Cut down the steering column in dad's 48 chevy so that it will hook up to the S-10 steering. Modified the dash to get rid of the cut-out for the column and shift.....ended up doing away with the stock gauge openings too (dash was cracked from past use/abuse) Made a slick column drop bracket to hang the column down where it needs to be. Installed the Lokar shifter, so I can figure out what my floor/trans tunnel needs to look like.
Pulled the engine, grill, & drip rail out of a '54 bowtie on Saturday. Also found out that previous owner didn't believe in pulling dents. That's what bondo's for, right?? He just filled in the dents w/ plastic....SO, it's gonna take a bit of patience to get her back down to bare steel and work out the kinks in the sheet metal. All in all, not a bad day though.
Yeah....who would have thought? When I got it there was lots of dry spray and rough areas that made it hard to wipe clean.....I finally got around to wetsanding it and then I'm hitting it with a buffer and some #7 rubbing compound. I cant believe the difference......I was laughing out loud in the garage yesterday as I was buffing. I'll try and get some pics tomorrow if it stops raining.
installed a new clutch slave (ok...finished up on fri) on my '58 daily and yanked the steering column/steering box outta my '60 F100.
Cleaned a pile of **** including what looks like a 4" strip of a gasket out of the 63 farm truck's gastank. Hopefully I wont have to do another 4mile walk when the fuel filter clogs again. Brett
I now have power windows in the ol' bird. I've been driving around for over six months with no windows installed at all. Now, I need to get the door solenoids in And the beat goes on.
Put some miles on the roadster. Mocked up the motor in Chandlers Pontiac and just about got the steering finished on Roberts Coupe
completely rebuilt the brake system in the new project truck. It has been sitting for about 9 years. Got enough done that we rolled it around the block for the first time, steering is scarry as hell. So now its time to figure out what type of front end I am going to run before I waste money rebuilding the stock ford box. Drove it today only to find that I had "milky oil" running out of one of the rocker covers. So it looks like next weekend I get to pull the head and replace the gasket. If its not one thing its another I suppose.
Went out to Catlin and hauled a bunch of my grandpa's furniture back to Champaign. The coolest is probably the dresser he built in 1932 when he was in high school. Talk about overbuilt. My mom was cleaning out the attic while we were there, and I was able to fill in a lot of details from the stories he told me last summer. Saturday morning, I was finally able to finish painting a bunch of engine parts. Then my dad and I put the head back on the 235. Got the head all bolted in, cleaned the rocker ***embly, and got the rockers and pushrods reinstalled, but then I had to head out for my father-in-law's birthday. My father-in-law races some late model something or other (S2000 if I remember correctly), so he gave me the tour. It's a pretty cool piece of engineering. Slept in Sunday morning, then bought some roofing supplies and headed over to my parents' house to measure our new furniture and pick my dad up. Back at the house that will soon be ours, Mrs. Stickfigure checked to see where our furniture will fit while my dad and I repaired a big hole in the garage roof. About the time we got the tarpaper down (which I forgot to get a picture of), we realized that the new shingles do not match the old shingles, so I'll be finishing that up tonight or tomorrow.
Spent the whole freaking weekend loading a trailer, pulling a trailer and un-loading a trailer. I'm helping my sister move 300 miles South to CC Texas. Hate it, but she is my sis and you all know how that goes..
FINALLY dis***embled/torched up the '29 sedan rolling ch***is that's been occupying space on our car trailer. Can't wait to get rid of all that and a bunch more car junk at the Hot August Nights swap meet.
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