Well, it was a pretty crazy weekend. In the end, I did get it back together and fired it up, but what a ride up to that point.
Saturday, I woke up early trying to get the winch mount done early as my son had a bball tourney right here in town. Pushed through, getting the gussets done, the winch cradle welded up, all of the welded nuts tapped again and everything back into place. I even had her back on all fours for the first time, in a long time, before we had to make it to his first game at 2:00.
The kid was playing great. 4th quarter he ended up stealing the ball and going for the fast break layup. Mid-air during the shot some asshat kid crunched him from behind, he went flying until he landed, breaking his wrist.
2am we were home from the hospital. Woke up early again, but was really mentally exhausted, so I crashed for a bit longer. Just not like me to sleep in till 10.. I knew that ekajkrats (Jacob form here) was planning on showing up at the house after a great first gen camping trip with his friend.
Slammed the core, rad, hoses and stuff on, blew out the garage and did a little test fire. I tell ya, it's tough to think about how mad you are when you have a open header BB talking to ya.
Jacob showed up around 2 with his bud a mechanical engineer. It was great to meet another CK5'er and a 1st gen guy. I will admit, those engineer types sure are funny around this stuff. Overall I was given the thumbs up on the project.
It would be great to do a little wheelin' with those two when I get mine up and running.
A couple of pics throughout the weekend.
Putting the puzzle all together.
Finally bolted up the hanger
This came up nice..
My bud
The not so good. For those of you on my FB that seen the vid, I'm still really pissed about the whole thing. Thought about putting the vid in here, but I simply can't watch it anymore.
and where I ended up after some, trying to forget about the day prior with a lot of beers, type of day.
The plan is to get the rest of the front clip on and figure out where my bumper is going to land. It still needs to be brought down close to an inch at this point. After I know that it's all going to work out, I'll take it all apart, add the bars that I know I want to the engine cage and weld it up. It should be all up to the Hawse fairlead at that point. Trying to figure out what one will work for the steel cable for the time being. Once I get a little further down the road, I'd like to change out the cable for rope and an aluminum fairlead.
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