Bought more parts for the new/old tilt trailer. Actually, I've been on kind of a buying binge the last couple weeks or so. Luckily I'm headed to the Dominican Republic early Monday morning. A nice busy work week should help reset the balance.
What did you do to your non-G body project today? [2019]
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Progress, even small, is progress. Today I put on 4 more body mounts, checked my previous work for leaks, surveyed the undercarriage for other drips and found none! The body mounts were not a bit fun or easy. Body mounts unchanged for 39 years pose a real challenge. I have the breaker bars and large wrenches to win the war, but I also wanted to will ALL the battles. All four bolts were rusted and hard to access with spray lubes. Each bolt was a couple of minutes of wrenching, and minutes of cooling. When it stuck I stopped and allowed it to cool which made it bind less. With 4 to work on while all four wheels were a foot off the ground, it appeared I had a system. For the first time in forever, I did not snap one bolt! My parents would have been proud of me, because there was not one outburst either. I did punch myself in the nose when my hand slipped off a wrench with a lot of torque on it. Within 5 minutes the wrench bashed me in the lip, which told me I was getting tired with one bolt to go. I feel like I did 75 pushups and 100 situps. I was able to use my Creeper on one side, but the passenger side was too close quarters so I tried again unsuccessfully to warm up the concrete with an old far bodt. All in all it was 10-3:30 and my wife Sol got home after I was done and made me a scalding bath with bubbles and epsom salt. It is a preview of what is to come when I remove the engine. The final 2 mounts will wait until the engine is removed. All in good time!
ordered some camo wrap. going to do a complete wrap on my truck.went with white camo.(this isnt my truck) pic for attention
How addicted are you? I'm thinking about selling my 1968 cub cadetCouple of weekends ago, I reverted back to my lawn tractor addiction, an bought a couple from an estate auction, not knowing if they even ran or not... apparently they were in a garage or shed that had collapsed, and have some minor damage.... my buddy bought the third one they had, and was in good shape. Mine is on the rear of his trailer, and the back of my truck.... the red one fired up once we put a battery in it, and my buddy may be buying that off me... the grey one had fired up when I got it home, but wouldn’t move on it’s own power, until I noticed the trans bypass lever on it tonight... went ahead and ordered the parts that are damaged, and I’ll still be in the black if I decide to sell it!
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Yeah, I'm not a fan of the shifter at all. it was cheap enough, but.......I have "adjusted" the crap out of the arm and rod so everything clears and works, BUT the clearance is too tight to assemble it. I was considering cutting off the mount points and redoing it so it can all install from above. Now I'm leaning towards a more quality unit as well. I almost got what I paid for
I took all those mostly empty bottles of transmission fluid that were on my shelves, put them all in one bottle with a pump and pumped it into the rocker panels and doors of the Subaru Outback and my sister's Camry. Messy job, but it may help prevent some rust and more importantly it gets rid of all those 1/4 way full bottles.
I'm not sure if my addiction is that bad yet, but I wouldn't mind finding one down here, or an old sears suburban.... some of those old ones have the grunt to use as a tow motor around the shop...
Been busy framing. Started on the garage walls.
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