2025: What are you doing today?

[jaybee]

Love the red on that Mustang, Matt. there was a time I just hated those cars. Like a lot of others I thought they were SO massive. Turns out they aren't nearly as much bigger than the 67-70 cars as I believed, and the lines have held up really well with time IMO.

Tony, the house is coming along really well. Regarding the wet bench, are you still doing a little transmission work when you're not playing Bob Vila?

(Edited where I accidentally said Toney rather than Matt.)

[idrivejunk]

Bill, what do you do when a fly keeps landing on your sandwich?

[kb426]

Matt, as you probably know, sw. Kansas is home to a tremendous amount of feedyards and crops so flies are everywhere during the warmer months. So it is customary to shoo them off. I'm pretty sure that wasn't your point. I was not enthused enough today to tackle the e clip again, today. I went looking for a tool and wasn't impressed at what I found. If there was room for 2 hands, it might be useful. I washed vehicles today and tomorrow the weather maybe be poor again so I'm planning on monday to be the attack day for the clip. If I had known that I would be doing repeat work on the wipers, I might have drilled the shafts for cotter keys.

[Crosley.In.AZ]

Tony, the house is coming along really well. Regarding the wet bench, are you still doing a little transmission work when you're not playing Bob Vila?

Thanks, I hope I survive this house re-model. 

I have a couple of transmission rebuild jobs to do. I still receive calls for work. The wet bench contains the mess , plus is useful for other crap I mess with.

My winch install on my car trailer is waiting on cable ends. They give you wire kit with winch. Of course that never fits the application for me.

Plus my hand problems have returned.  Trigger finger in 2 fingers again. 

[chimp koose]

Trigger finger is no fun ! I have it and need to go back to doc again . I now have it in 5 fingers . I get some kind of injection in the base of my finger and it gets better , lasts about a year and then its back .

[WZ JUNK]

I took this photo this morning.  There was a cruise night last night and someone left some nice marks across the parking lot.  I lined up the old car to take this photo.  The car in the photo would not leave these marks.

[kb426]

That's almost photoshop, John.

[58 Yeoman]

My mom had bought a new 60 Chevy BelAir sedan when I was a kid, six cylinder powerglide. When I got my license, I would drive it and go around a corner in town in the summer and floor the gas pedal, kicking it down into first, barking the tires.  Hot pavement and nylon tires made it easy.

[Crosley.In.AZ]

That's almost photoshop, John.

Photoshop from the rotary dial phone days ?

 

[kb426]

I was moderately successful today. It only took 15 minutes to get the e clip back on the wiper motor post. That included getting things ready to lay under the dash. LOL. I won't be using them in high wind conditions again. I'm tempted to remove the arms to avoid the blades from sun baking but I want covers for the knurled posts before I do that. I can put them in the truck for when they are needed but I don't want the pot metal knurls to be exposed.

[Crosley.In.AZ]

Some stuff here today.  Wire lugs I need for winch on my car trailer arrived today.  A hook for the cable on the winch arrived too.  Everything takes a week to deliver here usually.

The sheet rock we picked up sunday was cut correctly and the wall rock install was finished..  The weird looking whiteish looking sheet rock in upper left corner? That is remnant of my spray texture testing a few weeks ago. Bedroom work is on hold for a short while. Other whiteish stuff is hot mud I pre-filled some of the larger gaps between sheet edges.

We finally have the kitchen cabinets (most of them). That work was started today (monday).  Need cabinets in place correctly.. Then counter top people will come in for cyphering and template building.  We are getting closer?

Yea , I have trigger finger in both hands this time. Left hand is more angry than my right. Right hand the bird finger is a big problem. Left hand is the 3rd finger.  Doctor told me last year that I do not have arthritis in my hands, he seemed surprised. My question was: Why do my hands hurt like the * in the mornings? I can not make a fist and the pain limits my strength in gripping stuff.

On the flip side: my brother is doing ok since his wife passed in december. It has been 3 months , 2 weeks.  SO it is still very fresh.  I helped him figure (learn?) out online searches for old friends. He had lunch with a couple folks in recent weeks. He does tell me "being alone sux". I would agree with him.  Says he likes his Walmart job now ?

[chimp koose]

I am trying my hand at art . I have been making a lamp from an old roller cam , a steering wheel a con rod and a valve cover . the steering wheel is the base with the roller cam bolted to it , then the con rod ( a 6" eagle H beam no less ), is bolted to the top of the cam using a spacer bearing to take up the size difference . The wrist pin goes through the rod into the pcv hole in the valve cover . I have had no end of grief getting the sand blaster to work to clean the valve cover . Eventually when the valve cover is installed I will take a length of aluminum fuel line and route it from one of the holes in the steering wheel up the cam and over the rod , entering the wrist pin to shield the electrical from sight . I have a bulb set up that will work in the valve cover. the on/off switch will be in the steering wheel in the next hole  over from where the fuel line was run from . Its an old 13' steering wheel with the 3 round holes per spoke . The lamp shade /valve cover should be able to swivel on the wrist pin .

[WZ JUNK]

I am looking forward to seeing a photo of the lamp.  I like stuff like that.  It is always fun to build something new.

[WZ JUNK]

Today I finished up the installation of the mini starter.  I modified the gm mini starter by drilling 3 holes through the mounting flange so that the starter now mounts flat against the motor plate instead of the normal attachment for gm starters to the engine block.  I also had 1/4" milled off of the starter flange to allow for the thickness of the motor plate.  The trick was getting the three mounting holes drilled so that when the starter engaged I had no more than .035 between the two gears. That was made harder because the holes had to be marked on the engine side, transferred to the transmission side and then drilled.  I got it.  I have video of it working but I am not sure how to post it here.  This has been something that I had concerns about when I started this project.  I am glad to have it behind me.

[chimp koose]

Machined an enderle 110 pump today so the clamping ring could go further up the pump . Local racer who is getting a couple altereds ready for the car show next month and then racing this summer .