2023: What are you doing today?

[WZ JUNK]

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.

[Crosley.In.AZ]

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 . 

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.      So , it appears all is ok ?  We sit and wait to see if March deposit happens correctly.

[58 Yeoman]

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.

[idrivejunk]

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.

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.

[idrivejunk]

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.

[Crosley.In.AZ]

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.

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.

[kb426]

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.

[58 Yeoman]

He hasn't got long, I'm guessing a month or so.  I think his assets will be enough.

[Crosley.In.AZ]

He 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.

[416Ford]

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.

[Crosley.In.AZ]

It has been warm here lately:  80 degree days.  Today (wednesday) it is raining like crazy.     

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.      

[416Ford]

Photos or it didn't happen.  

[kb426]

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.

[idrivejunk]

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. 

[chimp koose]

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 .