What did you do to your non-G body project today? [2022]

[tkruger]

Fog light mounts on and fog lights mounted. Also installed the rear seat belts. Still working on wiring harnesses to light them up.

 

[Cauterize]

Did you check with DRIVEN on the status of his trademark on dog names?

Haha I dont think I'm actually infringing on his trademark lol. His actual name is Stroker. His brother was named Crank. He's looking a lot less brown these days.

 

[motorheadmike]

Alberta has been delivering many clippers this year.

Alberta clipped my @ss something good last night. Work sent me to the ER around 1430hrs, got out around 2030hrs. Road closures everywhere. Against my better judgement I took the backroads. Slow rolling in white-out conditions for hour(s). Came across an abandoned CUV, zigged when I should have zagged. Low speed off the shoulder and got stuck. Eventually got pulled out. Made a friend (Jerry, and his lovely wife Heather) with a Ford and started a two-vehicle convoy. Few kms later he got stuck in a drift, I pulled him out. I got to within 2.4kms of my house before I could go no further because the drifts ate a truck and another was in the ditch (Jerry carried on North). Parked on a clear high feature. Called the Mrs. She pulled up a couple hundred metres on the other side of the drift. I went for a short run at 2300hrs. Made it home, ate, barely slept, and now I need to figure out the rest of this story...

It's about -30°C at the moment.

 

[ssn696]

Work sent you to the ER - not as a patient, I hope!

 

[DRIVEN]

Haha I dont think I'm actually infringing on his trademark lol. His actual name is Stroker. His brother was named Crank. He's looking a lot less brown these days.

They do that. Gets less brown and more lazy every day.

 

[Built6spdMCSS]

So earlier today I buzzed the silicone off all the mating surfaces and after dinner began to remember the nuances of reassembling a T56. It didn't go so hot at first, I wasn't paying attention and had the thing in 1st and 4th at the same time when I was trying to line up the shift rails. It came out of 1st fine, but I'd gone too far into 4th and had to reset the synchro hub. That's when I noticed this 2 season old billet key was looking like hot garbage.

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I'm not impressed. Future builds won't be getting billet keys. It's also unlikely they'll get brass fork pads.

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They won't stay put when the fork comes off the hub. I said f it, send it, put it back together to this point.

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This is where I realized I was out of silicone. I'll get after it tomorrow and see if I can't have the whole thing back together. My only other concern is snaprings. I ordered a full set for the initial rebuild, and have a good bit left, but will be trying to reuse as many as is feasible from this disassembly. There was only 1 that I actually stretched IIRC, it's the b@$t@rd I spent more time on than the rest of the disassembly I swear. It out my pliers at a bad angle and was an absolute nightmare to get freed up.

All that to me looks like a lack of lubrication..🤔

 

[joesregalproject]

Truck died on the highway again on the way to work. I tried swapping the duraspark module, nothing. Tried cleaning rotor and cap, nothing.
Look down the carb, got plenty of fuel.
I found some brake cleaner in the box but it was out of aerosol. Stabbed a hole in it and that brake cleaner is the only thing that would make it even try to pop off. I ended up also removing the air cleaner and the fuel filter (despite both being brand new) and I finally got the god damn thing to run. So my theory is 1 of 3 things:
1. Fuel pump is too weak (despite being new) to keep the small fuel bowl on the qjet full, but I've never not had fuel. Fuel delivery isn't an issue.
2. Could be ignition related, but I've never lost spark and it always starts with a huff of brake cleaner.
3. Engine is so worn out and shitty it barely has enough compression to run and had a hard time igniting modern gasoline. It no doubt has burnt or damaged valves, especially since it ate a spark plug and I saw the ember shoot out the exhaust once.
4. Intense amount of blow by could be choking the engine out, but removing the air cleaner assembly didn't seem to make much of any difference.

A compression test will determine if 3 is correct.

After all that it still wanted to sputter and die seemingly randomly at any given rpm or speed. Giving it throttle would make it die, the same with none. Even free revving it in neutral was a struggle.

Ford tough my hairy *ss.

So you are mad your 40+ year old truck with probably 1/3 of it's original parts isn't holding up to Iowa winter daily driving duties?

Yeah definitely sounds like Ford is to blame.

 

[motorheadmike]

Work sent you to the ER - not as a patient, I hope!

ECG, ultrasound, chest x-ray, blood work.

 

[motorheadmike]

Alberta clipped my @ss something good last night. Work sent me to the ER around 1430hrs, got out around 2030hrs. Road closures everywhere. Against my better judgement I took the backroads. Slow rolling in white-out conditions for hour(s). Came across an abandoned CUV, zigged when I should have zagged. Low speed off the shoulder and got stuck. Eventually got pulled out. Made a friend (Jerry, and his lovely wife Heather) with a Ford and started a two-vehicle convoy. Few kms later he got stuck in a drift, I pulled him out. I got to within 2.4kms of my house before I could go no further because the drifts ate a truck and another was in the ditch (Jerry carried on North). Parked on a clear high feature. Called the Mrs. She pulled up a couple hundred metres on the other side of the drift. I went for a short run at 2300hrs. Made it home, ate, barely slept, and now I need to figure out the rest of this story...

It's about -30°C at the moment.

Clearly I was limited by the physics of the situation, not by my choice of vehicle. The other trucks got recovered over night.

Had to dig out the middle of a tall drift on the way back. But, got back home just fine.

 

[Built6spdMCSS]

Damn, getting around in that at night is enough to jack the blood pressure up..

So you are mad your 40+ year old truck with probably 1/3 of it's original parts isn't holding up to Iowa winter daily driving duties?

Yeah definitely sounds like Ford is to blame.

70% of Fords made are still on the road today.

The other 30% made it home.