weekend over, what did you get done?

[Paul]

I finaly got to work on the hot rod,

'was gunna go to Portland for the swap,

but stayed home to swap the heads and intake,

took the iron ovals and tunnel ram off and put the aluminum rectangles and Man-A-Fre on.




manifold and linkage required some buchery:

http://photo.starblvd.net/~60s_style/6-2-2.jpg

http://photo.starblvd.net/~60s_style/6-2-1.jpg

time to fire up the tig and teach myself how to weld aluminum http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

Paul

[Unkl Ian]

I think I would have spaced the carbs up instead.But yours will look cooler when it's done.

[Boones]

Spent the weekend finishing up installing the wiper system.. and while I was under the dash took the time to re-tie wrap the electrical harness to make it a little more clean looking..

[G V Gordon]

Prepped an old flathead to test fire. See "flathead dizzy question" post for particulars.

[Levis Classic]

Bought a bunch of Model T and A stuff at an auction one mans 50 year collection. Should have bought more in hindsite. Then spent the weekend going thru it all.

[MercMan1951]

I finally got the Lincoln chassis under the Mercury... http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

[MercMan1951]

...

[MercMan1951]

last one...

[BLAKE]

Nothing too major but was glad to get it done - installed 16 new electrical outlets in the garage/shop and tore the Swing Bike down, painted it, and started the re-assy. Still waiting on carb parts to get the coupe running.

[briggs&strattonChev]

helped my parents close up their cabin for the winter (blew out the water lines, packed everything up to bring home). Did yard work today, consisting of cleaning the eves and mowing 6 pickup loads and one car trailer full of leaves. Hopin to get some actual CAR stuff done durin the week............................Briggs

[DrJ]

Straightened out the front end and fixed th headlights of Wife's Civic where she rear ended a semi trailer last week. http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/blush.gif
No damage to the trailer of course... http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/crazy.gif

[Anderson]

More work on girlfriends Rivi...did the floorpans, Made me sick of welding but i think i'll get over it.

[Unkl Ian]

[ QUOTE ]
Wife's Civic where she rear ended a semi trailer last week

[/ QUOTE ] I know a guy who rear ended a semi trailer with a Civic.The car was totaled,he lost 1 eye and is lucky to be alive. http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/shocked.gif

[Nick32vic]

Well, this weekend we had a BIG bon fire for family/friends and i was talkin with my friends and my dads cousin came up to me and is like "Hey man wanna go for a ride in my car?". This guy always has cool cars so i said sure. Well we walked up to the driveway and he lifts the hood of his 64 Chevelle. He put a LT1 in it with a 6 spd manual. So we went for a ride around the block. He spun the tires through almost every gear. It was really awesome. I had a lot of fun.

[beatnik]

I didn't get shit done on the cars this weekend, but today I did get the gutters cleaned, and the most of the yard/leaves cleaned up, so the house doesn't look like white trash, well except for the late model in the driveway http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif.

[mr57]

I went to a swap meet. I didn't buy anything there, but found an intake for my Merc for nothing, if I need it, plus made a deal on a parts car that I get to go pick up next weekend, weather permitting. Did a bunch of yard work the warden (wife) has been harping about for a couple weeks.

[trey]

i almost finished boxing my frame in. didnt get to work on it today, due to a little incident i had. i quickly learned im not as young as i used to be. was jumping a ramp on my brother in laws bmx, landed on my back, and kinda screwed myself up. sometimes you gotta learn the hard way i guess...

trey

[Stevie G]

Block sanded, block sanded, block sanded.
Went to get trailer to head for the shop in GA, ended up putting a fuel pump on another drivers rig so he could continue on to Bradenton.
Block sanded.

[Tim]

tore the rear axel for the shoe box completly apart and added new brakes and seals :P

blocks come tomorow:)

getting closer:>

oh yeah, and Damnit Dave got his harely bober lit up, sound un flipin real awsome http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif

metal flake an all:)

tim

[jdubbya]

I went to the Flushing, MI A&W car cruise, weather was cold but there wer plenty of people there. I have seen Safarinut's car plenty of times, but I finally met him in person. Todays swap meet was a bust, the only thing that I bought was the admission...not much cruising left in this town, cold weather is coming all too soon! http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/crazy.gif

[Hackerbilt]

lets see...
Made an early trip to the landfill Sat morning and then spent the rest of the day going thru my stash deciding what I needed or had to dump. The trailer is half full again!
(NO vintage parts...I'm not crazy! http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/crazy.gif)
Today I messed around in the garage, watched a great movie (Battle of the river Plate) and then worked at my snow-blower for several hours. Damn bushings are wasted in the auger drive! Took TWO hours just to persuade the auger drive pully that it needed to come off the shaft.
I finally had to weld a short tube over the snout and weld a large nut into the tube so I could screw a 5/8 bolt against the shaft like a puller!
It worked! (Well...that, the heat and the large cold chisel/hammer combo worked... http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif)
Snow-blowers...gotta love 'em!!!

Bill

[fordnutz]

Friday, took the new 48 Merc 2-door out to the farm. Dug out my 15 inch 48 merc wheels from the parts stash. Pulled the front suspension off the 57 Pontiac sedan delivery. Saturday AM slept in and missed my ride to the swap meet and meet set up with MR57 in Yorkton, so ended up going to an auction in town and getting a 55-6 chev pickup hood and some cupboards for the garage and a watch case for my hot wheels. Sunday met the group including 29EV-8 for breakfast and in the afternoon tried to find a 51 Merc 4-door south of town and a 57 Pontiac parts car, no luck on both. Had a power nap. Going out now to tinker in the shop.

[shoebox72]

I spent a few hours yesterday afternoon stripping half the roof on my 51 Chevy. I hoped to finish the job today,after the union contract vote, (no more strike) but it started raining around 11am till dark. I'll finish it tommorw. If someone would buy my Ranchero, I'd have room to work on it in my garage.

Billy

[PEDDRO]

Went to the Oz motoGP. Great stuff...plus this (the chicky on the left) stayed at my house over the weekend!

(That's not me, by the way!)

[Paul]

[ QUOTE ]
I think I would have spaced the carbs up instead.But yours will look cooler when it's done.

[/ QUOTE ]

Unkl Ian,

I know, but I want to keep the option of a hood open? http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

and I do have two more sets of the same covers.

Paul

[Paul]

DrJ!

[ QUOTE ]
Straightened out the front end and fixed th headlights of Wife's Civic where she rear ended a semi trailer last week

[/ QUOTE ]


hope everyones O.K. !

Paul

[Paul]

PEDDRO,

who's left?

Paul

[flyin'eye]

Skipped the Portland swap, found a 62 falcon in a wrecking yard, so I went and got the rest of the parts I need for the manual trans conversion in el Ranchito. Also finished the tube grille I built for it.

[4t64rd]

Dropped the engine in the frame, cut the frame to fit tranny, decided to use non-power steering box, purchased and assembled brakes for Mustang 8" rear (only had rear and backing plates). got rid of stray SBC 307. Mounted new tires on 15" roller rims. Only did a little staring. http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

[D Picasso]

reconfigured the breather setup on the Guzzi, and made some new fuel lines for her.
changed the G/F's oil+filter on her Supra.

made room in the garage for a King coil tester and exhaust gas analyzer, an ignition parts cabinet [first make on the list pasted inside the door: Auburn] with a few circa '38 NOS parts inside, a NOS Ford truck headlight bucket, reflector, lens and arm, a set of Perfect Circle ring tools, an old DeVilbiss spray gun, some old signs, a stack of Motor service bulletins, a '54 Warshawsky and Co. catalog and a Wagner Brake Parts and Service illuminated sign that I traded for some sign paintin'.

[Rocky]

Bought a pickup box trailer [53 ford shortbox] to get the gennie ford 16" wheels off it. Put some kooky 10X15 4X4 wheels and tires on the trailer [found in the "throw away" pile at work] and put a fresh piece-a-plywood in the floor. Should be able to get $75-$100 for the trailer.
Serviced my daily driver [porsche] and Mrs. Rocky's 2002 Intrepid and prepared 'em for winter....helped a buddy tow a 95 Crapice wagon parts-car to his house and immediately gave him $100 for the 4 new tires [snow rears] mounted on 5 on 5" wheels....just perfect for winter tires on the Rocky goodtime van {TM} and he threw in that pickup box trailer.
Hadda take all my swapmeet stuff outa my rented storage garage [across town] to make room for the new trailer as Mrs Rocky pitched a mega-bitch about having that "junk" stored at our house. Had to load all the swapmeet treasure into the trailer and back it into the storage garage, thereby negating any advantage of having a pickup box trailer or a rented storage garage.....and now my fuckin back hurts...

[PEDDRO]

Screen left.

[GR-RRR]

Had to work saturday, today just did odd jobs around the house and went to my sons hockey game. No chance to work on the car.

[studeboy]

Finally started the trench to the shop for electical. About 80ft long. Started doing it by hand and after about 2.5 hours and 10 feet later I decided that my daughter would be graduting college before it was done (she's only 5 months old) Rented a power trencher saturday and broke the drain tile for the sump pump. OOPS!!! Got most of it done. I should have the electrical conduit in the ground by the end of next weekend. Hopefully I'll be able to turn on the lights in the next couple weeks. http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

[Fraz]

Helped VonDad and family clean a buncha junk out of the garage. Got sick, think something in garage made us ill.

[purple]

<font color="purple"> Well, friday got the parts car from the hills in Igo a tiny town near here (see my donor car post). Spent a few hours at the shop disassembling and cutting the car. Then tech'ed at the theatre. It was friday rehearsal, and friday and saturday night performances of a belly dance recital. Saturday day was at a car show, put some model cars in the contest there and spent the day on the Dyno cruiser. After saturdays performance many of us took over a room at a local bar and did drums and girls belly dancing till closing. Today was some time with the girlfriend and the IPMS meeting. (International Plastic Modelers Society for those who don't know) Nope, didn't do any laundry this weekend. http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif </font>

[nzsimon]

well I scored some lexus tailights awhile ago the little round ones that go in the boots of IS200 for the rear of the 32

awhile ago I borrowed a boot that they go in and made a mould of the hole they go in out of silicon and on sat I made some taillight buckets from the mould out of fibre glass bloody toyota couldn't make them both the same there
is a left and a right and I didn't notice

so I had to cut the second bucket and rotatethe back half and glass it all together again

Then I took the big step of cutting two 8 inch holes in the rear of the roadster and glassed them in
Then using a half of a chinese food container for a mould I made some covers for the inside out of fibreglass, a bit of bog some sandpaper and primer and it looks factory

also threw a coat of varnish on the front door that wify had sanded down and started on another painting frame for a commission she got on staurday for a 1m x 2m painting and fixed the numberplate light on her lotus
Saturday night went to see american pie 3 very funny

What do you mean there is only two days in the weekend no wonder I need a week to get over it

[lowsquire]

Built my A rails,and mocked up the front end under it,lookin like about 6 1/2" ground to bottom of rail,nice.got drunk at dans(another Hamber who shall remain unidentified) and a heavily pierced female friend of his poured hot wax down my back.still not sure if that was good or bad....

[nobux]

Spent all day Sat. cleaning gutters,raking(I hate leaves), winterizing the 66 Larson boat. Picked up a free wood stove for my shop and the guy asked "Know anyone who wants a free organ?", so like the eternal pack rat that I am, I dragged home a beautiful mid 60s? Hammond electric organ with a burned out amplifier for an indoor winter project.
Sunday got up at 4am to drive to the Twin cities for the Roadster club swap, picking up my dad on the way. He laughed at me for bringing my flashlight, when we got there at 6, it looked like a buch of fireflies with all the other flashlights. Swap was the biggest one yet, It was huge!
Bought a pair of headlights and a $5 lawnmower. We left my 9, and swappers were still lining up to get in. Went home and cut a wood firewall for my T. Thats about it.

[roadstar]

Stereo and speakers installed in my 40. Everything is wired and working. Soon it will be off to the trim shop.

[Travis]

Mmm. Sat did front brakes on a 88 Silverado and then did all 4 brakes and self-adjusting hardware on a buddy's 59 El Camino. Sunday went to the swap. Scored me a running 283 for $75 and a Mallory Unilite 348/409 dual-point dizzy in perfect shape for $100. I think I had a good weekend!

Travis

[flt-blk]

I started hearing noises (Not the usual ones) that went away when I pressed the clutch.
Pulled out the transmission, bellhousing and clutch. Need to get a new throw-out bearing and the clutch disk is a little thin.
Also greased the drive line U-joints and found one cup was dry and galled pretty bad.

Getting it all apart was the easy part, I will go to the parts store at lunch Monday, need to be running for the Sherman KKOA show Friday.

I also attacked my 58 Ranchero project with chalk, trying to find the scallops it wants to have.
TZ

[radarlover]

I went junk yarding in Williams AZ. The guy has 15 acres of all kinds of stuff. Lots of jap but lots of cool stuff too. The tradgedy is that he's crushing it ALL. 58 Ford p/u, 63 chevy s/w, 53 chevy 4-door, 52 chevy p/u ect. I saved some wheels and bits and pieces but the rest is toast. What pissed me off is the guy was chargin me regular prices on stuff he was sellin to the crusher by the pound. I tried to talk him into savin some stuff but he just didnt care. It's a cryin shame! http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gif http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/mad.gif http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gif http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/mad.gif

[porknbeaner]

I spent the entire weekend at a Bob Bond Pinstripping seminar.

I haven't pulled a line in about...a damn long time.

Lotsa hands on (we striped a rental car) http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif. Learned an old trick or two.

Best cash/time spent in a long time. I'm cookin' http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif

oif it don't make ya dirty it aint yours http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

[DrJ]

[ QUOTE ]
DrJ!

[ QUOTE ]
Straightened out the front end and fixed th headlights of Wife's Civic where she rear ended a semi trailer last week

[/ QUOTE ]


hope everyones O.K. !

Paul




[/ QUOTE ]
No one got hurt, at all.
She just "tapped" the hangy down bumper they have on the back of the trailers. Of course it was higher than the impact part of the Honda bumper so it scraped up the top of the bumper and broke the grill and tore the headlight mounting brackets out of the right headlight backing. It bent the front edge of the hood next to the grill too. I welded the Polypropylene headlight housing back together with an electric soldering gun (saving about $300) and replaced the grill and am still deciding whether to repair the paint or repaint the whole car. It's a '96 and the clear coat is starting to crack on the hood and roof, so it really needs a complete anyway, but it's a 80,000 mile ricer "throw away car" so not hardly worth it. I'm trying to talk her into a flame job to cover the front end damage. Then I won't have to paint the whole car, but she isn't going for it, yet. (It's my "job" to keep the fleet in order, and the number of times this car has had minor owies, we wouldn't have any insurance if I reported them all, so far it's cost about $20 to fix)

[burger]

Sawzall and Toke came by on Friday night and helped remove the bed from my hot rod. Damn was that friggin thing HEAVY. I owe both a big thanks for helping out.

Saturday was spent at the junkyard and foolin' around with the daily.



Ed

[nor cal nic]

on friday put the visor on the '50, leaving saturday open to go to TARDEL'S and help/get in the way of a couple of the gang on their cars, and sunday... nuthin'
nic

[4woody]

Headers and dual intake for my Plymouth!

[4woody]

next...

[RileyRacing]

I got FatHack a bitchen project! http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Hopefully I didn't toast the engine in the 300 http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/frown.gif

Jason

[MercMan1951]

Don't tell me you unloaded that Chevy on FatHack! Oh no http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/blush.gif....

And what's with the 300? Run it out of oil?

Kevin

[hotrodladycrusr]

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

(just checking to see if you guys actually read everyones post or just add yours without reading the rest http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif )

[Travis]

Got pictures?! http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Travis

[crclebrner]

Went to Abilene to take part in the Southern Challenge, a large 3 day IMCA race event. Didn't do real good, but didn't do too bad either. You can tell when you had a bad day because you have load your car with a wrecker. If you had a really bad day then it take 2 wreckers load your car and if it was a really really bad day, 2 wreckers load 7/8 of your car on the trailer and the rest rides home in the back of your truck.

[RileyRacing]

Well, It seems that my news has been overshadowed http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

That's ok, ask FH. I spent sweetest day at my ex's house http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gif

And the wife was ok with it http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/blush.gif

yes, FatHack has decided to carry the torch for me, since I have no time. That way, I can find a running, driving, semi complete project. What a guy!

Jason
ps, I second that. Got pics http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

[porknbeaner]

[ QUOTE ]
Got laid http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

(just checking to see if you guys actually read everyones post or just add yours without reading the rest http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif )

[/ QUOTE ]

Uh, where was I. I always miss all the fun. http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif

if it don't make ay dirty it aint yours http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

[beatnik]

Sure we read all the posts, and Saturday was Sweetest Day.