Technical What are you working on?

Yep. She encourages it

 

Me too.
It’s fun in drive thrus
Gets strange looks

 

Today, I replaced injectors in an O/T Ford F-550. At home, I’m putting an old Harley back together.

 

Getting my coupe ready for the trip to Speedweek. Checking everything...

 

The joy of sorting out an upper radiator hose on a blower motor with the radiator lower than the engine.

 

A carport to park more junk under.

 

Gas prices got me thinking about a 4 cylinder hot rod engine. So I located a Mercruiser 3.0 Chevy II type engine . Has the big port head and I got a set of forged 327 pistons that will be fly cut for zero deck. Building my own intake manifold and the twin 48 DCOEs should be here tomorrow

 

I have a thread talking about this one, but mainly working on my son’s Edsel right now. Still trying to finish swapping the engine. Been busy and hot lately, so not going as fast as planned.

 

I am a little a.d.d, so i like to work on 3 or 4 at a time. I have been on the healey, the 34, and the 32 for a year. This weekend I was cleaning up, and started piling together parts, by the end of the weekend, i had another project.

 

Been restoring a pair of Carter AFB's for a dual quad set up. Including my own Zink plating/Chromate. Thinking of doing a thread on it.

 

Those kill switches are a great idea, easy to see and access. Very nice fab work overall.

 

I am trying to get this tuned up.

And tore down my avatar. Lloyd I will need all the glass on my coe!

There are other projects in the shop but these are the main two right now.

 

Starting the upholstery, paint's next, chrome when the prices go down. Gona have me a Ray Vega Valley Custom Shop looking tub with tooled seat caps and 41 Chevy Ruby Maroon paint


Gona wind up looking a lot like this, the "Ray Vega" Valley Custom Shop 38 Ford tub

 

YES! PLEASE do a thread on the plating setup!!

 

I chopped my '33 3 1/2 inches and am now working on everything else. This was a running car but I turned it into a project. It will have a few OT features for comfort and reliability because as a certified old fart I'm past the point of arriving (or not) at my destination feeling like I've been dragged 600 miles in an oil drum.

 

this

 

Got the weber 48 DCOE's , milled the flanges for the head , tomorrow I will build a jig for the head to bolt too . Will post some pics as it comes together. Time to start shopping for a cam.

 

I'm working on everybody else's junk. Went through a late model O/T pickup for my office manager's son, rebuilt the carb on my town's 1937 Dodge Brothers antique firetruck, next up is a coworker's 1954 Chevy pickup needs a tune because it's been off the road for 20 years and he needs it NOW, and then there's the guy with the Austin Healey 3000 that I need to look at his SU carbs to get it running right. My car has been reliable and well behaved, so I can do this.

Devin

 

Rebuilding the surge brakes on my new old trailer, hoping to make it look period behind my 53

 

Cleaned the EAB-B heads today just dry polished with the die grinder and cleaned up the Carter WCFB Carburator I got with the heads my they look dandy on Flo . Called Dick at Engine Machine Services and made a shopping list he said , " Get it all and be ready in 3 months so gives time to prep the block somemore and have more fun

 

Worked n my friends stuff today…..tomorrow…..going to stay in the house ! 108 with 60% humidity! Not going out!






Bones

 

trying to get the paint on my truck, but seem to be working all week. Sunday was an emergency plumbing repair for
a friend of the better half, yesterday was electrical work for an old customer, today is back to finish the plumbing work, thurs is more electrical for her parents, Fri is back to the old customer. Did I mention I am retired? At least
it funds the truck.

 

Everybody look busy...
Lloyd's back.

 

Painting and putting this together, retiring in three more Mondays. Hopefully selling this will make my first year of retirement a slightly better cash flow

 

Asshole's and elbows bitches! Lmao!

 

Got a list of 9 things to fix including installing and electric fuel pump, readjusting the wishbones etc etc.

 

Pizza as I thumb thru this place.

 

Retirement.

 

Finished the rewire/12 volt conversion on the Ranch Wagon. Only a couple of minor issues and the smoke is still in the wires. Getting ready to pull the 302/AOD for a trip to the rebuilders.

 

Finally getting some time in working on the 37 Ford Ute. It was taken off the road for some body rust repair and repaint about 9 years ago. You all know the paint shop hell stories and how long it can seem to take. Well, paint got done almost 5 years ago, then moved cross country, and the car was put int the garage and sat there until past few weeks. Of course been busy on other project cars, other old car maintenance and house/garage things, but glad to have the 37 Ford Ute getting back together. Test fired off the engine for the first time today. Been since 9 years ago that it ran. Still long time to be finished, as the whole car is being rewired, all new glass, and several upgrades on other areas. But progress is being made on it finally.