to use the olde account , even with it locked down for a few daze, so a new account was necessary .
Of course this requires changes to bills that we pay thru the old account like internet service , utilities. Retirement direct deposits have been corrected to new account (we hope).. :o :o
My "P O'd " level has reduced some... till the next hiccup. 8)
This. Is a better following distance. :P
Third day of no work only ice. There will be hell to pay and stir crazy is setting in. More ice on the way. I was and am prepared for this and needed it desperately but am out of fresh reading and watching and haven't felt like art in awhile. Crossword puzzles and electric blanket. No metal work :arrow:
I bombed at crossword puzzles. Back to work. Boss reluctantly agreed to let me do a rust fix at a body mount because now they want to do a second mock up and had forgotten the rotted cab mount. It would have made sense to block it with panels on but that opportunity was bypassed on purpose in an earlier plan. Theres a dash filler to go in it also but I am told not to mess with that. Currently blocking bedsides and fenders with them bolted together. So... once it is all in final primer... then I get a couple hours of standing on head metal work. Thats a monsterous heap of weeks of sanding just to get to one piddly metal hour.
On the bright side, if observations are any indication, I will not have to do final sanding on every job. Either way this is one hell of an unjust demotion and that doesn't make a crap to a soul. The final primed truck stuff looks nice at least. So very looking forward to that body mount thing, haha. Not sure I even want to do metal work anymore if its gonna be like that. Again, only I can lose. But I'm good at that. :)
started bending up the fuel tank tonight . It is going reasonably well .
Blackstone Laboratories basic oil analysis is now $35.00 . Up from $30.00.. Not too bad a price with the free sample kit they send you to gather the oil and the return container - mailer is postage paid. I have used the test on the engine oil of my F-350 truck diesel engine
I had a little road trip today. Little over 500 miles. I returned with a real ugly 97 Explorer 5.0 engine. It's supposed to be good. As good as it can be at 174,000 miles. LOL.
I found out today that my Granddaughter won the state championship for her age group for the third time out of four tries in indoor archery. I don't mess with her any more :shock:
This afternoon was oil change in the Dakota. I leaked down the 5.0 I bought yesterday. 7 cylinders at 10%. 1 at 60% leakage. A high mileage engine leaking 10% is pretty good from what I've seen. One spark plug was crudded up from oil consumption. The question is why. Valves, rings or a combination of both. I could hear some air coming from both the intake and exhaust but not like a bent valve. I found mice nests under the alternator bracket so I think the vehicle had been sitting before it went to the salvage yard.
Today's humor.
Recently I posted that I had seen Mars hiding behind the moon. That was the only explanation found for what I saw at the time. Did not have my phone to take a pic with right then. But some popular events of this week provide a much more plausible theory to explain what eye witnessed that day. :idea:
lol :lol: Bill
You got that right!
New flowers on my mother's grave today. This month she has been gone 48 years.
The salvage yard was unsympathetic to my request of changing the status of the explorer engine from good to core. :) I then proceeded to remove both cylinder heads. I don't think the engine has ever been apart. It isn't sludged up. There was plenty of evidence of oil consumption but I don't see any signs of damage in the cylinder walls. I'm cautiously optimistic of having a good engine to rebuild. :)
Ah! Oh :) I used a welder today. Glory be. Broke out of sandpaper jail. Probably get caught soon though. :lol: Replacing a perforated lower hinge pocket piece on the 56 Chevy truck job. Mock up, one piece window conversion are next and a smooth dash filler is for after more decisions. The frequency of my mojo vibes has been knocked mighty low but this is a temporary proverbial shot in the sore arm. Perhaps the buzzkill posts can subside. Two much younger overtime-hungry California chassis and cage builder type bodymen outgunned my 30 hour a week and it hurts... butt. A guy who hadn't been in yet this week took over sanding the last 56 fender. :arrow:
And what does this gas tank look like CK and KB is this a crossbreeding experiment? Putting a Ford in a Pontiac this time? :shock:
Ugh. I am tore up from the floor up from stressing over that job. Being nobody takes getting used to.
grade 8 night at school tonight . Got to explain my program to parents and their gr 8 kids . They have to pick a high school to attend for next year . Lots of interest shown , kinda feels good .
I thought maybe you were finally graduating.
:lol: Ya I have been going to high school for 38 years now ! probably going to graduate in another 2 or 3 years !
Started helping my brother packing , moving stuff from the house he is in. Its a long messy story I have been in fear of for a few years now... and here we are. He is older than me (76 yrs soon), not in good health.
He is bit of a hoarder. Has many ideas for projects of all types that seldom are finished, only partially started with purchase of supplies that sit and rot away.
I will likely take my car trailer over and load up a shat load of usable stuff he does not use or need... Load up some trash too. He has trouble throwing away stuff unless pressured to do so.
Talked to local Ford dealer this friday morning... there is a several months old recall on wiper blade arms for many F series trucks... my F-350 included. The arms can come loose, detach , stop working.
Ford still has no parts for regular replacement. Altho: if the arms breaks, the dealer can contact the headquarters and get replacements. Service writer used the words: GO thru the red tape and get new arms.
My driver side arm seems looser than the passenger side arm. I hope they do not go flying off while on the road?
Fired up the wood pellet grill on sunday. Ground tri-tip burgers and baby back ribs.
We ate 2 burgers sunday evening , very good. I started to marinate the ribs overnite, then I add some dry rub for a few hours before the bbq cooking. I buy pre-formed tri-tip burgers from Walmart. Then I add seasoning and sarachi sauce, mix that all in. Then I re-form the burgers. Couple burgers have red sarachi sauce on them, it was the end of the bottle so I just put the last bit on top.
Also: my record is intact on the super bowl football thing, I have never watched the game. ;D ;D
I disassembled some antique lawn chairs for restoration. They date from the 1920s I have to fabricate new arm rests for one of the chairs, but fortunately the ones on the other chair are intact. I am planning on making a multi piece hammer form to make them.
I also cut the old spring perches off a Camaro rear end so I can install new ones to install it in an old Chevy truck.
Heres a fix I did thats in paint now which I walked past today. Toyota with a ZZ6. Nomad job is back in for final sanding. Just getting started on power one piece glass conversion for the 56 truck doors today.
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Looks very good, obviously. :)
This week is Sick Week Florida and it is live on you tube. The result is not much is getting done, but that is not really different from any other time.
I am doing some experiments for son in law with vacuum drying of wood. He makes knives and we have some special wood to dry for the handles.
I am down to the final fabricating on the Holley Sniper fuel injection installation. I am working on the high pressure fuel lines.
Tuesday evening a huge storm rolled thru here. Weather guessers had talked about rain for 2 days... We received large amount of rain , wind , small size hail. The hail turned the roads here white, it looked like snow for a while. Thunder, lightning hit near by... Way more storm than the weather x-spirts were talking.
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Dodged the one piece glass conversion bullet, mostly, on the 56 Chevy truck. Incomplete parts and instructions are to blame and it will be all on the installer. But I did get a mock window to go up and down in one door before aborting that task. Dash filler install is next after a bit more mockup fuss.
Shout out to user Pugsy who directed me at a video which saved today for me! 8) 8) 8)
Yesterday I assessed damage on a 69 Chevelle frame that met some concrete unkindly and had to pronounce it dead. Durn thing ripped the nut off one spindle, big chunk of cast wheel busted off, etc. What a thump it must have been. Sweet black car but needs a frame.
Useable Chevelle frames are thin on the ground. The racers used them all up over the last 50 years.
Indeed. Despite it interchanging with a remarkable number of variants. I can only imagine the conversation will quickly turn to aftermarket and complexity will snowball. Stressy decisions the whole way from there out. :)
Had to tune up my in-shop hardware foraging skills this afternoon. Grille screws for the 56. Hoop-to-bar screws were elusive and gopher went twice to a hardware store for me but no. So I ended up with maybe 2 of 8 with matching heads and they are like certain license plate screws. Hope the heads won't interfere. Must drill new valance for grille bolts. :o For the grille to truck bolts I'm trimming some to be short enough.
Guy in the next stall on the Stude has been cutting apart a previously fabbed 1x3 or 4" thick wall bed understructure (?) with cutoff wheels and sawzall and I was reminded of the Model A. A guy really needs a chop saw for that stuff, it is murder to cut. He takes the small skinny wheel approach. I took the 4" wheel and score a lot approach. Either way, piles of steel and hours of sparky roostertails. When theres a half gallon steel pile at the end of your broom, you know you just did something. I may get a piece of the metal action this week yet.
Throwing this out there trying to maybe come up with an out for the Chevelle ... by noon tomorrow the idea may fizzle but-
Say you have 69 Malibu with front of frame plowed beyond use. And say I have a 72 Grand Prix sinking into yard but cherry frame still, unbent. All I ever wanted was the 400 and doors fenders for if mine gets hurt. Plus seats n console etc. No title, meh.
Say we overlay frame charts and see subtle dimensional differences, mainly length in the toe board zone and in the shape of the dogleg there. Crossmember visually similar, spring pockets may differ, ahead of engine its fairly similarish.
Say there also happens to be a stick of heavy wall 2x4 tubing in the corner just standing guard. Enough to center-and-front-half it by fabrication and multiple people able to do it are on hand.
Then the interweb aftermarket says ten grand, slide this new frame up under there. Hmm, are any of the aforementioned options worthy of presentation?
Your thoughts?
Fab would be easy and maybe cheapest but obvious. GP unit could be cut up and resized to Malibu specs to look more natural plus the boxed side rails could be bonus upgrade.
I dunno. Bill? Frank? Any takers?Fab front half (has LS already), patch up with GP donor, or hush and let involved parties worry about all that? :idea: :arrow: :)
Well hot diggity, a frame may be available locally says boss. Excellent. I reckon the availability of new frames is helping the availability of old ones. :idea: :arrow:
We bought some more cabinets for the kitchen here at the Destination trailer unit, our winter home. We tried a couple of those open shelf setup. After 15 months, we decided to remove those shelves and add more cabinets in the tiny kitchen. Increase storage for more kitchen "stuff"
Now besides the windows and trimming those out. I have cabinets to install. Probably about 2 weeks? Like the movie "The Money Pit" ? :lol: :lol: :twisted:
This will increase the re-sale value of the place?
QuoteAnd say I have a 72 Grand Prix sinking into yard but cherry frame still, unbent.
The major difference on the frame will be the wheelbase. The Chevelle will be 112" wheelbase, and the GP is 116". A GP is a two door body on a four door frame. You can shorten it fairly easily. I had a buddy that built a GTO convertible on a Chevelle convertible frame and cowl. He clipped the body though the doors, but it still had the Chevelle dash. HE told the guy he sold it to that it was a Canadian Pontiac. 8)
Its not quite as simple as that. I overlaid frame charts. Did you know the 69 GP is a one year one car frame? It is boxed. Chevelles aren't.
Here is the truck.
enjenjo it was a Monte vs Chevelle I compared. Four door A bodies might be boxed down the sides, I don't know. Hollander is where I get the 69GP statement from. And yeah... I know... slight differences.
The A vs G body 69-72 length difference is in the front torque box or dogleg area, and in distance from there to engine crossmember. Both are longer on the Gs. I figured if a guy was to do a G front section on an A, he would have to trim off a smidge and use the A doglegs because they are differently shaped under the toe board. The amount of kickup is different and the spread between rails is as well. Neither by much. In addition, the amount of drop in the crossmember may differ. The crossmember and forward from there have a matching footprint however. That much of it looked promising but I could not determine if the horns were same. I imagine steering box location and mounting are swappy happy but who knows?
And of course my method of comparison is questionable. But it was obvious that the section between side rails and engine member is where the difference is. Me, I'm hoping the other stock frame deal comes through. It would take a half dozen pics to show just the frame damage. The stationary object made little contact with the body, its Bo Duke type damage fer shur. :shock: :lol:
I watched an unused 427 SOHC engine sell for $140,000 on Bring a Trailer today. It had the original tag from Holman & Moody, the owner's manual and a H&M garage sale catalog from 1978 that I had never seen before with it. It had never been started and stored indoors since new. An engine collector purchased it. I'd like to see what else is in his collection. :)
I got a new computer. Much faster. I like it. We also found thousands of photos that I thought were lost forever.
Yesterday I straightened and polish a piece of aluminum trim for a customer. I am not sure what it is for but it was something you can get and he was in a panic. Aluminum is easy to move around but it stretches more than stainless. I needed to shrink a couple of places but I was afraid to try it because the piece is so rare. I will experiment sometime on a piece of scrap trim.
I am making the last fuel line this morning for the Holley fuel injection. So all the fabricating and installation is complete. I will go through the checklist and flush the system now.
The only four door cars with the fully boxed frame was the wagons. My 65 wagon has a fully boxed frame.
O&S made it to the shop this afternoon. It had warmed up enough that I wasn't freezing. I drained the fluids from the engine. Seems the salvage yard forgot to do that. :) I scrapped dirt from the outside and stood it on end. I pulled the oil pan and the rods and pistons. I'm still surprised at how little sludge there is in the engine. I measured the cylinders and found two with a thou and a half taper and the rest with only one. Pretty good for 174,000 miles. Most of the rod bearings had copper showing some. A couple of the cylinders had less ring tension than the others. They were easier to push out of the block. I haven't found anything broken yet. After I throw the rest of it in the vat, I'll measure everything but as of now, I think I have a good core. :)
Quote from: kb426 on February 19, 2023, 05:58:47 PMO&S made it to the shop this afternoon. It had warmed up enough that I wasn't freezing. I drained the fluids from the engine. Seems the salvage yard forgot to do that. :) I scrapped dirt from the outside and stood it on end. I pulled the oil pan and the rods and pistons. I'm still surprised at how little sludge there is in the engine. I measured the cylinders and found two with a thou and a half taper and the rest with only one. Pretty good for 174,000 miles. Most of the rod bearings had copper showing some. A couple of the cylinders had less ring tension than the others. They were easier to push out of the block. I haven't found anything broken yet. After I throw the rest of it in the vat, I'll measure everything but as of now, I think I have a good core. :)
Perhaps a re-ring and bearing job may be in order ?
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That's the plan. I was going to change cams and found out the eec v ecu doesn't handle that well. I thought that the eec v would be similar to eec iv because they both are mass air. In doing a little research, I found that I was wrong in my logic. :)
I picked up a 10 by 4 by ,062 sheet of aluminum today. I am going to use it to make molds for my bed sides on the Stude
O&S finished disassembling the 302 engine. It mics out well so I can order parts. I have a parts list tabulated. Once again, nothing is real cheap to do. :) The parts list includes the power steering pump, water pump, idlers and the ac compressor. I found out what had locked up the engine. The cam synchronizer had lost it's magnet. It wedges between the rotor and the housing. End of that part. :)
Last week I moved the 5th wheel to a dump station at the RV storage lot. I dumped and flushed the black and gray water tanks. Installed new anode rod in the water heater on the RV too. Also dumped the fresh water tank and added several gallons to it.
It was a sunday , so I pulled the RV along side the dump place , rather than pull into the spot. We are kinda eggcitied to get out of town this year before it is 127 degrees
Finally started on the 56 truck dash filler job today. Yay, metal! 8)
The panel was of course nowhere near the right shape. Tacked in now. Leaving the keyhole. Also finally got the new stock hood latch today. Why do they never buy those until a bodyman is at his wit's end over hood gaps? :o
It works so nice, and fits good. With the billet hinges in place only half the number of hood bumpers are needed. A pair in front and one on each side does it.
Boy do I feel lackluster. :) I changed out the solvent in my tank today. The replacement was $6.50 per gallon. It's been pricey for years. I was told years ago that it was the refuse left in the refining process. I think they found out we need it. :) Dash looks good, Matt. Those make cool trucks when done. :)
Matt, so that's how it's done? Looks great.
Nice to be back on Metal isn't it Matt. Looking good.
I have one long stretch of 1/2" welds done and nearly two. I still have more welding to do but I keep chipping away at the project one at a time.
It didn't like my pictures the first time. :(
Thanks, guys :)
1/2" welds?
It was a hoot but that party is already over. Safe to say this is how I got it done anyhow. I anticipated more of a fight from the top weld than what it gave. No big problems. It will need a skim all over to smooth out where I bumped it in the brake to fit it.
Quote from: kb426 on February 21, 2023, 08:17:24 PMBoy do I feel lackluster.
I resemble that remark. :)
Gotta hand it to ya Bill... You just don't hear of much lusterlacking like the old days. Leastwise not nowheres around here, not for that kinda price. Once upon a time I used to be quite the luster myself, believe it or not. :lol:
Seriously... Nice retro word drop. Must find sentence to use it in. :)
O&S finally moved off from dead center and ordered parts to overhaul the 5.0 engine and complete the drivetrain for the t5 trans. That included the ac compressor and ps pump. I ordered the mass air meter and the O2 sensors along with some other small stuff. I didn't have a t5 bell housing anymore. People are trying to get at least $200 plus shipping for used units. I bought a new one from Summit for $250 with free shipping. My cheap engine has grown by 3 times. LOL. The only thing that hasn't been addressed is the valve springs. The stock springs are good for 4500 rpm. That won't work for me. I have to decide if I want another Trickflow kit like I used on the gray 51 or see if there's something else out there that will work. I had LS springs on the 32 but by the time I add up prices, that may not be an option. As a sidenote: I have a friend that is at least 8 years older than me. A few months ago he started on a 29 Model A sedan that he built in high school. It had a corvair front end and a Olds v8 with a hydro. :) He had ordered a complete TCI coil over chassis. Yesterday it arrived and he was assembling it. The freight company didn't hurt it which to me was surprising. :) The frame looks good and there didn't appear to be any shortages. This guy is very talented and is as happy as can be while working in the shop. He has a larger shop than me by a bunch but less tools. Funny how that works. His A will be a typical street rod with a chevy engine but he will enjoy the journey immensely. We have discussed "is this the last one" a little. That may apply to both of us. :)
Matt, just tell your listeners it applies to me. :)
If the storm that rolled thru AZ on wednesday heads yur way east... It will be a real treat for you. We still have major roads in northern AZ closed from snow , debris, rain, sleet.
Quote from: 416Ford on February 22, 2023, 07:49:16 AMNice to be back on Metal isn't it Matt. Looking good.
I have one long stretch of 1/2" welds done and nearly two. I still have more welding to do but I keep chipping away at the project one at a time.
It didn't like my pictures the first time. :(
I finally see the pictures! 8)
And sadly, I am too familiar for comfort with what you're (were or are) doing. My only consolation is that on something long enough a guy gets to just weld, skipping around rather than grinding while waiting for cooldown and infinite swapouts of PPE. Thats how I did the dash, think I stopped twice to stretch my legs. Seems like best results come from fully welding then grinding anyhow.
One more heapin helpin of sad. :'(
I'm final sanding the 56. Sad for it and for me. This sucks but I know how to play my hand now. You don't ask plumbers to wire *. >:(
"Right vs. might." sayeth the Lone Ranger.
I was typing about my frustration about the GPS speedometer that I'm putting in the Jeepster but it took longer than an hour for me to type so I lost it when I tried to post it. Maybe tomarrow. GPster
More parts ordering today. Close to finished on the engine. I found a rebuilt hydroboost for the Mustang pedal hanger I have. They have become rare. I'm using 25 year old parts. What was I thinking? LOL.
KB so you are going to use mustang parts ....again ?
The storm came through, all we got was a lot of rain. Twenty miles north was not so lucky. They got tons of ice.
Spent durn near half of today shooting the bull with the 56 owner. He has a sweet 65 goat with KRE D-ports but didn't know about Ram Air heads being round port. I thought that was odd. We spoke of windows and colors and accents and I got out the fineline tape and then boss walked up. Later he brought me bumpers n brackets, buckets n bezels and we talked about Hemi Rams and such. Then the new loaded aftermarket M2 front frame section arrived for the Stude and everyone stood around it for a long time including 56 guy and I found out they are building a frame for it.
The critical missing pages of the 56 window conversion instructions miraculously appeared and all parties but me decided that since I had a regulator in one door which was nigh onto impossible already, the suggested access hole is not needed and to top that the original down stops must be removed. (Burying these three sentences here: I don't want to work there or on cars even one more day and might not, would rather set out on foot door to door and take the first offer I can find. Nothing could be stupider than staying. Need counseling, I'm in a real dark place) So, I cut half the spotwelds on those then ripped the other half off by hand fishing down through the stock small door shell access hole. Thats it :arrow:
The installation of the Holley Sniper system is complete but I will wait to start the engine and work out the bugs. Later I may add the ignition part of the system but for now I will just use the computer to control the fuel. I bought the additional harness that will allow me to fine tune the system with a laptop.
I have a few more things to fix and repair on the truck to update it and fix things that were never quite right.
C.K., brake -clutch pedal assembly is it, as of right now. :) That's mostly for the cable clutch and the hydroboost. I have become a believer in hydroboost. Some of the people on Pro Touring have been using EPAS and now E braking units but the cost of those parts is keeping me away for a while. Some have access to good salvage yards that make that possible.
Swapped the tyres around on the daily driver. Checked brakes, CV joints. Ran some fresh brake fluid thru the master cylinder and lines. Scuffed, warshed , Painted the front wheels. I will get to the back wheels later (ya sure).
Car has been running fine since the glitches a while back. Fingers crossed (sorta.. arthurritis)
Went to the Detroit Autorama with Josh and my great grandson. To be honest there was nothing there that blew me away. I guess I am too jaded in my old age. There was a nice 59 Pontiac ElCamino though
It took a painfully long time but I reached a conclusion that will hopefully put a stop to my longwinded negative posts.
When I am damaging myself to continue sanding, if no alternate task is available I will clock out for the day.
So simple. Puts responsibility and trust into proper context. Up until now I have operated like a horse in a western movie. Where giddyup means go, up to and including falling over dead. But no more. As it should be.
Boy did that backfire.
Disability is where I'm being pointed now. Deaf ears will be the death of me. I sure would like to give up all this giving up. Theres nowhere to run, no chance to fight.
Heres to fond memories and better days for some. :)
Made up a shortened dip stick thingy and dip stick for a friends bobber build . I also machined up a plate to go in the chopper gas tank to attach the fuel shut off to the bottom of the tank .
It got up to 79 degrees here. Of course the wind blew pretty good, also. I went for a short cycle ride and cleaned engine parts. Just a start, long ways from completion.:)
Spent the day installing the new firewall parts. After that I chased pinholes in my welds. One more problem fixed. Still have some more grinding and chasing to do.
You Tube is a weird place... a video I put up 9 years ago of a GoPro camera inside the 1962 Falcon on the drag strip. It is a 1 minute long video. I was just messing around with the GoPro. The tech guy at the drag strip told me I needed a solid mount for the camera, the suction cup was not acceptable
The recent 30 days the viewing of this 9 yr old video has increased over 900%.. It is receiving comments daily for 3+ weeks. Most comments are OK , others are just stupid - negative stuff.
It still amazes me how so many people feel they need to speak negative things when they could just a easily move on and keep the negative thoughts to themselves.
Thats a negative thought. :lol: Evil is not a thing, only varying degrees of good exist. Just like heat.
Quote from: 416Ford on February 27, 2023, 07:43:32 AMIt still amazes me how so many people feel they need to speak negative things when they could just a easily move on and keep the negative thoughts to themselves.
I visited a few You Tube accounts of the negative comment folks. 3 of them I visited had Zero videos up on You Tube accounts. Weird?
We are still dealing with the collateral damage from the stolen Bank account weeks ago. Our Bank F**** up and rejected my SS direct deposit. So , of course SS has suspended my account payments. My wife's SS direct deposit was processed correctly 6 days before my deposit came in. Mine was rejected by some dim wit dingdong at the bank. This had to be done manually 1 time for the process to line up again. Now I have to call or visit the SS office to fix this. After 4 calls to SS of which 3 calls were rejected from the over loaded system on a Monday. LOL The 3rd call produced no results, no human to talk to. I guess a visit to the SS office will happen on Wednesday?
Friends tell me to calm down , it is the way the world functions now. I call Bull Feathers. People want to blame the Covid debacle, economy, way of the world now, the labor market debacle.. Its all Baloney
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Tony, you have my sympathy. If you can find someone who cares, they will get this repaired in short order. Good luck. :)
I thought I would be putting parts in the vat today. The machine shop owner is gone for a rare day. End of story. :)
Visit to the RV and car trailer. Check for storm damage and we hauled a few items to the RV.. Eggciting stuff. :o :o
Worked on the interior of the park model again. Its tough when the cutting , fitting , triming of material must be done outside and the weather here has sucked lately. Wind being the biggest PITA. Although the rain and hail has been unhelpful too. :'(
I ripped out the interior trim wood on the next window I am replacing on this old park model. At least I have the system figured out now after 2 windows finished. Next window after this one is the largest. 4 more windows after this current one I am working on.
Interesting how the OEM windows in this park model are fitted, trimmed out. There is various bits of wall panel board, vinyl floor covering bits used to square up the window and trim around the opening.
Hooley brought the new Okie Twister home yesterday with the new graphics. The Okie Twister 2. Some of the old and some of the new. This car shares the frame and drive train of the car he wrecked a couple of summers ago. The new body features the larger rear wheel openings but most of it appears a lot like the old car. I had very little to do with this one. I did make the fiberglass headlights.
As a side note he drove to Oklahoma City yesterday and brought the car home. The night before a serious of tornados and high winds passed through the Oklahoma City area.
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I'm a huge fan of centerline convo pro wheels. :)
Nice. It lives! May future twistys come as perpetual tailwinds at the strip. :)
We sure had some howling winds Sunday night.
The 56 truck is probably going Sonic Grey off new Hondas. Seen some in traffic and I think it will be a cool color. How to treat grille, bezels, etc is up in the air. The owner told me the wheels but I forget the style name. Some maybe 10 spoke 20 inch Americans. I have not played with images for the job.
Did beeline home and got the superfilthy GT bucket washed "before" dark. Thats a good mental indicator. Looks like I may get two whole days to see it clean. Somehow all the snow and ice has left the GTP relatively spotless. Its still a street-parked ornament thats scary to drive.
Don't think I have driven the Model J in a week or two. Can't mention that one at work due to the rules so quit occasionally taking it to work. Today is ripe for it though. :)
The rear wheels make Hooley ineligible to race at some nostalgia meets. He sacrifices original style nostalgia wheels for traction/speed and safety. I think that in this configuration, with the blown small block, it should run the quarter in the 8.6 et range. If he switches to the big block unblown injected engine it will run in the 9.6. seconds et range. The blower engine is a lot of fun, but I think the slower combination is safer. Funny when you think of something running 9.6 as safe.
O&S made it to the vat today. The largest parts are cleaned. There is some more gasket scrapeing to do. A fresh razor blade in the 4" scraper will make that job simple.
Bought and installed a new window in the old Park Model RV today. We have another rain storm rolling in tonite.
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This window install went a little easier. Its the 3rd one we have installed.
Shaving bumper bolts on the 56 today. Tucking both and flipping the rear.
Sparks are flying! :) But the job keeps growing.
Dash got epoxy yesterday. Can't say I look forward to doing the squat n mud there. :lol:
Dash looks good, Matt
O&S did some small stuff today. The brackets for the front drive went to the vat along with the rockers, pushrods and valve covers. I replaced idlers or bearings in the belt drive. Some needed it. :)
Another serious rain storm rolled in. Wind , rain , lots of each
Road trip to the Social Security office today. Trying to call them was a waste of time. Office was not that crowded today. Provided information to the fellow. My missed deposit for february is suppose to be processed in a few weeks. LOL the government does nothing quickly. I fully expect another trip to the SS office to correct this mess.
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Bill, thanks. The vat looks like the only way to fly. :)
I'm just the executioner on this bumper tuck endeavor. At this point nothing has been trimmed and only one bolt is holding each bracket to the frame and no drilling has been done for the rear. Corner brackets untended until theres a confirmation on the bumper positions you see.
For a bargain tuck, I could stop here and just mod brkts. Would not look too bad but I dislike the flat edge on top of rear bumper.
I agree with the flat top. :)
Another session with the vat in cleaning some parts today. There's not much left. :) A replacement set of cam bearings are on the way. More waiting. :)
I don't know, I like the flat edge on top, but I think the front bumper is too close to the body. The rear bumper has a space.
Phil, on the rear there was a convenient 'nother pair of holes ahead of the front ones so I just scooted to those. Turned out like you see and trimming bumper ends would be required to move farther forward. It didn't look awful that way and I don't have authority to commit. If I did something, another guy would redesign later. So it can sit until somebody says trim it on this line, and draws one.
Up front, one inch was the agreed amount and there it is. I guess a couple unmodified pics are due.
That middle pic looks like there's more space on the front now, and it looks good. Looked before like it was right up against it. I'll have to resize some pix of the Corvair that I'm working on, and what I've done on one side, and what I ran across on the other. May not get to it for a day or two though, as I'm taking my wife in for some tests tomorrow, don't know how long it's going to take.
We put my older brother in the hospital about 10 days ago with pneumonia with lung cancer, and his prognosis today isn't good. Too much going on all at once.
Phil, I hope for the best for you and family.
I hope it goes well Phil
On another note I made a killer deal today. A 4" Wilton Bullet vise in near new condition for $200. I didn't even haggle price.
Hope things go well for your family Phil.
Brothers are... well anybody that has one knows. Comfort for all is the vibe I wish to convey. You guys are in my thoughts.
Today was another session of cleaning parts. The headers I ordered arrived today. Ebay stainless blockhuggers. They fit the heads and look fine. I have used the mild steel versions, the ceramic coated versions and now the stainless units. These were the lowest price of the bunch. I wonder if I will regret this? :)
My wife's tests turned out okay on Friday. My brother isn't going to make it; let's just say that he chose his lifestyle and leave it at that.
I've enclosed some pix of the Corvair that I'm working on. Shows the right front fender lower corner that was rusted out. I got a repair panel and repaired it. I think I did a pretty good job for a rank amateur. The front left corner had some bondo cracking, so I started on it. Geez, there were places where the bondo had to be a 1/2" thick. Also some brazing...and body solder? I took the propane torch to it and all the solder melted out easily. The car had been hit in that corner, and they just welded/brazed a new fender over the wrinkled original. I had tried to pound out the dents, but the dual layer prevented that.
Where you see the line of vertical holes is where the original fender is (forward of the holes). The lower corner nearest the tire was completely full of solder, don't think it was lead, but not sure. I've ordered a new corner piece and will do the same to the left side that I did to the right.
Phil: sorry about your brother's situation. My older brother made choices over the decades and now he suffers with several health problems that could have been reduced or avoided. We all make choices I guess?
My brother & his wife were just evicted from his house because of choices he made several years ago. This could have been avoided , but here we are..
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A friend of mine just had a Yenko Stinger Corvair delivered to his shop. Been in storage for many years down south somewhere. In great shape, I will try to get a picture. Needs to get it running for them. When I go out and see it, it will be the first time I ever saw an actual Stinger.
Thanks Tony, and everybody for the well wishes. He's been smoking since he was nine years old, which means 68 years. I guess he didn't learn from both parents and our oldest brother dying of cancer. He waited too long to do something about it, as now he's not strong enough for even the cancer tests.
Doug, I've never seen a Stinger in person, just on the net. There are a lot of nice Corvairs out there, and some are now bringing in good money. I bought mine just so I could do more body work, as I kind of like that more than mechanical, though I'm an amateur. I'm worried about the belt line on the left front fender, as it must've been dented and they filled it with bondo. The previous owner started sanding the car for a repaint, and he really messed up that line. I'll see how it goes.
Summer's coming, it's about 50* here today. Yay!
Phil, I think your gen of corvair makes a slick looking car when finished. When I see those with engine swaps, I get excited about the possibilities. :)
Better y'all sit down. :lol: :lol:
My SS direct deposit happened as the fellow at the SS office said it would. We hope this indicates that is fixed. The damage and changes from my wife's stolen C Card information has been a real P I T A. Its stuff we often hear or read about. We were careful. Some where , some one cloned , scanned or something her card. :o , :o
Tony, as you know, some people do their jobs. Sometimes well. :) I'm glad you're on the road to closure on that. If you haven't done a security freeze on the 3 credit reports, it's wise to do. That limits the damage real quick in regards to opening anything new.
Another afternoon of cleaning parts for O&S. It's looking a lot less like a 174,000 mile hunk of iron. :) The replacement cam bearings arrived so the ball is in my court now.
spent time on the chopper today . made mounts for the tank and then started tacking the tank body to the base . Sent pictures to my son and he loves it so all is good .
I moved my car trailer around a bit today.. This is the hitch on my F350. The receiver on the F350 is 3 inch square, Ford provided a reducer to 2.5 inch. So I bought a Curt brand 2.5 inch hitch for the truck.
Its rated at 20k pounds with 2 5/16" ball and 10k pounds on the 2 inch ball. Seems weird the 5/16 inch larger ball is double the weight rating?
I moved that rear bumper in just a touch more, one cardboard layer's thickness from touching fenders, then put more cardboard where somebody said to. I just shifted to the next available bumper mount hole.
I should not trim bumper or modify brackets since I do not have authority to redesign and my assumptions are consistently incorrect. The owner did not supply bumper hardware and has about two days labor in bumpers so far.
I can only meet expectations I am aware of. Made the mistake of asking the assembler-to-be to confirm where I think exhaust will go and ended up not in control of bumpers. I can only trim and relocate bumper with the owner or the person he trusts standing over my shoulder, best I can figure. The main objective is minimal cost. See pics.
Me, I think a 78 econoline rear bumper would be a solution. This looks like it should be diamond plate. A curved bumper doesn't make sense to me at all but its what we have.
So he's going to make a flat spot on that rear bumper? Hmmm. My 46 Ford 1/2T pickup had a flat bar bumper in front and back. I agree with you on the curves. My $.02.
Well the bottom edge, which is now the top, has a flat about a half inch wide. The braces bolt up there, in the provided holes. Thats what kb and I were not liking about the inverted rear bumper. But it lends itself readily to having a flat top bumper. Personally I think it will look like a step bumper that ought to be diamond plate.
But 56 guy wants to avoid adding the expense of adding a fabricated panel. Again, to me personally a straight bumper makes the most sense. Towing is not a consideration but stock bumpers have a heavy draw bar inside, for hitch use.
Web grab pic shows what I think should work as-is or with a split to adjust width if needed. The fronts for that vehicle have a tag location provided, if that were preferred.
I'd just hate for both exhaust and tag to be afterthought things eventually requiring additional work or being discarded, or heaven forbid looking silly. Insert popular Sgt. Shultz expression here.
Its nice enough out that I'm having thoughts of fiddling with the GTP. Its either I do a multitude of work operations at home without the equipment to do so or assistance, stuff that requires a lift... or find a shop willing to work on a ratty 99 model and pay quadruple the car's value, and have an obsolete 300K+ mile heap to show for it... or drive it to the u-pull-it with strong engine and trans and decent exterior appearance. Wheres the win? ::)
That econoline bumper would be a good choice . The other bumper needs something to fill the top gap. I would think of a metal filler covered in a ribbed rubber like used on a running board . Checker plate belongs on industrial equipment .
Quote from: chimp koose on March 05, 2023, 12:04:07 PMThat econoline bumper would be a good choice . The other bumper needs something to fill the top gap. I would think of a metal filler covered in a ribbed rubber like used on a running board . Checker plate belongs on industrial equipment .
Yes, this! ^^^ :)
At least it would look like an Astro van step bumper or something. I bet thats we will end up with. Not that a guy would want to step on it, mind you.
Sounds like your chopper project is making progress bit by bit. Riding it when done will be bonus enjoyment. You deserve something cool to scoot around with no matter how many wheels it has. 8)
I went to test and tune at the opening day of the drag strip to watch Hooley test the new "Okie Twister 2". He made a great half track pass and then a window opened up in the oil pan. This is the engine we set records at Bonneville and he used in the original Okie Twister for years. Sad day.
O&S did a little today. I installed soft plugs, cam bearings, cam and crank. Then I bolted a bunch together and painted it. It got up to 74 degrees today. :) Lots to do still.
Quote from: WZ JUNK on March 05, 2023, 05:01:48 PMI went to test and tune at the opening day of the drag strip to watch Hooley test the new "Okie Twister 2". He made a great half track pass and then a window opened up in the oil pan. This is the engine we set records at Bonneville and he used in the original Okie Twister for years. Sad day.
Yikes ! Opening a window in the pan is not a good thing. Does Hooley have a backup engine - short block ?
Quote from: kb426 on March 05, 2023, 05:56:59 PMO&S did a little today. I installed soft plugs, cam bearings, cam and crank. Then I bolted a bunch together and painted it. It got up to 74 degrees today. :) Lots to do still.
Only hit 68*F here in the valley of the sun. ??? ??? ??? We made the cemetery run today. New flowers on the wife's parents graves and my mother's grave.
I warshed my F-350 yesterday. Today I Waxed the front clip and 2 front doors. Its task like this one , that I kinda wish I owned a Honda Ridgeline almost a truck that would be much easier to warsh and wax. I use a Meguires marine wax on the vehicles. Very durable here
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O&S did a little machining today. It's common on these engines with high mileage for the front 2 intake manifold bolts to rust up in the head. The last couple of these I have disassembled have broken off. The last one had enough of the bolt left sticking out of the head that I was able to remove them. This pair of heads was almost flush with the head. Yesterday, I flipped the heads over and tried to level them where the bolt holes were vertical. I drilled a pair of pilot holes to see if I could drill to just inside the thread size to remove the remains of the bolts with a tap. That didn't go as well as I wanted. The 1st one I got off some so it was time for a different plan. I painted these parts yesterday so I was a little careful today in handling them. About 35 years ago, I made some crude tilt fixtures to work on my 426 heads. When I was finished with them, I realized that the whole mess was longer than the mill table. You'd think I owned a tape measure. LOL. This morning I went to the shed and dug them out. I used a da to clean up the surface rust and then measured everything to see if it would fit on the newer mill's table. Just barely is the description. :) I started on the worst 1st. I drilled and tapped it for a heli-coli insert. I have an assortment of those left over from alum parts on the race cars. I wanted to use and endmill to cut the hole. With the angle of the hole in the head, I needed an extra long one. I ended up cutting the tip off a drill bit and using it as an end mill. That left the hole 1/64" less than the drill size for the insert. I drilled successfully and installed two 7/16" long inserts. The next hole, I made a 1/4" end mill from a drill bit and removed the rusted bolt and then retapped the hole to 5/16" . Mission accomplished. I should have not tried to drill the bolts by hand. I'm successful with vertical holes but not angled ones. No better than I see, that's a mistake waiting to happen. :)
That has always been a problem with Ford going back at least 50 years. The 477 and 534 V8 engines were really bad for that. Of course the LS GM engines aren't much better.
Helped my friend remove the Power steering box from his Studie truck. It is a F-150 box of some year 2WD (I forget)..
The Studie truck road wondered a bit. The steering box was worn out .
I cut out parts for the caltrac style traction bars for the old truck. I have wanted to remove the slapper bars and convert to these for many years. Mark with chalk, cut with an axe, file to size.
I like the Stude truck. I could get stupid with one of those. :) We are kind of coming back to life. Winter must be coming to an end. :)
QuoteHelped my friend remove the Power steering box from his Studie truck. It is a F-150 box of some year 2WD (I forget)..
FIND out for me please 8)
The CAD board bumper thing was well recieved but I thought to ask passers-by if they pictured it as part of the truck or part of the bumper. Uh-oh, I must declare confusion once again. I thought it was part of the bumper but I was the only one. Can't picture the ends looking good that way unless they attach to fenders with no gap.
I haven't been given the task so maybe I'm not involved. I don't know what to build and my choices are wrong anyway. There was a huddle around it when I got there so I just sanded the other end until that cleared out. Then-
I reconfigured the inner rear bumper brackets to suit. They are tacked and its bolted up tight sitting where it should. That part I was clear on. Both bumper positions, check. :) The rest can work itself out. :arrow:
Guy in the next stall about has his Stude gate together. Frank did you say you can pop out 'glass M series rear fenders? Might be a nibble on that if so.
I can't, no mold, but I bought some from http://classglassperformance.com/Stude%20Trk.html $250 each plus shipping and they are very nice pieces.
Quote from: enjenjo on March 06, 2023, 08:58:59 PMQuoteHelped my friend remove the Power steering box from his Studie truck. It is a F-150 box of some year 2WD (I forget)..
FIND out for me please 8)
He said " 1968 to 1979 " Ford F-100 & F-150. I looked on Rock Auto at several year applications, it looks like a wide use of the same steering box for many years of the trucks: F-100 & F-150.
A RWD box fits on inside of the frame. 1 OEM frame steering box hole was re-used. He cut tube spacers for between the box and frame. His spacers are thin walled.. I would machine up heavy wall spacers or build a 3/16 inch bracket to mount the steering box and beef up the frame in that area.
There were turning radius issues on the Studie. He found a longer pitman arm that was heated and reshaped to tighten the turn radius swing. 8)
He was saying saturday that if there was a next time , he would check into the electric steering assist units. I am not sure there is room under the dash on the Champ - Lark trucks for the electric unit to fit? The electric assist would clean up the engine compartment a little.
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Frank you, thank. :)
More'n likely they will get a bite on those fenders, maybe boards too. 8)
Well I'll be. Like I like to say sometimes, five minutes doing trumps five hours speculating. Had no idea how to do this piece when I clocked in but about five minutes in, I "saw" it. And here it is. I'll pull the face bar off to finagle it into place and it will attach to one bolt on front of each pocket (see upright tabs). Then screws maybe, where it meets front of bed sill cross piece. Trimming is next and the idea is to have gap at fender with folded leading edge. 70" wide and the brake here is 48" so made it in halves.
I don't think anybody will protest it when done. Because it did indeed turn out to be a bolt on filler panel, not a bumper top. ???
QuoteHe said " 1968 to 1979 " Ford F-100 & F-150
My thought is to use a manual steering box, same application, With electric power steering.
Quote from: enjenjo on March 07, 2023, 07:53:39 PMQuoteHe said " 1968 to 1979 " Ford F-100 & F-150
My thought is to use a manual steering box, same application, With electric power steering.
OK.. What is turns of steer wheel lock to lock of a manual F-150 box? Some of the old stuff was 5.5 to 6 turns lock to lock on manual steering. Quicker steering is always nice.
What type - brand of electric unit if you have that figured out?
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It was a day I can feel good about. Still some fine tuning, maybe trimming, and outer brackets to go but I'm happy with the tidying effect of the new filler panel. :)
Meanwhile in the next stall, a glorious show Stude gate came together durn near from scratch. Flush smooth but kept the script and handle inside. He brought the pockets back flush with gate face and has roll pan yet to build, that will round off onto the pockets.
Sweet, sweet metal. :)
Pulled a small window off the park model we live in during the winter...This window was added some yrs ago to fill a hole for a window A/C was installed. This park model Now has a 2.5 ton heat pump plumbed in.
I cleaned , scuff'd , painted the metal frame white on the window. Re-installed it with new screws.
This window is closed off inside the park model. I placed the hard foam board in the hole, then sheetrock over that. Kinda hard to remove the exterior window since the siding is thin metal
Matt, the filler was the right thing to do. :)
x2 8) 8) 8)
X3. Funny thing about a filler panel I bought in the early 2000's for my 41 Pontiac. A guy in one of the northern states had a nice one for the rear bumper. I bought it, and it came in a 3' high box. It was folded twice. I called and asked him about it. He said he sent it in a long box. Checked with the post office and they found that the box had been damaged, so they folded it and put it in a shorter box. They paid for that one, and I found another.
At the Local Lowes store: noticed these tin snips. They look kinda knarley. May even cut better than my Harbor Freight snips? :lol:
I did not buy them. I have 2.5 sets of HF snips
QuoteWhat is turns of steer wheel lock to lock of a manual F-150 box?
Four turns lock to lock. I have a HHR electric power steering unit. I am using a GT Hawk dash that will give me more room than the stock dash.
Back in September 2021 we bought a new Whirlpool electric stove for this place we call home.. Early on the oven made a weird noise when heating up and while in use. We tried to locate the noise. WHen you walk up to the stove the noise would change a bit or disappear.
My wife discovered the cause today. She was cleaning the oven area and happened to just barely touch - move the heating element. She has cleaned the oven before, but never heard the noise produced while cleaning.
I cut 2 aluminum angle pieces to sit under the steel supports for the heating element. The Noise is gone. The steel element supports were moving as the element expanded and contracted during the heating process to make the odd pop noise..
Quote from: enjenjo on March 08, 2023, 12:57:47 PMQuoteWhat is turns of steer wheel lock to lock of a manual F-150 box?
Four turns lock to lock. I have a HHR electric power steering unit. I am using a GT Hawk dash that will give me more room than the stock dash.
wow.. seems like most of the older manual steering boxes were 5 turns or 5.5 turns. My memrory is foggy though
O&S cleaned piston ring grooves today. Now, that was exciting. LOL.
Fabricated some more on my caltrac style bars for the old truck.
I am still in the prototype stage of my miniature bed roller for rolling out dents in automotive trim. It works but I am tweaking it more.
John, did you set it up for different width bearings to accommodate different widths of trim? How about machining different shapes for a specific trim? :)
The bottom wheel has a slight crown and the top wheel is flat. Mostly this device will be for smoothing out small dings. I plan to do more experimenting with bearing size but the mechanism works. You open the vise grips, slip the bearing end over the trim with the curved wheel on the bottom and the one with the flat on top. Then clamp and adjust the tension. I have found that too much tension and rolling will stretch the metal and cause a high spot. I have wanted to experiment with making a device like this one and I finally took the time.
I figured you would ask how I shaped the crown on a ball bearing race, when you know I do not have a lathe.
^^^^^
I just thought you found a self aligning bearing to use. :)
O&S plodded along today. I checked ring end gap and installed rods and pistons. The new oil pump was installed along with the pickup and drive shaft. I didn't get a dip stick with the engine. My efforts to find one was met with failure. I bought a universal unit and proceeded to put 5 qts. of water in the pan and measured the depth of it. I then measured from the bottom of the block and marked the new dip stick. The pan got installed and the engine is in my run stand. The harmonic balancer is on and the lifters are in. That's it for today.
Helped my friend re-install his steering box on his Studebaker Champ truck.. We hung the box, bolted it down. His gonna make a few minor changes to column angle, etc. Minor stuff adjusted after you get the vehicle on the road and then learn what felt good in the garage aint so good.
Photo of the disc brake conversion on the OEM Studebaker axle.
This is the adjustable pecker I made the other day for pushing up small dents in stainless trim. You can sight through the round hole on top to locate over the low spot and then push up from below with the pecker. :)
Checked spare tire air pressure in the vehicles. Its been 5- 6 months or so. Car was a little low. Truck spare had 28 psi, should be 65. I will recheck the truck spare in a month . 8)
This week: Social Security sent me a letter. Telling me about the updates to my address since they had the wrong address and that caused my missed direct deposit in february? Uh no , thats incorrect on why my payment was returned to SS.. I checked my account online, all is good
THen 2 days later: I receive a 2nd letter from SS. This letter explains the corrective action taken on the date I visited the office. :o :o So , it appears all is ok ? We sit and wait to see if March deposit happens correctly.
Got my 5 year older brother in a nursing home. May have to start selling assets to pay for it, as he makes too much SS and pension to apply for Medicaid. He's not happy, we're not happy.
Quote from: 58 Yeoman on March 07, 2023, 10:57:42 PMX3. Funny thing about a filler panel I bought in the early 2000's for my 41 Pontiac. A guy in one of the northern states had a nice one for the rear bumper. I bought it, and it came in a 3' high box. It was folded twice. I called and asked him about it. He said he sent it in a long box. Checked with the post office and they found that the box had been damaged, so they folded it and put it in a shorter box. They paid for that one, and I found another.
Man that sucks about the brother. Mine is 3 years older and its anybodys guess who will burden who in the years to come.
I hunted a front bumper filler for my 71 Pontiac once, after * ran into the front end of it twice. Found a yard up north saying they had 4 Venturas so I called. They called back saying they just stuck a pencil through all four. What did I do? Tucked the bumper, of course.
Got that 56 rear bumper job down to welding the last bracket but got pulled off that to hurriedly mud the dash for priming convenience. So even though I'm not far along enough with the bumper to make sure it sits straight and trim it, it will probably be considered finished. Painter will walk up one day and ask can you weld up this bracket so I can paint it?
The front has two bolts holding it and I won't be suprised if the same assumption is made. I can hear it now: "Oh, I thought you were done with that and already billed it so we can't charge any more."
No idea if the customer approves of the new panel. He walks up randomly or is waiting when I get there and sticks around at least an hour each visit.
A long time employee fizzled out before finishing sanding the Nomad so guess who will have to finish. I am so sick of mud and primer. Yuck.
Just caught myself having a pretty good time just now, finessing the rear bumper / filler / brackets and headbanging to Slayer- Postmortem. I had to slot one more hole to make it all measure out and slight trimming of ends put it all in :) range.
But of course this being the first day of my 13th year in the same stall, and it being the 13th... on top of being a time change Monday...
Garage door opener spit out the drive sprocket, shaft sawed itself in two after 5 1/2 years of duty. Its a Craftsman. Had to do some teardown just to get the GT out. The one that got run into in every month starting with a J... in 2013.
Oh, the joys. :)
Dash has a pinhole and a deep scratch area. It was semi rushed but will as always turn out fine.
I like your trim ding pecker outer, John. Necessity is a mother. :)
Quote from: 58 Yeoman on March 13, 2023, 12:05:30 AMGot my 5 year older brother in a nursing home. May have to start selling assets to pay for it, as he makes too much SS and pension to apply for Medicaid. He's not happy, we're not happy.
I hope you find a solution to the cost.. We've had friends and family in long term care. Very expensive. A friend with a 99 yr old mother is trying for state assistance $ help on long term care and he has run into only road blocks and no assistance from his 2 sisters or brother.
It warmed up again so O&S made it to the shop to pretend to be a head man. As cast, the gt40p heads are pretty clean on the intake and not bad on the exhaust. There is something of a line under the seat area so I did a little pocket porting and shaved the spark plug protrusion a little. I cleaned everything again and installed the new Trickflow springs and now I have assembled heads. :)
He hasn't got long, I'm guessing a month or so. I think his assets will be enough.
Quote from: 58 Yeoman on March 14, 2023, 07:22:48 PMHe hasn't got long, I'm guessing a month or so. I think his assets will be enough.
Ok.. basically hospice care it sounds like. take care.
Worked on modifying the rear seat back last night in the 55 to fit between the mini tub. Cut the bottom 2" on each side but left the top the original width. Moved some springs around and welded it back up, Baby steps.
I get to do the same thing to the seat bottom also. Narrow the back and leave the front its original width.
It has been warm here lately: 80 degree days. Today (wednesday) it is raining like crazy. :o :o
Tuesday I took off the ::) bathroom window on this old Park Model. Its 8 x 36 inches. No dual pane window is built that size that I found easy to acquire. The same size window in single pane glass was $160.00... SO I took the window out. It was a design of crank out frame and glass. I deleted the window crank parts. Siliconed the window frame section to the main frame. Cleaned, scuffed, painted the assembly white.
I did not take photos of this operation, sorry. I know you guys are on the edge of yur seat for photos. :lol: :lol:
Photos or it didn't happen. :lol: :lol:
O&S had a day. :) I started out with a computer bomb. I reloaded windows and then figured out I have a hardware problem, I think. Anyway, I wasted several hours until I quit messing with it. The installed height on the exhaust valves on the Ford heads I've been using is 2 tenths lower because of valve rotators. I didn't like the seat pressure on the new springs as a result of that. When I woke up this morning, I decided it was time to cut new keeper grooves. There was plenty of stem height to do that. It took 4 tool setup changes to do that because I didn't have an 80 thousands width cutter to do it in one shot. The stems are fairly hard anyway so maybe that would have ended poorly. :) Anyway, the 8 stems are cut, the installed height is 1.8" just like the intakes. The heads are assembled and on the engine and torqued. It took an hour of updates on my back up computer to be able to upload pics from my camera. It got up to 79 degrees this afternoon but tomorrow we go back in the dumper so there will be more time to work on the puter. :)
I spent the day doing various little fixes on a decent salvaged 69 Chevelle frame found locally but that had been retrieved with a tractor. 56 truck guy coming to collect a couple color sprayouts to stare at when the sun comes out. He liked the bumper filler very much. :)
thats good news about the bumper filler IDJ . KB I had to shorten and cut new keeper grooves on a set of titanium valves a year or 2 ago . I used a collet to chuck them and made a live center into a valve head locater by machining a piece to press on to the straight part of the live center with a shallow relief bored to the valve head diameter on the other end . Worked well . Titanium can work harden quickly so I had to sharpen the HSS parting tool often , I used a lot of rapid tap too . The valves went into a 6 cyl hemi head on a motor swapped into a willys jeep . The valve stems got lash caps too .
Quick question on Cashier's checks. I've got a guy from MO wants to buy the Yeoman with a Cashier's check, coming in on Monday. He's already sent me a picture of the check with a phone number and two contacts at the bank. I tried calling the bank 5 times, but never got to a customer rep. I called my bank, and they said they can't verify the check of another bank.
The guy is 3 to 4 hours away and didn't want to travel with 30k, nor take 7 to 10 days to get the full amount from the bank. Maybe someone knows the guy, his name is Dave Walters from Fenton, MO., and is into vintage race cars. How do you guys handle large amounts of money on car sales?
If he has the cash in his bank, it should be easy to transfer the entire amount to your account in a bank to bank transfer. Once your bank verifies it's in your account, give him the title. I've never personally done it, but friends have met with the buyer in the seller's bank, money gets transferred, verified, done deal.
Phil, a cashiers check is no different than a personal check. I took one for an engine in 1991 for around 13 grand. It was drawn on the Bank of America. I tried to cash it in 2 different banks in Flagstaff where I delivered the engine. One was a BOA branch. They both refused to cash it. When I got home, I told a banker I know the story and she said they shouldn't do that. But they did. If you take the check and can take it to the bank and get it verified, you would probably be ok. I wouldn't travel with that much cash either. But if you can have him do a wire transfer and have your bank hold it in escrow until he picks up the car, that is an option. The last 2 cars I sold that were sold long distance were all paid by wire transfer before they left my house. If Wzjunk checks in, he may know this guy and might be able to offer some help.
The nearest US Bank is an hour away in Bloomington/Normal. I'm going to call that branch tomorrow when they open and see if they can shed any light. He's buying the car sight unseen, going by what I tell him on the phone and the FBMP ad. I hope it's not a "too good to be true" story.
Phil, everytime I have done this, I have been a little nervous. When I sold the white 51, I took a cashiers check but the buyer lived 35 miles away and was a business owner and a farmer. We met in person when I showed the buyer the truck so that's definately different. I took that check to my bank and deposited it. By the time I drove home, it had been cleared as good. I've taken checks and held titles until the check cleared also. Never when I was more than a 1000 miles away or overseas as in the sale of the 32. :) You are probably aware of this but my thought is to stay calm and don't let your mind run away. If your bank has an escrow department, he could send the wire transfer and they would hold it. I understand that there are a jillion ways to get taken and with all of the arm chair experts, you don't know what to believe. I think it's your turn to be successful. :)
My bank told me you can stop payment on a cashiers check.
A friend of mine used to sell a lot of machinery, and would always take the check to the bank it was written on, but they were usually close by. I sold a dune buggy once to a shady looking character, and my wife took the check to the bank six miles away and cashed it. A few hours later, the bank called and asked if we could bring back the money. LOL. We called my bank and they verified that we keep the money. The guy had written the check on his grand mothers account and he wasn't authorized. He had also written checks for other cars, and ended up spending some time in jail for it.
After having a computer mess this week, my son had parts left over from some of his upgrades and they got installed in my case. He did a fresh install of Windows 11. The parts he used are kind of a hot rod. The performance is good. I have everything back to where I have been currently working. There was some stuff from 2010 that I haven't used in quite a while so I left it off. I have created a system image and am creating a boot drive as I type. I built that machine in 2009. If the replacement lasts as long, it should be the last one. :) It was windows 7 when I put it together. I was very happy with that system. I wonder if 11 will be stable? :) Years ago, building a machine let you pick your components and have more for less. I don't know if that's still the case.
I made the last panels for the bike tank today . I was just about to cut up an old tank to use the neck and cap when my buddy suggests I check to see if replacement caps are available . On his trip to sturgis last summer his group was nearly stranded when one of the bikes ended up missing a fuel cap and no replacement could be found . In searching for a replacement cap for the tank that I was using I found out that the tank I was about to cut up is actually sort of valuable , like $150ish so I am going to the wrecker to get one from an old truck if I can find one .
Hi guys, I haven't been around much lately, just life I guess. If anyone remembers I built a 383 stroker a year or so ago and the cam went flat in it.I took the cam out of another engine I had and put it in the stroker.I finally got it started yesterday and it seems to be running well, but with some of the usual startup gremlins. First I had to
Rewire the alternator circuit due to my own inattention, then after it started the was a massive oil leak under the car. Again my own inattention as the oil pan bolts were only finger tight.🤪 today I ran it again and now the thermostat is not opening, I shut it off at 229*. At least it's idleing with 68 pnds of oil pressure and my fuel line doesn't leak now! 👍🏼
Phat46, did you check to see if you have an airlock in the cooling system?
It warmed up some today so O&S went to the shop. 1st item was to take the broken cam sensor and turn it into a dedicated oil pump primer for Fords. I pressed off the gear and removed the spacer to allow the shaft to come out. I cut the sensor end off and stuck it in the lathe. I turned the end down to 3/8" and put the spacer back on. I then primed the engine and ran it long enough to have oil out of all of the pushrods. I installed new orings on the fuel injectors and installed the lower intake. The upper is just held in place with 2 bolts. I installed the headers to see if all was ok. They are cloned from the Pertronix versions. Just like them, 2 bolts don't clear the pipes for installation. :) I'm going to make up some spacers to allow longer bolts to rectify that situation. A few less piles in the shop. :)
KB426, the top hose was cold, as was the rad, I figured nothing was circulating at all. I already switched out the t-stat, we'll find out tomorrow!
Watched a season 1 episode 1 Perry Mason the other evening. Interesting on how the show was in early first year. Perry was driving a 57 Ford retractable roof car. Lots of convertible cars in the whole show over the years
A later episode in season 1 Paul Drake was driving a corvette. Must have been a 1957 Vette.. Paul was usually in a T-bird in later shows.
The buyer from MO arrived today with the cashier's check and a trailer. He called US Bank and talked with a woman there who verified that the check was good. He drove off with the car, and I deposited the check in the bank. He said he's going to take off the chrome wheels and raised white letter tires and use the original black wheels with the poverty hubcaps and wide whitewall tires. It's what he likes with cars of that age. Have at it, it's your car now.
Quote from: 58 Yeoman on March 20, 2023, 05:06:12 PMThe buyer from MO arrived today with the cashier's check and a trailer. He called US Bank and talked with a woman there who verified that the check was good. He drove off with the car, and I deposited the check in the bank. He said he's going to take off the chrome wheels and raised white letter tires and use the original black wheels with the poverty hubcaps and wide whitewall tires. It's what he likes with cars of that age. Have at it, it's your car now.
Sounds like all is well with the money.. The tow vehicle is way too small to pull that trailer and load.
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Congratulations, Phil. I'm sure you still have a smile on your face. :)
O&S made a tiny bit of progress today. One of the sets of alum. valve covers will clear the intake without a spacer. I have a set of cobra covers for an efi engine but there would have been a hose rubbing on the top of one cover. Not an option. :) I started bolting all of the front accys. on. I didn't get any of the fasteners for that so I've been digging through the stuff I saved from the vehicles I disassembled in the last few years. I'm missing the correct length for the alternator. Everything else came from the bolt pile. :)
Phil, I went back and looked at the pic of the car leaving. Now I'm grinning, also. :)
Yeah, I thought so too, but he says he uses it all the time. Hope he made it home okay.
kb, yep, I'm smiling. He couldn't understand why I was hesitant, as he does this all the time. I don't remember ever selling anything that needed a cashiers check.
I had the privilege of changing oil in the boss's car today. :) 2nd time since new. Not too bad of a job. No splash shield to remove. :)
O&S then did a little work on the 5.0 engine. I found out that a hose that runs from the water pump to the steel heater lines is no longer being reproduced. I sure am glad I didn't cut that hose to remove it. :) Because the threads were poor in the alternator mount, I ended up using the longer bolts and using a nut on the bottom of the bracket. The flywheel and clutch are installed. The bellhousing is on but I haven't checked it for run out yet. Less boxes again. :)
The 2 new doors are installed in the 48. What does that signify? Less stuff in the shop to work around. LOL.
Couple more daze of rain here... Now we have flooding happening from rain and snow met in the northern AZ areas.. Cant win?
Of course the rain means more plant growth in the forest and deserts , which means more fires this year.
Tuesday : wife and I got in a short ride on the Red Phat Gurl before the rain moved in. This is a Community park north a few miles from us. Ball fields, small fishing pond, kid play areas, BBQ , etc. Real nice park
Seems to be like a lifetime ago when I was building crates out of osb to store parts in..
YA the price of osb for 7/16 sheets hit $80 here in Canada...S. Ontario. OSB. That lifetime on going project came to a halt. I NEEDED to frame a window in our barn. 2 sheets 4x8 PLY . Construction grade..but ok. 1-1/2,1-3/8. That hit over $200. 2 pieces of cheap plywood.
I don't know about the ply price..but osb..
The other day in HD..price down to $16
Back to it.
Playing a wait n see game with Amazon.
In the past, I have ordered couple small items. Shipped from Amazon via Prime sale.. With a short quick delivery time. With in hours the items are shown "shipped" ... Hours later they are shown : "delayed" . Then the offer of "cancel for full refund" is applied by Amazon?
I am in no hurry for the pieces, next week delivery will be fine. Will see what Amazon does next.
Oddly , the same items are still listed as quicker delivery than I have already waited. :lol: :lol:
Not sure if I showed these recent paintings on here. I have been away from the easel for a month or more, stuff happens, but I will be back at it soon. Git a great reference photo at the Detroit Autorama I want to do.
They look good Phat. I sold my air jack today, no cars left here that I can use it on.
^^^^ Those are great!
O&S did a tiny bit of work today. I checked the bellhousing for runout. It was 4 thou. Max is 5 so I was happy with that. 2 of the idler pulleys on the belt drive weren't easily available so I bought bearings and pressed the old out and the new in. I ended up having to put them in the lathe to correct the radial runout. Another item that used to be real simple that took twice as long. :)
I've got my brothers car that I gave a quick clean up to sell to help pay his bills. Exhaust is noisy, so I checked the muffler, and it's not connected. Okay, new muffler, but wait, the pipe in front of it is also junk. So I cut it off behind the cat, go inside to see who has the parts to fix it. Good grief, no parts available for a 2010 Nissan Versa without taking a loan. I'll call Merlin muffler shop on Monday and see if they can do it.
Quote from: 58 Yeoman on March 25, 2023, 05:09:08 PMThey look good Phat. I sold my air jack today, no cars left here that I can use it on.
Buddy of mine used one of thiose air jacks in his shop years ago. His customers were a lot of light trucks and service vans. It was easy to lift the vehicle up , place jack stands as needed. I still miss Dan.. Melanoma Cancer got him
I spent the day yesterday helping Hooley with the new "Okie Twister" Henry J at the local spring nostalgia race. New engine, new car, and a cool day damp day, but still fun. A good time was had by all. My good friend David, with the blue 32 Chevy coupe, got sideways at half track but was able to recover nicely. It never does this and it went straight the rest of the day. It may have been caused by new tires.
I made a little trip to the fire dept. lot where people donate cars for extraction practice. I came away with a good pair of PT cruiser front seats. They are fairly narrow and I know that I can sit in them comfortably. This was a base model, no armrests. :)
Since I got my now hopefully fixed engine back in my '46 Chevy I have been chasing one little problem after another. First was the burnt wire, then the big oil leak, then a transmission leak, a power steering leak and the fuel pump nearly touching the frame. After getting the wiring fixed, the oil leak fixed and hopefully the trans leak fixed I crawled under it again today and found a nearly impossible to reach clamp loose on the P. S. Got it tight with a 5/16 wrench 1/8 of a turn at a time. Loosened the motor and trans mounts and was able to move the engine over to get more clearance on the fuel pump. Hopefully this is the end of all the little stuff and we can get on the road. We do this cause it's fun....right? 😀
WZ junk , I have seen cars get squirrely on the gear change from different rollout side to side on a new pair of slicks , Rollout was 1" different side to side and it would get crossed up bad at the shift. 4 link super comp car .
The last 2 days were spent on yard work. Ho Hum. :)
When we downsized: we placed many items into a storage facility. 10 x 25 unit that was in the east valley of metro Phoenix AZ.
Since we ended up in the west valley , the olde Sun City area. I decided to move all this "stuff". Started that on tuesday this week. It is 67 miles one direction. Truck computer says MPG is 15.3 to 16.0 .. :o
Timing was good. We just received notice from the east valley facility that rent is increased in May 2023 by 35 dollars to $296.00 a month.. Rent on the west side for a 10 x 20 space is $192.00
What a week. Took my brothers car to Merlin muffler shop on Tuesday for a new exhaust system...$850. Uh, no. NAPA got me the pipe and muffler for $275 and I did it myself. We spent Thursday cleaning and organizing my brothers house and stuff, getting ready for a sale. Still have a couple days worth of work to do on that. Sold his car today for $4500, so we know that May will be paid for if he lasts that long. This is all wearing me out.
*. The car buyer is from a small town about an hour away, and it got hit with a bad hail storm while he was here. After he left, I got on FB and saw video's already posted of the damage during the hail storm. A salesman at a Ford dealer said he would give me $4000 for the car if I didn't sell it. After selling the car, I contacted the salesman and everyone else that wanted it, that the car was sold. The salesman texted back that if the dealer had bought the car, it would've been totaled by the storm. He also said that they lost about 150 cars to hail damage. Sunny here, go figure.
I went back to the pt cruiser to remove the fuse/ relay panel from it. Not a big deal. 2 bolts and cut the harness. I get back and take it apart. Oops. The short story is that this is a total integrated power management device. I think I'll remove the fuses and discard the rest. 06 and newer have this. As the saying goes, this is above my pay grade. :)
Phil, anybody that has been through this is sympathetic. :) Tony, your lower price is almost 3 times what they rent for in my corner of the world. Welcome to the city. :)
Quote from: kb426 on March 31, 2023, 06:48:55 PMTony, your lower price is almost 3 times what they rent for in my corner of the world. Welcome to the city. :)
Yeah, I know. Yet these storage places sometimes have waiting lists. I am working on getting out of the big city here. I am really tired of the circus, traffic and other stuff. :lol: Where we are located now is economical living , but: :o :o
USPS sends me an email every day with pictures of what's going to be delivered. I'm expecting this piece of mail today. Hmmm...Colorado. I'm in Illinois. No one caught this?
Personell circumstances have me cast once again as sandperson, for the duration. Of ever. Painter got bottom of cab shot yesterday though. Pic is basecoat over epoxy, rock guard, sealer and I split during clearcoat. Not sure if thats to be gloss or satin under there but I just about always like the rock guard and body color look.
GT oil change and other maintainence, garage door opener replacement, first mow, freshening landscaping are all high on to do list but my #1 daily driver still sits in need of purt near full restoration. All of last weekend was spent going to places to buy things for a few of these endeavors and this week's batch of chores are heaped atop it all. Hey brother, can you spare a time? :)
Today was the day. I started on the explorer 5.0 wiring harness. It took longer than it should to remove the 2 large connectors from the harness. The male end wasn't bad but the female end has the tangs down in a dark hole. Took some effort for a blind old guy to get that done. The 1st pic shows everything depinned. The 2nd shows some wires coiled and taped together. Some of those will be removed as they are for an auto trans. The loose ends are some of the wires that will feed power, ground, the obd2 connector and the feed that will provide the right side o2 sensor and a vss connector. There will need to be a relay for ecu power feed, o2 sensor feed and the fuel pump relay. After that, there should be 3 wires needed to connect it as a stand alone system. There is a feed for an oil, tach, and temp gauge in the wiring also.
Spent couple hours at a Racer reunion gathering today. Talked to several folks we have known for years. Weird: they all got olde? :lol: :lol:
Henry J has weird engine with large intake manifold on it?
Dragster with an old chain drive blower on it.
Ran into an 80 yr old guy named Jim Rogers. He started BeeLine Dragway here in Arizona in 1963
We moved another load of stuff from east valley storage to the west side storage. This work is wearing us out. My low back gets po'd and then spasms start and it gets worse. We take a couple daze off to recover. :o :o
Yeah, the trailer is not full. If I was 49 instead of 69 yr old , that would help. LOL
I use the trailer winch to pull the heavy stuff up the ramps. 8)
Henry is a Chrysler with the long ram intake from the early 60's. I'm guessing you know that. :)
My wife and I went for a bike ride. At our age, that is big news.
^^^ 8)
GTP goes back into service today. Trans shop left subframe bolts loose and one fell out. Snagged one off the GT for now.
New storage location has parking for cars, RVs too.. This Peugeot in is back lot. I know nothing about it besides these photos.
Interesting olde car. Kinda ruff , some what complete. ALtho I did not check for power train in it
Looks like the same model Columbo drove, but his wasn't a wagon. I cleaned up the connections on the small JD lawn tractor today, greased the zerks and aired up the tires. I rolled the lawn to get the mole hills down, so I can see where to put the traps.
I took the snow plow off the Big JD, then found the battery dead. It's kind of buried in the lower front end. Terminals were corroded, and the date sticker said 8/15. It's a 2015 tractor. I've never had a small battery last that long, so I guess I can't complain about 8 years service. I bought the tractor used in 2020. I'll get a new one then put the end loader back on.
Sent the VIN for the chopper in for a canada wide VIN search . This bike does not show up as registered anywhere in Canada as far back as '95 . Going to find out what that means shortly . I was hoping it showed up as licensed in Alberta as that is where my son lives and it might be able to license without any inspection . If licensed in another province it will need an out of province inspection . :o
Sanity recieved another wicked blow today, of unprecedented proportion, at work. Lost months of mind repair progress. Really don't want to continue on with anything I've just been rejected and abandoned, tried and convicted with no defense. I know this ^^^ is unwelcome and thats what I am. Job is secure but I live in fear of my temper when justly aroused. Just know theres been another problem and I won't be fit to write. Already ain't, this is best I can do. Ignore and continue. If you need me I'll be here under the bus. Sick and tired of humans.
Quote from: 58 Yeoman on April 03, 2023, 03:28:55 PMLooks like the same model Columbo drove, but his wasn't a wagon.
Hmmm, I checked. Yes the 403 Peugeot car was driven by Columbo, a 1959. I had forgotten that. I read that Peter Falk was not happy with the vehicle choice for the show
I think I have mentioned that the OE Perry Mason series the vehicles are mostly convertibles and Ford products. Mason was driving a retractable Ford in the early seasons. It was a stick shift car too!
I bought another AD truck and I need some help getting it home. :)
I wish I had completed this project prior to April Fools Day. A fun project that I made from left over junk parts. There is a little more work to do and then I will list it on Marketplace .
^^^^^
:)
Excellent!
That ^^^ is nifty :lol:
Omigosh, deep exhale. I grew today and fell off the stress hook. Buried the hatchet with a good coworker and shook hands, restoring the boss's faith in my adaptability. Basically I passed a diplomacy test with a female half my age. Lo and behold, relationships strengthened all around. A clash of weaknesses was solved with patience and clear heads. Deeeep exhale. Om. :arrow:
Been funner romping on the blown car this week. 56 cab got shiny clear underneath and topside may get shot tomorrow. I am still fussing over the other parts. Whew.
IDJ glad to hear the work thing cleared up . Nothing like working at a job with co worker issues. >:(
You said a mouthful, CK!
Good thing I shave weekly because I made it by the hair of my chinny chin chin.
A collective sigh of relief. :)
Good on you Matt
Thanks, Frank. Age differences present respect challenges both ways. ;) I had to behave as a tree in strong wind for a couple days. Nobody figured I'd still bend that far.
Heres a kinda K&B's yard-esque shot just for shiggles. Side pipes, hooray! :)
vinyl top on a mustang fastback . Thats the first one ive ever seen . :o
Wednesday move... I have 1 more load to complete this.
Heavy stuff in the next move. Short block: chevy 383 cid , 2 bare chevy v8 blocks. Few more tools. drill press, floor jacks
Dig the flop in this '22 color on a '56, under the varying indoor light. 8) That will have some zing outdoors. I swear the pale looking cowl side pic is from the same walkaround-
Quote from: chimp koose on April 06, 2023, 08:15:25 PMvinyl top on a mustang fastback . Thats the first one ive ever seen . :o
Looks legit. 71-3 yeah but now that you mention it... can't say I've seen a 69-70 with vinyl. But man that looks like original paint don't it? Survivor! Looks pretty unharmed.
This other lead sled (guy sez 6,600 lbs) has been around before. Looks like a flatty car but has a chromed out rat. I'm down! :shock:
Actually remembered to whip into the u-pull-it on the way home and snagged my bolt and washer for the FWD POS off a Regal real quick. Ran into a buddy there who I didn't recognize for a sec. Done grew a soggy bottom boys lookin beard, wild man hair and a wife on his elbow. Whilst catching up I learned Honda transmission solenoids are external. Look like blinkers. :o
Speaking of transmissions ...(safest to go ahead and spell that word out these days :roll:
)...
The 700R in the wrecked 69 velle was hanging by one bolt. Most of the bell area of the case chunked off. They got it off, turned the crank and watched flexplate wobble. But flexplate does not appear bent. Uh-oh. Pan hit culvert as hard as the frame did. Its an LS. No tellin. One of those do you put it together and try it or go on and take the mill to a machine shop situations. Glad I dodged that task bullet.
If the car hit the engine hard enough it could really damage the thrust bearing as the crank tries to exit the front of the engine . Would be worth checking end play if nothing else .
Quote from: chimp koose on April 08, 2023, 12:09:32 AMIf the car hit the engine hard enough it could really damage the thrust bearing as the crank tries to exit the front of the engine . Would be worth checking end play if nothing else .
Yeah! That, at least. No machinists in da house though. We may have a mike but not a mic. :lol:
Did get pics of crashed frame though, and you can see direct contact with concrete.
Funny story: At the Benz dealer where I worked, we fixed a hard sideswipe on a little um SLK230 (?). The miata sized ones that say kompressor on the side. Young female driver, came in frequently. After the repair, at next service interval she asked the service writer why this gauge was always in the red....
it was the tach. A plastic piece in the transmission was either broken by the wreck or almost was then gave out later but she had been driving in first for thousands of miles it seemed. ???
Seen it before, even on my own wrecks... some mechanical damage takes time to reveal itself. Like the cruise control unit on my GT where the throttle cable had been pinched. Eventually tore the small section of rope inside the cruise unit by making it pull harder.
Stuff happens. Hard to know what all to check sometimes.
Anyway, this frame already had a nasty weld repair near the engine and the frame we found is much better. All I can say is I am glad the occupants must have been seat belted good.
Got nailed on drivers side right behind drivers door in a 66 comet i owned many years ago . Was a write off and I bought it back and hammered the fender out enough to fit a tire back on . ( pre re-cert inspection days) . Driving home from work one day I am about 3 blocks after turning off the expressway when my rear transmition mount falls out.Bolt was broken off in collision . I whip out the bottle jack and vice grip the mount back in place . % months later when I scrapped the car I remembered to remove the vice grip .
Ha. My garage is still secured by vise grips. No time to replace the failed opener yet.
Had Easter dinner today. :)
WZ, I sent a PM about your sunken treasure truck. :arrow:
O&S had a tiny bit of brain power today. I de-pinned 21 wires from the ecu plug. That leaves 49 wires the run the engine and do a OBD2 data port and a check engine light. I have an assortment of tools for that. Seldom do they work. I used a short piece of tig rod to make a tool. I ground the end to have a small flat on one side and bent it to one side to allow it to lay flat against the pin to slid under the catch to remove the pin. The harness still needs the relays added and the o2 sensor and vss wiring added.
O&S is too old to chase the easter bunny. I spent the morning using the rickshaw sprayer and got the yard sprayed before the wind got up. After lunch, I worked on the wiring harness some more. I removed 5 more wires. All the circuits for the downstream o2 sensors are removed now. There was an octane sensor on one bank that was not connected to anything. It had a plug in the end to keep dirt out of the wire end. I unwrapped the harness on that side and removed the circuit. I wrapped it back up as original. I think I will double check all of the numbers on the ecu before I go any farther. Being blind warrants the double check. :)
We have been watching a show "Food that built America" on the TV... Its a series. Covers food pioneers that created the brands and types of foods we know from the late 1800s thru the 1960s - 70s. It also shows how food stores changed when pre-packaged foods entered the market
Hot diggity, new meat! :)
Passing 56 Chevy truck job to the painter. Situation normal, if it ain't sombody leaving its somebody supposed to start today but can't for another week trying to relocate. Shufflin' the dadgum plans around. But I'll take it. Got 3 weeks to take it as far as I can. One of the other guys put a firewall in already, did cowl rust stuff. It ain't pretty but its a 68-72 GM cab with brown bottom disease and some work days showing on back of cab. You'll see. I haven't been into these cabs much, that I recall. Kinda like the design underneath but that double wall above the belt line always makes for challenges doing a nice job.Roof is not hammered for once though. :arrow:
O&S was yard man in the morning and then worked on the harness some this afternoon. I have a few things left to be certain that I'm not modifying the wrong wire and I will be ready to add the o2 wiring and the relays.
I added wheels to my yard art of the AD truck cab and bed. Now I can move it a foot or two every day or turn it around and have it going the opposite direction. My grandson and I might make a stop motion movie by taking a photo and then moving it slightly and then taking the next photo. I have done so many odd things over the years that they neighbors are not surprised at me anymore. Kinda takes the fun out of it.
Final load moved today, from east side of the valley to the Sun City ver 1.0 we live in now.
The round trip daily from our home base to the storage yard to pickup the car trailer, drive to east side storage, load up, drive to west side storage, take trailer back to storage lot, then drive back home is : 168 miles.
:o :o
I have bad luck with traffic and road construction often.. East side storage on Power road... Asphalt was being chewed up and resurface happening Right in front of the storage location. Roads closed or reduced. We had to drive 4 mile loop to get on the road correctly to turn into the storage place. Yippie ! not :-\
I think it was 99*F here today. We forgot about spring weather again
;) ;)
O&S made some progress on the wiring harness today. I had a little brain power. :) All of the unneeded wires have been removed. The right side o2 sensor has been added. The 4 relays have been added. There are wires left for oil and temp gauges. I have wires for the VSS that are doubled. This will allow the connection to the trans as well as to the speedo. Some of the loose wires are for the obd2 plug. I will look it over one more time but I think I'm ready to install it on the engine. I can then install the upper intake manifold.
O&S is aware that there isn't always a female when you need one. :) I was going to connect the diagnostic port today. I knew I had a obd2 connector in my assortment of stuff. I remembered putting it with the obd2 battery connector that allows you to keep the ecu memory alive when changing batteries. I looked for an hour. The anger meter was starting to climb. :) I found the container with all of those things before I became really angry about no memory. When I pulled the connector out, it was a male. I needed a female. LOL. I went back to the scrap yard and removed one from a late model car. It was one from the newer can buss series. I'm getting more exp. at depinning and changing wire positions. Not better, just more exp. :) I got the wires all moved and connected to the ecu. Some of the wires I removed from the harness were close in color to make it better for the future. I have the relay connections ready to go to the power and ground sources. I installed the harness on the engine and installed the upper intake manifold. Less mess in the shop. :)
Today I installed a vent cover on the RV bathroom vent.
The work is: I have to hook onto the RV and move it forward so I can get inside to the bathroom vent to open the vent.
There is a steel post for the parking cover that blocks my RV entry door. The neighbor RV to our 5th wheel parking.. he was gone which makes this stuff easier too. 8) 8)
Vonnie and I are headed over to Spokane for the weekend, indoor car show, and Spaghetti Factory,
We visited the Pima Air - Space Museum in Tucson AZ. Last visit was in 2004 I think?
It has grown a huge amount. Probably triple the size and several large hangers have been added. They offer 2 day passes at reduced rate. I doubt you could look at most of the items in 2 days. Its very interesting to me
THey had the SR-71 there in 2004... It was in outside storage then. This new hanger is huge and there are many planes inside, engines, other memorabilia too.
8) 8)
Today I burnt some rubber with the 455 singing like a song bird. :twisted:
This week I got rust panels fitted on the right side of the 68 Chevy cab job. Inner and outer rockers, cab corner patch (see lumpy prior fix above it), and partial pan brace sections plus one small square pan patch. Feeling right at home. Other side gets a pan but cab corner is straight. It will eat the 3 weeks just getting brown bottom parts on the cab. Our resident parts librarian did not come up with hinge to cab bolts so I haven't fitted a door yet. So far, so good and the Pontiacs are holding steady. Real nice weather pattern here now. :)
I placed the ad on Marketplace this evening for the yard art I made out of the old AD truck parts. I have had a lot of fun with the messages. Some people just do not get it, or do not have a sense of humor (actually I do not think they have any sense at all). The response has been crazy and I think I have a serious customer or two. We will see how it all plays out.
John , I agree on lack of sense or something in people.. This "RV park" we currently live in during the winter has "patio sales" one time a month from october thru april.
I had a few items out for sale that are mostly RV - camping stuff. A 17 inch griddle , propane powered caught several ppl attention. It was then I learned that NONE of them had a clue how - what - where that griddle worked. Its just kinda interesting hearing questions , thoughts on stuff that ppl have No clue on. ;D ;D
It is about the same as my experiences at automotive swap meets over the decades. People look at parts for sale and have zero clue if it what they need or will fit the old car they have.
8)
Simple project for a sunday on the F-350 tailgate opening. Rubber bumper stops for the tailgate. If you rub against these 2 as you climb in the bed or out... the rubber bumper stop falls off. Simple push pin attachment like the plastic covers under the hoods of modern cars.
The hole for the push pin is near 5/16 thread diameter. I run a 5/16-24 tap in the hole (aluminum bed material).. I used stainless button head bolt and stainless washer with 609 loctite to retain the bolt threads in the aluminum.
8) 8) I hope these rubber stops stay on longer. I lost 1 rubber stop and bought a pair of them (left and right are different)
:o
Worked on the door for for my handyman hard top project yesterday. Had to rebuild the vent window frames and make a pattern for the new door glass. I will need to make new vent glass also when I get the glass on order. I don't have the weatherstrip in at this time.
I delivered the yard art I made from the old AD truck parts. Very nice fellow that has lots of stuff. I shopped on the way home for some stuff to make another. I would like 53 to 56 Ford truck parts. I was offered some square body Chevy stuff for free and I may do one of those.
Engine oil change on the F350 diesel engine.. 13 quarts of oil.. I collected a sample of the oil. Its on the way to BlackStone Labs for testing
I may finish up this side of the 68 Chevy cab today. Sectioned floor pan braces and pillar bottoms. Replacing inner and outer rocker and cab corner patch.
Looks nice, Matt. :)
Thanks, Bill. :)
I did not finish today but did get good results. Butt weld on cab corner left to do, then grind everything topside. Done underneath. Reinstalled door before welding outer rocker and it needed a little more attention.
Another boothload of 56 stuff got shot today. Hood and bed parts. Should be one more to finish the bed. Then accent color parts but I think theres a two-tone on bumpers brewing. :idea: :shock: :arrow:
We bought an ice maker that sits on the counter for the RV use. It makes ice quickly. About 15 minutes we have some ice.
I noticed this label on the side of it. About flammable refrigerant is used.
:o
One side, down. Happy 4/20! ;D
Warshed and waxed the bed of the F-350 today. Its the size of a small car. Will warsh the front of the truck saturday?
I also bleed - flushed the rear brakes of the Civic car.. CHecked the brakes, bushings, shocks , etc for probelms. 123k miles. It all looks fine. Wish I could say the same for the paint on the roof. Sun is hurting the roof and trunk paint. Weird ?
Nice clean work Matt
nice work there Matt looks like it was done by some one who hates bondo work lol 8) 8) 8)
I changed the rear tire and tube on the DR650 this afternoon. I do this about once every 5 years and I forgot the secrets. It took twice as long. :) I ordered the tire and tube last week planning on running the back tire a while longer. On tuesday, I went for a ride in the country. On wednesday I found a 3" long nail in that tire. So much for using it a while longer. The inner tube arrived today so the change was at the top of the list. :) Truck looks good, Matt.
maintenance on my shop vacuum.. I got this vacuum used, 20 yrs ago (at least) from a shop I helped clear out for a friend. He owned the property and it was a repair shop he rented out. All the small stuff was mine to take to clear the shop that was left behind.
After I got the vacuum home: All I did is disassemble enough to oil the motor, replace the filter and its run like a champ since. Filter is getting a little rough again.
:wink: :wink: :wink:
I run bags in my shop vacs, it sure saves the filters, making them last a lot longer.
Tony, I have used a shop vac like that from Sears for many years. I bang the filter out on a fence post when I dump the contents, then I blow the filter out with an air hose. I think over the last 25 years I have replaced the filter 3 times. I am sure that this is not the best practice but it has worked for me.
Somebody who will never be punished for it did a hit and run on my parked GT. Hopped in to make a breakfast run but it won't move. Mental health progress is dropping like a lead brick. Holding off the fury as best I can but that stuff is strong poison to me. >:(
Glad I had made a positive post or two and thanks guys. :)
Quote from: WZ JUNK on April 23, 2023, 07:10:31 AMTony, I have used a shop vac like that from Sears for many years. I bang the filter out on a fence post when I dump the contents, then I blow the filter out with an air hose. I think over the last 25 years I have replaced the filter 3 times. I am sure that this is not the best practice but it has worked for me.
Quote from: 58 Yeoman on April 22, 2023, 10:10:55 PMI run bags in my shop vacs, it sure saves the filters, making them last a lot longer.
At one time I used vacuum bags over this filter... Remember when house vacuums had bags in them? The new swirly gig vacuums seem to function without the old style bags?
John... I wack this filter on the cement and then use compressed air on it. Even my wife said: " that filter looks used up"
8) 8) :arrow:
Matt , all we can hope is that worse happens to them .
Quote from: chimp koose on April 23, 2023, 10:26:57 PMMatt , all we can hope is that worse happens to them .
Go ahead and hope that.
Thats as far down as I can whittle it. :blank:
Sunday ride on the ol Red Phat Gurl to the cemetery. Visited moms grave and others.. Mom has been gone 48 years now.
The Goldwing is 10 years old now. 81k miles.. Still an amazing machine. It will cruise at 35 or 105 mph. Need to install new front tyre and battery in the TPMS sender on the wheel. The Bridgestone rear car tyre is running good.. About 27k miles on it
Sprayed epoxy on recent cab work and sat aside. :arrow:
Walked right straight into hazard duty then, shoveling heaps of Ford loving rat manure. Humble beginnings on a pro tour build. :) Hope I don't get sick.
I gather its OK to be angry over the hit and run. Thats great. Now where does the serenity to fix it come from? Big wrench slips, I go ballistic in front of house and become a public enemy... greeeeat. :-\
I guess I'm too old. I want to get a pair of seats upholstered and everyone I have used in the past is out of the business. So I called a couple if my nearby buddies and they have the same problem. Life sucks sometimes.
Matt, after cleaning out the white 78 a few years ago, I'm trying to avoid rats and mice as much as possible. I have never seen a wheel bent around like your car. I would have expected the quarter panel to be flat in that area for that to happen. I've had minor hit and runs before. I would think that most of us have with age. It doesn't change the fact that it caused a train wreck for you. For that I'm sympathetic.
Frank, I hear more about upholstery now than paint. :) Part of what I hear is the prices are 3 times what they were about 5 years ago. A guy in Wichita did the interior in a car that won some awards. He went from 10 grand to 40 grand on a full size car. :) One of my friends got a quote for a 32 roadster of 15 grand. I'm not very good but my sewing machine will continue to be used. :)
I ordered a bunch of parts today. I don't know if they will get used or not but while I'm watching, availability and price increases are so much of a factor that generic parts make sense to have. If I do nothing, they should be easier to sell still in their boxes. LOL.
I could show you guys pics of a fresh 25K interior. ??? And point out a wiggly spot.
Happy report, end of day. :)
Toe adjustment is still way way in on the GT but I just drove it. At lunch I remembered rest of the week calls for rain and realized it was perfect for u-pull-it-ing at the moment. And the each daily cascade of dread / rage / sadness was only going to ferment into fine hostility so I knocked that problem in the head by taking the afternoon off and applying self help action.
One control arm bolt requires tank drop so while I did mad yank it off the boneyard car I only just straightened my existing as best I could with jacks and things. That'd be why the toe setting is out but theres a tie rod type link and I just didn't bring any 26mms home.
But done by sunset, replaced trailing arm and kinda debend long tube one going to middle. No rubs no shakes but would eat the tire now. Got it up to 50. Handling is very out of whack but me... I'll sleep, not fester and pout so much, and can focus all hate on a stranger I'll never meet. I'm out about a hundred bucks but think I've popped the mind zit. Again. Until next time.
Both my GT and the 69 Mustang made me want to puke but I worked like I was a third my age on a bad Monday and well, fortunately exhaustion can trump frustration. I am quite ready to stop being attacked and don't have it in me to attack back.
Fizzling out best I can. :arrow:
If it's any consolation Matt I had a 2000 Bonneville that had three front bumpers replaced, the left rear quarter straightened twice, and the right one once. All of them happened in a parking lot with "no one" around.
Back around 1990, I dragged what was left of the cheap vinyl/rubber interior parts from my 58 Yeoman to an upholsterer that was old at the time. He had had many of his interiors in cars that were on the covers of car mags, as he had them on the walls of his shop. He was able to do the seats, all the side panels, covers for the rear wheel wells inside, kick panels, carpeting and headliner for $1500. He even made carpeting to replace the rubber mats in the back of the wagon, plus behind the rear seat when you folded it down. I would hate to see what that would cost today. I'm glad the corvair has good seats and side panels, though they are available cheaper than an upholstery shop.
I've mentioned that there is an "aura " around me that attracts people and weird shat to me. :lol: :lol:
Such as parking lots.. I park out - away from other vehicles and when we return to our car, there is 1 to 3 vehicles next to our car.
Same thing happens inside stores too. We were at Sam Waltons place a few daze ago. I follow my wife with the cart as a good husband does. :( We were in a fridgerated aisle , My wife looking at eggs. NO body else was within 30 feet of us (it was very early morning). A gal walks up to me and says: " I need to get something there" pointing at items I am in front of.
I apologize to her, back up with the cart. She looks, picks up a few items , put them back ... looks more. At that point (hopefully inside my head) I was saying: " you better take something" and she did. :wink:
This can happen at anywhere to me.. Large box stores, Wally World, etc. NO body around but me and someone will walk up and need an item that I am in front of. They grab it , walk off , gone , poof.
You must have a magnetic personality, Tony !!
Quote from: Bruce Dorsi on April 26, 2023, 09:46:01 AMYou must have a magnetic personality, Tony !!
LOL ..... About a month ago at Home Depot. Early tuesday morning. We are in the carpet section looking at outdoor carpet on rolls.
As I stand back from the carpet rolls on the rack looking at carpet colors ... No body around. A guy walks around the corner. Says "excuse me"... As he reaches past me as I move out of his way.. He grabs a rolled up carpet mat that sits outside at an entry door. Poof..... he is gone. My wife and I look at each other and laugh.
:o :o
Tony, at least you just attract people. I seem to attract trains. There's two ways to leave Costco, and if I go in one direction, inevitably, a train will cross the road heading north. Of course, after that train has passed, I go to the next traffic light and make a right. The train also makes a right and crosses that road at the next light. I usually go the other way and avoid both crossings.
We went to visit my brother the other day at the nursing home, 40 miles out in nowhere. You guessed it, a lone train out in nowhere comes and makes me stop. Same way when we leave the house and go south on the state highway, a couple miles away are the E-W BNSF tracks. Sometimes, we get two trains, one in each direction.
I live about a mile south of the same tracks. They recently put in an overpass on the east side of town because the fire station is on one side and most of town is on the other side.
Found the build sheet on the 69 GT yesterday. It would be a good body to restore stock due to lack of rot and good options. Kind of a diamond in the rough. The metal work will probably be too simple for me to get it but I do see a replacement roof. For a rust hole up front from vinyl.
My 2014 Tacoma hit over 100,000 miles yesterday. I bought it in 2017 with 7,000 miles on it. It doesn't sit long.
That thing is hardly broken in yet, Phil. :)
Well... under Godzilla's litter box lies firm bedrock. That means underneath the worst interior mess ever lies the best floor ever. Solid seat braces, torque boxes, rockers, and rails. :-o
Unheard of. Hantavirus should start by June if its gonna.
Yeah, this truck has been trouble free the whole time.
The 29th was the 7th anniversary of a long time buddy's death.. Not so much how long he has been gone, it's how he went out.
Got me thinking about the guys on this forum that are gone.
:-\
Mike, a friend from high school, saw a cartoon I drew of my '59 Chevy and asked me if I would do one for his '69 Torino Cobra. I did this in PhotoShop rather than freehand since my hand isn't as steady as it used to be. He was pleased with the result.
I bought and antique 20" bandsaw at an auction yesterday. I am making a wood/metal cutting saw out of it using a variable speed treadmill motor.
That's a real chunk of iron John.
Appetite started coming back last evening. The fecal visions will fade in time I suppose. But theres still a dash to tear down. I am thinking it may be best to cut roof skin off before blasting.
Do you guys pull Mustang engines with trans attached or drop trans first? Seems like the whole mess had to get durn near vertical to come out of the last one. Tempting to chop out the upper tie bar to simplify but its still good.
Last I knew I could roll under a Ventura with a Sag 4 speed on gut and stab it by hand. Betcha I can't do that anymore.
Mustang engine question, early ones come out the top, the 96 generation was designed to drop the engine cradle. The 05 and newer, I know nothing about. I believe a Fox body will come out the top with a manual. I never tried an automatic.
Well yeah, comes out the top. 69 model with 4 speed. Using a forklift to snatch it, just thinking it may be simpler to drop the trans first so the engine can just come straight up rather than messing with extreme tilting on chain. Our leveler has probably bitten the dust but those don't really let a guy point the crank at the sky like needs to happen with transmission attached. Maybe I could use a couple lift arms to raise rear of body way high for a straighter shot. Thinking last time I used a cherry picker and had to kinda manhandle things to get over the tie bar on top of core support.
I was looking this AM to find pics of a 69-70 fastback with roof skin off but the web is too much about coupe roof swaps and closest I saw was Cougar. We've got a big rust hole over right visor and I wanted to see structure.
None of it matters much once I am guy in stall with car. It'll all get figured out and handled.
The part that serves subframe duty looks like a grab handle. :lol:
I guess what I should be looking at is how much car gets to stay when theres a Coyote and probably double overdrive going in. Might be you are supposed to lop it all off at the firewall, which would be simple. Time will tell :arrow:
Those of you that have been around for years may remember the blue 72. It was kind of a low hot rod truck. Well, my son and wife use it for the yard truck. It's my son's 2nd vehicle also. The lowered springs in the rear were a problem with very much weight in the back. 2 days ago, I removed the rear coilovers and changed the springs. I planned on changing the units but had forgot that to install the units at the desired height, I fabricated a lower mount that was welded together. I used my hydraulic press and changed the springs to the crown vic P71 front springs. Around 1950lbs capacity. This raised the rear substantially where I really didn't like that much rake. Today, I removed the lowering links from the front. Now it looks like every other F100 from that era. It will probably serve it's purpose better. :)
Wish my backup looked that nice.
Screwed up my back liberating the beyond rotted dash pad from the Mustang yesterday mid morning and could barely get in my car at end of day because I toughed it and cut out windshield after that and hefted the poopy carpet and pad into dumpster, etc.
So today its sunny and 75 with no wind and I can't hardly put a sock on, let alone work. Theres no light upright work left on the Ford, only removing engine, trans, suspension, column and lower dash. Then putting on rotisserie and a lot of pre blast scraping plus bracing and cutting roof skin off. Oh and carrying every poop smeared part I took off a hundred yards then climbing stairs to pack it all onto shelves. So challenge ahead there, all heavy lift and carry.
Sooo.... today once I could move a little, not wanting to continue having to wet a wash mitt then go back inside to wash hands every time I need to leave the house then seeing the worst droppings on the other side once at my destination....
I clipped wads of cling wrap to all three outdoor parked car mirrors in an attempt to halt the torrents of bird droppings below each. After going out for essentials and finding a bold #1 down the passenger door of the 69, which doesn't even have a mirror. Driving that one usually tones down physical ailments but today's movement limit has been reached. Ones that hinder personal hygiene because can't reach suck worst. Don't they?
A man my age shouldn't have to touch feces so much, thats all I am thinking. Been digging in it too much lately for someone who isn't an entry level plumber. :roll:
did some digging myself today. removed the rotted side wall from my fish pond , had to hand scoop 7-5gal pails of dirt away to have access to do repairs . Not exactly rat poo but wormy , rooted dirt , 2 feet down has gotta rate as a pain as well . hope to re do 2 sides and have the pond ready in a week or 2 . Probably too early for fish as it still gets down to near freezing at night but I want to get the fish out as early as I can . The pond is a great place to sit by the waterfall , have a coffee and chill out . I am looking at ways to filter the water with potted plants to keep it clear with next to no maintenance . Plants like fish poo and they keep the water clear . I have Coy and goldfish , the Coy will dig up any water plant that is submerged and eat the roots . They turn the water brown with all the dirt they stir up . Tried covering the base of the plants with large rocks but the Coy push them out of the way .
After finishing up with the 72, I ran the Dakota in the shop and let it cool for a little bit. Then I changed out the right side valve cover gasket that I had postponed for several months. It takes about an hour and a half for O&S to get to the cover. Another 15 minutes to remove all the bolts and clean it up some. 5 minutes to reinstall and 15 minutes to put everything back in place. The truck has almost 100,000 miles on it and to say things are stuck in place would be accurate. :) I believe my maintenance list is completed so I can move on. I think the yard needs mowed. LOL.
Received my lab report Blackstone Laboratories on the oil in my F350 6.7 diesel engine. All numbers are in spec for the mileage (17,860)..
The viscosity is slightly below spec. That is consistent with previous reports too.
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Somebody stop me. I bought another Corvair from a neighbor. He bought it thirteen years ago for his wife. While it was on the trailer on the way home, he stopped at a gas station to fill the gas tank. It ran out on the ground. He parked it in his shed until last Sunday when I bought it. Same year and model as my other one, 1967 500, 4 door hardtop. I dropped the gas tank and found the rubber hose connecting the filler tube to the tank rotted away. That was 13 years ago that it rotted. I've ordered a new tank and hoses, some brake parts, points and condenser and heater hoses. Anyone that's worked on Corvair heater hoses knows it's not fun. They're 4" in diameter and you buy them in 3 foot secions. Fun times coming.
Quote from: 58 Yeoman on May 03, 2023, 11:16:41 PMSomebody stop me. I bought another Corvair from a neighbor. He bought it thirteen years ago for his wife. While it was on the trailer on the way home, he stopped at a gas station to fill the gas tank. It ran out on the ground. He parked it in his shed until last Sunday when I bought it. Same year and model as my other one, 1967 500, 4 door hardtop. I dropped the gas tank and found the rubber hose connecting the filler tube to the tank rotted away. That was 13 years ago that it rotted. I've ordered a new tank and hoses, some brake parts, points and condenser and heater hoses. Anyone that's worked on Corvair heater hoses knows it's not fun. They're 4" in diameter and you buy them in 3 foot secions. Fun times coming.
Yeah , it happened to me with Crosley cars decades ago. A friend (?) gave me one 1947 Crosley sedan .... Suddenly I had 5 , then 7 and so forth.
:lol: :lol: :arrow:
That corvair looks pretty good. Is there surprises under it?
I lost the 69 GT job. Somebody else took over. I was only needed for excrement excavation apparently. :arrow:
If no more dung heaps are available maybe its back to that rust heap 68 cab. The Mustang metal work was probably too easy to have me do.
Quit it, Phil. :)
kb, the car is really solid, odo SHOWS 16,000+, and I've got some of the papers from previous owners. My neighbor bought the car from a widow, who's husband used it as a semi-daily driver. It doesn't look like 116,000, like most things are worn out from age. There was so much undercoated sprayed on the gas tank, it wouldn't slide down, I had to scrape some off, then it easily slid out on its own. I'll see how it goes when I get it back on the road.
Matt...I'll stop, I promise.
Finished the trim out on the kitchen cabinets I added a month ago. Still need to paint the trim, molding, trim panels.
Photo shows 1x2 frame I built to mount the filler panel and molding to... Its about 4 inches of gap there
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Looks good, Tony.
QuoteSomebody stop me. I bought another Corvair from a neighbor. He bought it thirteen years ago for his wife. While it was on the trailer on the way home, he stopped at a gas station to fill the gas tank. It ran out on the ground. He parked it in his shed until last Sunday when I bought it. Same year and model as my other one, 1967 500, 4 door hardtop. I dropped the gas tank and found the rubber hose connecting the filler tube to the tank rotted away. That was 13 years ago that it rotted. I've ordered a new tank and hoses, some brake parts, points and condenser and heater hoses. Anyone that's worked on Corvair heater hoses knows it's not fun. They're 4" in diameter and you buy them in 3 foot secions. Fun times coming.
I'll never do anything like that, I need two HHRs. :-\
What's holding you back, Frank?
Finished the pond , for now . I will leave the last wall as is until next year .
Looks good Tony.
Mr. "All Grand Prix, all the time" cannot cast stones about multiples. :)
I did go back to the 68 cab. Had put it on a rollaround table which was fine for the first side but this one needs a pan section which goes in over the table. Here I sit trying to figure out how I'll change that so I can mark pan before unscrewing. Kinda painted myself into a corner. Pix later. Flies are gathering in the area where Mustang teardown happened.
Anyhow a picturesque F-5 tank wagon outta Mulvane (kb and wz may know where that is) showed up on the new meat fence so I took this pic for my Mom. She digs what they call patina.
Todays project: New carpet on the steps to the back door of the park model 210..
Photos , the carpet looks more blue. In person it is gray. Weird?
This is basic budget outdoor carpet. The olde carpet was falling off. I sanded down the old glue and wood. Used an outdoor rated adhesive to glue the carpet on. Hopefully this lasts 2 or 3 years?
QuoteWhat's holding you back, Frank?
Nothing, I have them. Plus two pickup trucks, a 66 Impala convertible, A Ford Escape, a Cavalier, three tractors, and four trailers.
Oh, I see...
I can't even GIVE AWAY a FREE 72 GP. ???
This is as far as I got on the cab, see pic.
Losing on the feces front, needing a nuke option to eliminate all animals which ruin weekend mornings. There is not a tree on my property, God saw to that. Yet my cross to bear is having to mop up feces each time I wish to utilize my most valued posessions.
Covering each mirror in foil and inside out tape with a whole bunch of sharp pointy drywall screws through it seems an appropriate next move whether the law calls that bird hunting or not. Dogs ruining wheels and shoes, and weekend mornings, I have come to expect. Been here since 1998 but this year's onslaught does not allow untended minutes. In the blink of an eye, bold bright vertical excrement stripes that must be scrubbed. Right on the door handle.
Went to mow other day, wanted to open the fence gate and guess what all human interface objects are slathered with wall to wall, stem to stern. Avian flu. Dung. Fecal matter. Excrement. Bodily waste from eating bugs and worms. Others do not have this issue. As always, there must be things which make me hang my head and repeat why does my life have to be this way, over and over. :roll:
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Matt, if you're talking about bird crap on my side view mirrors, the birds may be sitting on them looking at their reflection in the glass of the door. Maybe cover the glass and try that. As for everything else, ,maybe you need a cat?
We went to Dewey, Ok for the Stray Kat 500 show today. Then to an off road show near our home late this afternoon. I stopped on Route 66 at Alton, Ok to look at this guys stuff.
About the only thing I have left of my brother's estate is a single stage snow blower. He apparently used ethanol gas in it, and it would only run with the choke half way on. I pulled it apart and tried cleaning it to no avail. I bought a new carb off ebay for $18 delivered and it runs great now. It even looks better than the original with an extra adjustment screw, but don't ask me what it does, as it runs great without messing with it. I think it's going to be hard to sell this time of year, though.
Quote from: 58 Yeoman on May 06, 2023, 12:36:15 PMMatt, if you're talking about bird crap on my side view mirrors, the birds may be sitting on them looking at their reflection in the glass of the door. Maybe cover the glass and try that. As for everything else, ,maybe you need a cat?
One must have died. Like the old yeller one across the street maybe. Because it hasn't been this way this bad before. Looking to break their habit and just can't imagine they like cling wrap to land on. I'd be wrong though because I went to give the injured GT activity and you guessed it... fecal contact required on the clipped wrap wads. Oooo K. Foil on shopping list.
Be that as it may, (and it is. May.) said activity was adjustment of alignment sleeve on rear radius rod of left rear suspension of my recently hit-and-run-while-parked... attacked, 1999 Grand Prix GT. A noble servant and battle hardened mount since 2009, with more than 100K less miles than the daily driver.
It has now been hit on every corner and 3 of 4 wheels directly. Got hit every month starts with a J in 2013 for crying out loud. That marked the beginning of the personality you've all come to tolerate but I been whittlin at.
Then something like this comes along. Worse than anger is utter futility. Learned when an airbag broke my arm that all response to attack is futile. Blame it on me for parking in the street for several years in the sole space allowed by city code which is halfway down a dead end block. In broad daylight. >:(
Boy howdy. Cops been having to come for a barking dog lately too. But it was peaceful enough today for me to tug a wrench laying in 90+° sun on a shipping blanket not touching any droppings. Finding an ant or two on me now though. Futile, I tell ya what. Thats a complete sentence in the junk driving world. :P
See pics. Is it fixed? No. Better? Yes. I "straightened" the radius rod with jack and stand hurriedly on junkyard day. Today I just helped the toe via adj sleeve on rear rod. The front, plain, airweight radius rod looked like the banana-esque trailing arm shown next to the savagely salvaged junkyard radius rod. I mean tube.
Man that suspension corner just has zero defense against a hit on back of wheel. Wadded up wheelhouse stuff too. Bumper all rattly loose, coupe rocker cladding torn, quarter dent, sigh, paint scrapes... even a new like carpet burn spot on the outer tip of mirror.
The world is cruel to shiny things. Just sharing another story before it gets dumped in the rage pool. I wrenched, woohoo! :)
Looks like ya got it.
A lite day here.. Little bit of leaf blowing around here. Wife stitched (by hand) up a rip in the Honda Car drivers seat. We put new tires on the Civic last week. Old tires were over 6 yrs old, 68k miles with rubber remaining.
I BBQ some steak meat and a few brats this afternoon. We have been using a small local butcher shop that is close by. So far no disappointments. Well, cept the lady there is real chatty. Non stop. Happy gal. Stories to tell. 8)
its weird (?) , we have 2 butcher shops close by. Butcher Bobs and Al's Meat Market. Both are nice places. We buy from both. 8)
Quote from: 58 Yeoman on May 06, 2023, 11:08:15 PMLooks like ya got it.
Thanks, bub. 8)
Oh like I say, she ain't fixed. That car is tough like my Mom though I swear. It drove for the most part like it's old self today. Camber that looks like VW Beetle rears can be found on these cars a lot if a guy looks. Because of the glass suspension. Slotting bolt holes in struts to get wheels to stand up is standard fare on them.
Caught myself worrying how it will do as-is on bumpy rainy curves... because only three corners form a box now. Then I remembered...
Left tie rod (front) on the car is still a banana from a CX-9 blow recieved a decade ago. And the subframe never would pull out quite enough, etc. So...
Reckon I am in good shape. If I ever found out who hit my GT I have a chewout stowed that'd curl your nose hairs. Never did really get steamed over the hit and run.
They got away. I gotta say its tough to behave in a self respectable manner while constantly being bombarded by the all. The modern measure of a man is his capacity to lay down and take everything whimpering. Because theres no fault. Nobody did it unless you caught em. Only all victims, no responsibility only pointless flogging of law enforcement and insurance. Fine thing, ain't it? Fair is I wasn't killed, I suppose.
Sure has been some nice days out. Prime stuff, I enjoy overcast. :)
My Goldwing needs a new front tire... Getting down to the wear bars with near 18k miles on it.. Prices have gone up since my last purchase. To the tune of 50 buck$.. Last tire cost me 160 $$ and now they are $210.00 for the same tire. Granted: the last new tire was near 5 yrs ago. :roll: :roll:
Anyhow, I know some folks here are on the edge of their seats for more project updates: I finished the replacement of trim out around the bathroom window. OEM stuff was the sheet rock with flower pattern on the finished side. Pre made stuff Saves work and material during construction of the mobile home.
I used basic 1/4 inch thick sheet rock, brad nailer, PVC trim and the ol caulk that is rated for 60 - 80 years (I guess) 8) Caulking material seems to have silly life span rating on them?
Finish photo of the bath winder is not painted.. BUT: my wife has since painted that window repair and trim , she also painted the kitchen cabinet trim and pieces.
I know you folks wonder: what is all this effort to finish project stuff? We leave the valley of the heat in a few weeks, not to return for about 4 to 5 months. We head to AZ mountains. The 5th wheel will sit there. We plan on a few road trips in the Civic Honda car. The 5th wheel may travel a few places too, just not as many miles as in 2022. We have no extensive travel plans this year. Last summer my wife had raod trip stuff planned to the Nth degree. Not this year
:( :(
I repurposed the repurposed. Years ago I needed a business sign and I made one out of some old tools and a couple of driveshafts. It was laying with some junk by the shop. I made a mailbox out of it yesterday. Eventually I will advertise it and hopefully sell it.
New front tire for my Goldwing motorcycle arrived today.. I ordered it from a company named: Wingstuff :lol:
I bought a couple tire tools too. Need to bring my Harbor Freight tire change contraption over here from storage and have my way with it.
Gotta change the cr2032 battery in the TPMS sensor on the wheel too. That requires solder work.
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I've still got my HF tire changer stashed away in the garage. Don't use it for MC tires anymore, but have used it on car tires.
I spent the day with an old friend at the Tulsa Drag Strip and watched him run his pro mod car. Very fast and fun. I enjoyed watching a pro team prep the car between rounds. They all have jobs and they are all busy.
Loaded up my Harbor freight tire holder - mounting tool in to the F350..
Set the Goldwing up on stands under the engine guards. Plastic fender and shields removed so far.
filled my fish pond
Took wheel off the Goldwing. Removed the tire from the wheel while the HF tire tool held the wheel. It was more work than I liked , but I got it done.
Saturday I will replace the battery in the TPMS sensor on the wheel... then install the new tire
Don't know how many of you might be Gilligan fans but I watched that show every day after grade school. If you are one, on any level, search youtube or elsewhere for the "Dusty's Trail" tv show and tell me if you spot any similarities. ;D
56 paint was getting polished all this week. Chassis not yet present but due back anytime and its me who will assemble body panels.
When is the last time I put something painted together? Don't know if that would still be in living memory.
Mustang got put on roto, awaits blasting.
Got left side rust parts all screwed in place on the 68 Chevy cab.
Replaced the battery in my Honda Goldwing TPMS sensor. CR2032 battery with tabs is close to correct design. I bent the tabs a bit and solder the unit in. Old battery had zero volt reading. New battery has 3 volts.
This sensor is $200+ dollars for a new one. Most shops telll you they are not serviceable.
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The TPMS on the bike is happy now. No TPMS fault is set now.
:D :D
Goldwing front tire replacement is finished ... I took the bike for a short ride. Will need to take for longer ride and run into the triple digits looking for vibrations
;D ;D
Josh and I went to the Coldwater MI car show/ swap meet today in his Buick wagon. I saw Charlie up there but no one else. First long trip in the Buick and it didn't miss a lick
put my fish in the pond today. put some flower buckets out . Man have flowers got expensive.
Quote from: enjenjo on May 13, 2023, 05:32:33 PMJosh and I went to the Coldwater MI car show/ swap meet today in his Buick wagon. I saw Charlie up there but no one else. First long trip in the Buick and it didn't miss a lick
Alright.. Better than when the cruise control quit 16 years ago.
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Picked up a phree 2 wheel project.. As we all know, its the phree stuff that is the most expensive? :lol: It is a budget bike even when new. The bones of it seem is decent shape .. Its 21 speeds. The chain derailers seem to operate.
It needs a few parts. Seat mounting is shot, it has tek screws in it to hold position. Rear tire does not hold air very well. Which brings up a point. I have not messed with bicycles in decades (4 or 5).. Tire sizes on this thing is: 40-622 ? Or optional tire is : 700-38c ? What happened to the wheel diameter included in tire size?
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So far, so good putting the 56 together. :) Showing a spot where there was lots of gap work. Filler was done with vehicle apart.
Tony, looks like the tires are available on Amazon. The tires I bought for my Schwin twin cost more than I gave for the bike.
Quote from: WZ JUNK on May 17, 2023, 12:18:37 PMTony, looks like the tires are available on Amazon. The tires I bought for my Schwin twin cost more than I gave for the bike.
thanks John... I found tires on amazon.. When we return to the valley in a few months, I will tackle this bike project. For now the bike is in storage.
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Found this VW 411 car in storage parking lot we use... I have not seen one of these for a few years. Must be in the 1970s model yrs when those great looking safety bumpers were required?
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One pic is what a terrorist on an above-the-law lunatic intercounty rampage looks like. I hope they stopped lead eventually. Almost got me by ramming but my junk is blown. All us other motorists enjoyed the free nose and windshield pebble showers like in pic.
Other pic shows how the Honda color on the 56 acts like a civil war spy... blue or grey depending vantage point.
Yesterday was a prime example of typical stupor. New just bought and painted door handles don't fit new custom fitted painted and polished doors. Why create extra and unduly painstaking labor by delaying handle purchase until after paint?
That ain't all. The bear claws are after me too. Every time I do a swap, the little penny-ante striker depth is an issue. Its peculiar that so much range of up down in out adjustment is provided while the absolutely critical placement of striker head in closed latch gets none. Big problem every time. First off, none of the parts are anywhere near beefy enough. Then the stupid pins have hex heads. Nothing could be less intelligent. In this case, after paint was added, the heads line up with latch body and just go bang trying to close. Requiring machining away a couple sharpie line widths of bolt shoulder with a cutoff wheel to make it clear. All that trouble for maybe a quarter inch diameter striker pin which is a joke on a 50s truck.
If that ain't funny enough, how about expecting black paint not to chip on the face of a lock cylinder when key is inserted.
If I may borrow a Steely Dan line... Things that pass for knowledge, I can't understand. Others just slice through life like a kid with a boxcutter in a train station.
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Having a pretty good laugh at myself now, having made that grumpy but metered pre-med rant. Fattest raise ever, on my check today.
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I'll never learn. May as well make the best of it. I can now put a number on the years of career penalty the switch to old cars got me. 14. I believe this is calmer than I'd be had I stuck with collision work all that time. :) Mighta done cashed in my chips if that.
Living out my theory about 56 grille install and having anticipated results. Put the grille and upper and lower filler panels together in a stack and stab the assembly with one fender on then hang other fender last. Well I came away with one easy fix scrape visible on the blue grey green. Last fender to go, then hood. Luck seems with me but I'd take any extra you got. :)
Heres what I was talking about. The striker mounts on a conversion bracket which could be bent to compensate instead but then it would look bent.
Pix are jumbled up.
First is my precision machining station
Second is uncut striker
Third is striker latched proper with head between claw and back wall of latch. This third dimension can haunt ya. Shuts like a bank vault now. :)
Fourth is a Stude chassis under construction with builder hiding hunched over a chop saw. Bonus. Dig that crazy bed!
Fifth is under the seat. No wait, thats where the striker head sat. Get too far in and bang bang going down the road. Strikers are an infernally finicky thing ain't they?
Sixth shows the stunning machine work. :lol:
Technical post accomplished. Figured I better work out all door issues before last fender. I have yet to try door rubbers on it so thats a bit of a nailbiter.
IDJ could you possibly use allen head bolts with a sleeve over them to set the height of the striker pin .
Quote from: chimp koose on May 18, 2023, 10:02:44 PMIDJ could you possibly use allen head bolts with a sleeve over them to set the height of the striker pin .
Between latch and door? I suppose so but prefer having latch against door for strength. It is currently attached with the allen heads provided. No SS quarter-twenty bolts were provided for striker brkt so those are on with plain bin bolts.
I was about to put the hood on when our hero popped in to see his truck. Boy he is over the moon, head over heels for it. :)
Multi-purpose ride... Fresh flowers on mom's grave.
Testing the Goldwing for vibrations with new front tire. I ran the bike to the speed limiter and all was good. 8)
Weather here has been very goofy. It was 93*F when I was out on the bike. Then clouds roll in, rain happens. It has rained 3 evenings in a row. Strong wind too. Its like the monsoon season is here and its not? Weird
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When my brother died, I was no longer executor, and it was cheaper to let his daughters take over the selling of his house (great lawyer handling this). The closing was supposed to be yesterday, but the buyer wanted a two week extension for financing problems. The grass hadn't been cut at all this year, but it wasn't growing when we had the sale. The realtor got a notice from the city that the grass was over 8" tall and needed to be cut.
I loaded up the 25hp JD and headed up there yesterday. *...the grass/weeds were almost 2' tall. I started mowing it at 4" then 5", then as tall as I could. Was taking forever, and after talking with two neighbors, just started mowing as fast as I could without bogging the mower. They said to just mow it and don't worry about what it looks like, so I did. Looks like crap, but it's good enough to get by for the height. Closing WILL be next Friday, according to both lawyers involved with the sale. If the closing HAD been yesterday, we could've gotten by. Now, I have to remove the mower deck and reinstall the endloader, which I use around my place. Fun times.
Took a fair amount of recollecting all that was done to make a hood gap that works but it did not elude me today. A week from now it will be home. :)
Looks good, Matt.
Thanks Phil. When it rains it pours, don't it? That mowing episode was a suck deal, wow. It could have been blazing August heat though. Still, its all the stuff that is or might be lurking in the grass wanting to ride home with you that makes it fun times. I mowed other night out back and woulda swore that same rat snake was killed where I just push mowed a path. But then when I came out with the string trimmer it had vamoosed. Critters. I may be sitting on a hatchery. :)
Every year long about this time I hanker to do a mower build. Old enough to need it now because now I think I'd make it quiet. :) Seeing some electric push mowers around now.
Quik project on the stairs I recently re-carpeted. :arrow:
There are 4 wood spikes nailed to the bottom of the stairs. These keep the cheap oriented strand board up off the concrete and water if rain get on the carport.
I bought some cedar wood fence pickets and replace the wood spikes as the photos show.
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Matt, congrats on the pay increase. :) These are pics of the bear claws that O&S uses. You have to fabricate all of the linkage that is needed to operate them. I believe these are the larger versions of what you are showing.
I'd say that ^^^ is a fair assessment of the two setups. :) Only one claw on the smalls. More of a hangnail but the kit comes with what we got and set up just for that. It appears theres a durability oversight with many suggested latches, IMHO.
I dig the two striker lengths in a bare bones set. :idea:
Makes sense to me, application willing of course, that the striker ought to reach clear through the latch. Leastwise that'd be my thought in a case of large latches. Smalls in the 56 would accomodate that just like yours but for example on a 69 GP theres a back wall to the latch and no pneumonia wind hole. Everything cannot operate like a P O N T I A C though. :)
On Bill trucks, function is king. I adore function. Form is invariably the route taken at the old truck candy shop. Meh. Gimmie heft, bulk, strength. Closing door with pinky push is mandatory. ::)
So... what is it you're doing? Hanging a deuce shell on kb rails with a clotheslined cab mit der zoomies, kompressor, und big balonies? Bed optional. Man if you had a model A trunk lid you could rumble that thing somehow.
Had the Stude truck profile up on pc screen other day. Builder is pondering smooth boards going under fenders. And after my heart because I thought same about the 51 F-1 5.0 and like that design. But Studes had freestanding boards ugly enough to make a freight train take a dirt road.
Before dismissing freestanding boards, fiberglass or fab-o-steel, I pictured a tapered shape. Not the outside edge, keep that straight but pretty much have an airplane wing profile only flat on bottom. In my mind it played magic with the fender profile contours and seemed trick. Easiest thing to do is buy smooth boards long enough and tuck em under fender bobs. Just sharing the "airfoil" (?) shape thought. For thinkers. :)
I'm beat from yard work. Dad turned 86 today, driving back from KS. He is a mighty man. 8)
Oh and thanks kb on the raise comment. I never, ever ask. Pay thoughts are best forgotten but that'll charge my batteries for a spell. Due diligence is my path. Sometimes roundabout but mildly eventually effective approach. Food prices are forcing the issues for many so I am glad I've "put work in" all along. All a guy has to do is stay, head down, and avoid mistakes / entangling alliances. Pretty much everywhere I been, showing up and doing work is exceptional.
Milestone day? I guess. Today my wife Janice and I have been married 50 years. I am not sure why she puts up me. I am glad she does.
Also: We moved the RV out of storage. In the process of loading , cleaning , checking, modifying the RV for a road trip this weekend
Congratulations, Tony. Enjoy your trip.
Buttoned up the 56 job, at least the current phase. Back on the 68 cab now. Boss passed out bonuses, crew praise, and gave us all four straight days off. :)
Life is good Matt.
Happy Anniversary, Tony (and Janice) !
Congrats Mr. and Ms. Crosley. :)
Tried a new thing for kicks, made a couple custom crossword puzzles. Any of ya into those? I kinda hate crosswords but Dad swears by em as mind sharpeners just like his Dad. It'd be fun to crank out a rod-oriented one but I know nobody needs the brain drain. Run through this one and tell the ones you think you know the answers for, it'll help me know if I should make crosswords or not. :)
Its Chevelle-oriented so theres a sportin chance for some of you.
One item on an RV that needs attention is the water heater if you have a Suburban brand heater. There is an anode to be replaced in the unit.
Its best to remove the anode and use a flushing tool (long plastic tube on a water hose) to fluch crud out.
In the 3rd photo, you can see where I had the bucket setting (round spot) to catch the debris. Lots of debris missed the bucket (white stuff on ground).
2nd photo is the anode rod from my water heater. I need to service this more often.
Last photo is where I parked the RV temporary. $15.00 a day with electric and water, sewer... Its close to our park model location.
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We held our school car show again this Saturday. First time since covid . We had about 75 cars attend . It was a good day . Someone asked me if I could make him a gas tank like the one I made for the chopper . I am too busy , offered to let him make a paper pattern from mine . Nice to know it looks `good enough to copy . I also went to a bike swap meet and picked up a fe`w `part`s` for the chopper .
Solution to the crossword:
I stumbled on an ebay auction for 60's shelby gt 350-500 parts catalog with some dealer documentation that I didn't know existed. With a few seconds to go it went from $1826 to $4850. There were 2 bidders that were active. I was surprised. :) The Indy 500 ending was a surprise also. This was the 1st year in decades that I listened on radio. None of the live feeds were available to me, a non-tv guy. :)
I started burning the Sticky Willy weeds that I spent three days collecting. It sitcks to everything, including itself. I also spent another two days pulling it in another part of my yard (this is all on a hillside). I still have another two piles to burn when they dry out a bit. Seems this likes to grow from the bottom of hills upward. I can grab a few strands with a garden rake, and it pulls a whole bunch of it down, as it sticks to itself. The root is about as thick as a large sewing needle, so it pulls out easily. It blankets all the plants that it grows over. Worst year ever.
We are in the AZ mountains. I shoved the RV into its spot. Only took one straighten up to get the RV in place.
Kool temps up here. Mid 40s at night, 70s in the day time so far. It should warm up about 10 degrees on night and day temps.
Couple photos show how the RV sits and the attack angle to back it in to place.
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Tony, is that at Showlow?
Quote from: kb426 on May 30, 2023, 07:52:15 PMTony, is that at Showlow?
Yes... We are in a RV park kinda near the outer edge of Showlow.
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worked on the chopper tonight. Making a plate to mount the jack shaft to . 1/8" plate welded all around should make an adequate mount I hope ? 6x9 plate , mounts will be 4" long at the base bolted with 6-3/8" bolts , the mount pedestals will be about 6" apart . What do you think ?
CK, pics needed.
I see that Showlow is on highway US 60. Tony just needs to head straight east on 60 to find me as I am just a mile and a half off of US 60. Its like we are neighbors :)
Today was an exercise in futility, one of the kind that do a lot of mental damage. It is difficult to maintain a progress curve in that respect and no further project progress can be expected rest of this week due to work circumstances beyond my control. Suprise, suprise on that eh. :roll:
By the way I wrote up a rod oriented crossword to lay on you guyzzers, almost finished entering the data and wiped it out via soft keyboard fat fingering. Still have it in pencil. Meh. Today I was still having to explain words from the done one I posted.
Depressed :)
I did a weld yesterday that I'll show. Momentum from raise and long weekend are snuffed but I got one effective day in. Like WZ said, life is good. A possibility did exist for me to have been in a worse place at a worse time today so I'm running with that thought but tomorrow and Friday both suck from here. Hope you-alls are more gooder. :)
Well the 56 can't go back together until next week but I was able to put in one hour on the 68 yesterday that wasn't going backwards. You just can't properly fight stupid anymore, its illegal.
If there was anything not negative, I'd post that. :)
Grape split and spat out a poly sway bar end link bushing about a quarter century old and her and the GT racked up another round of hail. Today. It builds character. Like being whomped upside the dome repeatedly with an idiot stick. :lol:
Since I guess I've ruined the thread with negativity I'll say this: Life in the absence of a barking dog is COMPLETELY different from it without. Thoughts can be completed and life can be normal. Start up a dog barking and instantly that goes away. Replaced by the urgency to stop the barking which theres no way to do. Puts people in a horrible position with no end in sight. Quiet here now though. Been here since '98 and there have been right at half a dozen periods, sometimes years at a time, when my existence has been ruined for long stretches due to this. I just ride them out.
Wreck causers are the other part of my sickness but I could probably get hit again today and not hit anybody for it. Don't think I will ever be able to tolerate dogs again though. Their owners are so often just life ruiners for everyone around them. Poor dogs. I do like them just fine but many of their people are just rotten at the core.
Happy week and good progress to all :)
Watching the rain for at least another week.
Waiting for rain here, maybe at the end of the week. Matt, I know what you mean about barking dogs. At my last house, the neighbor kept her sons' dog at her house, while he lived 10 miles away. Why have a dog if it's 10 miles away?
Cottonwood trees. Nuff said if you have any around you. I took the 400mph blower today to blow them off the yard and into the woods. Well, most of them anyway. It looked like snow on the ground.
Got the carbs synch'd today, on the Corvair. I'll take it for a ride after lunch. I bought this car from a neighbor thinking it would be an easy go, to drive this summer. New gas tank and hoses, new brake lines and rebuild wheel cylinders and finally, rebuild both carbs.
I have been pretty sick but I am on the mend and everything will be fine. To amuse myself today I watched a streaming of Sick Summer Drag and Drive event. They were at Cordova, Illinois today and they will be at Byron, Illinois tomorrow. Some very fast cars that are street legal. I think the fastest pass today was in the 6.5 second range. Alex Taylor went 6.8 seconds in the quarter in her 55 Chevy. That is very fast for and aerodynamic brick.
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Chevy's looking good. :)
Thanks, kb. :) Heres the front.
Yep, front looks good too.
Matt, I have a soft spot for those trucks even though the hood and doors are problematic just like the Fords of the same generation. We had both on the farm and really had more trouble with the Fords. When they were less than 75,000 miles, they worked pretty good. After that, hood hinges and door hinges were a problem. That shouldn't surprise anyone. :) That truck is another one that experts will know what was done but everyone else will say "nice truck". :)
first thing I ever drove(other than dirt bikes go carts and tractor) 8) was an older friends 55 shortbox stepside chevy . 327 2x4 holleys 4speed 4.56 . I was 14 8) . Life was never the same .
56 owner boxed his stock frame so maybe it won't be so squirmy. I put new little springs in the upper door hinges given. Theres no give in the billet hood hinges but they ask an awful lot of the firewall. Don't know why the headlight bezels are still untouched, nor do I know the paint plan for those.
Small road trip to New Mexico: basic tourist road trip. I do not "do tourist" very well.
Apologies if the 2 photos cause digestive troubles.
Stopped by the radio dish array near Magdalena New Mexico. We actually watched the dish in the photo turn 90* to its left. Weird to see them move. They are about 80 feet in diameter. I think there are 25 of these dish there?
Roswell New Mexico , visited the International UFO museum. Lots of documentation to read there on the 1947 crash of alien space craft. If 50% of the information from the military guys that were there in 1947 is correct. Something crashed there and it was not a weather balloon. So ?
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Looks like a happy couple. :)
Machining parts today . Race season is upon us and everyone needs something . Made adapters to raise master cyl reservoir to clear valve covers on a 67 fairlane with FE motor . Still have to do some work on a crank going into a blown alcohol 522" hemi for a pull tractor and O ring 4 sleeves for same . Off to the drags tomorrow to help on the blown alcohol BBC 57 chev truck I have been helping on last year . Maybe we will make a full pass . It would be a first for this rig .
My magnetic personality is still working. Recent visit to grocery store. I was looking at spices. Woman come around the corner, puts herself and cart nearly on top of me. I figure she is just a DA. She finally moves, I get what I need , then move on.
In the BBQ acc isle I am there about 8 seconds, guy walks around the corner and looks at items, moves towards me , then right next to me as he seems to need to be where I am. I just keep picking up stuff , touching stuff. I am Not moving. All the while my wife is watching and chuckling quietly again. There are more boring stories. :D :D
Ever visit local thrift stores? Good deals to be had some daze. Its like stepping back in time when you enter them. Local Goodwill store here in the AZ mountains had about a dozen vintage toaster ovens. I have not seen these in years.
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Truck made an almost full pass saturday . We had issues which were eventually traced to an electrical supply problem . (its always something small when you find it ). Did a good burnout across the start line and then while backing up , the fuse blew in the circuit for the trans brake . This brake requires a button to be held when reversing in order to be in gear . The truck made an un timed run from about 20 feet ahead of the start line . Part throttle, straight ,no leaks , no stumbles , no parts falling off . maybe next time out we can get a timed pass.
Finished up left floor and rocker on the 68 Chevy today. And there was Model A hood activity today, but I finished that 2 years and 2 weeks ago. And the patina'ed 51 F5 tank truck crunk up and moved under it's own power.
you do nice work.
Matt, you're an inspiration. I haven't done any body work on the Corvair 2door since my brother got sick in February. I've been doing mechanical work on my second Corvair preparing it for driving this summer, and I walk by the 2door and don't really feel like working on the body. Seeing what you do lights the fire again to get restarted on the car again soon. Of course, it takes me weeks to do what you do in a couple days. Thanks for the push.
Thanks and thanks. Some of the Corvair talk does me the same way but my cars and home remain in shameful neglect with no gumption in sight. Somehow I keep getting to work which is all that matters. Heres the underside. I didn't think it too whippy just a value oriented truck rust job.
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Truck is looking good. :)
Thanks, Bill. :) Sic'em, Phil. :arrow:
Heres the ex gas hole.
I got the new turn signal switch in today. I was hesitant on this, as there are two different (supposedly) switches, Boyne, which is red, or any color except white, and Delco Remy which is white. I bought the red one, though mine is white, because the white vendor didn't get back to me in time. The Boyne vendor told me he has seen Boynes in almost every color but white. Well, the red one fits exactly and works correctly, so we've put that rumor to bed. Also got the radio to work (am only) by cleaning the volume control, adjusting the antenna and replacing the speaker with the one from the coupe. I'm tired, that's enough for today.
The gas hole now looks proper. :)
Keep plugging , Phil. None of us are young so being tired is expected. :)
Quote from: 58 Yeoman on June 13, 2023, 02:56:26 PMI got the radio to work (am only) by cleaning the volume control, adjusting the antenna
Turn signals are the grander achievement but bonus retro stuff knower points on this ^^^ :)
Current AM stations, hmm... whats that like?
^^^^^ We listen to one am station that has the same as fm, but only when we get out of range of fm.
Version 2 of the master cyl reservoir risers are done . Started making tooling to cut o rings in the sleeves for the hemi motor. I have students making parts for the chopper as some are finished with their required project work . 8)
C.K., I made a version of the Isky tool years ago that fit one bore size and used a cutoff tool blade ground to the correct size for .043 wire. It was hand operated. :)
I had installed a Holley Sniper fuel injection system on the old truck last winter but I had never turned the key until today. I was surprised that nearly as soon as I turned the key, it fired, and ran smoothly. The only problem so far is that the Holley computer controls the electric fan, and it is not working. I will look into that tomorrow. My guess is that I did connect something correctly. Now I am anxious to drive it. The throttle response is better than the carburetor. Updates to follow.
KB I found a taper from our tire balance machine that fit the sleeves well without much hanging outside the bore . Had to machine a bushing to use it on the lathe bell center . Made a cutter and mounted it in a boring bar mounted at right angle to the ways , I had a sample sleeve to go from so mounted it in the 4 jaw with the tire machine bell center at the other end and positioned the tool in the groove to match the diameter . Spun the lathe by hand and fed the cutter in the required amount . I think I did 4 sleeves in just over an hour . Its funny how much time you can spend making the tooling to do a small job .
Hi, me again. I haven't been here much lately due to "life" things my wife got bad news back in January and recently had major surgery and so far it's all been good news. She is recovering remarkably well and quickly. We can finally get back to a near normal life, whatever that may be.
On the car front I FINALLY got my '46 Chevy back on the road. Seems to run OK but I have a strange thing going on. The water temp will spike for a short time then drop back to the 180° t stat I have in it. I have replaced the stat and no change. I burped it, twice, with no change, got quite a bit of air out though. It goes to about 210° then drops back to 180 although it has gone as high as 224. Should it try burping it again? I ran it about a half hour today and wasn't seeing any air by then, but the temp went to 212. Any ideas or suggestions?
Road trip to Winslow Arizona : Standing on the Corner visit. We looked around. Stepped in a couple tourist businesses.
The Ford F1 truck was in raw metal. A little bit of small metal flake on it with clear coat. The Airstream was an oldie. The model was a Caravel, which the name is still in use.
A sign on the Ford said it was a daily driver. From the slight gasoline smell, I think it is. You middle aged guys know that gas smell on olde vehicles.
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I have been test driving the new Holley Sniper a lot today. So far so good.
Phat46, I would double check the temps with an infrared temp gun to verify what you are seeing. Years ago I had a friend who had the temp sensor I believe on the right side of the intake and the gauge went nuts. What I don't know is if the location had anything to do with it or he used too much teflon on the sender.
Good pics, Tony. :)
Cool pix Tony. When I was growing up in the 50's, a guy in our town ground off all the paint on his Ford PU, don't remember the year. I couldn't look at it while I delivered the papers, when it was sunny. This being Illinois, it soon rained and the truck lost all its luster. He never did paint it.
Phil, that would be the only legit way to advertise a car for sale as "no bondo" which gets thrown around a lot.
Roof on the 68 cab at work was found to be mercifully decent. For once in a great while, I only paved spots. Ironing out the cab rear panel was a snap with the fancy puller. Roof was down to pinholes, and above back window, when I stopped to visit with 56 guy til quitting time. It goes home tomorrow but I am hitched to the bodywork for life, he made that clear.
I have nothing to report but a calm swell day and hope all you Dads got the treat of being such today. Nearby (to home) highway expansion has archaeologists finding six thousand year old spear heads and buildings. Thats cool! The expansion work blows a hole in my 455 usage path. Cars just aren't fun anymore. I should say the road. Repairing antiques is a living, glad to have that and I find ancient history fascinating. Sucks trying to fix my junk though. I feared this.
Good vibes to all. :) :arrow:
happy fathers day to all.
Matt, from what some of the older locals told me, the guy that ground the paint off his PU was a little off level. I guess he just wanted something to do.
Something John (WZ Junk) posted about remembering the time before cell phones , got me thinking in the middle of the nite.
I do remember the time before cell phones. I checked. In the last 3.5 weeks I have received 47 calls on my cell phone(only phone I have). Only 3 calls were real, all others were spam. 2 calls from my wife, the 3rd from a buddy I have known since high school about transmissions. I do not answer the phone any more, unless the incoming number is in my contacts.
The spam text messages I receive is another story. LOL
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Quote from: 58 Yeoman on June 18, 2023, 11:13:46 PMMatt, from what some of the older locals told me, the guy that ground the paint off his PU was a little off level. I guess he just wanted something to do.
Hey! I resemble that remark. :lol: Once that cat got started, lead poisoning probably did the rest. ;)
It ain't every day I get to say:
One done and gone. Bill, yes he happy. More like giddy. :) And the second pic is for you from the next stall.
Third is whats next. Just blew media and gravel out of it for an hour. Body is just sitting on it loose.
IDJ your comment about no bondo when selling is right on the mark . I sold a 49 anglia over 10 years ago and it was stripped to bare metal. Had I painted it some would have not liked the color or wondered what was under the paint . The guy that bought it was a body man and appreciated the fact that it was bare metal . There legitimately was no rust repair required and the bare metal made that evident . 8)
Then, on the other hand, I always like to sell cars with clean engines, as I keep all mine fairly clean. I was selling one one time, and the guy looking at it claimed I cleaned the engine to hide any oil leaks. He didn't get the car.
Quote from: 58 Yeoman on June 19, 2023, 10:49:22 PMThen, on the other hand, I always like to sell cars with clean engines, as I keep all mine fairly clean. I was selling one one time, and the guy looking at it claimed I cleaned the engine to hide any oil leaks. He didn't get the car.
in the late 1980s I owned a Corvair powered sand rail. I power warshed the engine and trans as it was a mess. The engine did not leak much, I had resealed several areas prior to the power warsh. The guy that bought the buggy commented like 5 times how clean it was. I offered to let him drive the buggy up our cul de sac as it was a long cul de sac. Nope, no need to drive it he said.
About 2 weeks later he called. The buggy engine quit. He asked me why. I told him I had no idea what he had been doing with the buggy. I reminded him he refused the test drive.
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I spent most of today getting the 72 F100 ready to go to Pueblo. The ac was dead. One of the hoses was loose on the interior side of the firewall. I tightend and evacuated. I had to drive it around this morning to get enough airflow to pull the freon in. :) After finishing, I checked the high side fitting and I was able to turn it an 1/8 of a turn. Is the expansion and contraction enough to cause a problem? Those bulkheads are Zirgo brand. I had the same issue with the gray 51. They don't look fabulous but bolt up ok. ????? The turn signals and hazard flashers quit at the same time. I haven't found the reason yet. I connected a bulb to the flasher output on both circuits and the bulb flashes. The tail lights and brake lights work fine. The turn signal switch passes continuity on all circuits. I will spend some time with the wiring diagram in the morning when my feeble mind is fresh. :)
I have never had O ring AC fittings loosen on their own unless the hose had been twisted when installing.
Been a long time since I used a plasma cutter. This bicentennial Bronco will likely end up in three pieces pretty quick. Being how they are so popular I'll be working around backorders. New whole bodies are currently six months out but I hear its cheaper to buy all parts and build. Might depend on who does it and how many. Must have been a dozen Broncos go through since I been there and as you see often theres two in process. But this is my first and I don't get fancy jigs and rotos to make life easier so its getting built on the frame.
I was 16 and working at a small town Ford dealer when they got thier first Bronco...a short cab beige model that they used for a parts runner until a farmer bought it. The first generation is the only one I really like. I move to my present place in 2008, and a nearby farmer had one sitting in the back lot for years. He must've sold it about two years ago, and has been replaced by a newer car of some sort. Wonder why the need to have a vehicle sitting back there?
Have fun working on it, Matt.
I have been driving the old truck some the past couple of days. The Holley Sniper system has performed flawlessly. My old glitch has been the fuel pickup in the stock GM tank that does not have a sump or baffle. I plan to add a Holly hdyramat to the pump pickup.
Frank, I had the twisted hose once. :) I have chased the signals down to some corrosion. After going through the wiring and finding nothing, I hooked the garden tractor battery to the in side of the flashers. They worked as they should. I reconnected to the truck battery and the turn signals only worked on the rear. The battery had 12.14 volts. I hooked up the battery charger and everything worked. I let it charge for a while and then started the truck. Everything is working. The battery has some age and the truck isn't driven every day. I think a smart man would get a new battery before leaving town. :)
I pick up the new 1963 Ford yard art truck tomorrow morning. I will take photos as I cut this one up.
I have a square body truck to do but I will probably wait until fall to do it.
I cleaned the 72 up so it's as clean as it will be until the return trip from Pueblo. I don't care for "patina" but I don't care to clean vehicles anymore. :)
Bill, its still sharp as a tack from here. :)
John, I can tell you it will feel good. Better if you make samurai noises whilst hacking.
I know because I cut one today. Didja smell it? Boy it felt good.
What with me being a GM guy and all. :twisted:
I got started today but things did not go as smoothly as I had hoped. Troubles with my car trailer first thing and then other little problems got in the way. I will hope for better times tomorrow. This is a photo of the beginning. I like to work outside under my awning in the summer but the afternoons can be to hot to work much. Hopefully I will have more to show tomorrow,
Decapitated
Quote from: WZ JUNK on June 23, 2023, 04:13:02 PMDecapitated
2 projects in one ? :lol: Roadster pickup and lawn art
Eviscerated
I returned from Pueblo. Good show, good time. Many of my friends are having some problems with aging. Most are still going. The 72 did well. Just running down the highway it will do 20mpg with ease. It drives like a crown vic with a little stiffer suspension. The show has changed in the last 5 years but I suppose that should have been expected. The year change rule and the aging of the old guard have contributed to that. Change is inevitable in life so I think it's better to adapt than get grumpy and stay home. :)
I uploaded pics to youtube. Not my best. The youtube channel is kb450div4.
I have not posted in a while although I read posts daily . Work has been tough this school year . I start working in a hot rod shop next week . All pre EFI cars . I am looking forward to a fresh start.
C.K., does that mean you are finished with teaching?
CK, about a 15 year backward step in earnings is what most of us had to agree to to work on old cars. Hope its better in your area and welcome to that occupation. I have viewed it as career suicide the whole time, it snuffed any hobby doings and I no longer travel hell I can't even achieve an auto with air for myself. Forecast calls for 100°F+ the next 3 days. Might be enough to merit turning on the A/C there. But you know me, I mostly just tell bad things.
A friend was a teacher close to retirement but the children became to abusive to tolerate any longer so she quit it early. I have no reason to believe kids are any different where you are so I don't blame you a bit. Sorry I can't sound more encouraging but my experience indicates you'll be living on half the pay. Sanity has great value and I have said it before many times:
Everybody has a bag. Everybody has a gig. When your bag and your gig jive, man thats groovy! And it is, but people don't go away. :)
Best of luck at your new thing. I got most of the rest of the Bronco stuff yesterday and had my first experience with something that has ospho on the label. seemed to work relatively well.
IDJ I am not finished with teaching ...yet . The kids are great , I teach an elective class so they want to be there for the most part . I am having trouble with a shrinking school and a shrinking budget . As the school population drops , so do the number of kids enrolling in my program . I am having more of a problem with my administration telling me I am doing a poor job even though I have pointed out to them that I have enrollment the same as the only other school in town with the same program ,having a school population 3X that of our school . My budget this year to operate a machine shop with 3 classes in machining and a number of introductory classes was $700 , thats Canadian dollars ! I have been given a dogs breakfast of other classes to teach in the first semester next school year including English , Math , Social Studies and Science . The work load for prep work in these classes is staggering . This type of work load is better suited to a beginning teacher, who can spend 7 days a week earning their keep as I did 34 years ago . This is how our school division persuades older teachers to retire . I am fortunate to have co workers who see what is going on and have offered up all of their resources to help me out . Had I been given this classroom news earlier in the year I would have chosen to retire at the end of this year . We have a program where you retire and collect pension and the school re-hires you for the remainder of the school year. This way you get a full wage plus pension for 6 months . Had I decided to retire this year , I would have been too late for that program . The real problem in all this lies with an administration who decided 3 years ago ,to change our introductory shop course and rather than showcase every shop area to every kid , streamed the program into 3 trade areas effectively giving each shop access to only 1/3 of the new grade 9's . Our entire voc ed staff argued against it to no avail . How many kids would know what machining even is without seeing it and trying it first ? Most parents do not know what a machinist is ! We offer commercial cooking , home ec , sewing , cosmetology , electrical , woods construction , mechanics , photography , graphic arts , 2D and 3D animation , welding , machining , and new next year , auto body . It has been a good ride for the last 18 years at this school teaching my trade to the kids . I will retire next year , a year earlier than planned ,to do other things . This hot rod job will supplement my pension to the point of matching my previous income and a bit more . I have also contacted the post secondary trade school in our area whom I have worked for previously and they are quite interested in having me on their sub list as they often run 8 week apprentice courses throughout the year and need help staffing those . 2 of those 8 week programs a year plus my pension would be enough to match my current income . The plan is to work the hot rod shop and leave to do the teaching sub work as it comes , returning to the rod shop afterwards . The rod shop is cool with it . He had done a refresh on a truck I did for a client years ago and likes my work . He also dealt with the same owner and understands why I would rather work for someone than deal with clients like this . My first (and last )client years ago ends up being the worst one he has ever dealt with , LOL :o . If any of you RRT guys have noticed my lack of activity on the site over the last 6 months , this is the situation that has contributed to it . I visit the site daily but do not feel up to commenting much . On a brighter note , the administration at my school that started this mess have been transferred to lower paying , smaller schools for next year :) . Sorry for the rant , just wanted IDJ and the rest of you to know what has been going on and that I will be OK .
CK , that is such a common process for companies to remove, replace , downsize workers. We first watched this happen to my wife's sister in the 1970s. We were young and could not believe what happened to her sister after years of top notch service to this large company.
It appears you have a plan in place. Good luck buddy
CK, might as well start writing that machinist / race / rod book now. ;) Onward and upward. :arrow:
C.K., I have enjoyed our banter through the years. I'm sorry that the tail of your teaching has become difficult. When I was young, I thought that with age life would get easier. Boy was I a dumbass. LOL. My last year went rapidly and I believe yours will too. :)
Thanks guys for the encouragement . If there is an upside to this ,I will have my machine shop sitting un used for half of the school year . This will allow me to go to town on a bunch of projects that I need to finish before I turn in the keys . If I do not have to leave access to the machines for daily class use , I can get to it on larger stuff . I really need to get my at home lathe and mill operational over the summer . This rod shop will likely need me to do machine work from time to time , at MY shop rate .
Machined out the center holes on 2 rotors and a rear sprocket for the chopper project . Now they fit the wheels . I thought all harley parts were a basic bolt together deal . I was wrong . Tomorrow I need to install the back wheel . This will require removal of the fender and sissy bar .
I have just about waded through all the Bronco bed floor and tub fixes. Might join bed and cab floor today with screws. Wanting to check the frame first.
back wheel is back on , did not have to remove fender . Just got useful help from our welding instructor . I had 2 phys ed teachers helping me yesterday :lol: entertaining but they have found their calling with washing towels and bouncing balls .
About mid afternoon, I hopped on the dr650 and headed to Garden City to watch the Great American Race come through town. It started a little after 5pm. At 7, there were a few cars left but I hopped on the bike and headed home. 30 miles from home, I see storms forming that I thought were going away from me. 10 miles later, I see a new line of storms headed towards me. 15 miles from home, I hit the dirt and at least 40mph crosswinds. The temp dropped rapidly. The dr is light enough with that much sidewind it got interesting. LOL. I got home before the rain hit. The temp had dropped from 87 to 67. I was cold. :) The bike and my gear looks like I have been riding in a bare dirt field. Tomorrow, there will be substantial clean up. It's been years since I got caught in a dirt storm like that. Watching the Great American Race was very good. They blank of main street and it's like a carnival. :)
No successes to report on my end. Got half the Bronco body mount bolts in and nuts started on those, also made plug weld holes to join cab and bed and found no red flags on chassis dimensions.
It would be really easy to remedy what seems to me to be the glaring oversight in design of that body. The tendency to just fold in half under it's own weight. Yeah the rockers are stiff but just behind them its Nothingsville under there. Has to do with the asymmetrical step in cabin floor which also creates one quite frustrating mount bolt nut access scenario using the aftermarket hardware.
Yesterday was the first full Friday we have been expected to work in eight or ten years. It was hot out but shop A/C was on. Back in my day, the setting was 82. Now its 78. Theres no escaping the pushing and shoving for increasing numbers of every kind. It just don't pay to prove yourself, the world has the attention span of dogs nowadays.
She's still got it. :shock:
Grape took me to our favorite spot to be today, at our favorite time. I couldn't resist taking pics so I can recall our romance in later years.
See the white container, top left corner? Six thousand year old archaeological dig happening ahead of roundabout install does make us a bit sad. Thrilled about the history find but sentimental about the further loss of cruise habitat for outdated people and cars. We are part of one another.
We returned today from a quick family trip to the Rocky Mountains of Colorado. There was nine of us. Lots of adventures and good old family fun. Sand Dunes National Park to The Trail Ridge Road in Rocky Mountain National Park and lots of places in between.
I am recovering from a nasty bout of covid and the high altitude air was hard on me.
Now back home and back to work.
My wife and I went to a grandson's graduation last August, and we both got covid, although we've had all our shots and boosters. Now, I think I got long covid, as I tire really easily. No problems other than that, sometimes taking two naps a day. Not the way I want to spend my retirement.
I worked on the latest yard art project a little today. I am feeling better each day but I am fade early in the afternoons.
^^^We went to a restaurant for lunch today, and there was an S10 pickup in the parking lot sitting on the ground, and my wife asked about it. I told her it was bagged and they do that so it can sit on the ground when they park it. I've got to say, your's is sitting much lower than that S10.^^^
Lowdown truck in the grass :lol:
Meanwhile my project gains height. This feels like cheating, with so much new metal. For a Bronco it doesn't seem to be bucking me very hard. :)
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Bronco lives to be ridden again. :)
Breakfast the other day.. I parked on the end. About 5 empty spaces to the left of the Honda car.. After the olde Phart parked his truck, there were 4 empty spaces there. PLus he is almost over the line into my parking space. He was a real geezer, 80s plus. Mayb the end spot was his usual parking spot and I whizzed him off?
Quote from: kb426 on July 07, 2023, 08:49:07 PM^^^
Bronco lives to be ridden again. :)
I'm just lookin for my eight seconds then I hop off. Wonder how a pair of them bedsides, lower quarters or whatever would look like hung off the sides of your bed frame. Dig it though, the satin finishes seem to have caught on.
At Speedway Motors Museum in Nebraska today... Huge place. There is so many engines, tools, toys, cars, signs, photos, and other items to look at !
I did something I seldom do: I bought an item from the gift shop. A new hat for my bald head.
Lincoln is my home town. I could have give you a hat for free. Have several of them from the freebies they give out sometimes. I don't like wearing a hat but now I have a chunk removed from my head doc says I need to. You still around or down the road?
Quote from: 34ford on July 09, 2023, 03:59:39 PMLincoln is my home town. I could have give you a hat for free. Have several of them from the freebies they give out sometimes. I don't like wearing a hat but now I have a chunk removed from my head doc says I need to. You still around or down the road?
Thanks... We are down the road. Basically wondering around loose on this trip. The museum was a bucket list item... Get a few things done before I kick the bucket? Is that why its called a bucket list?
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Yesterday, we went to my wife's ex-husbands funeral (I got along very well with the guy). He drove a late model Audi that he really liked. Seems that it's a tradition in Chicago that the hearse drives past your house on the way to the cemetery. His younger son had parked his dads' Audi at an angle in the driveway in front of the garage. Nice touch.
I am rebuilding a 78 Camaro rear end. It needs new brake shoe adjusters. The same adjusters fit many models from 1964 to 1996. No dice. Special order and a week out for delivery. SMH
I am packing the bearings on my Impala and need wheel seals. Fit disk brake full sized gm from 67 - 70 and Corvettes from 68 to 81. Same thing, special order, and can't even get 2 from the same warehouse. Hope the second will get here today.
Finishing up my yard art project. I have just a a couple of things to do and it will be done. This one is on a tubing frame with caster wheels so that it can be moved easily for mowing or to change locations.
Don't be fooled by this pic, everything is just screwed together and in the week's final five minutes a door and hinges went on. Sort of. Now the fitting fun begins.
I rebuilt the carbs on one of the Corvairs, and I'm having trouble with the filter housings leaking. The new gaskets nowdays are 'cardboard' instead of the copper gaskets available years ago. Some guys on Corvair sites have said they use two gaskets because they are so thin. I tried that and they still leak. Is there a sealer that would work on these, or tape? I've never liked this design even way back when. Last resort, a vendor sells brass clones with copper gaskets. What does everyone else use?
BTW, I've called parts houses and Chevy dealers, no go.
Phil, can you post a pic or a link so I can see what they look like. The last time I worked on a Corvair was about 1968. :)
Number one in the exploded view. This style was used among many Carter carbs.
https://ssl.corvair.com/user-cgi/catalog.cgi?show_page=55
Quote from: 58 Yeoman on July 16, 2023, 08:47:06 AMI rebuilt the carbs on one of the Corvairs, and I'm having trouble with the filter housings leaking. The new gaskets nowdays are 'cardboard' instead of the copper gaskets available years ago. Some guys on Corvair sites have said they use two gaskets because they are so thin. I tried that and they still leak. Is there a sealer that would work on these, or tape? I've never liked this design even way back when. Last resort, a vendor sells brass clones with copper gaskets. What does everyone else use?
BTW, I've called parts houses and Chevy dealers, no go.
Many of the import cars and some motorcycles use aluminum washers on drain plugs. I wonder if there is a washer large enough to fit the application ?
Or I used to buy copper washers from NAPA in various sizes and thickness for brake line applications
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that part number says the replacement nut is longer so i'm thinking it may be bottoming out
I'm using the original housings. I might order the brass fittings that come with a copper washer. Had to work on a fence all day, didn't get a chance to try anything.
Sold the yard art. I deliver it later this week. I have one more to do but it will be later in the fall as all the parts are in area of poison ivy, and various critters are living within and around the stuff I need to get.
Well, that one didn't last long. Can't be having stale yard art now, can we? Can't wait to see the next one.
Received a notice for another recall on my F350..
First recall is from 04-2022 for wiper blade arms. That is incomplete since I am told no parts are available. :lol: :lol:
Latest recall is for emissions re-calibrate on the TCM and PCM .... which (wait for it) the " remedy not yet available"
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I just replaced the wiper blades 2 weeks ago since the OEM wipers fell apart. I now cover the wipers with some pool noodles, which is common used in the RV world to keep sun off .... Ah , no I do not drive with the noodle covers on the wipers
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Beginning to get some door gaps at work.
Other beginnings... gate looks fine, needs work on hood gaps but its all just a starting point really. The heavy pipe bumper barely clears hood, its gotta go. Grille and door latch on their way for obvious reasons.
Put an axle and engine mount in the GTP today. :)
Final packing, leaving at 6:00 tomorrow morning for Good Guys in Puyallup. Should be a good time, and then on Sunday meeting a bunch of my cousins for dinner.
spent yesterday at the hospital . The boom on an un loaded engine crane fell down and swiped my finger between it and the main post as I was rolling it around the shop. Kinda like peeling a banana . Peeled the skin off my left index finger . no broken bones , no tendon problem , just pulled the skin off . 22 stitches . I can move it and no real pain . I consider my self fortunate .
Say it ain't so, CK! :-\
Dad. Gum. It! I hate to hear that. No tendon damage, good. Nail? Sheesh, ow. Take very good care and heal up nice.
Here is a boo boo that makes me sad. I don't know what, why, or when, the 51 F-1 5.0 was just outside due to warehouse shuffling and I spotted um :arrow:
Sirstude, I hope you have a good uneventful trip. :) C.K., I'm glad it's not worse. Matt, are the elves at work? I wonder if Mr. Nobodydunnit is hiding. :)
I redid the mounting of the window unit air conditioner in the shop. After I removed the insulation around the unit, this is what it looked like underneath. I knew it was bad but I did not know it was as bad as it was. It was about to fall out of the window opening. I am giving into heat and firing that baby up tomorrow. We are in for a few days of over 100 degrees and I am surrendering.
About 1 week ago. I removed some fittings from my RV switch valve for the propane. 2 fittings indicated a small leak , found by my sniffer tool. It was very minor leak, since each propane tank lasted 4 to 5 weeks easily.
Unhooked the valve, removed fittings, used the approved teflon tape this time. I installed this switch valve 2 yr ago. I used the approved paste thread sealer then.
So far I do not smell propane and the sniffer tool does Not trigger.
Had a great trip, 3100 cars were there, nice to see the Canadians back. I hit a foot long 4x4 on the way back, no damage.
GTP threw the inner belt today coming home. Only peeled off one rib of edge maybe 15" long so trimmed shag and put it back to complete the commute. Then put on the squeaky new one I tried on the GT when it got recent water pump. Not chirping so far but only drove it into the garage. Came away branded inside forearm with one bubbly hex head burn and two 1st degree-ers plus bloody top of forearm. FWD badges of honor.
69 Mustang GT job's new doors and especially upper door hinges have almost every hole in the wrong place... latches wouldn't go in either door and hinge holes off as much as a half inch. Plus the big wire spring on lower hinges partially covers a bolt so had to grind the spring. New doors leave big rocker gaps but otherwise are not horrible.
I took the 46 for a joy ride into work yesterday when the left front wheel bearing came apart. It did not smoke or make any noise to let me know we had a problem with a bad outcome coming. The wheel * a little and then dropped. The wheel damaged the fender and stayed in the wheelwell, damage from it destroyed the spindle, caliper control arm rim and tire plus the body work now needed. :( :(
Man! That sucks. :(
^^I agree.^^
Glad you weren't hurt. Quite a surprise.
Just so y'all know I still enjoy crowd parking.. We ran a few errands last week. obviously we took the dually and I parked it out away from other vehicles since this truck takes up ALL parking spot and then some.
We came out from Wally World and found what you see in the photo. There were zero vehicles around the truck when I parked it. There was still plenty of closer parking to the right of the truck towards the building. LOL We were in the store maybe 20 minutes. It took longer to check out than gather the items
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I washed my DD. Been a year or two maybe.
Tony, it's the same on the highway. People come up on my rear but don't pass, or if they do, they hang by my side, pacing me. Ticks me off. We were at Walmart yesterday also, to buy some soft drinks that Costco doesn't sell. TWO checkout lanes were open and had long lines. Won't be long before ALL the checkouts will be self-serve. Waited in line a long time.
We then headed to Costco, and on the way, cars would hang in the left lane on the in-town fourlane. But, they were moving fairly quickly until all of a sudden, everyone was going the limit. Ha, there was a black Explorer with municipal plates and a spotlight ahead of the group. Wasn't a cop though, but a guy wearing a T-shirt. Probably an administrator or something.
Quote from: 58 Yeoman on August 16, 2023, 08:48:47 AMTony, it's the same on the highway. People come up on my rear but don't pass, or if they do, they hang by my side, pacing me. Ticks me off. We were at Walmart yesterday also, to buy some soft drinks that Costco doesn't sell. TWO checkout lanes were open and had long lines. Won't be long before ALL the checkouts will be self-serve. Waited in line a long time.
We then headed to Costco, and on the way, cars would hang in the left lane on the in-town fourlane. But, they were moving fairly quickly until all of a sudden, everyone was going the limit. Ha, there was a black Explorer with municipal plates and a spotlight ahead of the group. Wasn't a cop though, but a guy wearing a T-shirt. Probably an administrator or something.
We have learned the times to visit the local Wallee World and Safeway (food store) when the regular check out lanes are open. If you are too early , only the self serve lanes are open.
Many weeks ago before we learned the proper time for Wallee World with full servoice check out.. We had a large amount of stuff in the cart.. Self check out is a small area at each check out. I was bagging stuff as the wife scanned. I was setting the bags on the floor, spread out, just basically being a PITA , making a mess. Once the cart was empty enough, I started to place the bags in the cart. Also I use 3 to 5 bags instead of one. I guess its childish , but then I do not give a shat. I am old , grumpy
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just back from a visit to my son and grandson.
I went to a big swap meet. I bought a $3 bottle of water and I visited with a lot of old friends. A great day.
Lost my last uncle yesterday. RIP. Aunts are all gone too. He was in hospice care and had called for help to get into bed but when they came he was in bed and gone. We will miss him. He let me drive his spankin new '80 el Camino 43 years ago this month. Liked Falcons and Mustangs back in the day. Korea veteran.
I'm doing bondo at work. Last week I was informed of a format change at the shop. Full builds only now, for folks who can pay straight through without breaks. A substantial price increase too. It will take a long time of that for any of us guys to get decent used cars. I don't have AC in anything except my bedroom for these 100°F+ weeks. But the shop has it.
Still chasing a rolling noise on the GTP. Could be a tire, hub, or differential. Its over 310K now.
Sorry to hear about your uncle, Matt. My last family member died four months ago yesterday, which would've been my brothers 78th Birthday.
I think I've got the last of the welding done on the left front fender of the Corvair, and will start with the bondo next time I'm out there; might be today. I have a house dehumidifier running out there all the time in the summer...it helps. And fans. And dew rags.
All I can say is go light on hardener. Even wiping on mornings with AC on in the shop, I digress that a smidgen or two of mud ended up on the trash can due to being out of practice this season. Hey I'll take that though. And the vacuum assist sanding rig plus big fan. It'll wear a guy on out, quick. Go light on yourself every chance you get.
Just in case, for the Kansas boys here is a link to Uncle Gordon's meager estate auction link. There are some cool things, he retired from Texaco in ElDorado. I got his little trucks from Mom.
https://www.auctionninja.com/sungroup-real-estate/sales/details/everything-in-the-house-and-garage-auction-59.html?Page=1#items
You have my sympathies, Matt.
I lost my last uncle five years ago. I still have two aunts left. Sorry to hear that Matt
Thanks, you men. :)
I am still wading through the auction pages. Hard to believe his weary flesh is gone but his spirit was due the rest and he was at peace waiting for it.
Aw. Ok. :'( Dang.
Shaking it off. :arrow: Memories will always be good for a smirk. Ain't been that long since he and his son in law and I blasted past a bunch from the other side of the family with the 455 at full song, 100+ and climbing. He really soaked up that ride. Would never admit he liked hauling *, always had stock stuff himself. :)
Hey Matt...the first batch was my test batch, small. Yeah, it was hot, but I did get to use some of it. Second batch a little better. Then, too hot to stay in the shop.
Today was better. Got some areas covered, but then it turned too hot again. It's 5:30 here now, and it's still about 96* in the shade. Moving along slowly.
Stay cool and hydrated.
Hit it as early as you can in the day. In your jammies if nobody minds. :lol: Wiping is the easy part so just do that then come back when circumstances allow.
I got back into swing quick enough doing this type stuff. Whats shown is finished, below roof. I didn't exactly blaze through it.
Oh and a part fell off the GTP on the way home, ran over it. But it was all curled at the ends anyway and had an added screw at the back. I have a pair of good ones off the 40th anniversary car, in dark cherry. So duplicolor and double sided tape soon because ugly.
Oh oh and and... I played a small part in establishing the location of hood gap on the Stude. I really like how the line works from the majority of angles. It is like looking at a flower, the flow is so organic. :)
We still haven't seen the pair of widened glass fenders yet. Our talented guy is working at all the hood area stuff.
Finally replaced front sway bar end link bushings on the 69. It had spit one out. Rubber. And bar was consequently rubbing frame. They were only a couple dozen outdoor years old. I put poly in this time and am back flat on turns now.
Got supplies to replace that GTP door molding also. Still chasing the whir / groan noise on it. Nearabout overdone the yard work yesterday, 15° cooler today but don't think I have a hub replacement left in me. Bondo awaits.
Returned home from the Frog Follies. Great Hot weekend.
In the valley of the sun for couple daze. Helping a friend load up his 99 yr old mom's stuff into a U haul for trip across the valley. About 60 mile trip 1 way
She needs assisted living now. His wife has spent over 1 yr trying to get her into State managed $ care. Its one roadblock after another. They paid a company to handle the mountain of paperwork and up till now they have done a fair job. Suddenly another SNAFU popped up, that could take months to resolve. So, mom is moving in them. He is 74 and his wife is 72.. Mom is 99. Mom has early dementia, bowl control issues, etc.
The wife has been taking care of mom in her small apartment for near 2 months now, since they thought the move to assisted care was near... Then the move is not happening soon.
Monday it was 117*F , weather guessers say about the same today , tuesday.
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Fixed the horns on my Impala. Took 2 new horns, and the spring loaded pin under the steering wheel.
Tony, the hospital wanted my wife and I to take in my older brother instead of putting him in a nursing home (terminal). We said no, he was incontinent and needed 24 hour care that we couldn't give him. He was in a hospital for almost a month before going to a nursing home. I was his executor, etc. so we were paying his bills with the checking acct. he had plus his SS and pension. We got a bill from the hospital for over $1400, and my wife disputed it. They said everything was correct. Last week, we got a refund bill from the hospital for that amount. You really have to keep up on it.
Public Service Announcement: We use GoodRx when we buy our prescription at any pharmacy. I went to the dermatologist last week for my skin cancer, and he prescribed two skin care products, both generic. I've used them before. The total bill for both tubes of cream was over $250. My wife did some research on them and found that the name brand was actually cheaper than the generic equivalent. We went to the pharmacy today and told them that we wanted to use GoodRx, as it is a cheaper price. No problem. My wife had already brought it up on her phone, so they took that behind the counter and scanned it. Got the cheaper price. They had to order the name brand cream, so we will have to go back when it comes in. They agreed that saving $160 was worth using GoodRx. There is no subscription fee, and you don't have to join anything. Just bring it up on your phone and take it in. Sometimes you may get a GoodRx card in the mail, but you don't really need to use it. No costs or outfits to join.
Doug, did you bang those old horns around a bit? I've rapped on old horns, then adjusted the adjustment screw and they started working again. Just did it this year with both Corvair horns.
We are back in the AZ mountains.. Left central AZ about 11:15am where it was 109*F... Arrived up here, clouds lite rain around the area. It was 76*F. Much better. ;D ;D ;D
Phil: my buddies 99 yr old mom is healthy for her age. Still gets around well usually. She became afraid of her scooter (dementia moving in, we guess)...We take that as a good thing, that she does not want to operate the scooter now.
Fun fact: today as we were loading the scooter into the U haul on the ramp. Uhaul ramp was a bit steep. My buddy: "It does not want to climb all the way. Me: THEN Get your as- off the scooter. After he got off the scooter: He kept pushing the "go trigger" in reverse... Me: "Forward is better"... The other direction please.. I was on the back end of the scooter helping it over the bump as the ramp meets the cargo area.. Any way: stuff was loaded.
Only injury was my wife. She face planted as she stumbled on a curb carrying a few square plastic containers. Nothing broken. She scraped skin on her nose. People were telling me she fell.. I found her in the bathroom. Blood running down her nose- face.
Let me say: My wife is a klutz.. We've had "loud" discussions over the decades on her trying to carry way more stuff from car to house than she should carry.. Etc .... I dont want her getting hurt like today. It was a simple injury, it could have been much worse.
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My wife says they used to call her Grace. Her name is Chris. She doesn't watch the ground when she's walking.
I re-taped and painted a door molding. Haven't put it on yet.
... aaand then I put it on.
Matt, fixing as you go is always a good thing. :)
Looks good.
I am settling in to being a classroom teacher . the last 34 years have been teaching in the shop . I have to learn the names of 100 new kids . :o
Thanks guys. CK, I find myself settling into being the only staff member capable of filler work. Looks like thats for keeps and I'm already a month deep. Expect the worst of everything, thats all there is to get so like it I guess. Being good at something only gets penalized.
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Replaced my garage door opener today. Been doing it the hard way all summer but that will change my tune. :)
It went like this: Finished up the GDO task but all afternoon I kept looking at the yard and empty gas can. So like usual, in the GP trunk it goes to get a refill for tomorrow. Unloading that, I'm noticing the sun angle is still above the treetops so theres a few minutes to spare, and that the woofer box is trying to slide off the axle hump into the pan. Priorities and purposes have changed and the stereo hasn't worked for years.
Out it came with some huffin and puffin. 3 cubic feet box holding two feet of woofer and an amp like an encyclopedia. 80 lbs worth on a bathroom scale, same as going to aluminum heads. :)
So got a little stance back maybe? Lost a little bite maybe? Feels dang good. The 255s look embarrassing under there, she takes 275s and is due a pair. It was the head unit that only lasted a couple years and it is still in place to fill the hole, as are the 6x9s. But there are a couple woofer slots in the shelf. Savoring exhaust notes is more important.
Looking real hard at some seriously ugly cooked and can't see out of tint on the back window. Sides are peeling too, its all over 20 years old. Yuck. But it might be a spell before another burst of wherewithall occurs. :lol:
What would you guys think of some fabbed window louvers on this if you saw it? The top of my back seat is incredibly still intact and needs to stay that way. Needs a new window anyway, had 80DA marks on it when I got it.
Window louvers would be semi-effective. That being said, I have not been a fan of any of the mustang louvers so IMHO it would be difficult to block enough sun and be attractive. But I am biased about louvers in general. :) Take this as a grain of salt. :)
I went to Hooker Ok. for a show today. Great weather, caught up on social life, no really impressive new rods there. 169 cars, good turnout but a long ways from the record. Last year it sprinkled most of the day. Today was the opposite. :) I rolled across 2300 miles on the way home. That's not very many since it was finished in 2019. I have put almost 600 miles on it in two trips this summer. :)
I cleaned up my garage today . The workbench is clear once again . I dont think I have done anything in the garage for near 2 years now .
I learned something today. My hands no longer work well enough to make a decent cut with a gas cutting torch. The cuts I made today looked like it was chewed off by a Muskrat. it's discouraging.
Quote from: enjenjo on September 10, 2023, 12:31:48 AMI learned something today. My hands no longer work well enough to make a decent cut with a gas cutting torch. The cuts I made today looked like it was chewed off by a Muskrat. it's discouraging.
Yeah , gettin old is a PITA .. I have tremors (shakes) in my hands for over 1 yr. Very mild form. Its not parkinsons, there is a couple names and unknown causes for it. If I notice it , I kinda look at my hands and make it stop. LOL
Wife and I have made some larger decisions this summer. I hate being an adult sometimes, altho usually there is a different "A" word associated with me. We put our retirement land up for sale. We have owned it 16 yrs, never built that retirement house, all we have done with it is pay the property tax. The market for raw land in the area is weak. Altho 6 new houses have been built the last 2 yrs there.
Plan A is : We figure another year or 2 maybe with the RV. Then the dually and RV will go down the road. We have a Plan B too.. and of course I have Plan C which I have kept to myself so far. LOL :lol: :lol:
You may not follow Steve Magnante on Youtube.. There has been talk for weeks that he was very ill. The videos have been reruns for weeks on Steves channel.
Steves family came out and let it be known Steve has a brain infection via a Video on Steves Youtube channel. Video was by Rick Debruhl who works with Steve on Barrett Jackson auctions. Rick was a TV new person here for many years.
I hope with the family release of information now is not an indication that Steve is real bad and no recovery in sight.
Steve is very knowledgeable and a great source of information . I hope all turns out well
Plenty of rain here in the AZ mountains this tuesday... geeez. Its raining right now.....
this weekend I hook the dually to the RV and run it down the mountains to central Arizona. Its about 215 miles to the storage lot we keep the RV in. Will check and see if my car trailer has been stolen or not since its in the same storage lot?
Over the weekend I watched a few TV shows of season 1 of the 1965 version of Lost in Space. I had watched the show when it was new. Oh my gosh its different to watch it as a senior citizen now. The special effects are not very special.
I read the other day Bob Riggle had passed. He was the Hemi Under Glass driver for decades.
Bob passed on September 11th, 2023. Age 88.... He lived in Chino Valley Arizona.
We watched Bob and other wheel standers over the decades. Still amazing to watch
A post is on the HAMB too.
Josh and I spent today tearing down some early Ford rear ends. A 39, a 40, and a 48. The 39 rear, 4.44 ratio, is going to North Carolina to a new home in a garden tractor. The 40 and the 48 moving parts are going to France to live again in a hot rod. All the brakes, bells, and backing plates are for sale along with all the small parts. It took about 5 hours to strip them down completely.
I built some ramps to make it easier to do maintenance on older vehicles and on later model cars. The commercial ramps are too steep for these vehicles. I got the idea from a you tube video but then I modified them to suit my needs. The ramps are detactable so that they are out of the way. I will use wheel chocks on the rear wheels after the vehicle is up on the ramps.
Looks good. Where's the instructions? :)
My fellow bodyman got the Nomad body up on the lift without it snapping in half. :) New chassisful of Corvette stuff is supposed to be here mid-week for it so I reckon coatings underneath is about to happen.
I just straightened the cowl vent panel on the 69 GT. A dab of mud there and the whole thing sans hood is primer-ready. Aaand a 73 Mustang just got dropped off. :arrow:
Hopefully here is a photo of one the ramps laying on its side with the dimensions of the individual pieces written on the boards. You would also need four old door hinges that have been modified to have removable pins. I made a couple of handles to make it easier to carry the ramps.
I will try to post the photo again. I am having trouble manipulating the posting on the board, it will not let me post the photo in a way that I was able to just yesterday.
Thats wierd. I'll try one.
I spent the last two days hauling scrap metal. two loads $470. Hot rod parts!!!
Was going to rebuild front brakes on my truck, just replaced with reman calipers from Napa instead, as there are no rebuild kits anymore. Looking at same situation in rear. 1999 S10..
Tuesday, I rebuilt one carb on my 67 Corvair. Today, I'm going to rebuid the other one. A lot of gunk in the first one, so I imagine there will be in the second, also.
Chassis arrived, Nomad job.
I am up to my eyeballs in marking and prep work for my teaching assignment. I have probably 50 assignments to mark daily if everyone attends and does their work . I am at school probably 3 hours a day after classes and about 4 hours each weekend so far . I have no time for toy cars . :(
CK thanks on behalf of your students, for being cool about it. 8) Kids are important projects.
Mustang and fenders are poly-primered now. :)
The Nomad bottom got Raptor linered yesterday after I left. Should be sitting on new frame next time I see it. Should look less goofy with a level stance.
Br'er built a swing at Mom & Dad's but I am scared of it. :arrow:
Didn't think one pic could break the thread.
Figured I'd go to a car show today, there has always been one alongside the annual bike rally but nothing now. So I reckon I've been to my last automotive event and probably played my last role in modifying them. All thats left is for the 455 to start ticking. Then I'll have two classics to dump in the car shredder and that will be that. Bummer. Its just as well, an environment to use them in no longer exists either. Its like... overwith. Just like the rally event schedule, a list of unknown bands plus "shopping and food at...". With all the locally explosive population growth, a guy would think that it would go the other way. But nope, wrong kind of population. Nowhere left to run. Only all bondo twenty miles away, forever until death. Neato. :)
Well yep, busted the thread I reckon.
Turns out the new frame for the Nomad wasn't for a Nomad. Couple of body mount locations under the seat brace differ. Other guy fixed it.
Ebb and flow have the floor :arrow:
more marking . I got a sprocket in for the chopper , dont know when ill be able to work on it . ::)
Visited an old friend this last week.
WZ JUNK, what's happening to it? Looks like it's sinking into the ground.
1FAT GMC is resting in the dry Utah atmosphere. (Probably day dreaming of days on the road and Bonneville) There are plans for its restoration.
Its owner is in good health and presently working on a huge model N train layout. If you know Sumner, you know that it is something really special.
I went to the Goodland Ks fall fest and car show. It was a good day. Good turnout and good weather until after about lunch time. Then the wind came up. I hit the road and came home.
Link to Goodland car show pics: {https://youtu.be/DYciFYarRmw}
I just tried the link and clicking on it worked. We have a work around for video links now, I think. :)
What am I doing today? I rebooted my laptop (I use Opera), and it restarted with Opera 1, and I was on Opera 95.0. Needless to say, it wiped out ALL my bookmarks and speed dials. I'm very p*ssed off. I'm on an older laptop right now, using Opera. My other laptop will convert back to only using Chrome, but it will take a while to get things right. Dammit.
Phil, in case you don't know, you can export your bookmarks to a file and then reload them on your other computer. I'm using Opera 1. Is there a chance it started a new window that is blank and your settings are hiding in the browser somewhere? I didn't lose my stuff in the upgrade. Maybe I got lucky. :)
Bill, I'm still working on it, but it's not a priority right now. I tried to restore to an earlier date, and the update totally removed all my restore points. I DO have a list of the speed dials, so I'll try to see if I can get them back on the screen. I'm reverting to using Chrome, and my wife has installed speed dials on that home page, just haven't worked on figuring out how to get them to work yet.
At the top of the page, the 69GT body was freshly polyester primed. It is now freshly urethane primed. I am still blocking poly on the fenders and doors. We got a shaker hood in for it finally but it was shaped like a banana.
And the pair of 2" wider fiberglass Studebaker truck fenders have arrived. They look nice and are fresh as a daisy. Thanks to Frank for the tips on where to get those.
Don't know that we'll see the Nomad again.
I'm in Iowa this week. Dad is hospitalized, 97 years old, and has far more health issues than the family has shared with me. Dad didn't want me to worry because I live so far away. He may make it out of the hospital, may make it out of physical rehab to live with my brother, unable to keep his own house for the first time. Still, it's looking far more likely he won't see his next birthday in January than his 100th which we once took almost as a given. It's been a hard week.
Jaybee I sure hate to hear that. But thats what old guys generally do, put off everything about well-being. Being uprooted to a facility of any sort just sucks as does being too far along to fix many things. Keep thinking good thoughts about both of you going back to your homes. And think how much living that is. Remarkable.
Pictures of fiberglass 2" widened Studebaker M-series fenders from Studebaker International. Wheels are just rollers. When installed on this pre-Champ truck generation, the fenders do not appear to stick out wider at rear as with the later dually-esque setup like Frank's. I made a quick check of that. Kinda neat / odd how they are the same fender all around.
The 65 GM crocus yellow car is a running driving but incomplete scratch (yes, aluminum body starting from his sketch) build from another forum. I just "painted" it on the computer and faked an interior, filled in a windshield frame, added pinstripes and put the turn signals on a puny light bar when they started talking body color and some suggestions came about.
This is what I was looking at when the light bar came to mind. Cover of a TRJ. :)
Of course I like the roadster. :)
Dad liked it too, the other day. It wowed him in bare metal.
Took his advice today and tried the spare on the noisy corner of my daily driver to confirm or deny the source. Crap. Trying to muster gumption to put a hub on before bed. It felt worsening the past week. That hub didn't last very long. The racket is either it or the differential. Theres a road I don't want to go down again so soon either. Hope this is it.
It was! :) Hooray.
Took an hour last time, hour and a half this time. Had to break off old metal harness connector clip to install on new hub because plastic type provided, with duplicate in bag, doesn't work. They made it more labor, imagine that. By not boxing the metal clip type with hub.
I really didn't want to do it but all the stuff was still right there where I swapped hubs last. :roll:
Here I go into the eighth week of sanding. Think good thoughts, all. :) :arrow:
Sounds like I start teardown of the minty Bronco tomorrow. The one held together with screws went into the storage bldg and this came out. Thought it went home last week.
Meanwhile, still sanding.
The notmad has vette wheels. Is that what suspension it has?
Yessir. I believe he said it is "mostly C5 stuff".
I got all but the right fender blocked out today, on the 69. I am sanded plumb out. :arrow:
I just caught the "notmad". :lol: Good one Bill.
I took the day off today and spent it showing one of my former students the town where we live. He was a French foreign exchange student from Paris that was in my class the first year I taught 46 years ago. We visited him in Paris last fall and he showed us around the city and he had us to his flat for a meal. It was a great day today. When I showed him our 54 Chevy, he was very excited, and I drove him home to the family where he is staying in it. It was a big deal for him and fun for me. Some days are diamonds.
Good story, John. :)
Forgot to mention it but I replaced the failing fluorescent lights in my garage with 4 of those LED bulbs with the swing down light panels that screw into regular light bulb sockets . HOLY MAN do those suckers light up a room ! I picked up an extra 6000 lumens (whatever they are) , The equivalent of an extra 8' fluorescent bulb in my garage . I paid about $120 for four bulbs . I would have had to replace 4 ballasts in my other fixtures and I was having trouble finding any . 8) 8) 8) 8)
Just to let y'all know that my saga of magnetic personality continues:
We visited a Lowes home improvement store couple weeks ago. Drove the F350 since I was purchasing items that would not fit the daily Honda car.
We came out to this scene in the photo. Obviously I parked out , away from the store. Many empty parking spaces. If I was 30 yrs younger, there may have been a few flat tires on the small truck or not? Altho I did drop the tailgate and load my items.. :twisted: :twisted: Um , carefully.
We planted uncle Gordon yesterday per his wishes. RIP, a foot deep. Kansas dirt is hard and the wind is strong. All post hole diggers are not created equal.
Managed to hit 27MPG :) but also 313K. Had a safe trip. In the GTP.
IDJ sorry to hear of your uncles passing .
Thanks CK. :) He was a good guy.
My post was too vague. He was OK with God and with cremation and just wanted "somebody to go out there (to his plot) with a post hole digger"(which he supplied). My cousin made the effort to find out if that was OK and it was. Only parameter given was there has to be a foot of dirt over the top. It was about a 6" square box. Dirt was hard as rocks though and wind was like 20 mph steady with mid 50s temp. Old lady hairdos all were spoiled but with some youth pitching in we made the depth of hole. Missed the high noon mark we were shooting for but not by much. Site was out by Rosalia, for the Kansas locals. Yep I zipped straight through Joplin but with no time to spare. The phone took me two different ways coming and going through there.
I do miss Kansas flat. Once I got past Fredonia the scenery really took me back to being a kid staring out a Tempest qtr window at the blur.
On a personal personal level, it was kind of a thing for me just making the trip due to stuff I been through. I had not been outside a 20 mile area in many, many years. It just so happened to come at a time when me and my car could muster the courage. The world seems a little larger again. :)
Do things happen in 3s? I guess I am due one more parking follow ? We parked away from others as usual. Came out from McD's to this.
This situation did not require any fancy movements by me. I just backed up and left. There was plenty of empty parking to the left of our daily Honda drive car. :lol: :lol: :lol:
Matt, I'm sorry to hear about your uncle also. I know about being cremated, as my brother was in April this year, and he wanted to be dumped in the Illinois river, which is what we did. Would've been better with a boat so we could get to the middle, but he always fished off the shore, so that's okay.
Tony, it must be you. Everyone wants to be with/near you.
Bill, your paint is looking great, I really like that color.
I DA'd the sides of the Corvair today. It had been done before I bought it, but the previous owner missed a lot of places. Still have all the horizontal surfaces to do, glad it's a small car. That 58 Chevy wagon was huge. We're supposed to be getting colder weather for a while, so that may slow me down. Today was warm enough to have the big door open with a couple fans running to blow the dust outside.
Recently I noticed the paint peeling on the roof of my daily driver Chevrolet Suburban.{that's a big roof} I have spent the last 3 days with a razor blade scraper stripping as much of the paint as possible off of the roof, while standing on scaffolding. The remainder I will remove with a D A sander. Not much fun for an old guy but I wanted to get it done while it was still warm enough to work outside. At times the paint comes right off and then you come to an area where it will not budge. I am trying to maintain this vehicle to make it last. A couple of weeks ago I drove to Utah and back. I looks new inside and not bad outside for nearly 200,000 miles.
WZ JUNK, ya gotta love big vehicles. This car was originally white, and someone repainted it red. The red would flake off in a small place here and there, but in others, like under the hood near the weatherstrip, it kind of turns mushy when I use the small 3M rolo loks on it. There are three removeable panels with vents, front, rear and under the rear bumper. The two rears I was able to finangle into my sand blast cabinet and blast them clean. The front one was a different story.
Sandblasting wouldn't touch it, so I tried paint remover. Bad move. It took off some of the red paint and just made a huge mess. The vent has red and white paint in most places, and it's a bear to get in between the slots. I might try putting it in the cabinet again later.
Well, here we are again , 3rd little parking thing in recent weeks. Nobody was parked in this area when we parked the daily Honda Civic car and then there were more.. THere is a 3rd car in fron of our Civic that can not be seen. I am a popular guy.
I could tell the tale of inside the home depot store and ppl gather around me as we looked at a few items. THe isle goes from empty to busy after we arrived there. Its just weird. Maybe they were all store security?
Odd item on the Honda CRV next us. He came out with a cart and 9 bags of concrete mix. Seems like parking closer would have been easier for him? Weird.
oh, btway , It was 105*F here today.
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Quit looking so shady, Tony. My wife says it's a human thing, that people want to be part of a group.
Quote from: 58 Yeoman on October 19, 2023, 07:31:02 PMQuit looking so shady, Tony. My wife says it's a human thing, that people want to be part of a group.
Must be something like that..
We were in the storage solutions isle this morning , not a person came down the isle. Same thing with picking up some rain gutter parts... LOL Maybe its not me?
Walked over to the fastener isle since we found some wall mount shelving we wanted. 45 seconds in that isle one guy walks up eggzackly where we were. 2nd guy comes down the isle doing the same thing. Its just weird. My wife laughed at me about this till I proved to her years ago that it was happening.
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Tony, you're not carrying a tape player and playing "Close To You" by the Carpenters, are you? J/K.
Quote from: 58 Yeoman on October 19, 2023, 11:41:03 PMTony, you're not carrying a tape player and playing "Close To You" by the Carpenters, are you? J/K.
Tape player? Like reel to reel? Showing yur age Phil. LOL
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This is just weird stuff I have noticed over the decades that happens around me. For several yrs I kept it inside me , thinking I was imagining what was happening. And since sharing is caring, I now share this useless shat with everybody.
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Tony, I bought a reel to reel while I was in Vietnam and recorded hours of music when I returned home. Never used it, as it was too much trouble. I finally sold it in the last ten years as I was getting sick of seeing taking up space. When my brother died this year, we had to give his away, as no one wanted one. Compare dragging one of those around to an Ipod which is as big as your thumb. LOL.
I still have mine that I bought when I was in Japan. And two gigantic speakers that took up all my hold baggage when I came back to the states. They were the only things I owned at the time that I couldn't break down into a 60" mail package. 54 of them to be exact.
WZ, when I was in Dallas selling Sikkens (90s) there was a painter with five helpers doing almost nothing but peeling Suburban roofs and hoods. Said he was pulling in 125K a year just swinging the gun. :o
As a painter later, I ran across one the newer style (a Yukon) that had this... I kid you not... spot that looked like half a marble under the paint. Maybe a half inch around and a quarter tall! It was solid primer. Wierd.
Below is a pic of the spot on my current work project that must have had a gallon of kitty hair on it. Fill was over an inch thick. Just look at it. Wow. :(
Here is something worthwhile for you guys with wonder, speaking of overseas stuff. Brand new noggin fodder. How the great pyramid was indeed built. At least the casing stones.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=43V9RTpnxbk&pp=ygUTaGlzdG9yeSBmb3IgZ3Jhbml0ZQ%3D%3D
@IDJ, I also offer my condolences on the loss of your uncle. We feel the loss so intensely because they added so much to our lives.
Thanks JB. For the record my very last uncle died two months ago, only once. It was still so hot the cousin wanted to wait until it cooled off some and got more cool than she figured on.
There was an aunt there, seperated by divorce, who Grandma tore out of all the photo albums. It was good to see her but officially I guess she is just the mother of a couple cousins. Aside from her, all are deceased. Of the six siblings, only Mom is left. Like Dad but he was #2 of 2.
It probably appeared as though I was using a same "excuse" twice. (Did not miss any work) But it was just a long time before interment.
All of them lived hundreds of miles away since I was 15 so none were close but Gordon in particular was a regular visitor and was the kind who would haul down his log splitter when a big tree fell and work hard right alongside us.
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Good ending to a story about your uncle.
I have the Suburban mask off and ready to paint in the morning. I am hoping the paint gods will be good to me.
I have a full time guard 24 hours a day in the shop. I gave him a break today and moved him outside since I am planning to paint in the morning. The fumes bother him.
How did the "wet-on-wet" application do?
I did metal work all day. :)
The new water pump showed up yesterday for the Impala, so that is today's and probably tomorrow's project. This evening winter is supposed to show up. Depending on which channel we listen to from 4 to 12 inches of snow are due to arrive. High of mid 20s over the next week. Hopefully back up to mid 40s for Halloween. Sure glad I have a heated garage. Going out in a short time to turn the heat up.
Helped a friend hang the doors on his 68 GTO that he's redoing. The car is the green of that generation, but he's going with a original blue that looks very much like Marina Blue, but it has a different name. Don't remember the color name, but sure looks good.
The paint project is done for now but I have more to do. I have the hood to strip and paint and some damage on a front fender to fix and paint. The wet on wet worked but I did not get the epoxy on wet enough and it took extra paint to make it flow out smooth. The whole job would go better if I started over today. I made some mistakes just because I do not paint often and I hopefully would not make those mistakes again. It was a 12 hour hard day for an old man by the time I painted and cleaned the shop afterwards.
Just welded up about a hunnert rust pit holes on a Bronco bed floor.
John fer what its worth, light sanding in the midst of wet on wet is pretty much standard procedure. As is spotting more sealer on. Both of which may be less valid with epoxy as sealer. Sounds to me like you were successful in making it white and got some mistakes purged for the more critical appearance spots.
This morning... yet another roadblock forcing me over the tracks and bricks and among all the ditzy pedestrians and goofy parker hazards. It is nutso. As am I. Forgot and left phone at home today and am typing on my eldest tablet. Didn't think it would still work.
In a calm act of frustration upon arrival home, seeing that my new mailbox has taken a third lick, I went out there and did a little painting myself. White idiot stripes. Unfortunately I was fresh out of flake to put on there. :)
Mailboxes are the thing today, apparently. Our oversize box was black, and my wife decided that it needed an upgrade, so she painted it Cranberry with an orange flag. New decals with our address should be here in a day or so, so we can put it back up. For now, I put up our old box with a 57 Chevy Nomad on top.
Looking at a half a foot to a foot of fresh snow, 15 degrees out. 3 more days of the same. Not really ready for winter.
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Your weather is headed my way. Not as severe but enough to wreck my painting work. It is that time of year but I hope it zooms past and gives me a few more warm days to finish the painting.
swapped in a new wheel bearing on a 2017 Nissan Versa right rear of my sister in law's car. OEM bearing had a termite problem on the race. Only 68k miles on the car. Bad bearing was very noisy at speed
We are at 16 inches of snow in the last 30 hours now, and still snowing more today.
tap, tap. Anyone there? Wow, what a quiet weekend here. Well, I'll wake it up. I had more MOHS surgery on my right ear on Friday. MOHS, for those who don't know what it is, is when they cut out skin cancer, then send you to the waiting room while they look at what they cut out to see if they got it all. I had two bad areas close to each other, so they made it one surgery. I had to go back in a second time to get the rest. They put me on light duty all weekend, and my wife removed the bandages at 3pm today. Looks pretty good behind my ear.
It's funny when you get a nurse who hasn't seen me before ask if I know about MOHS surgery. I told this one that I should've joined up for frequent flier miles, as this is my 15th surgery on my head, face or neck. The surgeon remembered me, though it's been a few years since my last op. He's their best one, so I lucked out there.
Now, back to our regularly scheduled program...
Phil, I have friends who have had the same thing. I didn't know of the acronym. :)
I filled out my retirement forms today 8) I will retire at Christmas and be re hired to finish the school year . This allows me to start collecting my pension 6 months before I actually stop teaching . It also allows me to walk off the job without the required 1 month notice should they give me another teaching assignment like the one I currently have . I will start machining again as a regular joe in August. Sooner if I don't like next semesters teaching assignment.
Bill, I had to look it up. MOHS is actually named for Frederic E. Mohs who pioneered the technique. It's a sure way to be sure you get all the cancer, but there can be some nearby that will pop up later.
CK, sounds like a good deal for you.
Regular Joe is where its at, CK. 8)
Phil, that beats the couple dozen stitches that have been done on my mug over the years. Sewing thread in face sucks. But cancer sucks harder than injury. Good that you've been tended to. Speaking of things that suck hard, I've known a couple gals that could suck the chrome off a hitch ball I tell you what. :shock:
Getting groceries yesterday I properly parked in a space next to a crappy parker sitting crooked on the paint line then flattened myself like a cockroach to get out. Came out to find...
no door ding or fender bent or key scratch or anything. Another proper parker in that space. :)
This weekend I got the shop cleaned out and The Stude moved into the main shop. Time to install the 700R4. I also got my Ferguson moved into the back shop so I can rebuild the hydraulics.
Spent last night and last Tuesday test fitting the BBC in the 55. I was able to find a set of 63 Grand Prix buckets for the front so I will be switching from the original bench to buckets.
Seats.
Good stuff, Dave. :)
All I heard was Grand Prix! ;D
And they are good stuff. :D
One of these pics is a rerun, the others are works in progress. I think the 51 F1 5.0 frame and pieces are being shot now.
Yep, heres that. Satin clear over a color with pearl FLAKEs in it. See what I did there? :shock:
It gets a Harley (shiny) white pearl on the outside, has salt flats in the color name. Wheels reflect that theme and scheme. Body is pretty well ready to go.
Bonus ride is the Sport Custom F250, fresh done and with a customer picked color on bottom. It got a metal grille conversion and heck, its sharp enough. Good retro teuck vibe on that one. 390, granny four on the floor. Gas hog!
Matt, does the chassis get flipped to paint both sides?
Our guy made the shaft with bolts welded to it seen in foreground and in background theres just a bolt laying through control arm holes. A fairly sly bit of planning there allowed it to be sprayed all the way with bottom up as shown. I am proud of him for putting in an exceptional amount of thought there. :) :idea:
May as well tag this on. I enjoy metal work. :)
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Welcome to Broncoville. :)
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Welcome to Broncoville. :)
It ain't Bonneville. Nor a Bonneville. :lol:
Youtube has new blocks in place for people that use an adblocker app while viewing videos. I can not view videos on Youtube. More time on my hands , which actually means: More naps.
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Received a item from Amazon today was a new first. Completely wrong item was shipped to me. Received 3 drill bits #7 .... Should have been 1/4 inch taps.
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The ship I was on in the Navy is a Sea, Air, and Space Museum in New York City. Its a WW II aircraft carrier called the "Intrepid" They are creating a new display of the area where I worked. Last week the museum flew my wife and I to New York for meetings with the curators and volunteers to help answer questions about my life and job. Since I was a boilerman, there is a lot of asbestos in the work space, and they cannot take people into that area. It was an amazing week to go back to places I had not seen in 50 years. We spent the rest of the week seeing the sites and museums of New York City.
Good story, John. :)
I know you guys enjoy this stuff.. A Visit to Home Depot this saturday morning.
I parked Large the Truck out away from the store in open area as usual. When we return we find what you see in the photos.
The Toyota had been side swiped. It had wrecking yard doors on the drivers side with grease pen markings still in place. The Fjord truck was purty beat up too.
Ya , its me.
Yes, good story, John. I was in the Army, so I figure nothing I'd been assigned to will still be in operation at all.
Tony, I guess you're just going to have to start being a d*ck and park diagonally across four spaces to keep them away from you. Either that, or bring orange cones and ropes.
Yesterday I shucked the 22 year old rear window tint, bombed places where bondo is falling off, freed up a door latch, topped fluids, scrubbed bay and jambs and grille moss and whatever the black stuff is if washed yearly. Its shiny and I can stand to look at it better and I can see, and get, out of it better. Biggest challenge was crawling over flimsy sedan front bucket seats in a coupe. O'course there was a dryoff flog after dark.
Friday I hacked an apron off the current horse. Whacked at a front tub. :arrow:
Quote from: 58 Yeoman on November 04, 2023, 05:52:37 PMTony, I guess you're just going to have to start being a d*ck and park diagonally across four spaces to keep them away from you. Either that, or bring orange cones and ropes.
Not sure I want to be a Richard with parking... Altho I do think about it. After Home Depot we arrived at Wally World..
At WW... I wanted a Techron fuel cleaner additive for the daily car. We walk into the isle.. I find the additive as I read labels. Another fellow walks up and of course he needs something directly in front of me. I grab the bottle , step back as he steps in front of me. We walk out of the isle and my wife starts laughing. She says: "I can not believe how that happens to you 3 outta 4 times we go anywhere..
There was another "thing" in Wally World.. I should know better than stop in front of the frozen pre-packaged hot chicken wings.
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Stopped off to the body shop last night to check on progress and I was happy with the work being done.
Body shop sstisfaction ^^^ is good. :)
Dave, looks like they're moving right along. :)
Going with the same color Dave?
As close as they can get to match it. They said they were not able to get an exact match and I new that going into the repair that it wasn't going to match. That is part of the reason for repainting all the exterior at this time.
I have a reprieve from classroom teaching . Our welding teacher is going to be gone for at least 3 weeks and I have been brought back into the shops to teach welding , auto body and industrial arts . I was pleased when my classroom students were bummed out by the news and happy to hear some in the classes get excited that I was going to teach them industrial arts . I will be finishing small engines with them and then do a stint of machining with them . Probably the last group of grade 9's I will ever get to introduce to the wonders of machining :( . I will also take the time to show/explain how to modify engines to get more power . Might just show them video of when I used to run my front engine dragster with a high school crew .
Up coming project: 2021 Camry.. Under engine splash guard replacement - repair. Sister in law car.
The ol common pulled the car too far forward in a parking spot. The Parking concrete block, caught the splash guard panel.. It was pulled off as she reversed. Broke a piece out of the bumper cover too. I am going to glue the bumper section back in place? She does not want to pay the $$ for a new bumper cover, paint, labor, etc.
Bought a new splash cover from Amazon.. SHould be here soon. Photo is damaged panel.. Need to buy some bumper cover panel adhesive - repair stuff I guess ?
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Tony, I bought the Evercoat stuff several years ago. It comes in a cartridge style tube but only half or so has product. It worked well but was pricey.
Installed tiedown mounts in my F350 bed... These are knock offs of OEM Fjord design. Why the locks on them seems weird. Very cheap locks on them. Generic, same key that fits each lock.
I bought some grade 8 bolts.. 1/4 x 28 thread. I had to tap the holes in the bed since it is designed for the self tap screws. The self tappers with threads that are formed in 3 side design to cut threads. I dont like that design , so I bought bolts. I used the new 1/4 x 28 tap that finally arrived from Amazon.
Finished up a cover for our water softner that sits out side... I bought a cloth cover last year for this unit.. It was black. The AZ sun caused the cover to melt into the plastic of the softner top.. So , I built this cover to match the smaller cover I have over our Water filter assembly.
I designed this cover so the top flips open and 2 sides open up to service this unit.
Took a few partial days to build this unit.. I am slow , but I get a few things done...
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looks sharp Tony !
I decided that my new water softner enclosure needed some shade cloth on the inside to really block the AZ sun.
I stapled the shade cloth on 3 sides that are exposed to the sun. Cloth is doubled up thickness. THe black cover I bought last years is also seen here. I figured (hope) the cover will do no further damage under this new cover enclosure?
Tony, I'd imagine you'll be OK with the black cover under shade cloth. Even here in Virginia I notice the sun is more intense even in winter than it is at the same time of year in the Upper Midwest.
Quote from: chimp koose on November 07, 2023, 10:42:03 PMI have a reprieve from classroom teaching . Our welding teacher is going to be gone for at least 3 weeks and I have been brought back into the shops to teach welding , auto body and industrial arts . I was pleased when my classroom students were bummed out by the news and happy to hear some in the classes get excited that I was going to teach them industrial arts . I will be finishing small engines with them and then do a stint of machining with them . Probably the last group of grade 9's I will ever get to introduce to the wonders of machining :( . I will also take the time to show/explain how to modify engines to get more power . Might just show them video of when I used to run my front engine dragster with a high school crew .
This post slipped past me, CK.
That sounds fantastic! :)
Don't leave out custom paint. :lol: ;)
Quote from: 58 Yeoman on November 12, 2023, 09:24:21 AMBill, I'm looking for a third brake light for the Vair, because it only has two small tail lights, but I'm going to eliminate the backup lights and have four tail lights to help the peeps behind me see me. When I had my 63 Ford Galaxie, I was stopped uptown to make a left turn, and I looked in the mirror to see a truck barreling down on me and swerving at the last minute to avoid hitting me. C'mon, those tail lights are huge. I did put a third brake light in the rear window anyway, and also installed one in the 58 Chevy wagon (again, two small tail lights).
The Vair was a cream color from the factory, then painted red. I'm still on the fence as to what color it's going to be. I was going to go back to the cream, as it's a straight color. I've painted one VW Bug and a Chevy PU with metallic; the Bug came out great in dark blue, the gold PU had terrible streaks. Guessed I was going too slow with the paint gun on that one. I also painted a fiberglass bed cover on one of my Ford Rangers that came out well with metallic. It's been 20 years since I've used a paint gun. Will have to wait and see how it goes.
Nabbed this quote from the 48 thread... pardon that.
I ain't far from ya, having sprayed my last in 2010 in a hobby shop. But the two last years of last century I was a production painter doing lots of tough tri coat repair jobs in a downdraft Blowtherm with SataJet NR95s. My thoughts:
Being an RRT guy, you can request a pic edit if need be for color pickins and I will do. That being said, every color is probably represented in image searches.
What I wanted to point out is that metallic or pearl FLAKE :)
orientation issues are often inherent to the color choice. "Spray sensitive" is the term used to describe formulas whose appearance depends heavily on application. Tiger striping or mottling of the effect can result despite a seasoned painter's best efforts.
Very fine or very coarse or "sparkle" (varied flake sizes aka firemist in GM speak) metallics seem to me to be the cause. Halo around blendouts on very fine light metallics are the most troublesome and the trend toward less color coats exascerbates that.
Thats all just to say don't knock the metallics. Or pearls. Metallic is flat square aluminum flakes while pearl is six sided translucent prism-like mica flakes coated with a color. In plain two stage basecoat, a mix of medium metallic and a pearl or two is the painter's dream. Good coverage and easy blending with little spray sensitivity.
Solids can be spray sensitive to a degree, but in a how long was it wet way rather than a what angle was it sprayed at way.
And base/clear is arguably the most forgiving way to hang with the pack on color coolness and fixability if doing a hobby paint job these days. However, if not venturing outside a "period" look... hey single stage solids are as far as a guy needs to take it.
Just my .02 and heres .01 more. I vote for the third light up high in that back window. They don't call them high mount stop lamps fer nuthin. I don't cotton to the flash three times kind, those are maybe too distracting.
Hey Matt. All I've ever painted was one stage acrylic enamel. I was surprised the VW came out as well as it did, being dark blue. Friends gold Chevy truck had stripes, but he didn't care as it was just a work truck. What I'm trying to do here is get this car primered so I don't have to worry about surface rust over the winter. It'll also give me time to do some mechanical repairs to it. A friend of mine might be able to come tomorrow to watch me paint it. He's doing a 68 GTO at this time, and he's going with Alpine Blue from the dark green that was popular at that time. All his cars get BC/CC, but his grandson does it for him, as he's a professional painter.
I was tempted to go back to the original cream color as it could hide any mistakes more easily. Wife says she'd like the color to POP, like all the really nice red colors showing up on the new cars lately. I told her red is expensive. I still have till next year to decide.
I made my paint booth with a roll of plastic just to keep the overspray off everything as much as possible. I'm tired, don't know how you body men do this all day.
Phil, I have no idea what you are planning on using but if it was my car, I would put 2 coats of epoxy on it. I'm using the Summit products because they are cost effective and have worked well for me. If it's going to stay inside, one coat will work. Spray on cardboard or something to set your pattern on the gun and I would start at the bottom and work up. That will help keep the overspray out of your eyesight and off the panels you're going to spray.
Bill, I'm trying to use up all the supplies that I have from previous projects. I found one gallon of 1k primer that I must have bought for the 41 Pontiac I had but never painted. I have rolls of different grades of sandpaper that is also getting used. Of course, I had to buy some new stuff that will end up taking up space on the shelves after I finish this car.
I've got a Campbell/Hausfeld gun that works great for primer, and a Binks for the color. I'm still using siphon feed as that's what I'm used to. I do have a new HF HVLP that I bought for a couple bucks at a sale, but it's for small jobs. Haven't tried it out yet. I didn't keep up with the new stuff, so I'm going with what I know. Good idea on starting at the bottom. I have the car on jack stands because I need to get under the rockers, and front and rear valances, so I can just reach the center of the roof.
Been a month or more since I crunk up the GT that sits in the street (fans bad and still hurt from hit n run) so I exercised it twice briefly yesterday. Neighbors had taken the parking spot in street so ended up doing another errand hoping they would clear out (bunch of SUVs). Got back, tire on most recent crash corner about flat. Staple in sidewall, good tire ruined. Aired it up. After dark went to park back in street. Windows tinted and critical positioning so I buzzed the glass down. Passenger regulator quit. Shuffled it into the garage and yay... I get to defrost idling every morning this week with the DD parked in driveway. Because somebody needed my one parking place for a little while. Can't touch either thing with it in garage and its dark / cold when I get home. Poor car has 120K less miles than what I drive. People just keep ruining it more for me. :roll:
On the brighter side :idea:
New guy at shop quit playing rap because boss is back in town. :)
Well, after almost a year, the Vair is one color. I still have to do the door jambs and hinges, but that's for another day.
Congrats, Phil. :) Progress is just that.
Squeezed in a engine mount change on the daily driver Honda Civic car 2013.. Front of the engine (right side) had sagged and was rubbing on its self. 132k miles , this stuff does not last long any more?
I also drained the automatic trans oil , added fresh oil. Every 5k miles on the trans oil. Not all the trans oil drains out
OE mount had a wide rubber band around it , so when it sagged the rubber hits first... The new mount has much larger gap of clearance there. Car is smoother now..
Looks good Phil. One step at a time, we don't all move like kb. :)
Thanks, guys. I didn't do much today, other than sandblast the gas tank door and hinge, and the engine cover latch. I've got them primered and ready for paint. When my buddy stopped the other day, he asked me if I was going to paint the gas tank door, as it wasn't on the car. I said yes. Nope, forgot it sitting on the shelf.
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I know that feeling. :)
I once painted a dodge colt . I was just using up the last of the paint when I noticed the gas filler door hanging on the wall . JUST enough paint to get it done :P . I had a friend once in high school that painted his firebird a beautiful candy green . When it was done he noticed that he had missed painting the drivers A pillar . It was still silver >:( . I once painted a dodge van , the big one that could carry a team . Bodywork so bad I had the paint store sell me the base white , NO toners of any kind to hide the poor work . This thing had to be painted and lettered on a deadline . I got so snow blind I nearly bounced the gun off the side of the van when painting it . You needed sunglasses to look at the thing in direct sunlight !
Just to let you all know, I am dealing with some health problems, nothing that will kill me but pretty much keeping me out of the shop. It is being investigated right now to see if they can find at least a partial cure. I am here every day, and lurk, but I have not had much to say. I'll keep you updated if there is a change.
Just take it easy, Frank. Hope it's not serious. My body was aching just from painting the car yesterday.
I've been getting headaches since about 2013, and the docs and dentists haven't found out why, yet. They come and go, sometimes days in a row, other times maybe not for a week. Last Friday, I started taking gummies, 3000mg per day, and it seems to be doing the trick. I'm keeping my fingers crossed.
When I was 16, an "old" guy told me to take care of my health, because when you get old, you'll wish you had. I didn't, and now I wish I had.
Some things are tougher to cope with than others. Feel better soon.
hope they sort you out soon Frank can be frustrating waiting for the docs to work it out
Frank: take care. Sometimes age and other things can catch up with us.
I worked on my sister in law's Camry car today. Installed the new under cover for the engine. She pulled it off when she pulled too far forward over a concrete parking block that had a piece of rebar sticking up slightly. Only thing she could do was back up with throttle to get the car off the rebar. The under cover splash panel was yanked off
I used a Harbor freight heat gun to soften up the other plastic bits under the front end that were pulled out of alignment , I pushed the plastic around so I could get the bolt holes to line up.
Used some epoxy bonding stuff that Bill (I think) suggested... Glued the small piece that broke out of the bumper cover.. I warshed the cover bits with simple green. Scuffed with red 3m pad.
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A quick mention: It was 2009 November 15th that C9 aka Jay Carnine passed away. I still miss his stories he wrote about his car projects.
Jay was a master with story telling. I copied most of the short stories he had written from the writers board. Every contact I had with him was very pleasant.
Frank , wishing you well . I remember C9 , great stories .
Frank all the best! Hoping all works out for you
I really liked C9. I would stop and see him every time I was through Kingman. I last saw him three days before he passed.
I saw a new DR today, we didn't click. I walked out on him. :twisted:
It's getting harder to find a Dr. that clicks. Mine died in 2020 and I haven't found one yet, other than the VA Dr. I have. He asks me when I'm getting a civilian Dr., and I keep telling him they are not easy to find.
Frank, I sure hope you're on the mend soon.
Jay Carnine was an amazing storyteller, and a pretty clever builder, too.
Yeah... I walked out and never went back to a doctor in 2013 after my motorcycle crash with the drunk driver.. Doctor had a Miserable personality. Insurance asking me why I did not follow his ordered treatments. I used the word that ends with "hole" to explain the problem to the insurance gal asking me questions.
I've said nothing , but there is plenty of medical stuff happening around us in recent months. Its very tiring. My wife has been cleared of a woman problem. I have no New medical problems Just olde ones, plus a bad attitude problem... My wife is the baby of her family by 10 to 18 years. Her siblings are elderly and the stuff that can come along with age. My wife took her middle sister to a doctor today, that was not fun... Then they both visited their 85 yr old sister that is currently in a rehab place for a month now. My wife is just slap worn out this evening ..
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As long as people are talking about medical issues, I think I mentioned that my Dad was ill and might not make it. Turns out his mental confusion and other issues were caused by undiagnosed afib causing a fall, which created a bleed outside his brain but within the skull. Good news, his mind cleared with the cranial pressure. He's back at home today. Someone will have to be with him at all times now, he's done driving, and he probably shouldn't be traipsing up and down the basement stairs anymore...but that's pretty darned good for a 97 year old.
When I was back in Iowa his lucidity would come and go at any time. When his mind was clear he was quite aware he was in trouble, and made it a point to tell all of us some things he felt he needed to. At one point when his wits were about him he looked right at me and said "John, I'm dying."
When my brother returned to the room I needed a little time to myself.
jaybee... :)
Home. And better. Thats great! I / we were wondering.
Well , I hope people heal and do better with the health.
I guess I do have a new injury. When relocating my stored tools and equipment in may 2023 , it appears I injured my left rotator cup area. I have all the symptoms.. Likely I should see a doctor on that.
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2 weeks ago : I helped my friend with his moms furniture move into her assisted living apt. She is 99 yrs old. Dementia has set in at a low level. Good days , bad daze for her.
Don't wait too long Tony. I did and when I finally went to the Dr they could not fix it.
Crosley, if you have a torn rotator cuff, get it fixed soon. I was told most can't be repaired if a total tear after 6-12 months. I put a repair off and wound up with a reverse total shoulder replacement. Reverse in that the "ball" of the joint is attached to the shoulder and the socket to the upper arm bone.
I needed a window regulator for the GT, looked it up on store site the last one came from and found it to be in stock just like then.
Walked in, waited the quarter hour in line...
Yes, I need this window regulator. (holding up phone showing part in stock, $81)
Whats it going on? :roll:
99 Pontiac Grand Prix GT.
To his credit, he did not ask which engine. :blank:
tap tap tap.... OK those are $71 and I can have one Wednesday. (Its Friday)
Um. Can we give this part number a shot?
Thats $81. And its in stock. (tone like I just ran over his dog)
Lay it on me. :arrow:
Reminds me of the stoplights on smaller streets around here. If they see a car coming they turn red. Assuring that every vehicle must stop and only letting one vehicle through at a time. Meaning stop signs would do.
I'd have done as well with a stop sign as the counterperson. The item he wanted to special order was waaay down the listing of site choices and marked NOT AVAILABLE.
Its just me getting old I guess. Had to use a tire iron to pry the door panel loose.
Five months ago, we bought a new refrigerator from Lowe's, and they said it would be delivered the next day. Cool. The delivery truck backed into the phone tower out by the street when they backed into our driveway. Didn't hurt it much. After they left, they had knocked out a huge gouge on one basement stair, broke a glass top on a table on the front porch, which also hit some ceramic turtles in our flowerbed, etc. They ended up doing $250 damage for replacement costs. JB Hunt was the delivery service, and they couldn't have cared less, and said the pictures of the damage wasn't good enough, that we needed video. WTH?
Called Lowe's and they fiddled around, not really helping. After five months of my wife hounding them both, Lowe's manager said to stop by the store today and they gave us $250 cash. I guess they finally figured that all the time they were spending on the phone was adding up. JB Hunt also delivers for Costco, and I think Home Depot, so any deliveries that I have in the future will be taped ahead, just in case.
It's just like when I go in for skin cancer surgery, I'm specifying one surgeon, and that's it. He's good, the others are so-so.
Hunt just hired away two good guys from us. I've had two bosses fistfight over that.
If old car fixing pay is a tenth of surgeon pay, how can one man's work be tenfold of the next man's? That eludes me but fixing semi trailers must trump old cars by a longshot.
Quote from: 58 Yeoman on November 18, 2023, 07:31:00 PMFive months ago, we bought a new refrigerator from Lowe's, and they said it would be delivered the next day. Cool. The delivery truck backed into the phone tower out by the street when they backed into our driveway. Didn't hurt it much. After they left, they had knocked out a huge gouge on one basement stair, broke a glass top on a table on the front porch, which also hit some ceramic turtles in our flowerbed, etc. They ended up doing $250 damage for replacement costs. JB Hunt was the delivery service, and they couldn't have cared less, and said the pictures of the damage wasn't good enough, that we needed video. WTH?
Many years ago when Hughes Performance became a vendor for Summit Racing.. Everything was delivered to the Ohio warehouse. 75% of what we shipped to Summit was damaged by JB Hunt, especially the whole transmissions. Of course it was Hughes fault: poor packaging".
Hughes quickly regrouped all transmission packing, boxes, pallet strapping, Hard foam inserts in the boxes, expanding foam, saran wrap. Damage product continued at a lower rate. Hughes changed carriers after interviewing a few. Damage product was mostly stopped.
Hughes tried DHL for some individual box shipping on the west coast .. Converters, parts kits, etc... The FIRST shipment went out ( 5 boxes) ALL of the boxes were lost, never seen again!
Crazy stuff
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Quote from: enjenjo on November 17, 2023, 08:21:39 PMDon't wait too long Tony. I did and when I finally went to the Dr they could not fix it.
I injured the shoulder just before we left for the summer RV trip... I worry about spending the money for our insurance co-pay and then a few days later I take a dirt nap.
Hope your feeling better soon Frank. We did miss you this year in Kzoo.
QuoteI worry about spending the money for our insurance co-pay and then a few days later I take a dirt nap.
If you do take a dirt nap you will no longer worry
When things work correctly on shipments. :D :D
My wife comes back mid morning from grocery store run with her middle sister.. I hear a few cuss filter type words. She forgot some paper plates. I hop on Amazon , find some paper plates. She says buy them as I mention they will be here tomorrow (wednesday)..
I will be dipped , I mis read the delievery day.. The plates delivered the same day about 4:30pm.
My wife and her middle sister (76) bring home the oldest sister (85) from rehab tuesday afternoon. That sister is glad to be back home after a month away that started with hip replacement surgery.
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Happy Thanksgiving to everyone. :)
I agree. I hope everyone is doing well this year.
Quote from: kb426 on November 23, 2023, 08:20:24 AMHappy Thanksgiving to everyone. :)
Quiet day here. Lite clouds. Just ate lunch. Will take a nap.
Happy thanksgiving, everyone.
Can not find my hole saws and arbors... I *thought* I knew where I had put them during this down - size - moving situation. No can do.
I have looked thru all my current tool boxes, roll cabs, service cart for the hole saws and arbors. I never actually owned a *set* of hole saws. Kinda gathered up stuff over the years.
Kinda like the 10mm socket. You misplace it, buy another, then another. Find one, then lose both , buy another... I have a few arbors, 12 - 15 different hole saws, so they should be easy to find?
Couple weeks ago I bought another hole saw and arbor since I could not find mine.. Started another collection of them?
>:( >:( >:( >:( >:(
If nothing else you've ensured that you'll find the other saw the same size.
I read that Steve Magnante is recovering from his brain infection.. He wants to be back to work by January car Auctions. I enjoy his videos walking thru junkyards.. I did the same thing as a youngster wondering junkyards when my father had to baby sit me after my mother returned to the work force and she worked weekends
I decided to sell the Schwinn Twinn that I have owned about 25 years. It was hanging in a friends garage and I bought it thinking it would be fun, and the kids would ride it. We hardly rode it over the years, and it is in good condition, so on marketplace it goes. I spent yesterday cleaning and making sure it was okay mechanically.
I drug? dragged? home a donor car for my Champ today. 2002 Lincoln LS. I bought it for the Rear end, but it has some other good parts on it too. The rear end is low profile, the right width, and IRS. Yes it doesn't have the bolt patter I want but that can change. Now all I have to do is get the emergency brakes released
I always liked the Lincoln LS, and they sold a fair number of them.
So... a drug car? Or you had to dress in drag when picking it up? :lol:
I perused a Bronco forum and found that not unlike Model A quarters which are a half inch taller on right than left, Broncos are a half inch longer on one side. Secrets nobody tells. Makes sense because every one I remember has had the same hood alignment troubles. Not there yet on my current job, just got the first door gap established at about 1/4" all around. Easier said than done. :)
49 to 51 Mercurys are the same. The right front fender is about 3/8" shorter than the left one.
The Lincoln LS used to be the car of choice for drug dealers in my area. :)
Huh...I had no idea they were like Cracker Jacks with a prize inside...
I did stick a hood on the Buckin Bronco today and crammed the core support over to jive with it. Futzing over driver door and fender now. :)
They painted ( sealer, rock guard, color, satin clear) under the F1 cab Friday, looks like when you first open small curd cottage cheese. He went with the color on his wife's Biscayne roof, a very bright white with shimmery pearl coat. As body color. Yep white underneath. Pics are first Lizard Skin app inside it today. Woohoo :arrow:
I'm not sure about the accent colors but think its that pewter-ish color same as frame but with some orange highlights on hood.
I do miss the access allowed in the kick panels on an F1. It's good to see progress. :)
Fellow I know in WisConsin used most of a Town Car car to build a Fjord F100 bump side truck a few years back. Used the complete front suspension , power train (4.6 engine , etc) .. He buys trucks from Arizona, has them shipped to his place in WI .
He is a "details type guy" So the wire harness was trimmed up and fitted well. He loves EFI as much as I sorta stay away from it. LOL
He said the truck drove great. Rode well. Gutless.. A guy he knew offered the correct amount of $$$ and the truck was gone.
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On the way to work today a pickup hauling a trailer overloaded with cut up trees had a limb hanging halfway across the oncoming lane and all I had time to do was duck and cover my face by reflex. Did a number on my fender, windshield, mirror, etc. Big scratch in fender.
I just kept going. Thats how badly my spirit is broken from negligent attacks. Theres no man left to hold anyone accountable. I could be shot if I tried.I should be shot for not. I already am shot. Or something spelled similar. Matt matters is a crock.
Got the second Barfo door to fit today. :)
Wow, glad you're OK!
Quote from: jaybee on December 07, 2023, 06:40:20 AMWow, glad you're OK!
Ha ha. :lol:
I wanted to turn around, go to the brush drop off spot and give them a choice of polishing it out with their nose or standing quietly nearby while I select a limb and administer equivalent vehicle damage. But since their vehicle has positive value and mine has negative, their wealth allows them to go unchecked and supports their wrongdoing. I'd be arrested, they would get a pat on the back then go do the same thing again.
On the lighter side, :) I just brokered a 100MHz oscilloscope deal between my brother and a coworker. It ain't every day a guy gets to pimp oscilloscopes. Just sayin. :shock:
I spent the afternoon liberating this square body Chevrolet. When it was parked years ago there were no trees in the area. There was a large grape vine with shoots the size of my arms growing underneath the cab. I had to get under there with a chainsaw and cut them as they had grown through the frame. I bet you can guess what I am going to do with this one.
Square bodies go for a princely sum these days, but I'll bet that one is an exception.
Up here in Sodak you can still find some good square body deal as well as the crazy priced ones.
I hauled the first load home today. Tomorrow I bring more pieces home. The square body guys may not like what I am going to do to this one.
I've had two and you have my blessing. Might only take issue with a shorty. Nobody can afford to feed those things, sheesh. Theres a nice looking short wide red 80s 4x4 for sale across the highway from work but I can't read the price from that far.
Y'all are fortunate, today was long but mostly pleasant and hardly productive. Slung some ospho, thats about it. Bronco. Pic description below, no ranty walls of text today. :)
Then well just walking past I admired our painter's attention to detail on the ol white F1 fab areas, sealing and priming and all. Top notch.
Lastly, stand at the Bronco and look left... shapes are emerging. I wouldn't like to take any of the current lot home but you guys might dig'm. OK well the 69GT maybe. Just like horses do, they stand close together and its hard to tell just how many yer looking at. The rodent excrement special, its hiding behind the '73 and is in final sanding. :arrow:
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Painting that hood would test me. I have a real small detail gun but it would need a direct hose fitting to be short enough to get in some of those places. I still would miss something. :)
Do you mean not using a swivel coupler?
I think the hood is quite idiotic. Only made a hundred or so images in an effort to avoid that. I didn't know it then but my job description had been changed and input auto-dismissed. A touch up gun air cap might fit into the hood ornament holes. But yeah I don't want my name in a feature on this one. I just made the mistake of posting to show the lovely prep. But anyone capable of thought and sight can see the glaring oversights. I just get comfortable and act wrong, thats what I do. Everything inappropriate.
What I do is create blank slates for others to customize. I had that hood perfected and easily paintable. Then I came in one day and it was hacked very crappily. Just like the Catalina trunk floor, custom fabbed and finished the hacked out with an air chisel.
Don't get me thinking about the job stuff I should sue over.
Yes, no swivel. I haven't measured all of the different ones available but the one I have is long enough that I don't use it. :)
Well maybe an airbrush hose, maybe an airbrush. But recently I had a push on coupler that was swivel, came from Lowe's and was as short and leak free as I have seen. I just can't use a push on for my work due to the effort required to operate the coupler and frequency of use with bad hands so I scrounged a plain coupler.
A guy could screw an elbow on his gun inlet I reckon.
For the record I was standing right there with the powers that be when the decision was made to produce an un-gun-paintable contour on the centerpiece panel. I voiced the paint concern. Deaf ears over-ruled, common sense flew out the window.
Gotta confess, the first thing I thought wasn't just that you can't get paint into everything, but that it could be done a lot more elegantly than tacking what amounts to an HVAC duct into the engine compartment.
At least the engine bay plan does currently include satin clear for the engine compartment and I assume that also means hood underside. But if you think the underside is challenging... well, two tone stripes are in the topside plan.
I've seen our man work custom paint miracles but theres a wall of reality, or at least I percieve such. I am however confident that it will be done as well as a human can do it.
Anybody remember how I had it? Or any of the futile imagery. Don't think I'll ever understand what was going on at that time. Halfway anticipating unforeseen airflow effects, be they positive or negative. Should it ever see highway. :blank:
Speaking of imagery, trying to think up Christmas cards today. Gotta top off PSF in the DD before kicking shoes off. Drove the 455 around a good bit yesterday, polite, in-traffic stuff mostly.
Friday I veered off course on the way home, took a new unexplored interstate exit when it slowed to stop and go. That was backed up 3/4 mile. The trip I have made in 18 minutes to Dad's was an hour and a half or so. I was a profane babbling mess when I got home. It is great to have a home. :)
Well, you can't see it with the hood closed.
And with the hood open, you won't see behind there without a mirror.
True and true, mostly. Through the hood ornament holes, some shows. And it might take two mirrors and or a contortionist to see it with the hood open. I don't believe that doing away with the large vertical baffle is a good idea either.
The top side, inside the duct, is the sadistic painter hating feature. To me. I won't be suprised if he shoots it inside and out with it hanging nose up. But no, theres masking to be done for one side then the other. I also wouldn't be suprised to find out that hood cost a year's * I should not have posted a pic. Should know better.
Why on earth do I get an asterisk when typing pay.?
I will be rebuilding my gun save, that I managed to throw away the keys for. Just a cheapie electronic lock unit, but does the job.
I bet some of you have done what I did this morning, but I bet it has been awhile. 55 years ago, I did this a lot and sometimes on the shoulder of the road. I can still do it, but I really do not want to again.
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I know that feeling. :)
I've never done it on the side of the road, but I use my HF changer to change tires in my shop, just not on my DD's. And, it works a lot better if the tires are warm.
I have been working on a foot operated stand for my shrinker/strecher. The leverages were a little tricky to get them so that the foot pedals had a good feel. The lead counter balances work much better than the springs that you see on the commercial units. I will mess with it a little more and then paint it.
Started the process on new front windows install. Needed more shims than I like, but these winders are as close to size as I can find.
Dual pane, plastic vinyl material. THey actually seal , close, lock , open smoothly. 2 more front woindows and 1 side window.. then we are done with replacing olde windows
I have a shrinker stretcher at work with a pull handle . Awkward at best . Foot pedal would be a great upgrade .
I have not used either type that was in good condition. Our new fancy foot operated one at the shop was the one I picked right before being "dismissed". Last time I tried, it did nothing so I pie cut and welded.
I like that you can hold the metal with both hands and feel the metal move when you apply the force with your foot. I have not used it a lot yet. I designed it so that the pedals can be quickly disconnected and the handles installed so that you could use either ones.
I used a hand operated one for anything I did historically. You pretty much had to stand on it to get any action.
According to instructions, jaws are never to touch one another, ever.
If I ever get to use one that works again, my theory is that ANY edge burrs or previous jaw imprints must be smoothed first to avoid destroying jaws.
New jaws came with a cardboard wafer in between them and in the case of a hand operated version, it or something else must be inserted before releasing the lever. Lest the jaws be rendered ineffective.
Light pressure is all it takes when in usable condition.
I don't think stomp and scoot is a proper technique for that reason but it is all I see. I think you are supposed to pull the metal straight out then reinsert on a smooth area for the next bite. Dragging chewed metal across jaws ruins them. Because they don't open far enough, they get ruined starting at stomp #2. Just my .02. Beburr cuts thoroughly because most often the piece is not fully inserted (for greater effect).
I bought the HF shrinker/spreader to use on the Corvair, and had never used one before. I think I did pretty well for an ameteur.
The only thing I enjoy observing more than "fire in the hole" moments are moments when people first meet a set of jaws. :-o
Today I've evened up gaps on the buck'n horse at hood / fenders / grille. The quarter inch short on one side (grille not reaching out to RF hood corner) thing was solved with a pie cut on top of fender front edge filled by a scrap. Both fenders were cut at hood gap, back nearly a foot from front, and welded. A new grille was used for fitting, no cuts required. Just the little twist with the fender pie cut.
Fender lips on the Stude are being established currently. Holding two fenders together at the flange yesterday revealed the degree of inaccuracy in the parts' dimensions. Split differences, not hairs, says me. :)
Saw this El Dorado the other day... Its a 1972 Cadi
I made something. Two flat pieces woohoo.
Another repair on this olde tin can trailer... Sliding entry door wheels.
Track was a bit icky. Door was a little noisy as you open , close it. Cleaned the track, that made the noise worse?
Took door out of track. Pulled bottom cross bar off to get at the rollers.
Off to Ace Hardware. They had the wheel assembly on the shelf! Ace had the door handle lock assembly last year too.
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Hot diggity dog, the F1 cab, doors, and dash are in the booth getting foundation color coats. I wasn't sure the day would ever come. :)
Its a Harley color called Jack Frost. Very bright pearl white.
There were days of delay getting a sufficient quantity of a certain powdered pearl for the midcoat. PPG only so the price is probably mind numbingly eye-watering on that. Like three quarts of foundation and three more of the pearl coat. To start with. Theres a lot of ground to cover on them trucks.
I am over here doing aprons. Fit is comical on those. They purt near ought to go on after fenders.
I'll be dipped. :-o
Front 3 windows are installed.. Shade awning has been re-installed on this olde tin can trailer.
On to the next part of the project... Finish trim on the windows inside.
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I worked on the 67 Corvair coupe again today, removing the gas tank and finished removing more brake lines. I ordered brake parts, gas tank, window "fuzzies" and some other stuff from a large Corvair vendor. I guess I must like spending money.
Phil, most of us wonder at times if we are justified in what we spend. There's no prize for dying with the most money. :) As long as a person isn't damaging the family finances, I see no reason to think about this much. Because people in my town observe what I have been doing for years, occasionally I get asked why I do some things. Because so much of a hobby only makes sense to a participant, I needed an answer that was a generalization. That answer is "I'm old and not that broke. " That seems better than I have no sense or I'm the village idiot. Being careful to buy the correct part the 1st time is the most important part for me. I don't care how many times you build a car, unless it's exactly like the one before, there's room for a surprise. From the time I decided to build the 48 until now, I missed the estimate by 20%. A lot of that was price increases. Not everything was rebuilt but most was. Finishing up and getting the small stuff at 20 to 30 dollars a trip adds up in a minute. There can be 5 grand in small stuff real easily now. At least when you are finished, you have something to sell. Many hobbies don't have that luxury. :)
When I was building cars for others I told them the little stuff would cost at least as much as the big stuff.
Change of plans: Rain in the forecast this week.
So , we removed and replaced the last window in this old tin can trailer. Side window. It is the largest. Danggg near dropped the winder out of the hole. An eggciting moment.
I had 2.5 tubes of silicone caulk material in 10oz (?) tubes... I ran short. :o
Monday , we will buy more caulk and finish the project on the outside. Re-install the awning cover gizmo too. Need to finish the inside trim out of these last 4 windows.
Bill, the spending money part was sarcasm; I really don't like having to spend so much, but wow, prices ARE high. This car was supposed to be a repaint, but ended up needing a new gas tank, brakes and all those other little things that add up. I'm keeping track of what I spend (so I can see how much I've lost in the end? :-\ ) out of a separate bank account that came from selling stuff on ebay.
I figure if I don't spend my money while I'm alive and able to do this, all the kids will get it after I'm gone, which is fine. But, they just don't need it all. My three step kids each got a huge chunk of change when their dad died this year, and my two have pretty good jobs, so I'm going to enjoy myself.
This will be my last car, as it's getting too hard to get up off the creeper these days, so I take my time. When we bought the coupe, it was to see if I still had the ability to do body work, the resell the car. But my wife is buying me things Vair related like she wants me to keep it. We'll see if I do or don't. I enjoy doing the work, and it takes me a lot longer as we do so many other things, so I do it when I can. Got ALL these dr. appointments now that we're older, ugh!
Tony, I replaced all sixteen windows in my last house, which was built in 1936. I was recently divorced and bought this nice English cottage style brick house. Should've checked the windows first. I went to lower one and it fell apart. Got them all 'custom made' at Menard's and installed them myself. That was a learning experience as I'd never done that before, but it turned out to be fairly easy. The old windows had the steel counter weights and ropes. The walls also weren't insulated, so I had to go into the attic and drill holes in the top plates and blow in insulation. I replumbed the pipes and my brother rewired the house. Fun days.
Watched this confused geezer sit in the intersection during the whole red light. He is further out in the intersection than the photo shows. Traffic had to swing around him. No cars behind him , could have back up 20 feet?
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The Pantera job was sitting out front when I got to work today. He brought us a heap of cookies so mainly I ate cookies all morning.
The 351 went in freshened, after paint, at home. Owner did all assembly stuff. But said he has had the engine out again since. Was drinking oil and holes measured .003 over. Overzealous honing to keep it at .030 over? They took it out to .040 and its back in but he said finding Ford lifters was a five month wait and they finally came from Lunati.
Sounded like that sucked royally. In a Mustang it would just plain suck. Rebuild redo, at the same place. Hmm. I halfway thought that shop could be trusted. The Tempest job awhile back had a 400 in it that they did.
Two door cars are history, gas engines are history, paint jobs are history. I may as well be an alien, theres no transportation for the future. My junk hangs by a thread, wow.
Hey Matt, two door trucks are beginning to be history too. Seems they are all four doors now, with a tiny bed in back. Looks like I'll be keeping my Tacoma for a while with its access cab.
Phil I guess its true, Grand Prixs for life is my sentence. We never will get anything better'n what we have now. Automobiles and houses are a rich man's luxuries already.
We got the last window fully caulked this monday morning... Re-installed the awning shade device. Done , Finished.
Now , I need to get on the interior trim work on these last 4 windows installed. THEN , my wife wants some type of mini blinds or something installed on all 7 windows. Only temporary shade cloth on the windows for 2 yrs now. LOL
We took off to a nice activity park about 8 miles from us. Game fields, small pond, walking paths... There are BBQ , tables benches, kid play grounds... ya know : usual stuff. We cook some burgers, sit back for a couple hours. We have done this a couple times now. I Guess that is a retirement activity ?
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The last 2 days I have thrown away some stuff that is left over from projects or small scraps that I don't want to have to remember where they are. I haven't found anything that went missing in action, yet. :) The wife's car is back in the garage so she is happy about that.
Well done, Bill. :)
I just knew this stick of banana wood :lol: would come in handy for something.
I just finished watching the Speedway Motors video on the c10 that they did for SEMA. The comments about how they felt upon completion were something that most of us know about. Random thought: does the size and complexity of the project have anything to do with the feeling of accomplishment and satisfaction upon completion? What say you?
Hell , these days I will stand by the front window and admire a snow free driveway when I am done ! We have not had any real snow yet so even that is not a project this year .
You'd think I'd have a reply but am drawing a blank. :blank: Yes? Little familiarity with completion or project closure here. It was neat to tell my two fellow bodymen to go look out front at the Pantera yesterday.
Old used cars I painted for me, each worked me to death but in just a few miles all the hassle memory faded quickly. Now, out of three or five hundred work days I may hear an encouraging word but only from customers. No telling whether I do right or wrong. They are all just days.
Random thought: My car probably falls into the day two category. Leastwise year two or five. HEI is the most advanced tech on it.
Bill, I threw away/donated/sold stuff that I had for the 41 Pontiac after I sold it. Been doing that since I sold the 63 Ford and 58 Chevy also. Now that I'm working on the Vair, I'm finding stuff that is useless and it's being gotten rid of also. Some of the stuff would be easier to buy when needed and spend less time looking for it.
I had another skin cancer surgery yesterday, this one on my left arm. I wish I had signed up for frequent miles back in the late 90's with this place, I could probably fly to Hawaii by now. We stopped at the VA clinic to drop off some books to their library, and when we parked in the parking lot, a guy came out of the clinic wearing a kilt outfit. That's the first one I've ever seen in real life. Brrr.
I had typed up a wiring diagram - list on a spreadsheet for the 48 as I went along. This morning I re-organized it in hopes that if I need it, it will be complete enough for someone with no memory to be able to see what has been done. :) It's better than what I have done in the past by quite a bit. I find that small notes aren't of much value anymore. :)
Rent increase on my storage room where most of the tools and shop equip that I kept is located. I moved the stuff in may 2023 to save cash and it is now 60 miles closer..
REnt went up and now they increased the insurance from $2500 to 5k coverage. I have no choice for the insurance. I can not delete it , or replace it with my own ins coverage.
Light rain on wednesday.. Suppose to rain heavy late thursday and friday.. LOL
I better go take a nap? Oh , wait. It is 5:10am here, I just got up at 4:00am. I already took a drive to see where gasoline prices were this morning. Purty eggciting life here at the moment
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Pretty cool. :)
Nice job Matt
Thanks Bill, John. :)
It was more inspiration than imagination. ;D
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zgIN6y5eagc&pp=ygUWYWZ0ZXJub29uIGF0IHRoZSBzaGlyZQ%3D%3D
I read Don Schumacher of drag racing fame died thursday. Complications of lung cancer.
This afternoon, it got up to 67 degrees. Cycle time again. :) I know it's very possible to get too old to ride. I hope I don't have to find out. :)
Yesterday , we set a new high temp for metro Phx area.. 1 degree higher at 78*F... Today its rained small farm animals half the day. At 7:30pm here, the rain has started again.
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When I was still riding, I'd ride at least once a month year round. Seems we had good enough weather every month to do that.
Its a 455 exercise day here. :)
Not sure if this art is complete but it represents yesterday's accomplishments fully and is purely imaginary. :) I calls it Moss Rock Point. Don't get drowsy resting on the bench looking at the Dr Seuss tree. But do soak in some tranquility if you see it. My foliage needs work and I could do with some better pencils and paper but better ain't really the point. Its on card stock because its a card. :idea:
You have some talent Matt.
Fatcat is in town so we have been working on his car trailer so he can haul his Chevy down south.
That's good, Matt. I expect Alice in Wonderland to come walking along. :)
According to Wings Callahan, everybody needs mags. I don't know if this quite qualifies but it sure did make my tool cart better. The original had a blow out. I went googling and found these. In reading reviews, I found I was lucky mine hadn't failed all ready. Numerous posts with the same tool chest had these installed. I'm good for a while. :)
About three years ago, I bought a hand built FEL for my JD X738 tractor, and it came with a set of four casters mounted on a 'stand' that would attach to the FEL when you removed it, so it would roll around easily. The casters were covered in some kind of rubber/plastic that didn't last long at all, the outer covering just shredded off.
I was at a sale and bought four swivel casters for $5 that fit perfectly; height, width and axle size. I threw the swivels away and used the wheels which are much better built.
My year old big wheeled rollaround stool puked bearing balls on one wheel. Nothing quite as annoying as rolly stool wheels that drag. They're a drag.
KB, I had to wonder if I had mentioned Alice recently when I read your comment. Because recently I listened to the audiobook. Lots of mental pictures in it but I left toadstools and playing cards out of my art. It is a rabbit hole though. First one was a hobbit hole.
I punched up the previous image with a couple additional colors. Lighting also different.
Dad's Lionel is right around a century old and still kickin thanks to him. I was eyeballing five inch gauge Big Boy 4014s... heh... you can probably ride those. I made a card instead. I see model trains are battery and bluetooth now. Man, ozone smell was half the fun.
Merry Christmas, gents. :)
Merry Christmas everyone :)
Thank you, C. K. and the same from me. :)
I bought a set of 4 swivel wheels a couple weeks ago.. Weeks ago: I did a quik , cheapy repair on a BBQ we have in storage. Geez , we dont use it at the moment. Just moving it around and the wheel mounts on the base are snapping off, bent. It neever rolled worth the shat anyway.
I will get it over here in a week or 2 for a full repair.. ;D
Today (Christmas) I took my IKEA quality computer desk outside. I bought some #10 - 32 screws, nutz, warshers to install full length screws to bolt this press wood , wiggly desk together. The work helped.
I'm giving up on people. I've had my Corvair for sale for a while, marked down to $7900. Had a couple people look at it, one being a couple about an hour away. No one took it for a ride, mainly because the weather was bad, although I said I didn't mind.
Well, the first guy texted me today saying he would give me $4000, and could pick it up very soon. I told him that I've got more into than that. He came back later and said that with Christmas and all, he was low on money, but really liked the car. I told him he's shopping in the wrong section, and I wasn't going to sell it for less than what I've got in it. He texted again later and said that if I change my mind to give him a call. Hey dude, I'm sorry you don't have enough money, so quit bugging me.
My wife told me that she was selling a car once for $3000, and a woman called and said that all she had was $1000. Sorry, no go there, either.
A couple weeks ago, I bought a DVR at a moving sale, thinking it was for tv. Nope, for a camera system. Brand new, and I paid $5 for it. I put it on ebay for $5, just in case someone needed it. I got an offer today for $4.02.
I spent the last two days installing new LED ceiling lights in the basement suspended ceilings and replacing the ceiling tiles in my wife's office. I'm going to donate the old T8 and T12 light fixtures to Habitat for Humanity. Guess I'll take the DVR with me and donate it too.
Phil, it is the same everywhere the last 15 yrs. People offer half of the asking price.
Selling my 83 Monte Carlo yrs back.. asking $3800.. ppl call to offer 1500 ,maybe 1600.. One PITA guy like your guy.. I called him a flipper & told him I was tired of his shat offers.
That guy came out,looked, drove it, bought the Monte for 3200.00
Yeah, Tony, I get that, but I had already told him that I've got more into it than he offered, and he still thought I would come down to meet his price. Geez.
I took the old lights and a box full of fluorescent bulbs to H4H today. Both places were closed until Jan.2nd. Goodwill was happy to take them.
Quote from: 58 Yeoman on December 26, 2023, 02:50:26 PMYeah, Tony, I get that, but I had already told him that I've got more into it than he offered, and he still thought I would come down to meet his price. Geez.
I took the old lights and a box full of fluorescent bulbs to H4H today. Both places were closed until Jan.2nd. Goodwill was happy to take them.
Yuuuuup. Us "seasoned" car guys have heard most of "it" 1 or 5 times. Even when I go to swap meets selling in recent years. I call out the flippers that try to BS me on parts they "need" ... :o I know the regular flippers and I dont allow them to set price on anything I have. Or those guys that watch you thru the day till you load up and they try to get some left overs for next to nothing.
But then , I am rambling on here. :idea:
I mostly go to swap meets now just to catch up with seldom seen friends.
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Have a guy right now bugging me about my roadster chassis . Wants to know how low i will go . I say we can deal in person once you have seen it . He lives 4 hours away . I give him a lower price that I can take and he texts back that he is trying to justify the price . I have given him my phone number but he continues to text instead . ::)
Quik note, reminder of scams around.
We saw my brother yesterday at a funeral. He tells me his wife fell for a phishing email scam about Publishers Clearing House. She believed that a $150 million dollar prize was hers, BUT she needed to purchase a few items first. Cell phones, gift cards, etc.. that type of crap. ::)
The funeral was not the place to discuss this but he mentioned that it looks like 10k $$ is involved !
I have known my sister in law for 55 years. She has always been gullible. Her mind started slipping a few years ago. My brother and I "had the conversation" about locking down his bank accounts. I dont know what he did or did not do..
His daughter is in town and she is going to the bank today with her dad. She is a sharp kid (41 yr old) ... Her and I had a conversation about this. We dont know where the 10k $$ came from or what. My brother does Not have that kind of cash on hand.
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Sounds like someone has been watching Fast 'N Loud. That was always the pattern for Richard Rawlings, to offer half price on everything as an opener. It was all fake, of course, they wouldn't waste time paying a TV crew unless they already bought the car. Everything they did on that show gave the wrong impression of how cars should be done. On at least one episode they even laughed at the crap car they palmed off on a customer.
I'm looking at more ready-to-spray square footage than I think I've ever seen. Rest of the F-1 job, and the whole 69GT job is in booth ready for main color but we don't yet know what color to make.
Model A guy was by today but grew a beard so I didn't recognize him at first. He hadn't seen it since before it had an interior. Still loves playing with the gas flap. It's computer and TB still aren't talking so hood sides aren't on it yet.
I got a tankful of bad gas on the 21st which resulted in suprise flashing check engine light going 110 down the interstate Christmas morning. Clattering like crazy. CEL went off though, left pending misfire code on #3 so at first I thought ignition. Had it down to half a tank before bad gas dawned on me. Topped it off elsewhere. Problem is about half as bad now. Clatters above half boost. So I'll head into the new year on reduced performance yay! :)
Hope it ain't hurt. But everything ignition is over 100K miles.
I repaired this BBQ a few months back I thought. Weak mounted swivel wheels on it. THe base platform metal of the BBQ is thin and does not help keep the wheels in correct angle.
Today I took the base off the BBQ... I added a couple layers of cedar wood to space the wheels down some so the wheels I bought could swivel. The BBQ rolls waaay better now, seems more sturdy too.
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A polished a quarter and then I super glued it to the shop floor right inside the walk in door. Some would say I have an odd sense of humor. :) The age of the people who come through that door should make for some interesting sites along with some R rated language.
John, that interesting. Just yesterday, my wife and I were cleaning/straightening our areas in the basement, and she came across a letter opener that had belonged to her dad. It had a clear handle with a quarter, nickel, dime and a penny in it, all dated 1958 or 1959. I broke the handle and removed the 41 cents, which look like uncirculated coins. I said that she should put them on ebay.
I figured out that I somehow use an A rather than the intended I to begin the sentence at the start of my post. I reread that post several times and somehow I missed that error but it was apparent as soon as I reread it now. Old age dyslexic I guess
I could not get the photo to post earlier but now it seems to work. This machine can drive you crazy.
Back in 1968 or 69 in high school.. I got the wise idea to take some pennies and I coated them in solder so they looked like dimes.
In one of the open areas of the school, I tossed out on the concrete 8 to 10 of these pennies and sat down to watch what if anything would happen. People picked most of them up. Some put them in their pockets not slowing as they walked. Others picked the pennies up and looked at them, then tossed them back to the ground.
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I spent several hours today machining some very simple bases for outside mirrors. Next time I have the project in the shop, I will see if my idea bears merit. Maybe back to plan A. :)
I made motel reservations for the LA roadster club show. The cancelable kind. :) I think I may have one more trip to Cali in me. :) Even though it won't be like the 50th, that would make it more manageable. A few less miles to walk would be ok.