WOW! Man, have we been busy! THe crew ran down in Haystack Oregon and took the 8 second trophy. My wife and I were gonna run the bus over to MarDon for the summer close party, but the Thursday we were leaving, I checked the oil on the bus and it was overfull. That's never good, so I ran the Bus to the shop and since it was warmed up, it made sense to go ahead and pull the pan, because in the 92 series Detroits, will tell you where the problem is, if the cooling system is under pressure by looking up at the liners. So I did. Kind of a mistake, but there was coolant migrating around one of the liners and that means pulling the heads and liners. That kinda put me in a rotten mood, so I went home and had a beverage. Maybe two. I cancelled our weekend party and figured I would work on the bus over the weekend.
The next day, Tony Skagen called me and told me they has a Motel room available and I said, "Screw it! Let's go boating" I hurriedly started getting ready and in my mail drop was a new Tachometer for the wagon, so I thought, hell, I'll toss in a tach and be ready. Well, we all know how easy things are in the Gbodies, it didn't go as planned, but I DID prevail and have an accurate tach now. Then it was a quick bearing check on the trailer. One bad set was discovered. Hundred bucks later and an hour, my wife says she is ready to roll
The party was great, lots of fun, saw a ton of people did a bunch of boating and a few donuts on the beach in the wagon. Came home and spent the next nine days fighting the Detroit in the bus, I did a complete in frame. Liners, bearings, all the o-rings and fire rings naturally. Runs GREAT now.
I told Finnegan I would build him a Stainless Steel Street legal dolly trailer for his new Drag Boat. So, here's what I have been working on for the last almost three weeks. I have almost $8500 in parts alone and it will be another $3K in polish before I bonzai down to Bakersfield for delivery.
Getting layed out and tacked
Initial inner frame
Coping detail
Trailing arms. Polished 304 SS
Tacking to the Axles after narrowing
Coping the fenders into the frame rail. This is a particularly cool, unique part of this build
It's coming together
Time for clean up
Mocking up the low ride
Bags and trailing initial location
Fabbing out the shock mounts and Trailing arm locations
Welding in the shock mounts
Panhard bars, 4340 Chromemoly and Jhonnie Joints
Panhard mounting points
The Ride height control valve
Upside down on the table for weld out
Starting the hard lines for air supply
...and that's as far as I got today- I will post up the rest of the build. It should be in polish come Monday!!