We bought the wife a vintage cedar wardrobe today. I've got to check it better for identifying marks, but, based on style and construction method I'd say it's no newer than 1940s/50s.
Wood is in great shape, finish needs some work. I'm sure she'll want some changes, maybe glass knobs.
But, price was right. Guy was asking $50, took $35. Won't have much more into it than that when it's done.
Cleaned parts! Block sanded the exhaust manifolds so they seal up good put all 4 pieces of the two-piece valve covers in the hot tank at the machine shop. It's nice having him nextdoor. Stayed at the shop until about 8:30 just cleaning parts. Heads aren't done yet so tomorrow I'm sure I'll just clean parts.
My woman paddle boards.. she has an inflatable board and a hard board. Bought her the roof rack system for it and mounted that up last week, took out the hard board for the first time. Florida life.. 😎
Laid out, marked, and drilled the first pair of mounting holes for the seat bracket that I am in process of fabricating and test fitted it to the seat. They lined up nicely so the next step is back to the drill press and drill the second pair.
Tore into the passenger's side exhaust system and dropped the muffler out. it is/was the culprit that was causing all the noise and banging because a reducer sleeve that it was supposed to have been fitted with during the repairs/replacement of that side last year seems to have disappeared. Fitted a new sleeve to the muffler yesterday; have to slide under the unit this pm and prep the pipe by giving it a serious wire wheel cleaning and scrubbing to get all the rusticles and decay off it. Then the sleeve gets fitted to it. Once they all make nice with each other, then I can get on with figuring out a way to securing the sleeve permanently; thinking Mig here.
As posted in the Gbody thread. Picked up this 2500HD. It had been sitting for about a year and half. PO claimed it over heated at a job site and that it was towed home, Thermostat was replaced but would still get hot. So he went and got a new truck and this one sat.
Previously it would not start with the key. So today I swapped the starter with a new AC Delco spare I had. Only to find that it still wouldn't start. Then I took a quick look at the dash and notice that it wasn't showing to be in Park. Shifted to Neutral and it started right up, So I ordered a PN switch. Then I continued to the cooling system. Once it's running it'll get warm in about 10-15 min but just the upper hose. The lower will stay ice cold. I turned the heater on to make sure it wasn't full of air. It got a little better after that but still lower hose was cold. I pulled the T-stat, it was in fact new. Tested it in a pot of water and it opened.. Rad doesn't seem to be plugged. When I picked it up I knew I was least gonna need a WP and rad. The Cutlass has a newish AC Delco Truck WP, the plan is to order an LS1 pump and spacers for the Cutlass and swap the truck one to the 2500.
Used the yukon to pull the tractor out of the drainage ditch today. Wife tried mowing only to find the lr tire was low air once in the ditch mowing. With the weight mostly being on that tire it folded. (Need to mow with the tractor running down the ditch wall, rh side higher up the wall than left)
My gut feeling is although a (relatively) minor fix I may just sell the thing down the line and get something new. It has a laundry list of nagging issues and I really don't feel like putting money into it when I can likely sell it for more than I've got in it.
That said and done, been having heightened pain and discomfort in the foot. Turns out the peroneal tendon is also apparently damaged beyond the aversion fracture in the ankle and the third degree sprain. So... there's that news. Maybe it'll suspend visits to the physical terrorists, maybe it'll just change what I need to do with them. Guess we'll determine that later this week.
Has one of those relatively decent powermore engines in it, 547cc.
A guy was going to make a 'racing mower'out of it so it's somewhat tore up. So I've got two choices, put it together which will take... I dunno what.
They thought a spindle was froze. Pulled the deck at home to learn some idiot just pulled a rope in and wound it up till it jammed. Cut things away. Cleaned and lubed up. Everything is free turning, still has stickers on pulleys, and, blades look unused. So that's good at least.
Worst case scenario, parts is parts. Couldn't go wrong for the price.
$75, and I didn't even use a full gallon of gas picking it up.
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