You guys who bend metal to do your will amaze me!
Type: Posts; User: LarrBeard
You guys who bend metal to do your will amaze me!
The '48 had been sitting for about 35 years. Once I got the title boondoggle settled, I finally had enough papers to try to register it. Since I was late in renewing the last set of plates I had...
"One time registration of $30 for the rest of the vehicles life in Ohio."
Just over the line here in Indiana, you have to renew the tags every year. It takes a trip to the local DMV since you...
Phone? Or will the truth ever be known?
That lil' D12 is so freakin' cute. It looks like a tractor only a lot smaller.
"LarrBeard is a poet."
You'd never guess it, he isn't a Longfellow .. yuk> yech
We had to repair the steering wheel on the '48, but it didn't stay fixed, another ongoing project.
I kept the original flat horn button/ring/whatever and it didn't match the newer wheel, so...
It sounds like a pretty well thought out plan and you have the ability to execute it.
As the Old Gunny said;
"Everyone has a plan until those first rounds go 'snap' over your head."
Willys America has a fire wall heat and sound insulator that looks like it should really kill a bunch of heat and noise from up in the engine room. On hot summer days that little F-134 in the '48...
It looks like a ship in overhaul at Alabama Shipbuilding and Drydock. You would declare it would never go anywhere again.
What not to say to your wife.
"Uh, dear. I have this great new tool that removes wrinkles from the metal on that Jeep I'm working on. Could I give you a facial?"
OK, for those of us who are not metal wizards, what is a shrinking disc?
That's why I like Harbor Freight.
"Hey, your XXX broke and its only about Y months old".
Keep your receipt and you never wear out a tool. Almost as good as Craftsman used to be. The only way...
I want to try these on the Donaldson oil bath air cleaner I found for the '48. Sand blasting an air cleaner and getting it full of grit doesn't seem to be that great of an idea.
Which size and...
Every so often blind squirrels find acorns without worms in them.
Just remember - when you're working on old Jeeps - every Yee-Haw has an Awww -Pooh hiding behind it.
Have a safe New Year...
Very nice set of roll-around horses.
While it takes a while to build a set of those, they save time in the fairly short run.
And, it keeps heavy things from falling on your head.