What OT crap are you working on

What is that body made of? Appears that to fix the front wing, you cut both sides off and fabricated new ones out of aluminum or something? That will likely be much more durable that whatever the rest is made of.

 

Unknown plastic. But an ABS plastic “welding rod” stuck to it
https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/go-carts-ok-indy-styled-go-cart-rebuild.1328470/
both wings were broke. So we made new ones from scrap aluminum.
The busted plastic was welded, stapled and finished out with panel bond

 

What is it?

 

It was an old burnt out vacuum tube . It’s going to be a robot

 

It’s got tracks

 

I finished rebuilding the rearend on my ´88 BMW 535i, it had been sitting since 2004 and now that it´s back on the road everything starts to leak. But that was to be expected, haha... thhis should have been the last thing... there, I said it...

 

SS327
you must be a younger fellow................ no offence

 

thats cool

 

No, I recognized the tube. Just never saw one with the other stuff on it and got confused.

 

Late 60s maybe 70, JC Penny ScatTracker. 3 wheeler


ad from Penny’s
I’ve had it a while. My uncle bought is used around 1971. Been riding this since I was a kid. Talked him out of it a few years back. Son said it’s time to get it fixed.
cleaned out the tank, cleaned up the carb, got to replace a brake cable and make a throttle return spring (maybe beef up the current one) and replace a tube.
We got it running this evening.

 

I’ve got to make another hand / claw and glue them on . Then clean up some stuff

 

Oakie Pete has tubes. Maybe ask him for one?

 

It was the only one I had . It came out of a control box for a massage device that I found in an old dump site .

 

All done

 

Very cool Kurte!

 

Got it going


need to straighten up some old wreck damage.
Clean it up

some old ads

 

Well…I worked on my Chevelle today but still don’t have it fixed. Starts right up but then acts like it loses ignition or something. Anyway, didn’t have much time to troubleshoot today with 10 other projects around the house too. I also worked on my 56 enough to get it started and say I drove it the last day of the year. Maybe I’ll take it to the car wash tomorrow. I think it feels neglected.

 

been chasing some issues, intermittent high idle, intermittent hard starting, sound was off...
went to pull the wires, found 1 issue right away with the cap..
checked the plug wires, they all checked out.

Replaced cap & rotor.
Had a hunch to check choke cable... Found the choke cable needed "re-adjusting" after replacing the motor mounts... still chasing the intermittent high idle and intermittent hard starting ...

 

Giving my old Dodge some well earned love, new vc gaskets , belts and hoses , radiator and a heater core. Man I hate working on cars lol but I do like being in my space !

 

Ohh,, i got to steal that oilfilter idea!
But I`m will place it under my cleaner.
Thx @TA DAD

 

I use a fuel filter for a diesel truck , it does keep the solvent clean plus I use a scotch brite pad in the tub drain to catch what I miss on the initial cleaning.

 

Oil cooler seals on my 20 year old daily. Jeez there’s a lot of stuff to come off to get to this point!

 

I give up,

 

Mercedes 3.0L V6 diesel (OM642). I suppose the one plus is unlike a Ford FE I don’t need a crane to lift the intake.

 

No wonder it doesn’t look familiar. I guess we didn’t get that one here’s in the US.
Last Mercedes I worked on was an 80’s OM 617 turbo diesel. That was much simpler than everything afterwards.

 

I’m pretty sure you get it over there, they also used it in Jeeps and Chrysler 300, there’s literally a trunk full of stuff normally above what you can see now!

 

I became disinterested in all things produced by Daimler-Benz after my OM603 powered W124. Both the car and engine were a steaming pile of shit.
I test drove a E320 CDI back around 2005. I was impressed by all the power it had and that it didn’t really sound like a diesel. I just didn’t feel the $55K list price was worth it.
Best of luck with your Benz.

 

Then there is some Bastard`s,,,like my 2007 300 HEMI WAGON

 

New paint on the 300 wheels.
First a good clean!


Then sanding.

Then primer, color and clear.