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I have been working pretty hard on the Olds the last few months, and got the engine and trans in it this weekend. Other than the usual troubles, it went pretty well. The serpentine belt was the wrong one, and I had the passenger header on and off a couple of times. I had "adjusted" the header tubes to clear the frame rail before I had them coated. But this summer when I had to lengthen the chassis it cause the header to hit the frame rail again. It was a real tear * to hit those nice coated header with a hammer. Seems to have held up fine though, no chipping where I hit it. When I started this car, I was just going to use chassis black and orange engine paint, you can see where I have gone from that. The spot on the tranny is just a reflection, not a scraped off spot.

Doug

I painted the firewall, motor and trans last weekend, and was going to install them today after I finished up the brake lines.  I was trying to put the converter in and it appears that it is a regular T400 torque converter.  I am trying to get some measurements to confirm that, but it fits my regular T400 fine.  It doesn't go far enough in the switch pitch to engage the pump ears.  Anyway, I guess I am looking for a switch pitch converter if anyone happens to know the whereabouts, and I know they are rare.   Webrodder did a build on converters a week ago or so and they have a site that rebuilds them and says they sometimes have cores, so I will check them on Monday.  Not the best news I have had recently.  I am going to get the guy that built the tranny to come by and check it, but I think the coverter probably got switch when he had it laying around his garage for a few years.

Doug

My buddy finally blew the dust off his Deuce and says he is going to get going on it again.  It has looked like this for the last 2 years.  And yes, the color is final.

Doug

Sunrise over Helena 1/24 with freezing fog makes Helena appear on fire.

Anyone going to either of these, I know we have some lurkers out this direction.  I will be going to Spokane with the car and out to Puyallup with a friend as a mad dash.  We are going out to Spokane on Wednesday so we can catch the shop tours on Thursday.  Nice to meet up if anyone is there.

Doug

Anyone know where to get the little plastic cover that sits below the Pickup coil on an HEI Distributor.  Mine is pretty brittle and has a small chip out of it.  Don't want to through the grease all around the distributor.  Where to get it or a common part number that I can give my 8 year old parts guy.  You all know the drill.  Also, should I be using any special kind of grease under that piece for the shaft, or just wheel grease?

Thanks
Doug

As you know, I have been chasing the electronics on the Impala for the last couple of weeks.  I found that I had a bad coil and changed it out.  Got the car running just great in the garage and then let it sit a few days.  I took it out Tuesday night and it ran great, then started to miss a bit.  By the time I got it home, I could not make it idle.  I figured that the bad coil had messed up the electronic distributor module.  Also, when I was driving it home it was missing quite a bit.  I put in a new module (the old one looked burned) and it fired right up.  However, when I tried to make it idle under 1000 rpm  (it always idled at about 750) it would die.  I messed with the carb for a while with nothing getting better.  It is running about 6 lbs of fuel pressure and I checked the volume and got 3 inches of fuel in a 3 pound coffee can in 15 seconds.  I then tried another carb that I had to make sure that was not the problem and still the same.

The exact thing that happens is if I keep the idle about 1000 it runs fine, drop it to 8-900 and it will run for a while and then start to die.  If, I hit the gas a couple of times while it is dieing, it will run again.  Otherwise, it dies and then lightly backfires up the carb several times and then stops.  If I shut it off with the key, it just stops, without any backfires.  It almost acts like it is running out of gas, but the float bowls are full (Holley 870 cfm carb).  Until I changed out the carb tonight, it has been running this same setup for 3 years now.

Any ideas?

Doug

Vance,

Dennis had his C cab out this weekend, so here are a couple of pictures.  Just click on them.

Doug

Here is my other tech tip for the month.  This is the cheapest one I have.  You all have wanted to hang cords, fenders, pry bars, and the like up in the shop.  We usually have a place to hang them from, but need a good hook.  I have tried tie wire, bungee cords, welding rod and the like.  I had an extra piece of 3/16 hard brake line around so I used pieces of that with a brake line bender to make up a bunch of hooks.  Some have the bends in the same plane, and some have the bends 90 degrees apart.  I have hung quite a bit of weight off these and no give at all.  $5 worth of brake lines will make quite a few hooks.

I have read about using electrolysis to remove rust so finally gave it a try.  The results are great.  This seems to be pretty easy on the parts and the environment.  I have seen this in Rod and Custom and on the H.A.M.B. to give some credit.

Parts list
A couple of plastic 6 gallon buckets.
Battery
Charger
1/2 inch or so Re-Bar a bit longer than the bucket.
Wire
Washing Soda

I cut the bottom out of one of the buckets except for 4 equally spaced tabs about 1.5 inches in diameter.  I then drilled ½ inch holes in the tabs.  I then put that bucket into the other bucket.  I slid the re-bar into the holes in the tabs until it bottomed out.  I then drilled a hole on each side of the rebar near the top of the bucket and wired them in place.  Then using some copper wire I had around, (red) I tied the tops of the 4 pieces of rebar together.  The idea is to surround the piece to be derusted with the electrodes.

I then cut 2 notches in the top of the bucket and ran another piece of rebar across the top of the bucket.  I connected another piece of copper wire to it (black).

I then connected the red wires to the positive side of the battery and then hooked that side up to the battery charger.

I filled the bucket up with water and then added a handful of washing soda to the water.  This makes it conductive and more is not any better.  I think the original article I read said to use about a tablespoon or 2 per gallon of water.  

I then suspended the hinges from the rebar across the top using tie wire.  Make sure that it does not touch the rebar on the sides.    Connect the black wire to the minus side of the battery and hook up the charger.

Let this run for a few days, you will see bubbles in the water as it works, those bubbles are the hydrogen gas given off by the process.  When the bubbles seems to have quit, all the iron oxide will have been converted back to steel.  You then can remove the pieces and wire brush off the residue.  You will find nice metal under that black layer.  The hinges I started out with were completely frozen into a block of rust.  They now work just like new.  I took me about 10 minutes with the wire brush on the bench grinder to clean the residue off of them.  I later finished them up a bit with the bead blaster where the brush could not get to.  The stuff left in the bucket is just rusty water and can be disposed of like any other dirty water.


Picture of the hinges, top is the cleaned up hinge, bottom is the block of rust, and the hinge I started with was much worse than the bottom one.



Picture of the electrolysis setup.

 Here is a working shot, not the prettiest stuff in the world.

Another shot of the hinges

Sorry about the thumbnails, but I cannot seem to get the entire picture to post.  You can look at them on webshots under sirstude.

Watching a special on Bonneville on National Geographic channel right now and the opening credits showed Hooleys car and focused in on the "just glad to be here" lettering.  Gonna watch some more to see what else is on.

Doug

Can anyone check to see if they can hit ebay or paypal please.  I cannot and not sure if I should be calling my isp or not.  Nothing seems to be mentioned out there on this.

Doug

One of the guys at our Wednesday night gettogether (a real Ford diehard) had a new toy.  It is a 1978 Plymouth Sappora, beautiful condition for an old import.  We were giving him a bad time about finally getting something other than a Ford (he as 52 in his collection) and he lifted the hood.  Fantastic install of a 400+hp 289.  You would think it grew there. was done by a shop in Southern CA.  He says you would not even know it is a V8 in the nose.  Drives just great.  I will try to get pictures this weekend if he has it out.  One a Ford guy, always a Ford guy!

Doug

This was on Dave's pictures of The Good Guys in Orange and I sure like the combo.  Just want to know what the purple is.

Doug



ps,  Thanks Dave for the use of your pictures, and all the both you and Don took.  We were supposed to be there, but plans fell through.

Photo 358 on page 4 of Dave's pictures

I was asked today if I know where to get a Pinion parking brake unit.  Used to see them advertised a lot, but I am not sure if anyone still makes them.  Thought I would pass this on to the group and see if anyone else knows.

On another thought, there was a car show in Great Falls today and Burklands streamliner was there.  I was wearing my 974 shirt, and first ran into Betty Burkland and she said great shirt as soon as she saw me.  The talked to Gene and his first comment was "nice Shirt".  Then started telling a couple of people that were there that Tom had done some aerodynamics on Hooleys car.  He then asked me what the connection to Sumner was, and I explained a bit about the RRT and other things.  They do have the transmissions back together.  He said the initial failure was two ears on the pinion yoke.  Said the driveshaft tunnel contained everything, but Tom got a pretty good hit to the leg through everything.

Doug

Looks like my friend and I won't be making our annual run to the March Meet this year because of conflicts.  Anyone know of any good rod runs, or other events in the Southern CA area in late April or early May?  We need an excuse to run down that way.  Even early June might be ok.

Thanks
Doug

A friend of mine found a color he liked last year in Spokane, but the code he was given was for RM paint.  We do not have an RM dealer here and was wondering if anyone has a conversion to PPG, or Dupont.  The RN code is 1046A.

Thanks
Doug

Has anyone had experience with using 6 volt gauges with 12 volts. I know there are several voltage drops out there, but was wondering if anyone has first had experience with them.

Doug

Seems they had a fire this weekend.  Check this out on the Landracing board.

http://www.landracing.com/forum/index.php/topic,2007.0.html

Doug

I am looking for a grommet type fitting that I have seen used, but don't have any idea what it is called so I can even try looking it up.  Looks like a large washer (say about 3 inches) with a large hole in it.  The hole is bonded to rubber or something of the like.  The washer is drilled for screws.  You screw the washer over a hole in whatever you want to run a wire or tube or the like into.  You then can put something through the rubber and it will kind of seal to whatever you ran through it.  

What I am doing is, I mounted the compressor for my air suspension in the back of the rear fender of the olds.  I now need to run the braided air line from the compressor into the trunk where the air tank, and valves are.  I have seen these used on one of the tv car shows, just not sure which one.  I could use just a regular grommet, but that will make me bend the braided more than the other way.  It will also put more pressure on the grommet.

Just hoping someone has an idea.  At worst, I could use a 1/4" ntp bulkhead fitting, but I will have to try to order one of those from somewhere.  I am sure they do make them.  I have found them in pvc and 1/2" seems to be the smallest size.  I wonder about using one of those under air pressure and close to the compressor.  One of the issues with airbags seems to be people that use plastic line to the compressor.  It gets hot and melts the lines.

Thanks
Doug

Sum,  we had an intranet site created for us here at work and it seems like an inordinate amount of work to keep up.  Almost anything we need seems to have to go out to the vendor and get the whole site redone.  I was wondering what you use for your setup.  If you are managing it via dial-up it can't possibly be as bad as what we have here.  

Another question, when I was showing your page to some here at work we were looking at your house build, Steve wanted to know what CAD program you used.  He is getting ready to build again, 6000 sq ft shop and attached living quarters, and is looking for a program.

Thanks
Doug

Leon,  I talked to Jeff today, and as usual, he prefaces everything with maybe.  Anyway, he says he has several fenders and wants to know if yours has the chrome piece between the fender opening and the grill?  He says it is about 3x6 inches.  Anything else that is unique to whatever model you have would probably help.

Doug

I posted this same question over on the HAMB too.

Anyone know the hours of the gnrs?  I am going to be in Calabasas the week leading up to it for school, and won't  be leaving until the Saturday afternoon of the show (Jan 27th) and would like to try to make it.  The hours would help so I can see if I can shuffle me sched to fit it in.

thanks
Doug

I was checking out the new section of aol, and saw a blurb on a crash at Bonneville.  In the background is about a 2 second of Mike's roadster pickup running down the salt.

http://kutv.com/video/?id=18468@kutv.dayport.com

Doug

I am trying to find a paint code and I hope someone can help.  If you  look at the current GoodGuys Gazette (Vol 19 No 1) on page 135, there is a 1950 Ford that belongs to Larry Schultz that is the color I want, and I think it was on Jeeps and Chrysler corp mini vans in the early 2000's.

Thanks
Doug

Here is an interesting article on the 65 fX Mopars.  The depth they went to while building them is increadable, even told how to simulate spot welds.  Makes for interesting reading.


Doug


http://www.moparmax.com/features/2006/i_5-report-1.html

A little humor from Jeff Foxworthy.



If "vacation" to you means going shopping for the weekend in Great Falls, Billings or Bozeman (while the kids swim at the Comfort Inn), You might live in Montana.

If parking your car for the night involves an extension cord You might live in Montana

If you consider it a sport to gather your food by drilling through 8 inches of ice and sitting there all day hoping that the food will swim by, You might live in Montana.

If you're proud that your state makes the national news primarily because it houses the coldest spot in the nation, You might live in Montana.

If you have ever refused to buy something because it's "too spendy", You might live in Montana

If your local Dairy Queen is closed from November through March, You might live in Montana.

If someone in a store offers you assistance, and they don't work there, You might live in Montana.

If your dad's suntan stops at a line curving around the middle of his forehead, You might live in Montana.

If you have worn shorts and a parka at the same time,
You might live in Montana.

If your town has an equal number of bars and churches,
You might live in Montana.

If you know how to correctly pronounce Butte,
You might live in Montana.

If you measure distance in hours,
You might live in Montana.

If your family vehicle is a crew cab pickup,
You might live in Montana.

If you know several people who have hit deer more than once, You might live in Montana.

If you often switch from "heat" to "A/C" in the same day and back again, You might live in Montana.

If you can drive 65 mph through 2 feet of snow during a raging blizzard, without flinching, You might live in Montana.

If you see people wearing hunting clothes at social events,
You might live in Montana.

If you've installed security lights on your house and garage and leave both unlocked, You might live in Montana.

If the largest traffic jam in your town centers around a high school basketball game, You might live in Montana.

If you carry jumper cables in your car and your girlfriend knows how to use them, You might live in Montana.

If there are 7 empty cars running in the parking lot at Wal-Mart at any given time, You might live in Montana.

If there are more people at work on Christmas Eve Day than on Deer gun Opener, You might live in Montana.

If you design your kid's Halloween costume to fit over a snowsuit, You might live in Montana.

If driving is better in the winter because the potholes are filled with snow, You might live in Montana.

If you know all 4 seasons: almost winter, winter, still winter and road construction, You might live in Montana.

If you can identify a southern or eastern accent,
You might live in Montana.

If you consider Red Lodge exotic,
You might live in Montana.

If your idea of creative landscaping is a statue of a deer next to your cottonwood, You might live in Montana.

If the sunbelt to you means Miles City,
You might live in Montana.

If a brat is something you eat,
You might live in Montana.

If finding your misplaced car keys involves looking in the ignition, You might live in Montana.

If you find 0 degrees a little chilly,
You might live in Montana.

If you actually understand these observations, and you forward them to all your Montana friends, You must live in Montana

Hi all,

I was just informed that I will be going to Tuscon next Wednesday (Oct 18 ) for a couple of days.  Seems like there are some down there and it would be good to meet if possible.  Jim, I know you are in the state, but not sure how far from Tuscon.  I should be free both Wednesday and Thursday nights.  I will post more when I hear it.

Doug

Hope you guys are checking the landacing.com site on the special FIA speed runs with Burkland, Nish, and George Poteet.  Has been pretty interesting so far.  Although looks like Tom might have a pretty serious issue, right now.

Doug

The tv was on yesterday to the food channel and I saw an advertisement for a show featuring the Junk Brothers.  Vonnie was vacuuming so I did not hear what it was about, but I bet John could enlighten us.  Or possibly he will want to file a copyright infringement on the show for using his name.

 

Doug

A friend of mine had this posted on his shop wall for years and I never thought to get a copy until after he passed away.  Anyway it showed up on Webrodder and I copied it, thanks for the use Doc.

Doug

Lucas Electrics

"A Treatise on the Importance of Smoke" by Joseph Lucas

All electrical components and wiring harnesses depend on proper
Circuit functioning, which is the transmission of charged ions by
Retention of the visible spectral manifestation known as "smoke".
Smoke is the thing that makes electrical circuits work. Don't be
Fooled by scientists and engineers talking about excited electrons
and the like. Smoke is the key to all things electrical.

We know this to be true because every time one lets the smoke out of an electrical circuit, it stops working. This can be verified
repeatedly through empirical testing. For example, if one places a
large copper bar across the terminals of a battery, prodigious
quantities of smoke are liberated and the battery shortly ceases to
function. In addition, if one observes smoke escaping from an
electrical component such as a Lucas voltage regulator, it will also
be observed that the component no longer functions.

The logic is elementary and inescapable! The function of the wiring
harness is to conduct the smoke from one device to another. When the wiring harness springs a leak and lets all the smoke out of the
system, nothing works right afterward.

Starter motors were considered unsuitable for British motorcycles for
some time largely because they regularly released large quantities of
smoke from the electrical system.

It has been reported that Lucas electrical components are possibly
more prone to electrical leakage than their Bosch, Japanese or
American counterparts. Experts point out that this is because Lucas
is British, and all things British leak. British engines leak oil,
British shock absorbers, hydraulic forks, and disk brake systems leak
fluid, British tires leak air and British Intelligence leaks national
defense secrets.

Therefore, it follows that British electrical systems must leak
smoke. Once again, the logic is clear and inescapable.

Sometimes you may miss the component releasing the smoke that makes
your electrical system function correctly, but if you sniff around
you can often find the faulty component by the undeniable and
telltale smoke smell. Sometimes this is a better indicator than
standard electrical tests performed with a volt-ohm meter.

In conclusion, the basic concept of transmission of electrical energy
in the form of smoke provides a clear and logical explanation of the
mysteries of electrical components and why they fail.

Frank,

We talked about using the 12" brake setup from the Mid 80's Cad on my Olds, but I was wondering, with the taller spindle, do I have to change out the upper control arm?

Doug

I was checking out the Chev's of the 40's catalog and I noticed their front ends.  They say that they are using 70-81 Camaro spindles with a rack and pinion unit.  Anyone have any experience with these or know what rack they are using.  I wanted to convert my Olds to rack and pinion for radiator clearance, but could never find a rack with enough travel.  I am going to check out a friends Camaro to see how long the steering arms are on the spindle and compare them to my "Metric" spindles.  Shorter arms would require less travel on the rack.

Doug

You have all probably seen this before, but is is such a good story it needs repeating.

Doug
                           
                                                                           

                           
                                                                           
A young man was on holiday in Kenya after graduating from college.  While he was walking through the bush, he came across a young bull elephant standing with one leg raised in the air. The elephant seemed distressed so the man approached it very carefully.  He got down on one knee and inspected the elephant's foot.  There was a large thorn deeply imbedded in the bottom of the foot.                  

                                                                           
As carefully and as gently as he could he worked the thorn ou with his hunting knife, after which the elephant gingerly put down its foot.  The elephant turned toface the man and with a rather stern look, stared at him.  For a good ten minutes the man stood frozen – think of nothing else but being trampled. Eventually the elephant trumpeted loudly, turned and walked away.
                                                                           
The man never forgot that elephant or the events of that day.  Twenty years later the man was walking through the zoo with his teenage son.  As they approached the elephant enclosure, on of the creatures turned and walked over to where they were standing at the rail.  The large bull elephant stared at him and then lifted it's front foot off the ground, then put it down.  The elephant did that sever times, all the while staring at the man.  The man couldn't help wondering if the was the same elephant.  After a while it trumpeted loudly, the it continued to stare at him.  The man summoned up his courage, climbed of the railing and made his way into the enclosure.  He walked right up to the elephant and started back in wonder.  Suddenly the elephant trumpeted again, wrapped its trunk around on of the man's lets and swung him wildly back and forth along the railing, killing him.                                                                    

                                                                           


Probably wasn't the same elephant.


GOTCHA!!!

Seems like we talked about this before, but I cannot find what I remember in the search.  I am wondering about putting bigger brakes on the MII front end (a friend is doing a 53 Chevy) and seems like there was a spindle and brake assembly that will fit the MII setup with bigger brakes.  Kind of like the Grenada setup on Early Mercs.  Frank, I know we talked about bigger brakes on my Olds in Bonneville, but I don't think that is what I am remembering.
 
If anyone has any ideas, please speak up.

Thanks
Doug

Anyone know the web site or correct spelling for Hanline gauges.  Seems like there is a 'Y' in the name, but I don't have any magazines here that have it.  They make gauges and panels and advertise in several mags.

Doug

Saw this out in Spokane at the Good Guys event last week.  It has a V8-60 in it.






There are more pictures out on my web page under the Good Guys folder.

Doug

Bob,

Are there any 53 Chevy interior kits out there that you know of?  Looking for a semi-custom setup.  Might have a line a 53 hardtop.

Doug

This has been talked about before, but now it is my car, so a few more questions.  I am going to change the rear gear in my Impala from a 2.56 to a 3.42.  This weekend coming home from Spokane I ran in 4th gear to simulate what the gear change will do.  4th is almost exactly what 5th will be with the 3.42s.  Anyway, it ran much better up in the rpm range, about 2700 or so instead of 2000.  The thing I noticed was the temp gauge dancing.  It would go up to almost 190 and then drop down to 170 or so.  I have a 185 degree thermostat in it.  Probably time to replace the thermostat.  The question I have is since I only drive in the summer, should I put a 160 degree thermostat in it and let the radiator control the temp, probably will run 170+ on the radiator.  Or should I have the 180 degree and run on the thermostat?  Heating is not an issue with this car, just wondering what everyone thinks.  The motor is a ZZ502 for information.  The gearing change seems to drop me down from 15 mpg to about 13, so not a problem there either.

Doug

I have a friend that has a Ford powered Model A sedan, with the stock type grill.  He wants to put air in it and the options seem to be sandwitch the condenser between the radiator and the motor, (needs a 3 core custom radiator for room) or one of the under body condenser/fand mounts.  Has anyone had any experience with A/C in a Model A.  He is worried on the cooling ability of either of these options.

Thanks
Doug

Even though it has not been as some of our members, it still has been a summer to remember so far.  

First thing, is my wife's mother passed away on Memorial day after a short illness and then a heart attack.  The actual thing that got her is what they call a "gut attack".  This is when the blood supply to the gut area, in her case the large intestine, is blocked and starts to die.  The "fix" is to remove the dead part of the bowel, but she could not stand the surgery.  Anyway, everyone here is doing pretty now.

Next thing is the end of May I was diagnosed with diabetes.  So far have lost 40 pounds and the blood sugar counts are looking good.  Still is not fun when someone tells you it is time to take care of yourself, and watch the diet.  

The rest of the summer has been pretty much self inflicted.  About 2 weeks ago I lost the power to my garage.  This happened a couple of years ago and the solution then was to replace the buried power cable from the house to the garage.   Don't know what happened to the old one, but the trencher made short work of it.  This time I had a friend that does all of our network wiring come out with his locator and we tried to find any kind of break with no luck.  I then had the Hospital Electrician come out with his better locator.  We tried from the garage out and seemed to be some kind of "something" just out of the garage below my wife's flower garden.  We then tried tracing from the house and nothing seemed out of the ordinary.  Jim said if he was a betting man, he would dig in the garden.  I tried and the wire has migrated up a bit, and probably was not put deep enough by someone who shall remain nameless (but he is writing this thing).  Anyway there was about a 6" section of the 220v wire (all 3 legs) burned away.  Seems my wife had planted a new plant just before Memorial day weekend and must have nicked the wire with the shovel.  After enough watering and such, the wire must have shorted out.  Jim came out this morning and spliced the cable and we put it in conduit this time so at least she knows there is something there.  Next year we will be building a deck and I will re do the entire setup and much deeper.  Sure glad Vonnie did not get zapped or the such.  The interesting thing about this, is it did not blow the 100 amp breaker at the house.

Latest issue is on Monday we had a really bad lightning storm here and it took out my tv.  The new tv's don't have circuit breakers on them, so it blew a fuse in the tv.  81 bucks later, my tv is working again.  I am sure using a fuse instead of a breaker saves the manufacturer a couple of bucks per tv and multiply that out, it is a substantial amount.  Sure does not help the customer though.

Oh well, better times are coming.

I was just given a switch pitch t400 the other day.  This has been put into a Chevy case so I was thinking about using it on the Olds.  Lots of car and the switch pitch should help it get going.  I was wondering if anyone has a picture of the switch hookup on the carb.  I assume there is some kind of electric switch kind of like the kick down switch up at the carburetor.  I was out at the local yard this weekend, but didn't see any setups there at the time.  I will have to go out again when I have more time.  But anyway, if anyone happens to have a pic or other hookup info, please post it.

Doug

I think I am going to make my current camera a garage camera (Olympus 3030) and upgrade to a newer something for use other places.  I have thought about just picking up a newer Olympus since I am familiar with it, but looking for opinions.  I am sure that I'm not the only one curious about digital cameras, and has not kept up.

George, is your new Canon faster taking pictures than the Olympus?  That is the biggest complaint about mine, hit the button and 5 (seems like) seconds later the picture is taken.

Anyone else that has good or bad things to say about point and shoot digital cameras step in please.

Thanks
Doug

Question for all, but especially Sumner (check out his web site if you haven't).  How do you manage to take pictures of your work in progress.  I find that once I get going, I don't stop to take any pics.  The thought does not even cross my mind.  Probably because I used to wrench for a living, and stopping just slowed you down and cost money.  I find now, that I wish I had taken pictures of something I did and it is always too late when I think of it.  

I guess there actually are two issues here, stopping, and having the camera there.

I tried leaving the throwaway cameras in the garage, but they don't do the job.  I could leave my digital there, but the garage is not the best place to store quality items like that, pretty dirty.  Also, my hands, as you all know, tend to get pretty grimy, so you have to clean up before you take the pictures also.  I guess I could buy another cheaper digital for the garage, what do you all think.  Biggest issue with me, I think is the just not thinking about it.

Sum, you must stop a hundred times a day to take pictures of your project, and Frank you also.

Thanks for any ideas that come up.  I am sure I'm not the only one that  has had this thought.

Doug

Denise,

I see your dad's car in the new Goodguys for sale,  What is he doing for a new ride?

Just being Nosy
Doug

Anyone know of any other air suspension forums other than the one sponsered by Air Ride.  I want  to compare some ride controllers by different makers, and that forum is probably not the correct one to do that on.  It is orented towards the Air Ride products, not that there is anything wrong with them, I just want some other input.

Doug

Look at the heat in the turbos on this F1 car from back a few years.  Found this out on the Garage Journal site.

Doug

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Sum,

Is Hooley going to do a new shirt this year, or should I just order the last years shirt that I didn't manage to get done then?

Doug

I watched the Mercury Marauder epesode of "wrecks to riches" the other night and the car sounded really good.  Did anyone catch what mufflers they put on the car?  The were not the tin can sound of Flowmasters.  Don
't beat me up for watching such a dumb show, but I was at least working in the garage while it was on.  Dont' see how some one that seems to not see anything wrong with the cars he brings in (rust) can make a buck in the car industry.  Anyone else notice they don't seem to add the labor into the total amount?



Doug

Anyone know what happened to Windsor Fabrications, or how to get in touch with someone from therer?  They used to make a 34 Ford Vicky rear hatch, that I am trying to locate.

Doug