Projects bilding a motor inside your house

This has been in a few livingrooms over the years

 

ive built a few motorcycle motors in the house as well.
fully assembeled some honda z 50's right on the coffee table while watchin t.v.

also have used the bathtub area as a spray booth as a kid. got busted for that one, lol


skull

 

I rebuilt a TH350 on the kitchen table and washed wheels and other parts in the dishwasher. Wife still doesn't know because I would never do it when she was here... I'm not stupid.

 

2 brothers in our hot rod club rebuilt a Ford flathead in the 2nd floor of their 2 family back in the early 60's
Their mom left the house one afternoon to go shopping and they decided to light it up.
The two of them ran downstairs and grabbed a 6v. battery and some gas out of the back yard ,dashed back upstairs with some 2x4's and bricks to steady it and proceeded to light it off.
Only problem was mom returned home too early.
Neither of the boys could figure how to shut the engine off once they got it running.
She's pounding up the stairs in the now smoke filled house, fearing the worst and the brothers just drag it (still running) to the upstairs French door and toss it out the door, slide it across the roof, and let it drop to the ground.
Yep..........they were grounded for life!

 

Common guys we have garaged for a reason. How redneck can this possibly get

 

Yeah, not so much. Right after my divorce, I had very little cash so I bought a little 800 square foot farmhouse for back taxes. I had no garage so I built several motorcycles in a back bedroom. Redneck or not, no garage made me improvise.

 

When I first got out of the Army in the early '70s , the wife and I rented a 1/2 double in up scale Indy west side, I need to rebuild my 390 FE motor in my car no garage, pulled the motor in the driveway, had friends help me carried it into the ulity room and rebuit it there. Man was the landloard pissed when he found oil stains on the hardwood floors.

 

Never rebuilt an engine, but I did prep and paint (rattle can) some parts one time in a spare bedroom (it was the middle of winter without a heated garage). I thought I was being smart by putting a fan in an open window so that it blew air out. And I put towels at the bottom of the door to keep the fumes from migrating into the rest of the house.

Unfortunately, it didn't work....... The wife came home from work to a house full of paint fumes and was PISSED........ Can't really blame her either, but I was desperate. Secretly, I figured a butt-chewing was a small price to pay for a decently warm place to work. Didn't press my luck and try it again though.

 

Many times ... I also rebuilt a motor in a motel room ... racd it again the next day.

 

I use to rebuild vw bug engines in the kitchen all the time. They fitted nicely under the table.

 

funny storys, my wife would cut my balls off, dose a dishwasher make a good partswasher

 

No cars, but when I was single, I had a two room house. Not two bedrooms, but two rooms.

I built two shovels and a pan in there, and several motors.

 

I built my first 426 Hemi mext to the couch in my first apartment...my second was in the kitchen. Several bikes in several rooms along the way too.

 

when i was a kid growing up my dad and i would assemble racing go kart engines on the table in the kitchenette. my mom would be made as fire but dad would say i need a dust free environment to put this motor together! he would tear it back a part every week just to check the ring gap and wear

 

When i was in Cal. I built a set of heads in the living room EX Wife was not pleased the only reason I didn't do the hole motor was I didn't have help to get it up stairs. notice i said EX

 

I built a VW motor in the bathtub when I was 18, easy mess to clean up, but mom was still pissed.

 

So would mine, that's why she doesn't know. The dishwasher does OK but I've never used it on anything very dirty. Mainly just final cleaning before painting. The heated dry cycle is nice to keep stuff from flash rusting. Wipe it down with mineral spirits and then paint.

When I did the trans I kept everything in big covered roasting pans I got at yard sales/flea markets. I did it inside because it 90 some degrees outside and it was much easier in the AC. Trans parts never touched the table. I may be a redneck but I'm a thoughtful one.

Can't paint in the house though, learned early on that she has a nose that would put a blood hound to shame. Was painting in the basement once and she was on the second floor and came storming down about the smell.

 

I've done some carb rebuilds on the kitchen table in the winter.
But I do know of at least one guy who builds SBC 350's in his kitchen.

 

Built a mini bike in my front room, thats about it.

 

what is it about building triumphs in the house LOL...add me to that list. wet sanded the tank in the tub,tore the motor down in the kitchen,final assembly in the living room..i did fire it outside though..................dave

 

I've washed machine shop parts in the dishwasher before I sent them out for finishing. I've done a couple of carbs too, took them all apart and ran them by themselves, I'd catch hell for mixing them with the dishes.

Bob

 

Well I have built OT motorcycles in the basement, but last winter i was welding in the basement sink...don't ask.

 

I knew of guy who, when he was only 15, took piece by piece a motor to his bedroom and built it because it was the only good place around to work on it. The problem was, his room was on the second floor. I have no idea how he got it down the stairs. I don't know why this didn't occur to him when he was hauling everthing up stairs. He works wonders with a pontiac though.

 

My wife complained when she married me and moved in. I had a 350 chev. short block in the living room and my 39 hood and front fenders in the dining room.Now 23 years later she has long since gotten over it and does not complain. I currently have a dash board in our bedroom.

 

I thought when I was growing up everyone built bikes in the houses. I guess in a freezing Ohio winter it's the best place to do it. I know my neighbors down the street were into dirt bikes,and their entire house and garage was full of bikes and parts. I have an entire house full of car parts now, my wife doesn't complain, I treat her good, so she lets me get away with it. currently have a dashboard on the coffee table in front of the couch, watching tv and building wiring harnesses.

 

those guys sound like dumb asses for not knowing how to shut down a motor after bilding it

 

Just Carb's and Bikes in the house for me. Remember one night in high school I'd left a carb soaking in a bucket of carb cleaner in the bathroom, the smell was pretty bad and Dad woke up about 2:00 in the morning, went trucking bare ass naked through the house, and pitched all my parts out on the porch.

 

Nice image, thanks.

 

You just became my hero

 

When I was 15, I bought a 55 ford coupe with a 272 Y-block. We had no garage and it was winter, so I got a couple of friends over and carried the shortblock down to and then later out of the basement strapped to a ladder!! My Mom nearly pissed her pants laughing at us.