Technical What are you working on?

I honestly could not accomplish half of what I do without my friends, it's a complete give and take though...we all have our own talents.... every once in a while a user tries to join in.... they get weeded out fast.

 

Trying to get my grille right.

 

My neighbor was wanting to help me when I was moving all my stuff in the garage the other day, I tried avoiding it.
Last year he helped spin the 41 around and put it in the back, what a train wreck. My garage floor is pitched 4 degrees down hill, which doesn't sound like a lot but over a 30 ft span it's over 2 ft of drop.
I had 4 dollies under it to spin it 180 degrees before winching it up into the back, as soon as we got it moving he started yelling stop stop ! I ask what's wrong, oh nothing I just wanted to check everything, he does this same thing a handful of times stopping the dollies in the expansion joints in the floor over half of the time. Each time I had to jack the truck up to get the dolly wheel out of the crack, get it moving to jump the crack and stop stop !
It took 3 of us over an hour to just spin a truck on 4 dollies around, I wanted to choke him. Lol
In reference it took me 20 minutes by myself to spin the 57 around using only 2 dollies.
I did get him to help carry the bare bed inside but of course he wanted to tell me how I should do it and where to put it.

 

Helping a friend work on his '58 DelRay. he is installing a new Ciadella Impala interior which he has a lot of coin invested in. Door panels do not fit. The retainer pins don't line up with the holes in the door. Attempting to adjust them and they just break off. Now waiting for tech to call us on how they are going to fix this. Beautiful panels though, just got to get some answers first

 

I have "helpful" buddies like this too! It's cool that they're willing to help but when they want to call all the shots, not so cool. The worst one has to be my wife though. "Why are you doing it that way? You should do it like this!" Sheesh!

 

My last rant, I am thankful he helped but it sure stressed me.
We have to carry it about 50 ft so I suggest he gets inside and carry it, so he can see where he's going, heck there's no bed floor in it.
No, I'm fine, naturally he stumbled a couple times going backwards and then proceeds to head right towards the 41 ugh .....
I have a short video but it shows an off topic front rim as a roller, you should hear the audio lol, here's a screenshot

 

I quit giving my rattle can marbles to the grandkids when they had them lost within minutes. My collection sits in a glass jar on a shelf over where I'm sitting right now. There are probably 50 marbles in that jar and probably 50 cans that I need to harvest the marbles from. Sadly, no red ones yet.

Didn't you know that these statements/questions are in the wife's handbook? They all say these things. It's in their job description.

 

That darn last plug disappeared

 

Anthony,

You know, don't you, that it will show up shortly after you buy the replacement. OR as you're cleaning under your bench.

 

Is it on the corner of the table.......?

 

That’s the air blower thingy

 

Yeah. That's what I couldn't find the other day. So I went out and bought two of them. Next time I went to the shop I found the three that were missing.

 

Good ya ain't Lost yer Marbles! Will we see you at that Breakfast Thingie?

 

Hurst style mounts for the Chrysler hemis,
first batch almost ready for weld up.

 

No, I didn't sign up for it

 

68 year old black paint still on the frame, something you'd never see on a NY vehicle

 

Have I ever told you guys how much I hate dealing with spirolocks? I spent the last 2 hours removing the old Pontiac pistons off the Rods...... It didn't help that I burned the crap outa my thumb helping Gordie with the chassis boxing

 

Slowly chipping away at sorting the garage back into something that looks orderly. Made it to the tire shop today to swap out rear tires onto another set of wheels with a 1/2” deeper back space.

 

OUCH!

 

Ouch! Darn!! That hurts.

 

Stupid is as stupid does.....I am a welder by trade, I should be smart enough not to grab an area that was just welded. My next door neighbor heard several choice words.

 

I'm usually chanting (to myself) "it doesn't have to be red to be hot" "it doesn't have to be red to be hot" "it doesn't have to be red to be hot" as I touch or pick up something hot with no gloves on.

 

The burnt thumb reminds me of the little kid that wandered into the blacksmith shop just as the smithy tossed the still-hot horseshoe he'd been working on to the side.
The kid picked it up and promptly dropped it on the ground.
The smithy says "Pretty hot, huh?"
The kid says "Nope, just doesn't take me long to look at a horseshoe!"


Thanks folks... I'll be here all week. Don't forget to tip your waitress!

 

The old maintenance mechanic/welder at the dairy I worked at after I got out of the Army used to say "heavy isn't it" whenever someone (usually me) picked up a hot part and immediately dropped it. Miss ya, Tony.

 

Another version of this is at the drag races between rounds someone picking up a hot clutch disk which was thrown on the ground.

 

We ALL have those stories about picking up something that is hot (that we often just made hot).
Well, except for me....I've never done anything dumb like that before....

(I almost didn't make it through typing that last line before I started laughing.)

 

You guy’s tell me.

 

Those are clean!!!

 

Back workin on the 32 coupe

 

Cut down a late 50s Ford pickup 9 inch for for Gordies model A . As usual pickup rear ends tend to be worked hard and slightly bent...We put my jig through it and decided it was a too much to weld the ends on. Some of you may recognize the name Bob Mayer.. he is a race car chassis builder from way back and is still at it. We took the housing to him and he had it straightened out in no time. Also got to hear some really great vintage drag racing stories