I am not going to watch until after the footing is poured. No sense in temping fate.
CK5
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The new shop. Progress.
- Thread starter ktmoutfront
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As long as it dry juju.
Juju
That will be a burn barrel by Saturday.
Footing was poured at 1pm yesterday. New client showed up as the guy was washing out. I spent 2.5 hours with new clients going over their new build. Neighbor came over with a mower that would not start. Ate dinner. Forgot the pull the form stakes from the middle of the footing.
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Work has slowed to nothing. 
Nothing scheduled until July. I am sure a few little maintenance things will come up, but nothing big.
Spent 10 hours yesterday working on the shop fork lift. A tilt cylinder was leaking and was to the point of spraying fluid. The parts of the seal replacement I thought would be difficult, were easy. Getting the rear support pin, 1.5" diameter, out was a nightmare. BFH to clear it from the rusted spherical bearing in the frame. Spherical bearing race was in multiple pieces. Had been that way for a long time. No way to lube it. I welded the race for the bearing back together, mostly. New one will be here next week. I needed to use it. That same pin fought me going back in. even though I cleaned the crap out of it.
Cleaning the shop today and welding a gas tank for a 74 Eldorado so it will quit leaking.
Nothing scheduled until July. I am sure a few little maintenance things will come up, but nothing big.Spent 10 hours yesterday working on the shop fork lift. A tilt cylinder was leaking and was to the point of spraying fluid. The parts of the seal replacement I thought would be difficult, were easy. Getting the rear support pin, 1.5" diameter, out was a nightmare. BFH to clear it from the rusted spherical bearing in the frame. Spherical bearing race was in multiple pieces. Had been that way for a long time. No way to lube it. I welded the race for the bearing back together, mostly. New one will be here next week. I needed to use it. That same pin fought me going back in. even though I cleaned the crap out of it.
Cleaning the shop today and welding a gas tank for a 74 Eldorado so it will quit leaking.
I'm excited to see what you do with all of your "free time"
Hopefully, that doesn't include coming down from orbit when the gas tank he needs to weld goes BOOM!
Gas tank is done and in the 74 Eldorado.
Is the Eldo your going to town car?
Belongs to a friend. The guy who was doing the work on it screwed up some things, then claimed to have a nervous breakdown and wanted it gone. I really hope the cam swap was done correctly. We will know tomorrow.
The guy kept saying he did the break-in. But the distributor hold down will not pinch enough to hold the distributor at all. The threads on the stud are jacked up. I will replace it tomorrow and try to fire it.
The guy kept saying he did the break-in. But the distributor hold down will not pinch enough to hold the distributor at all. The threads on the stud are jacked up. I will replace it tomorrow and try to fire it.
It's a fine thread stud, so some asshole probably stuck a coarse thread nut on it and boogered it up.
That is what I was trying to figure out. I was looking for info and could not find anything definitive. It had a course nut on it. And a fine would not thread on because it is now jacked up.
Thanks.
Thanks.
That fixed it. I was apprehensive to run the fine thread die down as it did not want to start. So I put a socket over it began running it on with a speed handle. Figuring I could not mess it up with very little torque from the speed handle. It was a little stiff at first, then rotated to the base of the stud fairly easy. The fine thread nut runs on just like it should.
@CyberSniper Thanks again.
@CyberSniper Thanks again.
Stupid Cadillac.
OH Kaay .......................
