What OT crap are you working on

Spent 2 hrs this afternoon making room to bring camaro home...its still miserably hot and humid here...glad its home , that was a full year of trials and tribulations. I had a similar car when I was 24 . Definitely a bucket list deal

 

Couple of tailgates. Black escalade for a 2 door Tahoe conversion. And a gold/caramel, kandy red two tone.

 

That's one fine looking garage sir.....

 

What did a Tokyo Hatsudoki later (tohatsu) KD type B J device power unit from 1941 japan power?

We don’t know. I have abandoned American keywords and search terms and started translating Japanese. Still don’t know.

I loose sleep at night wondering if this is a failed bike engine that was supposed to compete with Soichiro Honda’s 1946 A-type.

We all know in 1941 Soichiro made piston rings in the Mitsubishi factory. When he wasn’t building piston rings was he just moved over to the ignition coil line? it’s crazy the labeled ignition coil on this little two stroke was made in the Mitsubishi factory in 1941… When the war ended Soichiro knew where to get those engines. He used the smaller more compact belt drive 50cc’s



I have so much translated manuals pictures and have searched far and wide. The bigger Tokyo Hatsudoki 100cc with two speed gearbox seems to have went truly undo***ented. Sad really.

(I feel I will never find answers)

I did get it running though so I guess that’s cool. (I can get any piston out of any bore and un-seize any ring set all in a days work)

Why have Mitsubishi copy American OMC corporation magneto’s but not copy the OMC flywheel? I just don’t understand why have Mitsubishi rip off the American coil have Tokyo Hatsudoki make the 100cc engine mold then bolt an American made OMC flywheel and just stamp over OMC with Japanese lettering like they were trying to hide the OMC lettering? So weird.

 

Teaching myself LibreCad because delenda est Autodesk, after 30 years plus. It's frustrating to concentrate more on how to draw than on what to draw.

 

Drain and refill on cooling systems in our F350 diesel truck . Just over 6.5 gallons of coolant in the engine radiator and the inter cooler radiator system.

 

Worked on my pan some today and got it starting easy and running pretty good. But, noticed the carburetor was dripping and found that I need a new bowl gasket. Getting closer…

 

I have a bad habit of writing a lot so I'm going to attempt not to do that
My 2005 Dodge pickup I got hit by a drunk driver a year ago.
The driver did not have enough insurance to cover my pickup truck and the travel trailer I was towing so I got stuck with a lousy $5,000 check but I got to keep my truck I guess.
Here is the photo of my truck smashed and here is the photo that my buddy took of me at Pick-A-Part earlier today getting the parts to repair my pickup truck that I did not want to work on.
Since the smash photo was taken I have since fixed the suspension it steers and it can go around the yard, I took the door off and I did a lot of measuring, it looks like it's all cosmetic damage now so I waited roughly a year to find the same color truck (I did not want to repaint the truck) it was at a junkyard here in Southern California not too far from home and one finally popped up luckily on a half price weekend so I made a beeline and pulled the parts here is a photo of all the **** I cut off. I took the front bumper, right fender right front door, rear right door and the big body chunk you see sitting on the ground. It was about $330 including the core charges I guess that's not bad. The quart of paint once I get the door jamb area all patched back up will probably cost 200 bucks... I guess five or 600 bucks isn't a lot of money considering the amount of damage it took and I guess that is the one thing I can claim is a win out of this terrible situation.
I am not looking forward to this project I want to play with my model A and my 1975 Dodge tin grill not my 2005 Dodge tow rig but man do I need a truck okay that's enough for typing its still longer than I wanted to do.

 

Making progress on my heap





So many hours spent searching for bolts/small parts ... over and over and over through the same bunch of bags.

 

That's one cool heap! I have lots of great memories riding in a couple buddies B body Mopars when I was still in high school. I was always a GM guy, but those B body Mopars were a ton of fun!

 

Wheel bearing went out on the disk . Messed up the threads on the spindle. Got to use the helper I made . It supported the extension on the big ratchet as I removed the lug nuts .Then it supported the punch as I tried to drive the spindle out of its socket

 

So…amazing how this place actually works sometimes. A friend from California I met here sends me pics this evening of how he byp***ed the AC compressor on his wife’s daily driver to get the car back going until they can put a new compressor on. Anyway, gets me to questioning doing the same on a vehicle that has been sitting since the compressor locked up back in March when I drove to Kansas to pick up a front clip for a 63 Galaxie that I helped another friend from here find (both the car itself and the front clip since he needed a better hood). Anyway, just fixed the daily driver vehicle that has been sitting since March all based on some comments and pics from another HAMBer this evening that got me to thinking…. I had the thoughts back in March but didn’t chase it to the point of actually finding a belt that would work.

Oh, and another HAMBer is who hooked me up with that Galaxie front clip!

Gotta love this place and the friends that come from here!

 

made progress on the 62 C10

 

Talk nice to the Ole Girl , she’ll be a keeper

 

Wow ! Not sure I could fix that with 3 Union Body Men and a Priest on hand !

 

Still chasing Tony Tiger , fresh engine and trans are all in one piece ready to install now . Soon he will have a heart again .

 

A 1984 AMC Eagle. Got it running great now. Going onto the brakes next.

 

I called a friend who has a welding business to help me with the spindle removal. I had drilled a 3/8 hole followed by a 3/4 bit through the area of the spindle that sits in the sleeve. I attempted to wash it out with a torch with out any luck . Jody showed up and it took him 2 hours to blow a slot through it . Then we were able to drive it out . Before I installed the new spindle I coated everything thing with a coat of never seize

 

When I was a young talented man I have blown the junk from a broken rusted nut and reused the nut . Mind you it was large diameter flange bolts and nuts . Those days are gone for me eyes and talent has faded . The term shake and bake has a new meaning

 

That was the parts truck at Ontario California Pick-A-Part although my truck wasn't much better here is a picture of my toilet about 2 weeks after it got hit when the insurance people asked me for photos.
In a moment I will post my current progress

 

Okay so here is my project as it progresses honestly it's not terrible...
I am by no means a body man both of the front door hinges were pushed in at roughly a 45° angle I took the old door hinges that were pretty mangled I trimmed them up into so-called pull plates and then I used my 1975 Dodge's hitch and a come along to pull most of the damage out then I used a harbor freight uni-spotter dent puller thing a ton of hammers and some pliers after about 15 hours and a million spot welds pulled this is where I am at as of about 3 hours ago.
I am thinking tomorrow afternoon I might be able to reskin it.
My picture a posted a few days ago was of the truck at the junkyard that I cut it's a B pillars out of.
My truck I think I managed to completely straighten all the inner structure the outer structure was definitely a little too far gone but all it is, is spot welded.
The frame appears to be perfect, the front fender supports actually look pretty good I replaced the front bumper although everything is loosely together it looks pretty good and I also bought the two doors off the truck in the junkyard.
I would imagine by Friday or so you won't know the truck got in an accident.

I would have liked to have been paid out and just replaced the truck but a $5,000 check doesn't buy much of a pickup truck these days at least not one capable of towing a car trailer.
So instead I was totally irresponsible and I spent a good portion of that money on my model A and I'm going to use sweat equity fix my pickup since I know the condition of it so far everything seems to be working out a okay.
I will report back in a few more days if anybody has some valid advice that they think they need to give I am always all ears to hear it because I am not a body man although so far I am impressing myself it's coming out a lot nicer than I thought it would with a lot less cutting and hacking.

 

Nice work on that Ram!!

 

Wow excellent work , I have one of those . An 05 3500 single wheel CTD 39K on the clock

 

When I originally bought it I had no intention on keeping it (I was going to flip it) but it really is a good platform and I have had it probably six or seven years already, when I bought it the engine was bad I found a turn key replacement at a junkyard in Kentucky and had it shipped to Southern California (I think it was 1,800 bucks shipped to a warehouse around the corner from my house at the time I would say that was a pretty good deal).
Anyways the 02-09 rams are fairly comfortable to drive, I can fit my fat friends in it and there is plenty of room for our swap meet stuff and it tows pretty good (mine is a half ton hemi, I think I am going to put helper bags on it if my repair works out). I got a buddy with a long bed 3500 ***mins that I think is an 03 it too is a great truck.
I love my vintage cars from the '30s through the '70s but I have to say from an engineering standpoint the mid 1990s through about 2010 ish vehicles are just good generally speaking that is part of the reason why I am fixing my pickup outside of getting hit I had absolutely no complaints with it, up until this truck all I had ever owned were pickups from the '60s and early 70s. (I still like those trucks but they are crude compared to the 05 Ram).

 

Thank you. Every time I think I got it done I realize there's still more damage I didn't take any photos today but that panel you see with all the sanding I cut it off I kind of wish I just would have did it to begin with because I grabbed all that stuff from the junkyard and it is all perfectly straight I was just trying to avoid all the worlds.
The plus side is I just checked it with my sheet metal gauge a little bit ago everything is 16 gauge so it's crazy thick so it's going to be super easy to weld up.