2020 .. What are you doing today?

[kb426]

I replaced the hydrant in the front yard this afternoon. This one was done correctly with rock around the bottom 10 inches for drainage. It also made it difficult to dig out. I ended up using a small 3 tine yard tool and laying on my stomach so my arm would reach the bottom of the hole. I removed the rocks a few at a time. Just a little exercise.

[idrivejunk]

I had to do that armpit deep lay reach dig thing in recent years. New places to be sore.

Yep that is exhaust. One of the ideas the owner brought to the table which I like. The looks of. Another is the simple gate treatment based on a late model. Finding a "safe" (not literally) lamp choice was a stumbling block since you need them to make a complete picture. The Lincoln's shape, as far as I can tell from here, should be the cure to the angle conflict of wanting a lamp to point rearward while the fender rounds off. There ought to be a sweet spot for mounting them is what I am figuring.

[chimp koose]

Love the caddy painting. the chrome looks real enough to burn you in the sun! Guys , when you are removing rocks do as a friend taught me . Use the shop vac! he had posts in the ground that he needed to be removable so he dug in a square tube and filled in the last 6" with rocks . Whenever he needed to pull the posts he would shop vac the rocks out and the post pulled easily.

[phat46]

Thank you all for the kind words on the painting, I am happy with it, the photo I posted looks washed out on the left fin/tail light area, it is crisp on the painting. The chrome was a challenge, but so were other aspects of it, making the tail lights look transparent was a new one for me. In other news I believe I have the valve train geometry correct on my engine build. I have the witness marks from the roller rockers in the center of the valve stem, using stock length pushrods, just lucky. 😃

[enjenjo]

It was cool and calm today, so I burned brush. I have one more small pile to do.

I went to a extended family funeral this morning. My son's mother in law. A lovely lady.

[kb426]

I spent part of the day removing tires from the original 17" wheels from my Dakota RT. They have been in the shed for close to 17 years. A few years ago, I noticed that they were selling on ebay and bringing around $150 each. Once I get them boxed and weighted, I may give it a try.

[idrivejunk]

Glory be. The long-lost carb that was on my 455 when I got it came back to me yesterday. My cousin got it back from his boy who has had it on the Monte that was mine for a year. Long storyish. Loan something, looking the guy in the eye saying this is not a gift but you can borrow it doesn't work on youngers. Same as what I have, only manual choke instead.

Almost every mile of my 20 years of 69GP travel has been on one me-tuned-by-seat-of-pants reman eddy 750.  100K+ I got it off a 454 endowed short square Chevy that I had last century.

This one probably has less than 20K on it.

I got kinda giddy thinking about plopping it on until opened the box and saw how nasty it is. Then I realized no... theres no way anyplace in town will have a couple new gaskets (I run a plastic spacer), a rebuild kit, and carb cleaner. That I can snag on the way home. Not in this century. Mail ordering everything just to replace a carb is just a BS turn-off and me having that opinion is a big part of my lost rodding spirit.

But I'll try to get it on there soon, she needs it bad.

[Cword]

Finally found some freeway worthy dog goggles for Lucy

[idrivejunk]

:ha) Photo of the year!

[WZ JUNK]

Finally found some freeway worthy dog goggles for Lucy

Best copilot picture ever.

[kb426]

^^^^^
That's a hoot!

[kb426]

Very small project this afternoon. One of my friends that runs a parts store was kind enough to give me an outdated display rack that had caster wheels. I always game for more caster wheels. Today, some of the parts became a roll around base for my band saw. One of the pics is of the inside of chinese tubing.

[chimp koose]

KB I made a roll around rack for my band saw but I made a tray so that any lost coolant would run into it instead of on the floor. I also throw my small saw scraps in there so I can sift through them before getting something bigger from the metal rack.

[chimp koose]

Got some filler necks yesterday so today I made adapters to put the stant sealed flap gas cap inside the filler neck so an old chrome gas cap can cover it . I need the stant ones as the filler neck is at the back of my saddle tanks  but they look too new and kinda ugly so the chrome gas caps are there to hide the ugly.  

[idrivejunk]

Yesterday I finished up cab and the new hood came in.