What OT crap are you working on

Remington 700 ADL, .308, Timney trigger, Leupold 3-9x40. Nothing exotic, just a deer rifle. Needs a stock that fits me (I'm 6'4"), needs 2" cut off the barrel (currently 24"), and I want to get the barrel threaded so I can add a can.

 

Toss that OEM stock , lots of nice ones on the market . Look for one with aluminum frame in the casting of it . Bed your action to the sock . I have 3 , 700s mine are USMC M40s . The wooden stocked forgotten warriors . If you lived near , we could cut , recrown and thread the barrel on the lathe . The .308 is a nice round . Research the twist rate of the barrel to determine best weight bullets to send down the pipe . Start reloading your own and you will enjoy the results of your labor .

 

Probably going with a McMillan stock. Reloading is something I want to tackle at some point, but I have too many damn hobbies right now. Thanks

 

Getting better

 

I had intended on moving round bales today with our 09 Dodge 3500 HD . But when I went to downshift the stick just flopped around like a wet noodle. I thought that the plastic piece in selector in the top of the transmission had broken . But as I took things apart I found that the lower stub shaft broke in the rubber bushing . So I cut open the tube and removed all the rubber . Dad found a steel spacer that fit inside the tube . I drilled a hole in it to slide the short stub shaft into . Then I welded everything together good as new and back to shifting gears

 

No more Flintstones with the Checker.

 

Camaro bird Kid is still at it

 

Never could figure out a rubber shifter ! I have fixed a few of these on Cummins powered stuff

 

So this has been the project for the last couple of weeks.
It is a Ford E350 1979 with a 460, a C6 and I believe a Dana 60 rear axle. It had been sitting for about 15 years Even though the tags show 2016, It came back to life relatively easy had to replace the fuel pump clean the fuel system completely and it's technically running although it really could use the car rebuilt because it's got a flat spot in the accelerator pump. It was bought to turn around and sell to help fund my on topic cars. Here is the pictures when I first started buffing it I should have it all buttoned up tomorrow and I will get some more pictures of it shiny. If I didn't live in California I would probably replace my Dodge truck with this as my tow/swap meet vehicle. You can't go wrong with a big block and I happen to be really familiar with a 460 since I've driven one off and on in a 1973 Lincoln since I was a teenager that I still own.

 

putting this together, to help finance my 49 dodge pick up project.

 

I’m constantly working on these two turd. They share daily driver duties but the el Camino is usually broken.

1967 cutlass 4 door hardtop, 403, Doug nash and 72 el Camino, 403, st10

 

Does it have an interior? The one tons were frequently converted to 4X4 back when this was new. I’d love to find one and redo it.

 

Not as much working on, as wondering about. My crap around DD is the old family suv with 180,000 miles. This morning, what looked like a pice of hose was laying under it. Well, the end of a rear coil spring snapped off! What the heck?! Crawled under it, the end from the upper pocket broke off.

 

finishing up the Checker for it's trip up northeast Tuesday. And helping the robot team get ready to put the new robot together while I'm gone. I'm the only one that has a place to paint stuff, so they told me about color stain (who knew?) and I'm making the plywood look like it's from our school, who's colors are blue and white.



The windshield washers work, it looks like we may run into sogginess and cold the last couple days.



Seats are done, door panels are in process, measuring how much room there is to put stuff in. The door opening, with the seat in the way, is over 40" high, and 24" wide between door and seat.