Recent content by CopperNick

+!00 on flux core. For me it is strictly for use outside in the ambient environment where there is air movement and if dealing with things such as steel fence posts and such like. I will admit to using flux core when I did the first series of repairs on the frame of my Monte, but did go to...

So it looks like I am not the only one having fun? with rocker panels............................. Did manage to retrieve the radiator for my M/Carlo back from the Rad Service shop today. The bite was 146.00 and for that they did the pressure test, found and repaired some damage, purged the...

So while I was waiting for the panel to succumb to all the pressure I had applied to it, i decided to do some work fitting and tacking on a project that I had on the welding deck. Today's subject is an extended kick stand that I had brought in to be installed on my HD bagger. While...

So I gave in to the urge to engage in some minor OCB (Obsessive Compulsive Behaviour :D) and applied some more heat to the duct side panel. Didn't concentrate it in any one particular area, just warmed the whole thing up. And then.............. Just by way of trying to...

If that bending tool that is sitting on the long leg of what might be an engine puller in the picture is your weapon of choice for bending tube then yeah, kinks and flattened tube diameter can be a consequence. I have one of that style of my own and tend to leave it in the kit box that I have...

Had one for a while before I bit the builder bullet and built my shop. Got it put up and then along came a thunder/windstorm. Found it two doors down the alley and wrapped around the power line pole. Drug the whole mess back, took the roof over to the local tarp and marine tonneau cover mfgr...

Rude and Rowdy, SWEET!! Love that rumpity-lumpity idle. Might have to watch the plugs for fouling due to load up while the mill does its thing. Nick

Popped the trunk lid all the way open to see if the upper rad mounting brackets had been stashed in there; they weren't but I did find the other side panel to the air induction duct for the radiator. I had drilled out the rivets, probably before Covid, because the first trial fit of the front...

Well, you were right about that link and the info that it contained. Funny thing here is that the rear sway bar in my S-10 came out of an S-10 that was being scrapped and the arms to the sway bar face to the rear. The end links and their mounting brackets even lined up with existing holes in...

So Blazer as in the more door semi station wagon version of the S-10/S-15 P/U's? Cause I do happen to have put one of them into my S-10 and it was pretty much a bolt in. Nick

OKay, more interesting information to work through. Any suggestions as to who offers a frame mounted sway bar or anti-roll bar kit? As for the upper control arm frame mounts, I doubled them with heavy steel washers a while back because the factory ears were both flimsy and original. Nick

Sounds like it is time for you to be an innovator. Nick

Okay, back in the synopsis of what to look for when dealing with an LS swap into a g-body chassi, there was a brief paragraph on the topic of oil pans, which included a comment about something called "the Holley Swap Pan". Anyone happen to know what part number that falls under? From several...

:LOL:. Welcome to the saga of my memory and how it systematically deletes everything that it believes I might find useful at some point in the indeterminate future. Nick

So, okay, stewed or slow cooked, smoking brisket and then shrredding it would fall in line with that. Personally the slow cooked pot roast thought appeals to me slightly more. Around here, finding someone who knows how to properly slow smoke meat can be a challenge. Nick