So, what did ya get done this weekend?

[Rocky]

My garage is so small, I can only work on one side of my car [41 Pontiac coupe] at a time so I tackled the left front corner today. I freed up the camber adjusters in preparation for adjustment after cutting the coils. I busted off the stabilizer bar links [already have new ones with neopreme rubber bisquits] and dropped the coil spring. I reduced it's mass by 2 loops and found this big ass steel plate some brain donor had slipped under the coil spring! I really thought I had a broken leaf spring on the right rear but now I think this stupid plate under the left front spring was the cause of the leaning...we'll see after I do the other side. I disassembled the left front brake and honed the shit outta the wheel cylinder but it's a goner. I'll take it with me to my brake/clutch guy and have him get me all new cylinders...linings looked great as did the wheel bearings. I'll probably replace the bearing grease with 10 weight oil for drag racing purposes at MoKan..
Just kidding!
I'm still blown about the fuckin steel plate under the spring...that's weird!
I popped the shortened spring back in place and bolted the control arm back in place too... Looks like I'll still have some space between the arm and the frame..oh, and I took 2 inches off the rubber snubbers too... and I removed those hokey ass grile pieces below my headlights...looked like steel tears running outa my headlights, down my front fenders and I hated the look...

[yorgatron]

got the '54 Olds back off the jackstands after i replaced the broken pinion yoke,started tearing apart my sister's eagle vision so i could replace the timing belt.went to the hayward swap this morning,got a couple of hydro pan gaskets,some NOS delco-remy tags for dist.gen.starters 14 for $8 and the REAL score,an armature growler for $10.00-george

[dondanno]

I bought a new car. I got this 27 T coupe for a good price less then what the doors are worth. Gonna do a wack attack on it...Danny

[JimC]

Washed, and cleaned all the dirt out of the interior of Coopey Doo, loaded it on the trailer for the ride to the welding shop.
Cross member is just tacked in, going to complete welding once we are sure the suspension is square.

[trey]

i jumped the gun. i couldnt wait to post some updated pictures, so i did. but here they are. productivity is great sometimes.

http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=UBB1&Number=320850&fpart=& PHPSESSID=

trey

[Rocknrod]

Cleaned up the garage...

Cleaned up some tools...

Waiting for it to get warm enough to paint... and warm enough to spray down the garage to throw together the 350 http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif

[jdubbya]

After spending friday at Detroit Autorama, I had some inspiration to work on the interior of my sedan. I will have some pics at a later date, when it is closer to completion. -Joe

[Ryan]

I actually worked on something this weekend!!!!!!

Wife's '51 has a nasty engine compartment. I decided to strip it down and get ready for some detailing. The more I took off, the more I wanted to keep stripping... Ended up taking the whole top end apart. Getting a new manifold, dizzy, etc... All going back together once I paint this shit hole of an engine compartment...

[brjnelson]

I am just putting the finnishing touches on my next Tech week post. Buick hood hinges for a Kustom.
http://home.att.net/~brjnelson/wsb/media/118663/site1078.JPG

[racer5c]

I worked on my 49 Ford got the engine runnin (351 Cleveland) I traded some stuff for it and the motor was all apart but in the car. It had 8 seized lifters, I mounted a radiator in it, mounted a battery box, put wheel cylinders on, bled the brakes, ran some wiring, put the front of the motor together, set the timing etc etc. It fired right up and sounds great!! Had 70 lbs of oil pressure at first then dropped to 60 when it warmed up. I think we are gonna start the chop this week!!

[Mai Ki-Ki]

Lost garage about 2 weeks ago..(the parents 3 port one) so no werk but basic wash and clean up this weekend. http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/frown.gif

Entire workshop is now in cardboard boxes in my bedroom, Girlfriend not that impressed.. http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/crazy.gif.Have to tell her to not hit the stainless trim during sex cos it might bend/dent... http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif.

Planning the next garge...for the house I've just bought with my dad. Gonna be a decent werkbench and somewhere i wont have to move stuff for at least 5 years.... http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smirk.gif.

Cheers.

Maiki

[choprods]

Im designing a set of Pyramid shaped covers http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif[patented] for my tool boxes and benches............THAT WAY I CAN'T PILE EM ALL FULL OF SHIT!Seriously -I cleaned up the spare parts and bits of top chop scraps and metal snip shearings and general crap left over from original drivetrains.....got a ton flatbed full so far and about that much left........helped a friend do a little work on frt clip he is gonna blast then had to repair starter on my driver pickup

[Levis Classic]

More patch panel work!

[Missing Link]

Worked on the Biz-Ace-mint

[hudsoncustom]

I finally got to work on my wife's 62 Olds. The car needed a heater core, and even though I had the parts sitting around for a couple of months, this was the first weekend where the weather was good enough to spend a couple of houurs outside. (no garage). I also re-installed the stereo in her car, so she has heat and sound again. Next weekend .. the interior...

[KCsledz]

I drove out to InjectedA's place and picked up the PONCHO mill and Transmissions! I am frickin stoked to start cleaning her up and checking her out!

Thanks BILL!

Cody

[Jkustom]

I didnt do shit.... But I work over the "normal people's" weekend... My weekend is tuesday and wednesday.... Thats when you gotta look out! http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif


Actually, I take that back, I did pick up the motor for the chevy....It was at my buddies shop for a while.....

[Deuce Roadster]

http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif


Not much productive.........but I had fun.

The wife and I drove the old 40 Ford coupe down to Charleston SC. Some friends had a rodders gathering and we joined in. Then we went down to the old historic area and ate seafood at Hymans......a old Charleston tradition. This place has the names of the Famous people who have eaten there engraved on brass plates and secured to the tables. My wife ate where Martha Stewart dined and I sat at where Martin Sheen dined.

It was 70+ and sunny so it was great. Played tourist and walked the Battery and the old slave market areas. We both grew up in Charleston was it was real neat to go back and visit..... http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif


.

[quickrod]

finally busted the motor down outta my scoot,so i can get everything polished.[cases,cylinders,heads,inner primary,tranny]cleaned up the garage,so i can work on the 27 this weekend,wanna try to make it a roller no later than the middle of march.

[poncho]

i raised the front on the wagon and brought the rear down somemore!!!
http://photo.starblvd.net/~ponchosafari/1-5-3.jpg

[gears-n-grease]

I am still working on a repaint of a 1980 Sturis- I am beginging to have a great distaste for bike week-

[SwitchBlade327]

a seafood resturaunt called Hyman's? that's hilarious...I gotta go there next time I'm down that way.

[Hot Rod To Hell]

I actually got my car put back together and took it for a drive today!!! http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif
One problem though... http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/frown.gif It died on me about 10 miles from home, about 1/2 hr into my drive...actually, it started makin all kinds of noises, and runnin like shit, so I shut it down...
I dragged it home and did some thinkin....
Right now I have my oil cooler and remote filters bypassed, and just screwed a filter on the block.... (7 qt capacity instead of usual 12!)
well after drivin a while, the oil got pretty hot (bout 240), and I had lashed the valves a little tight to see if it helped performance any... and as near as I can tell they were a little TOO tight after the oil got hot and I had some valves hangin open!!! http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/blush.gif http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/crazy.gif
I sat on the side of the road a few and tried to fire it back up, and it wouldn't start, sounded like NO compression...
after pullin it home, it had cooled down a little, so I tried again, and it fired right up, but was popping through the carb every revolution (like an intake valve's hanging open), so I guess I'll go lash the valves at the factory specs tomorrow and see what happens! http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/crazy.gif

[Zeke]

Scored a 351 Cleveland v2 with a Edlebrock 4v intake, and a FMX tranny for the Stude wagon. Free! http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif
Thanks Radshit! You da man!!

[av8]

Came close to completing the porting work on a flathead block for Rich Guasco, and by the end of the work day on Saturday the results were killer! On Tuesday and Wednesday I'll finish polishing the exhaust bowls and runners and blend and polish the deck relief, then port match the manifold.

Not glamorous or even understood by or intersting to the custom-car folks, but the hot rodders will get it when I say I love doing this work!

[burndup]

Lets see... drank... drank more... kept drinking. Then I passed out. Woke up becuase two shitfaced marines were brawling in the kitchen next to the room I was passed out in. Hoped they would knok each other out so I could go back to sleep. Didn't happen, they crashed thru the door of the room I was in. Annoyed, I got up and turned the lite on but before I could do anything else, in flys the girl whose house it was and she ATTACKED, kung fu style.

"Do you notice that you each have one of my feet on your throat??? You can either die now, or chill the hell out!!!"

That was hot. The drunk fools left. I turned around and went back to sleep.

Today I put four new plugs in my new old jappy cycle. Found it has a vacuum leak, must address.

Now I'm at work. On my way here, I raced and beat a guy driving a new Gangsta Unit. (G-class mercedes truck-thing.) Someone please tell Ricky that my U haul truck is now faster than $85K worth of bling bling.

[warbird]

Ripped the Tijuana interior out of the 'A' roadster this weekend. Smelly old padding, rotten wood and mouse turds. Will get the carpet ordered this week, then start fabbing the panels and seat back. But first I've got to pull the top of the passenger side of the body in a mite to get the door to fit better. I'll be busy for awhile.

[Krylon Kid]

Yesterday, I got started on the rewire job on the '60 Panel. I have the motor, headlight, ignition and a few other things wired, and pulled the wires thru the frame to the rear and had to stop for the night. Then today it decides to rain http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/mad.gif. Shit, I need a garage http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/crazy.gif. I don't think I took as many wires out as are going back in. http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gif http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/frown.gif

[Revhead]

I rewired my '49. Decided how to mount the chrysler alt on it. Got the pass. side front suspension apart for some spring cutting. Did some more sanding / painting. Put in new plugs. And best of all.. got the engine running for a couple of minutes. It hasn't been driven since '68. Still has the flathead 6, but it sounded pretty good and had good oil pressure. Carb still worked pretty well!

[momentumfoto]

I went to Temecula hotrod show and checked out tons of cars... some good a lot bad... not my taste I guess. I can't understand why people spend so much time on interior and paint and chrome and billet... then they put shitty $75 dollar wheels on the car. hmmm ???? Today I went to the Long Beach swap and checked out all the shit there... I bought my 27 california plates for my 27RPU but could not find much more worth takin home... sat on the couch and played MX unleashed on the XBOX and cleaned out the garage a bit. WOW fun! ohhh yea spent tooo much time on the fuckin HAMB... next weekend is PAMONA Swap.... look out...

[Roadsters.com]

Sundays are always good days to work in the shop because there are fewer distractions. I've been using the die grinder a lot lately on parts for my roadster, polishing the combustion chambers and exhaust ports on the aluminum BBC heads, as well as making the old finned magnesium Halibrand brake calipers look better, and getting my early Mor-Drop I-beam axle and an original '32 axle closer to being ready for plating. The numbness in my fingers has almost disappeared.

Like every day, I updated some of the pages on my Web site, and listened to some good music. A friend recently lent me the Damnation CD by Opeth, and it's superb. I also took some pictures of my coupe and some neat old parts, and will have them on my site soon.

Dave Mann
Roadsters.com
http://www.roadsters.com/

This message was made possible by Breyers Vanilla Fudge Brownie ice cream, the Official Ice Cream of Roadsters.com

[MBL]

Front u-bolts in. Heads cleaned and painted. Gaskets and master cyl on order and, oh,I left tools laying all over dv8's shop. http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif
Tim
MBL

[sawzall]

cleaned out the garage saturday when a buddy of mine showed up with a rear axle housing he needed the brackets torched off of.. did a welding job on the neighbors car trailer.. sunday tokyo, spike, and I met up with linkec at the leesport swap meet.. this was the best swap leesport ever had.. nice warm weather brought everybody out...
spotted spikes old car there and bought some trinkets..

after the swap we headed back to my place were tokyo and I hung some of the rear quarter wood on the olds..

heres an update pic

[Judd]

Y'all
I finally got it blasted and sanded enough to send to body shop and get patches welded in. I will work on loose panels and passenger door this week while the car is at shop.
Judd

[Judd]

other side

[zman]

Worked a booth at a local car show/swap all weekend. Got a set of rims for my Buick, a new Edelbrock carb, some truck parts. A Jag parts car got delivered Thur. night. Made plans for Charlotte April 1-4. Sat on my ass and talked cars all weekend and ate car show food.....

[raven]

Swapped the electronic distributor for the points in the old truck and got it running. Not much in the way of power, so I've got some other issues to deal with. Started the eceltrolysis rust removal thing on the heater for the truck. Real cool, free rust removal...
After I got the truck out of the garage, I moved the '49 Fleetline in to start on it...
r

[mercury Bill]

Installed rebuilt rearend we went from 2.73 to 3.73 and updated my air ride in the rear new bags. Next week new Headders mufflers and tail pipes.

[Rocket88]

Got the floorpan and trunk of my car sprayed.
Made an adjustable torque limiter for the engine in the Olds. Figured out my front sway bar.
And helped a neighbor kid lower his umm.....well I'll say it Honda.

[Paul]

new tires for project "No.2" came Friday

Firestones, 16x5.50 and 16x7.00

Started bead blasting the rims, got three done and had to pack it in.

spent Sat and Sun at the ocean.. wife's birthday weekend.

spent the whole time planning the build in my head..

does that count as progress?

Paul

[40StudeDude]

Blocked that Cad on Friday...then reshot another few coats of primer on it...unwrapped it Saturday and spent all day assembling the dash...Sunday spent all day cleaning, polishing and putting parts back on it...running out of time...fast...Kontinentals Austin event will be here all too quik!!!
R-

[Django]

Not as much as I hoped. It took me an hour to get the damn barn door open (frozen shut). Then I had to wait for Dad to get home so we could start digging my car out. 2 hours later, she was free once again. Since I really couldn't do much this trip, I at least was hoping to get the rear fenders fitted, if not Saturday, then at least Sunday. No luck though. Found out my perfect door panels are not so perfect anymore. They got wet and are ruined. Dammit.

http://www.mdesignstudio.com/chad/other/36_Feb1.jpg

[hammeredabone]

Mocked up my frontend and found I need to Z the front rails another 2". This is good since by doing that I now have a spot to connect the hairpins. Finished cutting the boxing plates with my Z modification built in. Took the welder apart and cleaned the piece of crap out of the solenoid. Now the fucker doesn't leak argon. Cleaned my fabrication area of the garage. Went to my buddies and looked for the pistons and rods to the motor I got from him. He gave me another motor to strip. Pressed my spacers on my spindels for brakes.

[injectedA]

Never enough.

Your welcome Cody. And thanks for the bitchin pinstriped wide board. Really hadn't expected that.

[38Chevy4door]

Pulled the strikers, used Porta-power and a come-along to get the body aligned...too dark to see to weld, so, to be continued...

[jalopy43]

I had an eventfull weekend! The trans went out in my truck,and backed it onto ramps, as I had no forward gears.Then I proceded to back the model A out of the garage to get to my tools. While backing out I heard this tick,tick,tap,tap klunkBAMM!!"My poor 283 had broke a valve spring,dropped a valve,and cracked a piston!Then I went back to the truck,and while jerking the driveshaft out of the tranny,The truck began rolling forward off the ramps!(stupid me I didn't block the front of the tires)Well, The rear tourque arm xcaught me and rolled me from my back, to my side pinching me at the waist between a space of about10"(my waist size is 32")Needless to say, it squashed me pretty good!Luckily,my wife heard my blood-curtilling scream,and managed to jack the truck off me.After hobbling to the E.R.and luckily nothing broken,or pissing blood,I went home (very sore and bruisedto this day)This got me to thinking" I have a truck with a good 350,and a bad trans". And A good p.g. in the Model A with a dead 283" Well thats where I am today, pulling the 350 out of the truck and gonna put it in the "30 sedan.I had the 71 truck since1976, and it was rusting and crumbling away anyway, so it will become a yard art,and donor truck. So It all worked out well didn't it?? And Also I learned to Block the FRONT, and the rear of my wheels!!! Yall' be carefull!!!. Glenn

[zman]

[ QUOTE ]
Pulled the strikers, used Porta-power and a come-along to get the body aligned...too dark to see to weld, so, to be continued...

[/ QUOTE ]

And don't forget hooked a fellow HAMBer up with a genuine HAMB calender. That's worth some serious points right there. Did you dig the Jag parts car sitting in the driveway?

[dixiedog]

Yanked the 350 & tranny out of the skylark donor, forgot to drain the oil and ripped the rubber drain plug and now have frigging mess the size of the exxon Valdeze to clean up. Sliced my thumb, trimming in a door casing, helped a buddy with his drainfield and got my assed chewed out by the ole lady cause i should've been helping with the daughter in laws shower, helped my other buddy pull the 4 cyl out of his S10 to get ready to drop in a V8, put up 150ft of stockade fence, and got to meet Danny Guiyera and his 62 BubbleTop 409 drag car last night.

[Roothawg]

Put all the injection stuff back on the Fly getting ready for spring.

Worked on the engine compartment on the 50....spent a lot of time in the bay like Ryan. Ever see so many freaking holes in one firewall? I welded up a bunch of em and blanked off the vent holes.

[haring]

I reinstalled the flush retractable tonneau cover on my late-model Dakota after it fell in last week. http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/mad.gif http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/frown.gif

I also pulled out the Noteboom Green Eggs chopper and got it running again. It died on me one late freezing-cold December night. New plugs and a few adjustments staightened it out.

I then spent most of Sunday riding the thing all over the place. My butt hurts. http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

[Dennis the Menace]

I got the engine back in the 48 Plymouth and took it for a drive down old Route 66, http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif Saturday.
Dennis

[Humboldt Cat]

Been plowing away at filler work on the rear fenders and bed box, really making progress, but now that I'm a month and a half away from my event goal (Kool April Nights and the new car event in Redding), and knowing there's an extremely low chance of having Paint Shop money (and, prob'ly, paint time for them) in time, I'm looking more into going there with a primered, bodywork-mostly-done good running '57 Effie. It sucks working without a credit card, to say the least. Birthday's coming up, I'm mailing out hints in the form of Summit gift card forms... Tacky, yes: and desperate! http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/blush.gif
SO, knowing that I have some work to do on the FE (replace lifters, manifold and carb, mostly, heater core too), am trying to re-tool the work timeline, so I can at least be in the event with a primered, strong-running rig, and even get some more work done on it with friends while over there. It's hard stepping-down the goal, it's not like I've been slacking. Will have project pics later this week.
Today before Work I'm starting to paintstrip the doors 'n dash while cleaning up the motor.

[Antibilly]

Its was so nice sat. I got off work at noon and said goodbye the the GB for the weekend. The headed to Nads house for beers and to talk about each other!!
shit man mid 70's and sunny...... http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

[junkboy]

Helped a buddy get his 49 ford running and thought I made a deal with dude on a 73 charger. tow truck shows up. i show up (money in hand). guy suddenly can't find the title. this he reveals only after the car is up on the flatbed and the money is in his hand. http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/mad.gif No proof of ownership!!! Are you friggin' kiddin me???!!! Car rolls back off the truck. Money returned. No Charger for me http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/frown.gif Fool did have to pay the truck driver, though http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smirk.gif

[38Chevy4door]

Z...
Glad you like it! Yeah, I noticed the Jag sittin' there...suspension's headed all under the Buick, true?

Please tell me all cool stuff at the fairgrounds was way overpriced, and that there wasn't anything cool there, anyway...I hit the ditch in the Pontiac Friday, so spent the weekend doing errands and putting it back together.

[Cad Carver]

Sunday was fire up day on the 59 Caddy, didn't go so well, mouthful of 91 octane and a blowby or two later it was agreed that the fire hazard was too great. Even though it didn't run, it did fire and feels good. Nothing quite like knowing the POS you drug home has some life in it. Wiring, fuel lines and spark plugs and I should be alright. http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

[Holidazed]

Sunday was the first day in quite awhile I could work on the 56 Olds. Ripped all the heater boxes off the firewall & under the dash--now what do I do with all those damn holes http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif. Pounded out the large dent in the floorboard where the gas pedal is bolted. Doing that caused an 18" section of spot welds to split open so after welding that back together it looked pretty good. Got the floorboards cleaned out-when it warms up I'll coat those with something to keep em from rusting (still mostly red oxide primer!). Cleaned the garage a bit... All in all not a bad day.

[Tim]

hmmm, i got lights and moved it to a cement parking spot so i could quit laying inthe mud

[kritz]

i did a whole lot of sitting around, looked at a dog that the mrs. and i may get, then got bored sitting around again and threw some scallops on my buddy's 60 bel air.
http://photo.starblvd.net/kritz/1-2-2.jpg
http://photo.starblvd.net/kritz/1-2-3.jpg

[hiboy32]

I installed my new radiator and started ta build some headlight stands.