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What did you do today....other than work on your car!?
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The truck belonged to my brother who passed away in 2010. As far as I'm concerned it's still Chris's truck, I'm just the caretaker.
After driving it for a few years and getting some mechanical issues sorted out, my plan was to giving it a quickie repaint. As things often do, it snowballed into a ground up rebuild. I kind of put my own twist on things but I think he would approve...
1974 454 truck engine backed up by a TH400 and a Mopar 8 3/4 Sure Grip
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Some of today's Hummingbird action.
X2! I spent a little time driving around town in one when I was a kid, my best friend was 16 and I was 15, his dad had one. I was raised to love more than just Mopar, I've own them all. That's as straight and clean as it comes. Sorry for your loss.Very nice. That color and the whitewalls make the truck really pop.
I threw some brown paint on the hood. It's going blue, but as I said before, a little sanding on the blue will give you that patina look. Hood blue, piece below the grill goes blue and the bumper will be white. Nothing is mounted, the background needs to be painted black first. The bumper is next.
Junkyard picking for the 64 D100.
I really needed 1 hub, but.....
ended up with 2 hubs, backing plates for 11 inch brakes, and the front axle. It came apart like it wanted me to take it all.
Now just put new king pins in and make it presentable.
I really needed 1 hub, but.....
ended up with 2 hubs, backing plates for 11 inch brakes, and the front axle. It came apart like it wanted me to take it all.
Now just put new king pins in and make it presentable.
With my job sometimes I never know what I will end up doing when I am on the grounds… So yesterday a guy shows up to get a mounted buffalo head the land owner donated to a “club” in New Jersey… So the guy shows up in a Ford 6ft bed with a hard cover and a bed filled with debris… Anyway it would not fit with the hard top closed so I ended up loading it up and taking it to New Jersey. Here it is in its new home which is a wealthy man’s man cave….
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Had to remove the stump from the tree we cut down last week.
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Made my own version of a ditch witch need to get a cat6 cable to my shop from my house im having trouble getting Wi-Fi for cameras. So i dug a 150’ trench to the house i
needed to dig under the walk way so i used a power washer to cut through the dirt. It worked out better then i thought.
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Make sure you use bronze (brass) bushings for the King Pins. Do not cheap outy on the white nylon ones....they are junk.
I made that mistake and had to do them again after only a few hundred miles. Absolute waste of time.
I have spent a few hours organising all my screws and fixings for my work van. I discovered I had been buying stuff I already had due to a few jars of screws being hidden from plain sight. 
Also finishing off a small panel I plan to install tomorrow morning at the local Tip.
Also finishing off a small panel I plan to install tomorrow morning at the local Tip.
Thanks!!
I've never used the nylon type, but have been tempted to try. It took me about 6 hours to find my reamer set. It's one of those tools that doesn't get used much anymore.
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Somehow I missed this before I left town last week and I have to say, thank you sir! That is very kind of you to say. When I bought this house 8 years ago it was bank-owned and had been vacant for 3 years. It was completely broke down with obsolete Quest plumbing from the 90s, 11 skylights, all of which were incorrectly flashed and had been leaking for years, a broke down septic, vinyl siding that had been compromised by the blackberry bushes that had grown up to the gutters, and a host of other issues. I had the house replumbed and I replaced every plumbing and light fixture. I reroofed the house, removed 4 skylights, reflashed 5 of them, converted 2 to sun-tunnels and installed 1 more sun-tunnel in the laundry room. The roofing involved extensive rot repair as did many of the walls throughout the house. I resided the house with hardiplank, cedar and stone. I remodeled the kitchen, 3 bathrooms and every room in the house got paint and a makeover. I pulled down ALL wooden baseboard, door and window trim, then sanded, stained, laquered and reinstalled it. I floored the entire home with carpet, lots of hardwood, tile and luxury vinyl tile. About a year and a half into the project, I suffered a stroke and 2 months after that bought a 5 bedroom, 3 bath house to remodel and flip, so that took most of a year away from this project. Once I completed the exterior of the house and started on the landscaping, I was into the more satisfying part of the project, where visitors began to compliment the look of the home. I installed a paver courtyard in front last summer that completed my plans, and it looks complete. The rear entertainment area is the last area to get to, and finding the pergola was the impetus to build that patio area at the end of the pond. I plan to build a roof over at least part of the existing patio against the house before I call it done.And I thought I took things to the extreme. Everything in those pictures is absolutely beautiful. I have several friends with fixed pergolas and I never got what they were good for, besides just looking at or growing vines up and over them. All my homes had covered patios so I could sit out and listen to it rain and most of all, stay out of the blazing sun. Well done!!!!!!!!!!!!
You are right on with the ability to sit out and listen to the rain and stay out of the sun, but one of the things I'm looking forward to is sitting outside with a hot toddy and watch it snow. We don't get a lot, but we do get some every year. Cheers!
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That is a heart warming story and I already had a really good idea of who you were a long time ago!! I pick people out and stick to them, you're one of them. I wish you nothing but the best and I can see you're already there!! We have a lot in common, hard work and worry!!! LOL. Thanks for sharing and be safe!! .....Ulli
Presidential funeral car from what I understood.
Nice reamer....go easy using that - it is a very fine line between 'interference fit' and 'way too sloppy'.
My King Pins were 're-done' by a local suspension shop and they are pretty good now. Any play is minimal, and acceptable, but can also be removed with a few pumps of the grease gun. Too much play and the steering would be all over the place.
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