And the build keeps on going! Builds never end due they? Lol
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Horton, driveshaft opinions wanted
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And the build keeps on going! Builds never end due they? Lol
When your me you just beat on your truck till it falls apart ( average of 5 years) then take the good parts and go to the next, although Horton is the culmination of 2 blazers a pickup and building a whole lot of other rigs for other people. So hopefully I get it mostly right this time.
Still gonna be crap compared to yours, it is awesome
When your me you just beat on your truck till it falls apart ( average of 5 years) then take the good parts and go to the next, although Horton is the culmination of 2 blazers a pickup and building a whole lot of other rigs for other people. So hopefully I get it mostly right this time.
Still gonna be crap compared to yours, it is awesome
It's all about having fun no matter what it is and thats what you do!
Your Rig will do everything mine will! Thanks for the props!
So since its pretty cool outside right now and has been every night, I mean it is January in Idaho. -6 right now. I am too cheap to heat my garage when only I work in it. I haven't been doing much.
Anyway a couple pics. Haven't we been here before
What my cage is now reduced to
Did the stare at it and plan thing for a bit I think I can get the whole thing about 3" narrower. I plan on cleaning up the engine, cleaning up the firewall, doing a better job on the floor. Several upgrades that really no one really sees but I need to do them.
I thought I was going to be able to leave one orginal tube in the cage being my floor bar for the front mount on the seats, but looking at it I think I am going to have to even take that out. Not sure if it will clear the transmission when it is going to be in its new location
Pretty excited for all of this. I hope to start bending tube next weekend. But that weekend might be just a bunch of sheet metal patching. I need to go get some thinner sheetmetal. I really hate the fact that I am going to add weight but I don't want any raggedy edges and holes where it doesn't look like there should be
Anyway a couple pics. Haven't we been here before
What my cage is now reduced to
Did the stare at it and plan thing for a bit I think I can get the whole thing about 3" narrower. I plan on cleaning up the engine, cleaning up the firewall, doing a better job on the floor. Several upgrades that really no one really sees but I need to do them.
I thought I was going to be able to leave one orginal tube in the cage being my floor bar for the front mount on the seats, but looking at it I think I am going to have to even take that out. Not sure if it will clear the transmission when it is going to be in its new location
Pretty excited for all of this. I hope to start bending tube next weekend. But that weekend might be just a bunch of sheet metal patching. I need to go get some thinner sheetmetal. I really hate the fact that I am going to add weight but I don't want any raggedy edges and holes where it doesn't look like there should be
What you need is a nice SMALL workshop like me. All that space is hard to heat and it's just too easy to spread things out and move around freely.
Sometimes I feel like I'm building a "K5 in a bottle".... Working in such a small space adds a whole new dimension to everything.
Don't get too busy in there....your consultancy is still required on a regular basis in the Might As Well thread.
-G
What you need is a nice SMALL workshop like me. All that space is hard to heat and it's just too easy to spread things out and move around freely.
Sometimes I feel like I'm building a "K5 in a bottle".... Working in such a small space adds a whole new dimension to everything.
Don't get too busy in there....your consultancy is still required on a regular basis in the Might As Well thread.
-G
I promise I won't get too busy LOL.
I actually wish sometimes I had somewhere separate to work on Horton and actually leave part of the garage for my wife. I guess I will muddle by with my garage though.
Soon as I get some extra money that wood stove is getting fixed. My buddies Dad has several acres he wants to clear and why its not the best firewood ( cottonwood) little bit of gas for a chainsaw and renting a log splitter for a day should net me quite a lot of wood for next winter.
If I can get it put in this winter I have quite a bit of scrap lumber to burn probably last me a couple weeks or so
Nope
Guess I will just have to borrow your truck for a couple days
Travel arrangents changed, if they change again I will do the cage and then the rest when I get home.
doesn't look like they will change though
If you would finish your first project, the truck, and not start three others, the motor for the Jimmy, the new Horton cage, the other thing parked next to Horton, maybe you would have more room in the garage and then your wife could park in it.
Nope
Guess I will just have to borrow your truck for a couple days
Travel arrangents changed, if they change again I will do the cage and then the rest when I get home.
doesn't look like they will change though
Where is your tent? We're 237 Rugged, Broadsword Racing.
If you would finish your first project, the truck, and not start three others, the motor for the Jimmy, the new Horton cage, the other thing parked next to Horton, maybe you would have more room in the garage and then your wife could park in it.
I use lennox blades all the time in my sawzall, one thing you might try that sounds a little weird is get the wood blades. They are quite a bit thicker, like a demolition blade and cut just as well imo.
The problem I always had with the metal blades is how thin they are, they always seem to bend up after one or two cuts and hard to straighten back out. The thicker blades bend less and when they do bend they are easier to straighten back out.
I have thought about it.
By next year the plan is to have the wood stove going, the doors sealed up better, the attic insulated, and a couple ceiling fans.
That should help a ton over my propane heater that I use now.
I am getting a bit more customer work too. Its just dumb not to invest some money into heat, I get stuff done faster, hence more money for less time.
I will get through this winter. Shoot after an Idaho January you get into Feb where it stays in the high 20s for the most part and its down right nice
You have gas service on your property? We run two old school heaters up in the ceiling at work and one of them is more than enough to keep our section of the 4,000 sq. ft. shop in the lower 60's cycling on and off. It's just a blower motor with an open fan that looks like a mechanical fan off a small block and a natural gas flame.
I can't imagine it costs much to operate cycling on and off every so often.
I can't imagine it costs much to operate cycling on and off every so often.
In Fresno where it's what 40 degrees in the morning?
When it's -10 every night and barely hits 20 above during the day it takes a lot to keep a space warm. If it's not insulated in the ceiling it's pointless trying to heat it full time.
I have been in the ORD shop where the heater didn't turn off for three days. They leave the lights on 24 hours a day to help heat the shop when the low temps are dropping below zero.
Nothing like wearing five layers to work in the shop. Black lined carharts are the bomb for those conditions.
We get plenty of nights that hit 30*. My point was more about being cheap heat. If it can keep our 4k square foot shop with three metal walls, a metal roof and one cinder block wall with a HUGE vaulted ceiling and zero insulation warm on a morning that's in the 30's cycling on and off surely it would take the edge off of just about any shop that's smaller.
I did line the ceiling with plastic before I put the sheet rock up. The plastic does alot.
Other than inuslation I need ceiling fans bad. Its a 13 ft ceiling so go up to the top shelves that are 4 feet from the ceiling and its 20 degrees warmer
Shoot Brandon this last week we have been lucky to break zero, the only double digits we have seen have been with a - in front of them
Although low 20s this coming week, which probably means more snow
hasn't been that bad here but it's been 20+days since we have been above freezing here, which is really rare. It might be below zero for a few days here and there and sometimes our highs don't reach above zero but 90+% of the time we have single digit over night lows with upper 20 to low 30 highsShoot Brandon this last week we have been lucky to break zero, the only double digits we have seen have been with a - in front of them
It might break above freezing today in the lower valleys. Serious inversions though colder in the valleys than in the mountains. My boss lives about three miles from me as the crow flies and about 500' higher and said he hasn't seen below zero for the last three or four days, while I have been -4 or less each morning for two weeks.
30 ain't cold
