[Scott Danforth]

During the R&R of the transmission in the daily whip....... Used the hoist to determine the tensile strength of the world's most expensive check valve.....

Had to rebuild the check valve. A Holley accelerator pump check was used

 

[Studebaker62]

Nothing special, adjusted rear brakes today. Set timing back were i had it cause I messed with it trying to get "more". Adjusted my headlights
Tgen washed her up and cleaned the glass( cause my 5yr old got finger streak on some of um)
Lashed my valves day before 4th.

 

[56xf100]

this weekend i started on my AC install. First part that came in was the condensor... The VA instructions said to remove the radiator, which wasnt needed so that was fun. Did have to remove the grill and the hood to get to 2 bolts. While doing that found the previous owner butchered the wiring for the headlights. I redid the wiring with weather pack so i can get the grill off now. And now i am ordering a ton more parts to finish the plumbing.

 

[1971BB427]

Drove my '39 Chev to the Wed. night drags and cruise in and I left my fiberglass hood home since I was cleaning up the engine and had it off. I noticed when I hit a bump or at idle my radiator to cowl support rods flex a lot. They're polished 3/8" aluminum and I made them with a couple offsets to leave the area over the carb clear in case I might ever change the induction to a tunnel ram of supercharger. That's never going to happen, so today I went and bought a 12' stick of 3/8" aluminum rod and made up two new support rods. Just a slight offset at each end to hit the cowl and radiator bracket at the correct angle. They're much more solid, and no flexing now.
Had a heck of a time trying to thread the first rod, and went to the hardware store and bought a new 3/8" die since my set is over 50 yrs. old! But still was much too hard to thread, so grabbed my dial calipers and discovered the rod isn't .375" it's .380!! I took it to my 4" belt sander and turned it as I held it against the belt and worked it down to .370" diameter. Then it threaded as it should and I finished the job fine.
New metal shop charged me a whopping $13 for 12' of rod. Last time I bought it at the hardware store it was $11 ea. for two 4' piece! Guess I found a new source for metal as they carry a lot of steel tube also, and prices were better than the yard I've been using for $20 years.

 

[MARTINSR]

Got my five minute a day plan still underway. Last number of days working still on the front bumper, brackets, filler panel. But moving ahead, WHOOO HOOOOO! Got the panel welds ground yesterday and got it sandblasted ready for primer today! Yeah baby!

Brian

 

[MARTINSR]

Yep, the metal shops are SOOOOO much better. I have a great one just a mile or so from my house. And it's so cool because they will cut stuff to length for you. Instead of buying a 4" long piece at the Home De-pot and cutting three 5" long pieces for my project I go to the metal shop and get three 5" long pieces! Done deal, whamo!

Brian

 

[1971BB427]

Yep, the metal shops are SOOOOO much better. I have a great one just a mile or so from my house. And it's so cool because they will cut stuff to length for you. Instead of buying a 4" long piece at the Home De-pot and cutting three 5" long pieces for my project I go to the metal shop and get three 5" long pieces! Done deal, whamo!

Brian

They do charge extra for smaller cuts as the full lengths can't be sold anymore as full pieces, so I generally almost always buy full sticks unless I'm pretty sure I wont ever use the rest. The cost for two pieces cut a little longer than needed was about 3/4ths of what it cost to buy the full 12 ft. so I paid a little more and got twice what I needed. I'll eventually use the other 6 ft. for something I think. If I don't I'm out $5.50 and wont worry about it.

 

[Scott Danforth]

spent an hour on chats and on the phone with Amazon customer dis-service for lost parts that were replacements for parts damaged by their shipping / warehouse / logistics process. new GM condenser for truck came in damaged on Saturday, requested replacement. replacement supposed to arrive Monday..... at 8pm the unit had not even shown shipped, so no way that was showing up. 3 chat bots and 7 people later, I simply ordered another out of frustration. Should have just ordered from Rock Auto and waited the week

 

[56xf100]

started on my ac condensor and lines, I still have a million dollars in fittings on order, but my goal is to hide the lines down the inner fender vs down the engine bay.

 

[cerial]

Bought a 86 c10 to drive for the summer 3 ish months ago.
Since I have grabbed it I replaced the booster, master cylinder, and 3 lines. Replaced the carb with a OEM reman unit, put a Bluetooth radio in, put a GPS (that runs the mechanical OEM speedo) andoor swapped to LED dash lights.

Oklahoma truck so its mostly clean and heading down a country road it decided to turn over.
So I took a few photos of the old girls birthday.