Technical What are you working on?

Great job on that wheel!

 

Any idea what the shifter boot is from ?Thank you

 

Besides working on an appe***e....i cleaned the engine compartment on the Vicky...hundreds of suicidal bugs under the hood and on the firewall...

 

We were working on the door bars for my V8 Corvair. It was almost time to leave…..had a bright idea, let’s put the rpu body on the frame just to see how it all fits together. It covers the jag rear so no one can complain. I think it looks great at this point

 

Working on our 33-34 Ford frame. Bending the front part, it's 4" kickup and I think we will stretch the wheelbase to 125" for racing. Left side done, right side tomorrow evening.

 

Sacrificed a heater box to make a heater delete panel.

 

Sacrifice??? It looks like you might have done it a favor, Lol!

 

mocked up oil lines. I'll make the permanent ones today. Rebuilt the starter and generator to.

 

Back on my upholstery job. I will finish the backrest today and take another stab at the cover for the bottom cushion. It looks just okay, but I think I can do better.

 

Making progress, pretty happy considering I’m a spanner monkey that’s never really done much sheet metal work before.

 

nice job, looks like you got the hang of it!

 

Finally hit the last of the hard things to do on my V8 Corvair. It has gotten real serious
next up get rid of all the metal flake paint !!!!!!!

 

Making a big batch of red chili pork tamales.

 

Brought the wide whites out of the shed, put ‘em on, charged up the battery and was tidying it up for the first show and shine of the season (funny enough it’s called the Spring Thaw). Usually walking around with a coffee and catching up with dudes you don’t see all winter. Good times.
That was yesterday….today I’m back on shovel duty. Good news is that it will all melt in the next 48 hours. Then I’ll put the hubcaps on and fire it up.
Living this close to the Rockies is awesome.

 

Working on a few beers at the moment.

 

I'm working on a list of things to look for at the May 1 swap meet in Lawrence, KS, waiting for a friend to cut and install gl*** for my '29 Model AA and staying alert for the next round of tornado weather. Monday an F-2 slammed Hillsdale, KS, only about 10 miles west of us. If it had stayed on the ground it would have clobbered us. More forecast for Friday. I'll do what I can to keep it from heading your way. As usual, whatever you're cooking up makes me salivate.

 

Eating pork carnitas and studying electrical schematics of the Dart. Going to eliminate the ammeter.
Dan

 

The weather has been on high alert around here also. Us being on the upper hills of the east side of the river seems to make the really bad stuff tend to split just before it get to my place. Must be why the roads name is Mt Pleasant

 

I need to put the pork carnitas in the rotation again as I do like them.

 

Mopar Amp Meters are fire traps , great thinkin to trash it

 

Painting some parts semi gloss black. Works out well having semi gloss black patio furniture, lol.

 

For a second there I thought it was Grandpa Monster flying over those lawn chairs.

 

Getting there, some small pieces still to make then il try not to ruin it with filler, sealer and paint!
Ended up having to pretty much remove and remake the inner and outer rocker for this door section all from flat sheet.

 

Body work coming along, lots of bullet holes dents a more dents.

 

I removed and repainted my headers this morning. Degreased the engine, and touched up the Chevy Orange paint. It looks great from about 50 feet away.

 

replaced upper a arm bushings on the sunliner

 

Just got off the phone with Mac VanPelt. If USPS is still in business, the transmission in the '48 should have a whole bunch of new internals very soon. Turns out that my non-shifting ****** problem was with the broken Long-style 11" pressure plate. I had a 10-inch flywheel resurfaced and got a new clutch/PP combo from Felton's in Chattanooga. The 1/16th -inch wear on the driver's side of the clutch fork cross shaft didn't help either. Didn't wear through the bushing, just the shaft. Kind of weird.

 

Putting the finishing touches (finally) on this 341 Desoto for my 3W....been a long time coming but hey we all know how it goes. Ported heads, hyd roller, Peter Williamson 2x4, with a 5 speed going behind it. Tried using some red flake on it, came up a treat.

Should be fun