Technical What are you working on?

You've heard of the white glove treatment, well this is the blue towel treatment, no drips of fuel when I pressurized the system.
I may try and start it tomorrow if I'm not to beat up from the swapmeet, hopefully I'll unload less back into the garage.



And I also did the water drop paint treatment on top of the bed rails on the 57, to match the fenders, have to wait till tomorrow to see if that turned out.

 

I'll go with D) all the above.

 

I'd give that guy a piece of my mind lol

 

I'm putting swing out door bars on both sides.

 

Hope too have the new master cly in a few days,for my 28a. I'll vice test n check when I get it.. Want to be sure its working.before assm..in rod.
Also,try to make test rig for rear "T" line,from frame to rear/n "T"fitting,= it had what looked like a leak,was some wet .;if so replace that too. Then bleed all 4 wheels[ did I say how much I dislike bake games !!! Should be simple,but seems to act up in odd way each time somehow. My order of new master from Speedway is do here,on the 13th?. I thought I'd try to order a back up from AutoZone,{ extra can't be bad right/only a extra $75,tryting to save some time.so made a order a day ago,was told they would have in store today by 12pm,I told them I'd be there between 2pm n 3pm today,to pick up. Got there ,,nothing,guy I order from/not there ether,,,,those that are,didn't even know what I was talking about @ 2;30 Pm today. Told them great fail,good by!!! Forget it!! { wanted to %$#@#$%^,but just left! }
I'm getting old n don't like being told one thing,but zero nothing done.

 

Sorry you had to go through that. Hoping you have a fast and full recovery.

 

Holy sh!t Gimpy, that’s horrible! I recently read a post from you mentioning a wheelchair ramp but I had no idea what you’d been through.

Godspeed on your recovery.

 

Doing a set of heads for my 327.

 

Sorry to hear this Mate. I wish you all the best with your recovery.

 

It lives !!!

 

Kinda crappy video, but you get the idea.

 

No pictures but just had the gas tank fall out of my convertible, never had that happen before, a short walk to the hardware store and four ratchet straps later and we are back on the road.

 

Today, first shot at an upholstery kit for our 53 3100. Can’t be worse than it was

 

Woof ! Halfway through May... found out that I needed my head redone, should be done in another week. At least I'm back at it, using the 2 weeks that the head is being serviced to rebuild a 1969 3sp+od for a friend.

 

VERY COOL

 

@gimpyshotrods Just now saw your post. Thank goodness you're still alive man. That's a really bad deal. I'm sure it will be long and hard, but I hope you have a full recovery.

 

Beautiful day at the Empire Dragway swapmeet today, season opener with test and tune, racing fuel and burning rubber is always a pleasure.



Brought this home



Once back home this afternoon I gave the 57 bed rails a few coats of satin clear, this is one funky bed lol

 

@gimpyshotrods - You are truly fortunate to be alive. Thoughts are with you, man. I'm very glad you had the skid lid on your noggin.Yes, it probably saved your life. As horrific as your injuries are, a brain injury on top of it all would be even worse. Hope you heal quickly. Where's the fountain of youth when we need it?

 

Best day to wash the car, Mother’s Day.

 

With my stubborn determination, and one working hand, I did this:


Boost will be limited to 5psi.

The drive components are en route.

 

These two racers and the hauler !

 

Excellent
Dan

 

Parts harvesting

 

Well, looks like you got it.

 

Yep. 2.5 hours to get there. 4.5 hours to get back. Killed 2 trailer tires. Limped the last 10 miles on 3 trailer tires.
Cleaned it up some. No where near pristine but I’m good.
I want to run the end teeth with the marker lights.
Undecided on which style

use the fender trim
Or not. Bad pic
Making an end cap to finish it off wouldn’t be hard
Undecided on keeping the bottom section of the fenders

 

Anthony - Nice teefs!

 

Me and a few club members went to an old junkyard up here in the Buffalo NY area about 30 years ago. There was a DeSoto in there like this, of course all the nuts and bolts were rusted solid so I grabbed a tooth to see if I could work them loose. To my surprise the whole entire section came out at once with all the teeth and I fell right on my ass. Lol
Thanks for the memories

 

Little work done today, full mockup of the 57 bed to see what it looks like




And first start for the Henry J this year, sounds crisper with the new gasket and jets

 

Another example of CAD. I save the bottom sheet from my pallets of stove pellets. It is a nice thickness and 48" square.
I used one of the original running boards for the location of the "A" and "B" post notches and then widened the rear and extended the front the 6" needed to attach to the front fenders. I rolled a bead on the bottom lip and turned the flanges and mounted them. This is 18 gauge the same as the originals so pretty rigid, but I taped the location of possible beads.

 

Patches. More and more patches lol