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The new shop. Progress.

So many issues. Seem to be going backwards due to the idiot who worked on it before me. I now know why he did not want to finish it.

Fired it up finally. Distributor seems to be one tooth advanced. Easy fix. All of the rockers are rattling. Pumping oil out of the pan to timing cover seal. He said it was leaking from the oil pump, so I replaced that gasket and clean all of the surfaces. No leaks there.

We ran it for 5 minutes at 1800 rpm. Just in case the guy did not break it in completely. Oil puddle was 12" in diameter. The front end of the engine has to come apart.
 
So all that tin comes off pretty easy. The hard part is getting the nose off that the balancer/damper attaches to without hurting anything. That hub is hard to find.

Sorry for your bad luck. I have plenty of experience with the 472/500 and pretty much all of them were the school of hard knocks. Nothing on them is rocket science, but shady-ass-tree mechanics tend to think they're a cross between a Ford and a Chevy and **** everything up. It's real easy to put the crank bearings in backwards, it's real easy to destroy the valvetrain, you found the joyous fine thread stud for the distributor clamp, bleh bleh bleh.

I wonder if the same asshole worked on that one as the one I worked on. I found a pair of channellocks in the lifter valley.

The problem you have is that you get to see it after the ****ery has already happened, they're dirt simple if you can be the one to tear apart. Well, that valvetrain is still pretty hokey.
 
Junior and I have been busting our backs replacing the fascia, soffit and some t1-11 on the gables, on the shop.

All of the demo was done by 10 this morning. Did not get the boom loft until noon yesterday.

The reason the soffit were sagging was, no blocking at the tails. Header attached to the wall was good. One small nail at the end of each tail was all that was holding the outside edge of the soffit.

I was on the lift, feeding lengths for cutting to junior. Then nailed the blocking in. New soffit was ripped at 14-7/8 inches wide and vent holes cut out. New vent covers will go on after paint.

We 40% done with the new stuff. Hoping to finish install of the new materials so we can paint on Thursday and Friday.

He goes home Saturday morning. :1zhelp:
 
Block walls and heavily insulated ceiling helps to keep the temps down. I run fans inside to move air. If it is hot outside and you pull air in, it is hot inside.

There is a point in August where it just doesn't matter.
 
ktmoutfront said:
Block walls and heavily insulated ceiling helps to keep the temps down. I run fans inside to move air. If it is hot outside and you pull air in, it is hot inside.

There is a point in August where it just doesn't matter.
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We have the same setup, block walls insulated ceiling…..in the mornings we open all the doors and drawn in the cool air, about 11 am we shut all but one back door (out of the sun) stays pretty decent but you’re right, some days it just doesn’t matter
 
I was doing the first mow of the season today and noticed a few shingles missing.

It turns out, I am not as agile as I used to be. Or the fear of hitting the ground kept me from transferring from the extension ladder to the roof. Burning shoulders might have had something to do with it.

So I went to all of this trouble.

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Still had one ladder that I
did not use.

Time to buy a boom truck.
 
Mixed ten 80 pound bags of concrete this afternoon. I am not a young man anymore. I get it poured and Eileen hears thunder. Weather app says a downpour is coming. Figures.

When this slab was poured, it is obvious that they ran out of material. It dropped off about 8 inches deep to the gravel base. I am adding the lean-to and was just going to support it with some block. Then the MAW bug took over. Dug it out. Drilled for rebar to support. Formed and poured the corner up to line up with the rest. I should have saw cut the taper off, but I was already sliding backwards in production time.

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I mixed one bag in the wheel barrow by hand. Nope.

Went and bought this.PXL_20230704_200446142.jpg
 
If you die, can I have all of your engines and transmissions?
 
Might not be done to anyone else’s standards, but Eileen will not have to deal with it. How’s that?
 
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