What are you currently working on??
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What are you currently working on??
Well I painted my gas tank for my 10hp 857 Craftsman on Friday since it was 60 degrees and sunny, although a little breezy......for the 3rd and now final time. I let it sit and cure until today since Friday and installed it, put the nuts on to hold it in place and hooked up the fuel line to the tank. Now all I gotta do is put gas in it, and drain the carburetor float bowl out of any water and see if the tractor will start. This all started 4 months ago with the tractor not wanting to start and starving for fuel, so the carburetor had a poor man's rebuild by my stepdad, I put on a new fuel filter, and I put on an NOS fuel fitting. I'm prayin and crossin' my fingers it does the trick.
I also started working on my weedwhacker project that I picked up on the side of the road, that my stepdad said if it don't start on the 5th pull it won't work and to put it on the curb. I wanna try and prove him wrong, so that said 3 weeks ago I tried to start it and it farted as they say one time and that was it. I took the back cover off, and took the carburator off. Now tonight thanks to the suggestion of @UncleWillie, I bought some seafoam at Walmart. I put it in the gas tank with gas in it and pulled the rope 10 or so times like he also suggested, but of course there was a problem. I put the seafoam in the tank and since I took the carb off and DIDN'T put the carb back on before I put the seafoam in like a dummy, it started leaking out of the fuel line AND out of the front orange motor part. That I assume (but am not sure,) is normal BUT here's the problem...... I went to put the carb back on and hook the lines, trying to figure out what line goes where and I noticed I broke one of the lines so now I gotta buy another set. Good thing I looked em up......and they're only $5.00
Well I painted my gas tank for my 10hp 857 Craftsman on Friday since it was 60 degrees and sunny, although a little breezy......for the 3rd and now final time. I let it sit and cure until today since Friday and installed it, put the nuts on to hold it in place and hooked up the fuel line to the tank. Now all I gotta do is put gas in it, and drain the carburetor float bowl out of any water and see if the tractor will start. This all started 4 months ago with the tractor not wanting to start and starving for fuel, so the carburetor had a poor man's rebuild by my stepdad, I put on a new fuel filter, and I put on an NOS fuel fitting. I'm prayin and crossin' my fingers it does the trick.
I also started working on my weedwhacker project that I picked up on the side of the road, that my stepdad said if it don't start on the 5th pull it won't work and to put it on the curb. I wanna try and prove him wrong, so that said 3 weeks ago I tried to start it and it farted as they say one time and that was it. I took the back cover off, and took the carburator off. Now tonight thanks to the suggestion of @UncleWillie, I bought some seafoam at Walmart. I put it in the gas tank with gas in it and pulled the rope 10 or so times like he also suggested, but of course there was a problem. I put the seafoam in the tank and since I took the carb off and DIDN'T put the carb back on before I put the seafoam in like a dummy, it started leaking out of the fuel line AND out of the front orange motor part. That I assume (but am not sure,) is normal BUT here's the problem...... I went to put the carb back on and hook the lines, trying to figure out what line goes where and I noticed I broke one of the lines so now I gotta buy another set. Good thing I looked em up......and they're only $5.00
It was on the work stand with the rear wheel off working on the brakes.
No mower deck. Just a rolling chassis, no motor and bad tires.
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Today wasn't such good one. Was afternoon before I felt like getting outside. Finished the shelves and got all the tools put away and the boat back inside.
Had a bunch of 2x6's left over from When they built this building along with lumber from when we tore the old hangar down. Only purchase was $28.00 worth of 1/2" OSB. Still have plenty of lumber to build another set. This is the kind of wood work I like to do. No one expects much and that's exactly what they get.
Had a bunch of 2x6's left over from When they built this building along with lumber from when we tore the old hangar down. Only purchase was $28.00 worth of 1/2" OSB. Still have plenty of lumber to build another set. This is the kind of wood work I like to do. No one expects much and that's exactly what they get.
Looks good from west river, Chris! I think it will do the job just fine.Today wasn't such good one. Was afternoon before I felt like getting outside. Finished the shelves and got all the tools put away and the boat back inside.
Had a bunch of 2x6's left over from When they built this building along with lumber from when we tore the old hangar down. Only purchase was $28.00 worth of 1/2" OSB. Still have plenty of lumber to build another set. This is the kind of wood work I like to do. No one expects much and that's exactly what they get.
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Looking good Chris and heavy duty. Functional and little money spent is the key. Being a trim carpenter all my life with more time than money and living in the country I’ve had to beat myself up a lot. If it works leave it, it don’t have to be pretty if it saves you money. Shelves equal floor space that most of us need.Today wasn't such good one. Was afternoon before I felt like getting outside. Finished the shelves and got all the tools put away and the boat back inside.
Had a bunch of 2x6's left over from When they built this building along with lumber from when we tore the old hangar down. Only purchase was $28.00 worth of 1/2" OSB. Still have plenty of lumber to build another set. This is the kind of wood work I like to do. No one expects much and that's exactly what they get.
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Good enough is perfect any thing more is a waste of time and material.Today wasn't such good one. Was afternoon before I felt like getting outside. Finished the shelves and got all the tools put away and the boat back inside.
Had a bunch of 2x6's left over from When they built this building along with lumber from when we tore the old hangar down. Only purchase was $28.00 worth of 1/2" OSB. Still have plenty of lumber to build another set. This is the kind of wood work I like to do. No one expects much and that's exactly what they get.
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Well, the trick I posted here above worked and the tractor runs again. Thank you Lord. I did what my stepdad told me to do with draining the carburetor float bowl but it just so happened that gas was not getting to the carb after I put it back together and when I went to fire it up, so my stepdad helped me and took the filter off and put it back on and it was fine after that. Now onto my 6hp 855 Craftsman tractor, and weedwhacker projects
Yesterday was like Christmas.
The mailbox was full when I got home, emptied it out and we went to town, came home from that and seen that I missed the brown truck while we were gone. I have a truck that I am redoing in the garage, one that I know most of you guys would say is the "wrong" kind. Too bad. It's an 85 D150 long bed.
Came down the line, the same month I graduated from high school.
I am retaining the slant 6 though on this one, I've been thru the "yank the 6 and drop in a V8" before.
I rebuilt the one that's now in it, a '74 motor that's been bored, head and block milled for compression, cam has been reground, head ported, polished and oversized valves put in....
Original one still ran like a sewing machine.
Now I'm acquiring parts to add factory AC to it, I have almost everything I need now to do that.
Yesterday my new compressor, my hi side pressure line showed up and the heater box gasket and seal kit showed up by brown truck. I have a couple of the factory under dash heat/AC boxes and one that has a busted case for parts. Between the 3 I will get 1 good one for sure, maybe 2..... The 2nd one would be for my kids ram charger.
I also had everything possible needed to switch over from an automatic to a 4 speed, dropped into my lap a couple of months ago, still kicking that idea around in my head as to whether I want to do that or not. At one time I used to walk past trucks with auto trans when I was looking to buy, I prefer to shift my own gears. The main thing trying to hold me back on converting this one recently is a sore right shoulder.
I have a 3 day weekend from work starting tomorrow, I might swap out the dash and everything that's different between a non AC truck and everything I have for an AC truck.... But the wife is off 2 of those days so we will have to see what gets done
The mailbox was full when I got home, emptied it out and we went to town, came home from that and seen that I missed the brown truck while we were gone. I have a truck that I am redoing in the garage, one that I know most of you guys would say is the "wrong" kind. Too bad. It's an 85 D150 long bed.
Came down the line, the same month I graduated from high school.
I am retaining the slant 6 though on this one, I've been thru the "yank the 6 and drop in a V8" before.
I rebuilt the one that's now in it, a '74 motor that's been bored, head and block milled for compression, cam has been reground, head ported, polished and oversized valves put in....
Original one still ran like a sewing machine.
Now I'm acquiring parts to add factory AC to it, I have almost everything I need now to do that.
Yesterday my new compressor, my hi side pressure line showed up and the heater box gasket and seal kit showed up by brown truck. I have a couple of the factory under dash heat/AC boxes and one that has a busted case for parts. Between the 3 I will get 1 good one for sure, maybe 2..... The 2nd one would be for my kids ram charger.
I also had everything possible needed to switch over from an automatic to a 4 speed, dropped into my lap a couple of months ago, still kicking that idea around in my head as to whether I want to do that or not. At one time I used to walk past trucks with auto trans when I was looking to buy, I prefer to shift my own gears. The main thing trying to hold me back on converting this one recently is a sore right shoulder.
I have a 3 day weekend from work starting tomorrow, I might swap out the dash and everything that's different between a non AC truck and everything I have for an AC truck.... But the wife is off 2 of those days so we will have to see what gets done
Sounds like a good project to me, Dodge. I get a lot of folks telling me I should pull the 6 banger out of my '55 GMC in favor of a V-8. Nope, not gonna happen.
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Not gonna put a newer one in there or anything fuel injected or computerized.
I deal with such things every day at work. They're great til they aren't.
Once a week my snap on scanner that is so essential to figuring out what's wrong with newer vehicles reminds me it wants an update that I don't feel it needs yet and don't really want to buy. It still works on everything it worked on when I got it, anything new enough to be covered by any updates is still under factory warranty anyway.
With all the daily headaches of newer vehicles, I really miss the simplicity of problems fixed with a screwdriver a timing light, a vacuum gauge, and a small handful of the most SAE tools that I already have. No computer, no scanner, just simple and it works. How much did we accomplish so easily for so many years without such complications
Anyone ever hear of the K I S S principle????
I deal with such things every day at work. They're great til they aren't.
Once a week my snap on scanner that is so essential to figuring out what's wrong with newer vehicles reminds me it wants an update that I don't feel it needs yet and don't really want to buy. It still works on everything it worked on when I got it, anything new enough to be covered by any updates is still under factory warranty anyway.
With all the daily headaches of newer vehicles, I really miss the simplicity of problems fixed with a screwdriver a timing light, a vacuum gauge, and a small handful of the most SAE tools that I already have. No computer, no scanner, just simple and it works. How much did we accomplish so easily for so many years without such complications
Anyone ever hear of the K I S S principle????
I might shop around for a carbureted 22R.....On my hot rod truck I tossed the ECU on 4.3 chevy engine and swapped the intake manifold and installed a carb...I wish I could do that with my 22RE,,likely can I just have not researched it yet...as my boy say..."not your last rodeo in that engine bay".
Got the engine out after finding a couple hidden bolts in bell housing,,,the donor engine gets new timing chain, water pump and clutch
and the seal in my cherry picker failed midway through lift..put my only spare seal in and it failed just as we set the engine down…something wrong here that pressure blasting out the wiper seal… pressure really should not pass the O-Ring
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Saturday, Raked the yard of leftover leaves and all the cottonwood branches that have dropped. I don't know-how these trees live with as many limbs I pick up constantly.
Screwed my back up sometime Friday or Saturday, barely slept last night and in good amount of pain just standing/walking so no work today and I may call off tomorrow and try to get into chiropractor.
I did work on my wife's Liberty last weekend.
I bought Moog upper control arms/ball joints. I replaced the one within 6 months ago, one of the bushings are already shot and causing a banging noise. Can't even buy quality name brand parts anymore.
Screwed my back up sometime Friday or Saturday, barely slept last night and in good amount of pain just standing/walking so no work today and I may call off tomorrow and try to get into chiropractor.
I did work on my wife's Liberty last weekend.
I bought Moog upper control arms/ball joints. I replaced the one within 6 months ago, one of the bushings are already shot and causing a banging noise. Can't even buy quality name brand parts anymore.
I had a work in process wagon that needed finished. The wife will use it for working her flower beds. I had built a 2'x4' box to fit it.
The wife found a table runner design that she liked. so I used that as a pattern to decorate it. After laying out the pattern it took a few days to paint it. It has a removable handle, so it can be pulled by hand or with a G.T.
The wife found a table runner design that she liked. so I used that as a pattern to decorate it. After laying out the pattern it took a few days to paint it. It has a removable handle, so it can be pulled by hand or with a G.T.
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