Glad to hear the truck is doing good! This one I just put in the shop is the second in a line of five. I finished up doing a clutch, rear seal, and valve cover gasket on a Jeep Wrangler last night. I have this PSD and three more to work on now. They are stacked up down there, but that's fine though.....mo money . I have put all truck projects on hold for now to try to save and get a bigger shop built. I already have a lot of the materials that I have been gathering up a little at a time over the years. Just gotta get the last of what I need to pull the trigger and get it done. I plan on the shop to have two bays, but I will be able to put two trucks deep in each bay. One spot in the back of one bay will be dedicated to my projects though. Part of my problem now why I can't get anything done on my extensive projects, is having to take it in and out of shop when I have side work. Can't do that, so my stuff sits outside with nothing getting done to it. Hopefully I can get enough saved up by Spring to get the rest of the materials I need and get the concrete poured. We'll see.

 

That's great Bill! Are you going to pour heated concrete for those cold winter months? Hope it all works out! I know I could do so much more with a shop, but that might be a long ways off still.

 

No, no heated floors. I'd like to, but I am gonna be building the new shop over and around the old one so I can utilize the slab that is already there, so less than half of the floor could be heated. Sure would be nice though.

 

I know that would be nice though. Install that central shop heating when you upgrade?

 

i would put the tubing in the new floor anyway, whether you use it or not.
this way if you do decide you want heated floors in half the shop down the road you can still do it.
i wanted to put the piping in my shop when i built it, but forgot to tell the guy that did the concrete work.
i have been kicking myself in the rear end about that mistake for the past 19 winters.

 

Excursion runs...

 

The 7 degree stuff kept me inside for a while but I still needed to finish cleaning up the driveway. Supposed to get more of this garbage tomorrow too...ugh. Running out of places to put it.

 

I wondered why I kept hearing that dang rap music all day! Just kidding Bill, Well, you could always put it on the other side of the road. I'm sure the road crews will put it somewhere! Hell, I'll take a box of it if you can manage

Seriously though, Why not just put it into the yard? Build the kiddo's a snow fort.

 

I have been moving it into the yard, slowly. Trying to not block the OBS in, just in case I need to get it out and run it.

 

This is good news.

 

I think I'm jealous. My OBS is behind a snowbank where I can't work on it.

 

At least you have a shop to work in Bill. I've got a open ended implement shed that's 3 feet longer than my truck, gravel floor and all. Though I think it is a bit better than Sean's setup. The only price of equipment I can fit in the workshop is the bobcat. Everything else gets worked on outside or the corn bunker when it's mt.

 

i have a 24X26 tool crib. the closest i can get to it rite now is about 30 foot, because there are 2 dead trucks in front of the door.
so anything that can not be removed and brought inside gets fixed outside in the cold wet driveway.

 

so what was wrong with it besides the loose nut behind the steering wheel?

 

you sure it was loose. I just thought it was a wing nut lmao