Sundays are always good days to work in the shop because there are fewer distractions. I've been using the die grinder a lot lately on parts for my roadster, polishing the combustion chambers and exhaust ports on the aluminum BBC heads, as well as making the old finned magnesium Halibrand brake calipers look better, and getting my early Mor-Drop I-beam axle and an original '32 axle closer to being ready for plating. The numbness in my fingers has almost disappeared. Like every day, I updated some of the pages on my Web site, and listened to some good music. A friend recently lent me the Damnation CD by Opeth, and it's superb. I also took some pictures of my coupe and some neat old parts, and will have them on my site soon. Dave Mann Roadsters.com http://www.roadsters.com/ This message was made possible by Breyers Vanilla Fudge Brownie ice cream, the Official Ice Cream of Roadsters.com
Front u-bolts in. Heads cleaned and painted. Gaskets and master cyl on order and, oh,I left tools laying all over dv8's shop. Tim MBL
cleaned out the garage saturday when a buddy of mine showed up with a rear axle housing he needed the brackets torched off of.. did a welding job on the neighbors car trailer.. sunday tokyo, spike, and I met up with linkec at the leesport swap meet.. this was the best swap leesport ever had.. nice warm weather brought everybody out... spotted spikes old car there and bought some trinkets.. after the swap we headed back to my place were tokyo and I hung some of the rear quarter wood on the olds.. heres an update pic
Y'all I finally got it blasted and sanded enough to send to body shop and get patches welded in. I will work on loose panels and passenger door this week while the car is at shop. Judd
Worked a booth at a local car show/swap all weekend. Got a set of rims for my Buick, a new Edelbrock carb, some truck parts. A Jag parts car got delivered Thur. night. Made plans for Charlotte April 1-4. Sat on my ass and talked cars all weekend and ate car show food.....
Swapped the electronic distributor for the points in the old truck and got it running. Not much in the way of power, so I've got some other issues to deal with. Started the eceltrolysis rust removal thing on the heater for the truck. Real cool, free rust removal... After I got the truck out of the garage, I moved the '49 Fleetline in to start on it... r
Installed rebuilt rearend we went from 2.73 to 3.73 and updated my air ride in the rear new bags. Next week new Headders mufflers and tail pipes.
Got the floorpan and trunk of my car sprayed. Made an adjustable torque limiter for the engine in the Olds. Figured out my front sway bar. And helped a neighbor kid lower his umm.....well I'll say it Honda.
new tires for project "No.2" came Friday Firestones, 16x5.50 and 16x7.00 Started bead blasting the rims, got three done and had to pack it in. spent Sat and Sun at the ocean.. wife's birthday weekend. spent the whole time planning the build in my head.. does that count as progress? Paul
Blocked that Cad on Friday...then reshot another few coats of primer on it...unwrapped it Saturday and spent all day assembling the dash...Sunday spent all day cleaning, polishing and putting parts back on it...running out of time...fast...Kontinentals Austin event will be here all too quik!!! R-
Not as much as I hoped. It took me an hour to get the damn barn door open (frozen shut). Then I had to wait for Dad to get home so we could start digging my car out. 2 hours later, she was free once again. Since I really couldn't do much this trip, I at least was hoping to get the rear fenders fitted, if not Saturday, then at least Sunday. No luck though. Found out my perfect door panels are not so perfect anymore. They got wet and are ruined. Dammit.
Mocked up my frontend and found I need to Z the front rails another 2". This is good since by doing that I now have a spot to connect the hairpins. Finished cutting the boxing plates with my Z modification built in. Took the welder apart and cleaned the piece of crap out of the solenoid. Now the fucker doesn't leak argon. Cleaned my fabrication area of the garage. Went to my buddies and looked for the pistons and rods to the motor I got from him. He gave me another motor to strip. Pressed my spacers on my spindels for brakes.
Never enough. Your welcome Cody. And thanks for the bitchin pinstriped wide board. Really hadn't expected that.
Pulled the strikers, used Porta-power and a come-along to get the body aligned...too dark to see to weld, so, to be continued...
I had an eventfull weekend! The trans went out in my truck,and backed it onto ramps, as I had no forward gears.Then I proceded to back the model A out of the garage to get to my tools. While backing out I heard this tick,tick,tap,tap klunkBAMM!!"My poor 283 had broke a valve spring,dropped a valve,and cracked a piston!Then I went back to the truck,and while jerking the driveshaft out of the tranny,The truck began rolling forward off the ramps!(stupid me I didn't block the front of the tires)Well, The rear tourque arm xcaught me and rolled me from my back, to my side pinching me at the waist between a space of about10"(my waist size is 32")Needless to say, it squashed me pretty good!Luckily,my wife heard my blood-curtilling scream,and managed to jack the truck off me.After hobbling to the E.R.and luckily nothing broken,or pissing blood,I went home (very sore and bruisedto this day)This got me to thinking" I have a truck with a good 350,and a bad trans". And A good p.g. in the Model A with a dead 283" Well thats where I am today, pulling the 350 out of the truck and gonna put it in the "30 sedan.I had the 71 truck since1976, and it was rusting and crumbling away anyway, so it will become a yard art,and donor truck. So It all worked out well didn't it?? And Also I learned to Block the FRONT, and the rear of my wheels!!! Yall' be carefull!!!. Glenn
[ QUOTE ] Pulled the strikers, used Porta-power and a come-along to get the body aligned...too dark to see to weld, so, to be continued... [/ QUOTE ] And don't forget hooked a fellow HAMBer up with a genuine HAMB calender. That's worth some serious points right there. Did you dig the Jag parts car sitting in the driveway?
Yanked the 350 & tranny out of the skylark donor, forgot to drain the oil and ripped the rubber drain plug and now have frigging mess the size of the exxon Valdeze to clean up. Sliced my thumb, trimming in a door casing, helped a buddy with his drainfield and got my assed chewed out by the ole lady cause i should've been helping with the daughter in laws shower, helped my other buddy pull the 4 cyl out of his S10 to get ready to drop in a V8, put up 150ft of stockade fence, and got to meet Danny Guiyera and his 62 BubbleTop 409 drag car last night.
Put all the injection stuff back on the Fly getting ready for spring. Worked on the engine compartment on the 50....spent a lot of time in the bay like Ryan. Ever see so many freaking holes in one firewall? I welded up a bunch of em and blanked off the vent holes.
I reinstalled the flush retractable tonneau cover on my late-model Dakota after it fell in last week. I also pulled out the Noteboom Green Eggs chopper and got it running again. It died on me one late freezing-cold December night. New plugs and a few adjustments staightened it out. I then spent most of Sunday riding the thing all over the place. My butt hurts.
Been plowing away at filler work on the rear fenders and bed box, really making progress, but now that I'm a month and a half away from my event goal (Kool April Nights and the new car event in Redding), and knowing there's an extremely low chance of having Paint Shop money (and, prob'ly, paint time for them) in time, I'm looking more into going there with a primered, bodywork-mostly-done good running '57 Effie. It sucks working without a credit card, to say the least. Birthday's coming up, I'm mailing out hints in the form of Summit gift card forms... Tacky, yes: and desperate! SO, knowing that I have some work to do on the FE (replace lifters, manifold and carb, mostly, heater core too), am trying to re-tool the work timeline, so I can at least be in the event with a primered, strong-running rig, and even get some more work done on it with friends while over there. It's hard stepping-down the goal, it's not like I've been slacking. Will have project pics later this week. Today before Work I'm starting to paintstrip the doors 'n dash while cleaning up the motor.
Its was so nice sat. I got off work at noon and said goodbye the the GB for the weekend. The headed to Nads house for beers and to talk about each other!! shit man mid 70's and sunny......
Helped a buddy get his 49 ford running and thought I made a deal with dude on a 73 charger. tow truck shows up. i show up (money in hand). guy suddenly can't find the title. this he reveals only after the car is up on the flatbed and the money is in his hand. No proof of ownership!!! Are you friggin' kiddin me???!!! Car rolls back off the truck. Money returned. No Charger for me Fool did have to pay the truck driver, though
Z... Glad you like it! Yeah, I noticed the Jag sittin' there...suspension's headed all under the Buick, true? Please tell me all cool stuff at the fairgrounds was way overpriced, and that there wasn't anything cool there, anyway...I hit the ditch in the Pontiac Friday, so spent the weekend doing errands and putting it back together.
Sunday was fire up day on the 59 Caddy, didn't go so well, mouthful of 91 octane and a blowby or two later it was agreed that the fire hazard was too great. Even though it didn't run, it did fire and feels good. Nothing quite like knowing the POS you drug home has some life in it. Wiring, fuel lines and spark plugs and I should be alright.
Sunday was the first day in quite awhile I could work on the 56 Olds. Ripped all the heater boxes off the firewall & under the dash--now what do I do with all those damn holes . Pounded out the large dent in the floorboard where the gas pedal is bolted. Doing that caused an 18" section of spot welds to split open so after welding that back together it looked pretty good. Got the floorboards cleaned out-when it warms up I'll coat those with something to keep em from rusting (still mostly red oxide primer!). Cleaned the garage a bit... All in all not a bad day.
i did a whole lot of sitting around, looked at a dog that the mrs. and i may get, then got bored sitting around again and threw some scallops on my buddy's 60 bel air.
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