so what did you get done this weekend?

I added some bling to my front suspension and painted my interior.

 

Welded up some holes in the firewall of my truck and organized garage. Spent time with wifie of course...

 

Started s***ching up a tired old firewall.

 

Made my wallet a bit lighter.Bought a 1937 M91/30 Russian sniper rifle.... thats bout it'

 

Just doing bodywork .

 

I put my car cover on for the next week of rain. Lame

 

wow must be something in the air. I was making great progress yesterday on patching the numerous holes in my A's firewall when my welder went kaput. didn't get to finish

 

you ever wonder why someone would drill or torch all those holes? Mine has been like mystery to solve.I have figured out (it seems easier to picture it all when paint gets stripped) that my 30 was badly rodded years ago with a huge gm type gas pedal, a swing pedal/firewall mount master cylinder. Probably an auto. But I think this body is on a 29 frame. Maybe the butchered the original like they did the firewall

 

Took a three hour road trip to pick up some wheels I bought from a fellow HAMBer for my '58.

 

I was just thinking about that yesterday. What the hell could all these holes possibly have been drilled for that isn't on my truck now? I can't imagine.

 

Last weekend i cut up a 40 ft ladder i couldnt use. It was given to me and was to long to use. So now i have a 7ft step ladder and a 24ft ladder. 12ft when not stretched out. Works great except im working out some bugs on the step ladder. The folding brackets i made wont let the ladder fold up all the way. Bolts hit the ladder when it folds up.

 

Bought my first TIG machine - a Miller Diversion 165. Fixed up the flimsy weld cart first and started turning s**** into really s****. This is gonna take a while to get even reasonably proficient. I want to TIG in the roll cage of my Austin, build headers.

I'm getting the hang of straight lines, but AROUND tubes is a real *****.

 

I hear ya. Seems like every hole is either across one of the beads or one of the contour lines. Mine was sliced vertically in two places and then smashed back to make room for something. My favorite is the two hole-saw mods. I'm thinking about leaving those...

 

just finished installing the engine-trans combo with hand fabbed"motor mounts" in the 26Tpickup with the 8inch chop, "checked the game" then loaded the front suicide leaf to bring the front back up. Then whacked another 3 inches off the rear top curve."checked the game" Roofs ALL flat now!!! AND picked up the steel to put the lid on.Cleaned the grimy n nasty sludgy heads to put back on the engine. I'm BEAT!!!! whew , Iwill post pics after the rain subsides....snore...

 

did some striping on the dash and wheel today.

 

camw down with a cold!!

 

Got the 429 and C6 for my 56 wagon cleaned up and ready to put in storage till I start that project.

 

Went on a road trip. My son was on his way back from Detroit, Mi. last night when his car broke down on him in Ann Arbor. So he call this morning and say's AAA won't tow it over 5 miles, WTF. After calling them (AAA) I told him to sit tight that I would hook up the trailer and come get it my self. Left Indy at 10:30am and got to Ann Arbor about 2:00 in the after noon looked at the car, found the water pump went bad loaded it up and headed back to Indy, Got home at 8:00 pm. What a good day.

 

Myself and a buddy pulled the engine from my April of 1985 Hot VW's Squareback. Moved my 49 Coupe to it's new garage.

 

Got my doors and latches in.

 

I figured/fabbed up the bed mounts on the truck, so it's bolted down for the first time.
This bed is a stude that's been shortened,narrowed,custom front panel,chevy rear stake pockets that have been pie cut from top to bottom and tops rounded,front pockets taken off and repaired,bed floor support made/raised,bed sides raidiused for tires with hammer formed lips.
It's getting there.......

 

Started putting the spindles back on my 35 chevy axle that Sid dropped for me.

Only got one side done.......too much football to watch.


Oh and I watched My Jets beat the Chargers....Unbelievable!

Gary

 

Nothing! except a bunch of empty beer bottles. waste of a 2 day weekend

 

Not H.A.M.B friendly but, I replaced the right front lower control arm and the left front axle on my daily driver Honda Civic.

 

Change the mechanical guts out in my Dodge clock to a quartz movement.

 

Put brakes on my brother-in-laws Toyota 4-runner, then installed the stereo in his Land Cruiser, watched Burt Reynolds in White Lightning on TCM, went to look at a '63 impala (4dr 6cyl, 3 on tree) and a '65 comet (NO FLOORS!). Put more oil in my truck, and re-organized my tool chest. WOW, that looks impressive, I thought I just drank beer all weekend...

 

put ford tie rod ends on my split bones.

 

sorry...nothin cool...workin' on a additional gate for the shop...trip to the wrecking yard...too much for something they're gonna scap anyway...going to another yard tomatoe...

 

Getting closer to having my fatman dropped uprights, disc brakes, and dual master cylinder on my chopped and bagged 49 plymouth. It has been interesting.

for you mopar guys that want to follow along http://www430.pair.com/p15d24/mopar_forum/showthread.php?t=18541

 

Trying to finish the rust repairs in the wheelwell to get this quarter put back together.



One other area we saw some noticeable rot in was the stiffener brace along the window opening.





As this will also help to strengthen the quarter across where we plan on welding it together, this is another candidate for repair. Here's the newly formed replacement.





Here it is test fit into place.



Where the window divider was not in bad shape, the need to remove it did damage the flanges (which were spot welded) considerably. The close reverse bends required the use of both the gooseneck upper die, and a narrow lower.









Flanges bent....





Test fit....



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