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Hey Mike, glad to see you mustered up the energy to say hi. We've been worried about you, but didn't want to push you into posting until you felt better. Hope this is just the beginning for you, lots of your friends miss you on here, me included.
I like your method of doing engine painting. Probably makes it look pretty trick. Thanks for the nice words about mine.
Take care of yourself Mike, we all care about you.
Don
thanks don, i'm typing with my right hand, which is hard for me to do anyway, and i just posted about a 1/2 page on another post, and it got lost some where. :CRY: shot my ward on nothing. i just got back out of the hospital again friday, had to put me on the breathing machine again. i'm gonna learn how to live without breathing one of these days.:eek: i'll be back one of these days.Quote:
Originally Posted by Itoldyouso
D***. :mad: Sorry to hear that. Hope everything works out ok. Don't stress yourself too much by trying to type one handed and all. Just take it easy.
Don
Looking good don, cant wait to see it all together, maybe soon i can get down there for the weekend, and help out a little, i dont think its more than 4 hours away
There's always a cold one in the fridge for you John. :)
Don
Hello Mike if your still lurking take it easy get better. Yes nice color choice Don. I like it:3dSMILE:
Thanks Charlie, people are going to either love it or hate it, but pictures always distort the true color, and it is really more gold/copper than orange. I think it will be fine.
Hey, there is a thread get well card going for Mike, why don't you put your thoughts there for him, in case you missed that.
See ya Charlie,
Don
I talked to Mike on the phone this past week. I posted in my galery some pictures of my ford interior. Car is nearing completion have a look
Yes is IS nearing completion. :) Looks great. What are those seats out of ? They fit perfectly, and your wife did a pro job on the panels and all.
You aren't gonna mind long trips in that interior, must be very comfortable.
Don
I think they are 89 linclon
those are some sweet seats, got her looking good.
What's your next step on the car IToldyouso?
What's your next step on the car IToldyouso?
I've put off fiberglassing the floor and wood framework into the car as long as I can, so I guess it is time to start that. I HATE fiberglass work and the mess and itching that goes with it, so I have been finding excuses to not do it. Guess I'll go out and get one of those hooded paper suits and try to keep as much of it from getting on me as I can, and go at it.
Probably tonight I am going to go to Home Depot and pick up the plywood.
Don
I know what you mean, I am on my third attempt at a console. I have found that the matted cloth is alot cleaner and alot less itchy than the fiber matts are. I am like you, I completely suit up for that stuff.
When I was building my '27 I came home one day, got down to shorts only, and started grinding away at the fiberglass on the body. It was 90 degrees, and the dust stuck to the sweat, so even after taking a shower it was itch time. That night I had to sleep with my arms straight out and no sheet or blanket over me. That's why I don't like to do it anymore, and do everything possible to keep it from happening.
I had an old time shrimper, who did fiberglass work all the time, tell me the secret was to get into the hottest shower you could and use a scrub brush in one direction only to sweep away the fibers out of your pores. I have also heard putting baby oil on and showering works, and I think I have had the best luck with that.
Don
I Remember as a kid mom did some fiberglass drapes in the washer. Needless to say you wanted to run around naked for awhile (LOL).
According to the union safety meetings I attended about fiberglass, they all said Baking Soda baths, opens the pours and all the glass showers right off. It works very well I will admit, soak for about 1/2 an hour in a box of baking soda in a tub of water and then shower off.
Never heard that remedy, but you can bet I buy some baking soda next time I am at the store. :)
Thanks for the tip.
Don
Cover your exposed skin in gold bond or baby powder, before doing the work, it keeps the fibers out some, all us sheetrock guys do that before we hang a product called densglass, its drywall covered in fiberglass instead of paper
Huh. Sounds reasonable. All this fiberglass talk has me sitting here itching, just thinking about it. :D
Don
I know what you mean, i hate the stuff, in any form, when i worked at lurhs/mainship thats all you could smell around the factory, and i was in the t-top shop across the property, i always felt bad for the poor glass guys
Well, I have decided to postpone my fiberglass adventure until this weekend, when i can take the body outside for some grinding so I don't screw up the shop too bad. But today I made a little score at work.
The marina next door to ours sold, and they are going to level it next week to put up storage racks, so they told us to come over and take anything we wanted. Being the scrounger I am, I got a nice steel stool to put at our welding table, but I also picked up a rolling steel cart that they used to move heavy stuff around. It measures 2 x 3 feet, and has 4 heavy caster wheels under it, and probably will hold a thousand pounds.
I have decided to make an engine test stand out of it so that we can test run any engine we build before we slide it into the actual car. It will be a lot easier to fix problems or leaks before it is sitting in a nicely painted frame, and I can have an engine all tuned and ready to run when it goes in.
I am going to make it so that I can bolt in Chevy, Ford, or other make engines with just a crossmember change, and will probably build a rear engine plate with various holes to match up with any bell housing pattern. I have some old gauges (tach, oil pressure, water temp) and will probably use a 3 gallon marine tank and a battery too. Not sure if I will put a radiator on it, or just plumb in a garden hose type arrangement. If I do the radiator, I will probably mount a box fan in front of it to keep the engine cool while breaking them in.
If any of you have done one of these, and have any suggestions, I would love to hear from you. A friend of mine built one out of 2 x 6 lumber one time, and it looked and worked great.
Here are some pix of the cart I picked up.
Don
Don---Put a radiator on it. You can't get a new engine hot enough to "run it in" with the old garden hose trick. I built a beautifull engine test stand when I built my 27 T roadster about 10 years ago---only problem was it took up so darn much room after I had the roadster finished that I cut it up and re-used it for other things, just to give me room in the garage.
Yeah, I am wondering about the space thing too. I think I am going to make everything bolt on so that it will breakdown to no bigger than the rack itself. The last one I was building was so big I could have driven it around. :D I scrapped it when we moved to this shop because it took up so much room.
Good point about the temperature thing, Brian. It will also be a good way to check for leaks because the coolant will be under radiator cap pressure. Smart thinking, thanks.
Don
Here's a commercial engine stand you might get some ideas from
http://www.mightymount.com/
Lots of ideas on that one. Thanks.
Don
i used just a HD 4 wheel motor stand. welded a brace up from the front of the stand, to the front of the pan. added a radiator, headers with muf. and an oil and temp. gauge i 'm talking a 454, with a 671 blower, thats a lot of wt. i almost sacred up the first time i rev. on it a little, it almost turned over in the floor. it sure is a good way to check for leaks . :cool:
Hay Mike how you doing today good to see you back here.
i'm getting better , had a pretty good dialysis last night. they got me down to 138 lbs. now, so they have been pulling a lot off me sense i was in the hospital. from a 174 to 138 in a few mos. is a lot to loose. still cant use my left hand. :CRY: all in all everything is looking up. thanks for asking.
Wonder what they could do with my 230# I'd love to get back to 190#:LOL: :LOL: :LOL:
[quote=cffisher]Wonder what they could do with my 230# I'd love to get back to 190#:LOL: :LOL: :LOL:[/quote
how ever much of that 230 is water, then they can get rid of it. you wouldn't like it thought. :CRY:
NO I know from my dad and brothers it isn't fun
i guess it could be worse.:HMMM:
So I guess you would not recommend running an engine 3 feet off the ground on an engine stand, huh? :LOL: :LOL: :LOL: I've started a few sitting right on the ground, but never had the guts to try one on the stand.
Glad to see you are feeling more like yourself. It always is good to see you respond to some thread because we know you are feeling like it.
Don
i ran a lot of them that way. after the first scare it worked out great. i was using the 4 wheel stand. feeling alittle better. :cool:Quote:
Originally Posted by Itoldyouso
this is not a good pic. picture but this is a pic. of a 350 with a 471 blower and a 454 with a 671 blower on it. i had them sitting in the front of my parts store at one time, and almost wore them out cranking them up for people. :rolleyes:
Too wild, leave it to you Lt!!!
Well sure, but he did have that extra brace on the bottom.:D :D :LOL: :LOL:
Don
LT like all glad to see you finding some alphabit there at times.
Nothing looks better then a blower or super charger on top of a engine . I was going to card board one up just to send to brother in WV and tease him a bit , besides i owe it to him.
send him this pic. and tell him you just bought it at a deal.:cool:
LT1 great idea . That will put his mind in motion wanting to hear something like that run . .