What OT crap are you working on

Now that one is a nice van.

 

I have restored a lot of travel trailers in my adult life What do you suppose they were thinking when they put a double sink on that little tiny counter?
I'm shocked they didn't add a garbage disposal lol
Great upgrade In my opinion.

 

My off topic project started today with a hundred mile drive each way to the beautiful San Diego area to go get this "beauty".
The paint is even worse in person I think. What's crazy is the drawers open like they are new and it even has keys and once I got there it had a few snap-on bearing pullers (That are probably from the 1940s or '50s but I'm not complaining quality is quality and I will keep those), It also came with and a handful of really junky Chinese screwdrivers.
I'm not going to go crazy on it overly restoring it since it is a 20 year old Chinese toolbox but I am however going to rough it up a little bit maybe polish the handles a tad bit. My goal is in my really crowded to car garage is to get rid of the really junky Craftsman desk (If you pulled the drawers a little hard they fall out) and one of the smaller vintage Craftsman tool boxes. I am dreading that part of the process because I have so much stuff in there that needs to be musical chairs around. I will post pictures when it is completed again it's just getting a coat of cheap Rust-Oleum paint I'm not sure if I'm going to gun it or aerosol it.

 

Okay here is the completed result I did it with rattle can rustoleum regal red. I didn't go too crazy detailing it but it definitely is usable now without looking like a county fair portable toilet.
This actually took me a little longer than I thought it would I think I got about 12 hours into it. I should have used the spray gun I think it would have saved me 20 bucks and been a lot quicker without zebra stripes but overall I am okay with the end result. Now the fun part I got to reorganize the garage to get this in there..

 

Is that an Arbor Freight box???... The name U.S. General sounds very familiar...

 

It is.
I currently have three Craftsman tool boxes in the garage and a Craftsman workbench I'm trying to combine stuff to make a little more room. This box is quite a bit bigger and It's ball bearing roller and fairly heavy gauge steel. I am hoping to get rid of the desk and one craftsman toolbox which should give me 3-4 ft of wall space.
I can't afford one of those giant 6 ft long by 6 ft tall by 2ish feet deep tool boxes made by the tool truck companies and I refuse to buy brand new Chinese So for now I figure this is somewhat of an upgrade and once I sell off the Craftsman box and workbench I should be money ahead, never in my life would I have thought I would be restoring a 2005ish toolbox.

 

1988 Samurai - everything is modified except internals on the engine. It just sits, unfortunately.

 

Got the Autolite sign on the top of this cabinet about 8-9 years ago. Got the cabinet it goes on last weekend from a local antique store that is closing. Had to make one door handle.

 

one of my current projects.

 

Working on the carb on a 2-cycle post hole digger/auger...does that count ?!
Left it yesterday and it wouldn't crank even with starting fluid in the plug hole.
Go back today and it runs-like-a-top with just ONE pull !!
(I still say those two-cycle engines have a certain amount of 'Black-Magic' in 'em !)
6sally6

 

Seems as it must be Harley powered .

 

I despise small engine two strokes (That excludes outboards and motorcycles), I've had more bad luck with small engines that are two stroke, It seems you get about 40 to 60 hours on them and they start having issues and then the parts although not expensive are pricey enough that it's hard to justify fixing them versus buying another one...

 

Let's see what it does when it gets hot again.
Change out the coil........... and get back to work on those holes. They won't dig themselves.

 

When hot 2 strokes can exhibit signs of crank seal failure. Then they run super lean. Then they burn out pistons. Then they get thrown away. Ask me how I know. Hate the noisy little buggers, except as you say in motorcycles. My first road bike was a Yamaha 250 and even with my heft on it, it would motor along real well was the tach got up near 5-6k!

 

Collecting turbo parts, have almost everything to get started.

 

Way cool

 

I pulled the heater box out of my 87 D250 to replace the heater core and found it full of leaves. I got that taken care of and put a new radiator in it also. Then it sprung a coolant leak between the block and the timing cover. I had replaced the chain about 10 years ago and it sees very little use so the plan is to clean every thing up and reassemble it with some fresh gaskets.

 

Off topic Crap...
The plumber will be starting the replacement of the entire sewer system inside of our home next week. The current system appears to be original to the house with a few additions added over the years. The bathrooms on both sides have been remodeled at least 2 times, the last was about 5-8 years ago. The house is a ranch style house built in 1954 and was originally built as a mirror image, side by side duplex. It was converted into a single family residence 30 years ago by the people we bought the house from. One side has had an ongoing issue for the last couple of years, but the entire system needs to be changed to fix that one side. I've done most of the minor plumbing here the last 22 years we have lived here, but I'm not going to tackle an entire system replacement. My participation will be writing the big check (I have not yet seen the estimate) and repairing the stuff that they have to move or remove to better route the plumbing.

There is also a slight issue between the house and the curb that will involve breaking up a front patio and sidewalk, and my wife's front flower bed. The plumber thinks fixing the inside (the current issue) may buy us more time before we have to fix the outside. That will require more businesses to be involved (like cement contractors). We will have that done before next winter, I'm not taking the chance of a problem in mid winter. That check will probably be 3x bigger then the one I'll be writing next week.

Looks like we will have another summer that may not go according to our plans. Last years plans changed because of things involving my mom, this summer changes may occur because of a shift in financial priorities.

 

I've got a couple of guys crawling around under my house replacing the old copper that kept springing leaks with PEX. At some point someone had strapped the copper up with steel straps and caused a problem but it was regularly getting pin holes in it between the straps too. Same guys are going to run a new ground since there's no more buried copper to connect to ground.

 

There is a bunch of copper tubing in our house as well, but we have a cement enclosed basement with 7' ceilings that has been dry (except for two cracked that were patched a few years ago) since we moved in here 22 years ago. Fortunately, that copper in our house looks pretty good yet.

I'm not sure I like the idea of all the plastic replacement plumbing stuff, but I suspect my checkbook is going to like the price of the plastic better then what the high grade other material that was used years ago, would cost now.

 

Camaro bird
The Kid is learning

 

I bought this thing for my daughter last summer. She loves the somewhat boxy look of 80’s / early 90’s cars. I bought it as a running and driving car. I’ve been using it as my daily driver to sort out all the issues and give it a good shake down before giving it to her. It’s been also a good teaching experience for her and even me. I’ve spent many weekends working on the ignition system, the EFI and various oil leaks. I never thought a Toyota could leak so much oil for having the low miles it has.
It runs and drives great now. It’s even a blast to drive with just the small four banger and automatic that it has.

 

Picked up a 7'x14' enclosed trailer last week from an auction. It was used by a construction company for jobsite tool/material storage. I spent this past Saturday gutting the shelving inside that must have been installed by a guy getting paid per nail/screw. It probably weighs 800lbs less now. I also repaired the ramp door spring/cable bracket that ripped apart making the back door not close (this is how I got it so cheap). It was a fairly easy few welds and a simple support bracket to reinforce the point of leverage it had causing it to break.

I have about 100' of new aluminum extrusion trim to replace the beat up stuff, as well all new LED lights showing up tomorrow, and some new tires sometime next week. Planning on clearing out of my storage unit full of tools and car parts that I've been paying on for the last 12 years, and consolidating everything into this trailer for storage and easy transport to swap meets, and it lets me free up space on my open deck car trailer and I can fit both of my trailers in my back yard.

 

My C10 was running a little rough last year when it was on engine and parts moving duty for a '69 chevelle i was rebuilding for someone and was also inheriting some stuff for a model A build. While i didnt build it for moving big blocks and flatheads and axles and the like, it handled it all surprisingly well, especially for 4 linked with coilovers all around and drag radials in the back, but it got parked in the garage for the winter and figured i would deal with it sometime. Its starting to get a little nicer out, so ive been tinkering away, rebuilt the carburetor, nothing glaringly wrong there, other than some dried vacuum caps. I donated the low mile distributor that was in it to the chevelle, since i had a nicer MSD billet one on the shelf and that gave me an excuse to put it in the truck. New slightly shorter spark plugs so i hopefully stop burning through #3 plug wires. New starter that i had on the shelf, replaced the power steering fluid since it was looking a little murky, some grease and tightened up some bolts, involuntary radiator flush when the lower water pump hose decided to pop off, and a few other little things. I have a new master cylinder i'd like to swap in, but i did manage to take the truck out this weekend for its first drive around town and moving on its own in about 7 months.

Doing truck stuff


And finally out of the garage over the weekend, could use a good bath


I built the dash and seat divider console from scratch using old pieces of scrap flat sheet metal from work. '49/50 Ford gauges and clock and alot of metal flake

 

I'm building a 360 for a buddy of mine. It's going in his Scamp. I've built at least a dozen or more 383 thru 440 motors. This thing is like just way different! Hope you have good luck on your build. Gene.

 

Which ones are you using?

 

Use to ride one of these back in the 70’s. It was green and for sale at the hardware store for a long time. Would bug mom and dad to buy it. Nope. But lo and behold, my friend down the street had cooler parents. They bought it.

 

Started doing some of the custom touches on the outside of the new enclosed trailer to make it my own & stand out to make it less desirable to attempt to steal!

God Bless
Bill
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