My "shop" 2 years ago, shortly after we moved in.


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Summer of 2020, we spent the entire summer insulating the sides, stepping the front trusses for an overhead door, hanging a ceiling and blowing insulation in and installed a radiant heater. My wife helped me a LOT on this. She even drives the fork lift around with me on a pallet doing the high work. And the fork lift is a manual trans...:biggthumpup:


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This corner was the subject of this weekends work. It's hard to see, but there are 3 white switches over against the outside wall. The back 8' of the building was a previous owners work space and the switch of the lights back there is one of those. One other powers the exhaust fan in the peak and the other an outlet they had in the loft for a radio and party lights. WHY anyone would put the switches way over there has been a mystery an annoyance to me. I have 13 sheets of galvanized pole building siding I brought from my previous shop and decide this weekend was the time to use them up and fix the switch issue.



https://www.yenko.net/forum/cache.ph...3Bfit%3Dbounds I pulled the patchwork of sheet rock pieces and extended the wires to the door.

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Seems people in the past couldn't make up their mind where they wanted the door, as it appears they moved it not once but twice by the 2 added sections. And look at that professional carpentry...:eek2:


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I had already moved all the equipment from the outside wall and covered behind them yesterday. Today I got this mess put back together. I have enough sheets yet to go beyond the door another 6 feet, but that will wait for another day.


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I got my "NOS" tachometer back from Instrument Specialties today. I dropped it off with them at MCACN. Although there aren't any marks to indicate this was ever mounted on a panel, IS said it never could have worked, as the solder on the circuit board overran 2 circuits. No clue if it was an over the counter purchase that was returned for being defective, or a take out from a delivered car as defective. They rebuilt the circuit board, replaced the foam gaskets that hold the cardboard tube for the oil light and calibrated it. Now I know, when I get around to installing it in my car, it will work...:grin:
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Air Hose reel project started.

Oh, yeah, you will like that ! I had one in my previous shop for 20 years and brought it with to the new place too. Hated having hoses running all over the floor before.
We had mild temps Saturday, so I brought my blast cabinet from the back storage building up to the shop and set it up. Except for the hose from the cabinet to the vacuum. I haven't found that yet...:(

Wish I was smart enough to post pictures! After getting the body of my 70 Z project painted last week, I got the nose painted and hung. Haven’t seen it in one piece in a LOOONG time. Forest Green, black vinyl roof, green interior. Now my body guy wants it out of the shop and my Morton garage hasn’t gotten off the ground yet, and winter is right around the corner!
Buddy

The easiest way to post pics is with a picture website. Most pictures are too big/too many pixels, to post directly from your computer/phone.

Lee Stewart uses this site https://postimages.cc/ I THINK this site is free ?

I use photobucket. They are not free. I am grandfathered in at $35/yr. New accounts are much more. You can chose the size to copy and paste into your post here, so you don't get the message that your pic is too big.

If you want to send some to me, I will host them on photobucket and post them here. Shoot me a PM for my email.

Brakes on the Square Body dually.

Just FYI, I haven't used a website to host my pics, I just shared them from my computer and they worked on the site.

Over the last few days I've been cleaning the intake on the Camaro, painted the front lift hook, replaced the worn-out gaskets and today reinstalled everything with new correct bolts. Been way too long with the car apart to fix a vacuum leak so should be on the road again soon. Always a battle between getting it perfect and just getting it running :burnout:

Pics are easy
 

Buddy, Posting pics is easy now for me once Steve sent me some info how to do it. I use my I Phone 6S to take them . No resizing, photo websites or fees. If I can do it anyone can. Be glad to share info.

Pics are easy
 

Buddy, Posting pics is easy now for me once Steve sent me some info how to do it. I use my I Phone 6S to take them and use it to post. No resizing, photo websites or fees. If I can do it anyone can. Be glad to share info.

Buddy, call me and I can certainly help you! :biggthumpup:

I worked on getting the fuel line off of the fuel pump on my '67 427 Corvette. This pump has been on this car since September of 1966 and the original line doesn't want to come off. There's no room to move the line wrench once I get it on from the bottom and it's hard to get leverage from the top. Any ideas from the group would be appreciated. I continue to soak it with penetrating fluid.

Better leverage from bottom side if accessible Tim?

Sounds like you can get the line wrench on it from above, but can't budge it. Do you have room to do this?

Crows-foot flare nut wrench & wobbly extension?

I got a vice grip on the end, but it wasn't too stable. Someone called me to say pull it off with the line attached since I have the carb end of the line off. Of course, that means pulling the radiator hose and heater hoses off. That is the route I'll go when our weather warms up. I don't want to damage the original pump or line. Better to remove it as a single unit.

New u-joints and carrier bearing. Also pinion seal and rear wheel cylinders and shoes on the dually. LOL 9’ of driveshaft.

Polishing a pair of vintage rear Super Tricks. If anybody has any tips…I’m all ears!

Tim, I usually have been able to get the line off laying on the floor and using a line wrench from underneath with the car elevated, and using a 3/4" wrench on the pump line block to support it from buckling the underside of the fuel pump body. Of course this only works with the square block type 40482 pump.

Mike Thorpe

Last week, when it was 15 below zero, my heater didn't work and I had to replace the thermostat on my CR-V. It comes as an assembly with the plastic housing. Not too bad, as it sits on the front of the engine, but, of course, 1 bolt had to be at the bottom and was removed/installed by braille. That actually went so well, I decided to finally locate and change the trans filter I bought 5 months ago. It is inside the case behind the trans heater/cooler. The battery tray needs to be removed for access and THAT turned into an hour and half ordeal. Once the tray was out, it took 10 minutes to change the filter...:rolleyes2: Also, last week, I had our PDR guy push a dent out of the right front door that was up high from an SUV. He removed the door panel for it and after, the electric lock didn't function correctly. I messed with it for a short time last Wednesday evening, but I was leaving at 8 pm to drive straight thru to Tulsa OK and didn't want to get involved in a big hassle. Saturday I pulled the panel off and the door latch, as it seemed to be in that. Once I pulled the cables off the latch, it worked perfectly. OK, lets go back upstream from here, and I found he had put the cable end on the wrong side of the retainer at the inside handle.

Always something to do on our cars to entertain us...:grin:

I confiscated the wife's Charger so I could be behind the wheel to document the epic, awe-inspiring moment when it rolled from 99,999 to 100,000 miles.

I made the mistake years ago of leaving the keys to my Suburban hanging around when I had it staged in driveway at 99,998 so I could drive the kids around to watch the analog odometer roll over. She of course, borrowed it to go shopping and it came back at 100,015 and wondered why I was not happy.

Oh for crying out loud, Steve, it's just a car and an odometer...https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag...080&fit=bounds

Have you been talking to my wife?

Don't need to, I have one of my own...:wink:

:haha::haha:

Bump for today’s project. Dicor RV roof coating on the Chaparral. .

A little pre assembly work.

New engine for the Camaro, Freddie ??

We installed a new lift at a friends house out in Lakeway, TX. I'm taking the photo and there was one more guy out of the photo. If you notice, the car on the lift was for sale on this site about 60 days ago. It's a beautiful 1970 Corvette.

Storage lifts are great, but there doesn't seem to be much room under that one. Will another 'Vette fit under it ...:wink:

Barely, he needs a side mount garage opener.

I love my Liftmaster side mount garage door opener. When we were building our house I put a cathedral ceiling in the garage, in order to fit the lift.:flag:

I wish I had been aware of these when I finished the interior of the pole building a couple years ago. I didn't leave enough room beside the tracks for one...:hmmm:
It's not like I don't have enough over head though at 13.5 feet for a traditional. The side mounts seem to be a better way to go now with no track or chain.

----Dave,,,I have 7 Liftmasters. They are terrific, but a guy needs to find the best installer around.....Bill S

Curious how hard it was to install and any tips and tricks?

Took the Christmas lights down from the front of the garage...:biggthumpup:
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Is that setup OSHA approved?

It is at my place...:grin:
2 years ago, removing the slider doors off the shop shed.
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Lol I have been known to do similar stuff…. My wife thinks I’m nuts