Took four screws out of a Model T door! Man that shit was rusty! Degreased a motor that was given to me. Fucked off in general.
Took advantage of the TROPICAL Michigan weather (sunny and into the 40s...a December heatwave!) and went out to work on the old 49 Chevy. Unbolted and removed what was left of the old battery tray and tossed it. Then, cut out the rusty remains below it to make a nice, rectangular hole where the new universal heavy plastic tray will go after I make up some supports and cover the hole with some fresh sheetmetal. Also pulled off some more underhood stuff I won't need...the old voltage regulator, it's wiring harness and other random bits and pieces as well. Made some quick measurements under the hood and inside the car to figure out motor mounting and brake pedal configurations. My Performance Bodies catalog lists a slick brake pedal/master cylinder assembly that mounts the two small Howe master cylinders backwards on a hung pedal. I thought that such a design would put the master cylinders in an unaccessable location, but with the stock radio removed, I should be able to reach through a folding access door I'm installing in the dash to fill the brake fluid. Not 100% sure that I want to go with the race car brake pedal assembly yet, but it looks like it might work out pretty well. The tech guys at Performance Bodies know their shit and can tell me if this is a good idea or not! Got the clutch pedal freed up a little bit. My brother-in-law showed me a cool adapter that allows use of the stock three speed behind a small Chevy (or 250 six, 153 four, etc!). Just another option to ponder! This car amazes me so far...it's really rusty, yet none of them long dormant bolts seems to put up much of a fight...I've had newer cars where every dam bolt breaks...but this car is very helpfull...I think it WANTS to be driven again!! Also bought some small electrical odds and ends to help me re-wire this thing!
[ QUOTE ] i started stripping the 50 down last night and all day today..didnt find any suprises,which is cool. but made a mess of the entire garage.. Got home from work on Thursday, Shit, sat on the couch for 15 minutes, shit again, didn't leave the bathroom ALL weekend!! Inother words, Shit and Puke all weekend....FLU!! BUTT, I love the Bike!!! I am doing one similar to that for the Wife right now. Wanna sell that one so I have a matched set??? (O.K., I guess I just set myself up for a good one right there.....)
Kustomolds, probably to late by the time you read this ,theres still a few minutes left on one http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2210948745&category=420 actually ,theyre on ebay quite often i love mine.
all in all a good haul. A bunch of NOS GM stuff. A bunch of 40 Ford (?) stuff. NOS bumpers, a set of Nova fenders. A bunch of stuff. I'm gonna inventory it all tomorrow or Tue. Most of it will probably fo up for grabs on here first. I still have more to get. But made sure I got the majority of the good stuff this load. I love cleaning out old shops...
Cleaned out the garage so that I can at least get to the shelves on the far wall. Fixed two problems with the daily driver that have been hanging around far too long. Educated myself in the fine art of aluminum polishing, still a rookie but I am determined (I guess the big bucks I dropped on having some other pieces done for the Merc made a believer outta me)...
Finally got my '33 pick up inside. A neighbor go's to FL every year and i keep my '57 in his garage, all i have to do is plow it to make it look like somebody's still there. Other than that, nothing. I hate winter....no motivation. Rat..
It is unseasonably warm around here, so I took advantage and went to a junkyard way up in the hills. Got some exhaust manifolds for a V8 in a 54 chevy...and a Factory alum.2x4 intake with carbs...the numbers say its a '56 or '57,. Found a bunch of other stuff I want but only had enough cash for the intake and exhaust.
Yanked out my generator....really should degrease my engine...about 1/2 inch thick in crap at the generator mounts! Pulled it to pieces and cleaned out acrbon crap and such...rescored the ribs on the main drummy bit and reassembled..seems to charge right now...
Well went over to Titus's today and got the brake assembly mounted on the wifes t. Now i gotta wait for more money to come in to order more stuff for the t but hea were getting closer every weekend
I actually made enough room to get my car into my garage. The only one on here that will understand how big of a feat this actually is will be Kritz... But it was no small chore! Now I'm trying to muster enough energy to go start yankin' the motor out (gonna re-ring it); but I have a BAD sinus infection, and I'm on quite a cocktail of meds right now; so I might just opt for a coma...
I worked on testing my new blower. I messed with the carb jets, just pluggin along very methodically. I've picked up 10MPH at the 1/8mi so far. It's looking good and all the connecting rods stayed inside the block. I'm a happy camper.
I replaced my main sewer line from the house to the steet[75 feet] and while I was at it had the backhoe guy take out 5 trees in the front yard. anybody need any firewood? also put up some fence and a gate. I've never got this much done around the house in one weekend but I'm about to collapse from exhaustion.
I got the old exhaust off, the new headers on, the fuel lines bent and installed, and the linkage set up. That was a good weekend!
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