What Did Ya Get Done This Weekend?

[soltz]

Thats great, is this a real barn or a really large shop [S
Thats a nice drag you have there too
Interesting your truck is in every picture

 

[smallfoot]

Thats great, is this a real barn or a really large shop [S
Thats a nice drag you have there too
Interesting your truck is in every picture

Barn or shop...right now it'll be a pole barn..shed..all top and no sides. Will be enclosed and twice as long as it will go up in the next few days. We started on this end as it will be incorporated with the fence on this side of the property. The end of the barn extends outside of the fence and is the gate on that side. If I'm there, usually the 31 is too and yessir, I put it in lot's of pictures...It works too! If you notice in the pix how smooth the ground on our building site is, that drag is the reason. It's a simple 3 sided thing made of 2x6" boards and a couple of "bush" drags running behind.

 

[gots_a_sol]

Modded one of my wheels to fit my IH. I hate seeing wheels sucked way under the body of vintage stuff and couldn't find anything just off the shelf to fit my needs.


Yay, wheels. 5 internet points if you can guess what they are from

Stock

Little bit of grinding and a lot lot of BFH'ing later

Then a bunch more BFH'ing. Perfect.

Suspension at full stuff in the front and nearly full stuff in the rear. I have about 2 fingers gap between the fender and rim.

I have the first one trued up and some heavy tack welds in place. I have the second one ready to knock out the center, just need to eat some wheaties before I break out the BFH again

 

[Dr Crankenstein]

Yay, wheels. 5 internet points if you can guess what they are from

Cop car, methinks... Exploder?

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[gots_a_sol]

Cop car, methinks... Exploder?

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Fun random fact of the day, the Explorer and Taurus interceptors use the same wheels. They are 18x8. Stock is like 6" of back spacing, with the centers flipped it is right at 2" (can adjust +/- a bit)

 

[earthman]

Now that takes me back. Homemade reversed steelies. Good for you bud.

 

[bob w]

I went to the Meltdown Drags in Byron Ill. 500 of my closest friends were there with their 1966 and older drag cars. For me, it was drag racing heaven. Weather was great.

I made three runs with the dragster. The first time it was out this year. The best was 11.74 @ 114mph. Fun Fun Fun!

 

[Tripper]

Got the 350's heads & intake back on & setting up to put the TH400 behind the Nailhead on the 350. Started measuring up the rear end I got at the pick-a-part on Wednesday... things are moving right along! Happy I decided to keep the good parts off the truck to use on the coupe!

BoB

 

[Skip]

After I fixed the fuel system issue, while tinkering with the carb, and fixing a couple small leaks in the trans cooling lines, I discovered that my $30 used swap meet 66 Mustang radiator was leaking. So I ordered a new aluminum radiator on eBay. For good measure, I ordered an electric fan wiring kit, in case I have to change it over. Turns out the wiring kit was cheaper than the fan spacer I bought to put the flex fan on the engine in the first place. Learn something new every day. I keep telling myself I am running out of things to do to this project.

 

[earthman]

Any recent pix Skip?

 

[smallfoot]

Any recent pix Skip?

^^^times 2^^^

 

[Skip]

^^^times 2^^^

Watch for it...

 

[smallfoot]

Beginning to feel like the army...hurry up and wait...[ddd

 

[gots_a_sol]

Craigslist deal of the day. 4 Corbeau seats, 2 4-point harness, and the console for $400. Plus $20 for my buddy to pick them up for me since I was on call all weekend.

Now the choice, Forza (fixed back) or CR1 (reclining)? I'm pretty sure they have the same mounting points so I'll try them both out once I get this on the road and see which I like better.

Just sitting in them I seem to fit better in the Forzas. The kidney bolsters on the CR1s are pretty tight on me. These seats do have steel frames so I may be able to take the covers off and open them up a bit more. The CR1's would probably be better day to day for behind the seat access.

Whichever set I end up selling will probably get most, if not all of my money back A new pair of the Forzas is $475 and the CR1's are $800. Plus a couple bucks for the harnesses.

 

[smallfoot]

Got 8 out of 10 Dump truck loads of asphalt spread on the road this weekend. Blew a tire on the loader and cut us short of finishing Sunday. Today I got some parts off the 46 too.

 

[Skip]

Got 8 out of 10 Dump truck loads of asphalt spread on the road this weekend. Blew a tire on the loader and cut us short of finishing Sunday. Today I got some parts off the 46 too.

Smallfoot, big projects. Impressed. [cl

 

[DozerII]

Been planning for a month or so to make a big batch of pork Jalapeno and cheddar smoked sausage. This was my first time cutting up that many jalapenos and can't believe the burns I got on the fingers on my left hand hand. Made about 24 lbs of sausage then ran out of casings so we made about 20lbs of patties, cooked them then froze them..

 

[smallfoot]

Just got thru with breakfast and you got me hungry again....

 

[jfg455]

I mounted the PCM, ran the light wiring to the front, cleaned up the engine harness a bit and hooked the rear light harness up to the frame wiring on the 50 GMC. Also took about 400 pictures of my pictures on photobucket so I can delete the account. [cl

 

[smallfoot]

Got the poles in for the east end of the barn. For right now, my buddy Jr. is going with this half. The size is 30x32 right now and will be 60x32 when complete.