rich I was thinking about maybe dropping by too.. but it is snowing out there right now, Ozark county don't grade the snow offa my road for several days usually, so not sure about getting out of here tomorrow.. Friday or so looks like a lot better day.... alan are ya gonna clean and paint the ole 460 before setting it in?

 

RC. Yes. I'm gonna do that before I start on the king pins in the '73 tomorrow. Feel free to come up Saturday to help with the engine swap in the truck. I need to get a hold of Bob's old Neighbor Chris and let him know, too.

 

Well we have a nice sheet of ice covered by 1" of snow. So like we discussed Alan, I will drop kick to next week and hopefully better road conditions.

So back to your 460 swap in fun.

 

Good Morning Everybody!

Rich. That's fine. I'm just going to clean and paint the engine today. Then I'm gonna do the king pins in the '73. That'll be the last thing that truck needs mechanically. If it stays around much longer, I'll get in to the rust repair.

 

alan are ya gonna do a stock ford blue or some fancy custom paint on the 460... just stay away from chevy orange!!!. ha ha ha ha .. well I think I will work more on my house remodel today.. looks like a good day to stay indoors..

 

Good morning all, the weather yesterday made driving backroads up north rather entertaining.

 

No blue, orange green or any other color. I'm going back to Ford red and sticking with that. I had great luck with all the other engines I painted red and I got away from that. No more engines that aren't red. Ford red engines (regardless of manufacturer) seem to hold up. If I paint an engine any other color (regardless of manufacturer) I inevitably have to pull the dang thing back out and fix something inside of it.

 

That is why RED is my favorite color....even faded red...lol

 

Well morning folks, going to try to get around and get some errands ran today.

 

So that is the new name for pink.

 

I dunno. I can mix some pink for a Kia.

 

Pink and a Kia go hand in hand...lol Maybe some lavender for a Cougar? The more you pick on me about it the more work for Alan and he is busy enough.

Alan what would it take to buff if back to bright red? Like we are not busty enough, hell the red truck is not back finished and back together yet.....let alone wet sanded, someday?

 

Red comes back pretty easily. About 4 hours and some compound and we can have it the correct color again.

I had a hell of a day. I went to go put the king pins in the '73. I was about 3/4 of the way done with the driver's side before I realized they put oversized pins in the wrong box. I couldn't figure out why the dang things wouldn't go back in the I beam. I have to take the suspension completely out of the truck, mill the I-beam out, press the spindle back together, then put it all back together. It took EIGHT FRIGGIN' HOURS to do one side. ....but that side has ZERO play in it. Tensions were running pretty high. I just about gave myself coronary

Tomorrow is Earthquake engine day. I'm gonna put off the other side of the '73 for a few days. .

 

Those graphics turn out great Alan!


Sounds like you have been busy Rich!
Saturday should be very nice here in KC.


Take care gents

 

good morning Missouri.. I think I will head up towards Sparta today.. if for nothing else than moral support..