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Old Apr 30, 2013 | 10:44 AM
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I hate driving through Bend/Redmond, Portland no thanks. This from a guy that used to drive on the Brookyn Queens Expressway, or should I say parking lot.

Glad you got your gimble back Don, now your really in trouble everyone will be coming after you for welding work. Didi you retire two years ago, ha.
 
Old Apr 30, 2013 | 10:46 AM
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Yeh, thanks. If this week is anything like last week, I'll need some valium and Lorazepam. Just have to get there, hang out for 3 to 4 hours and then come home in the rush hour traffic! In a perfect world we would be out of there by 4 in the afternoon, but so far, it's been 17 to 1730 before we got out of there.
 
Old Apr 30, 2013 | 10:50 AM
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Originally Posted by kjvforme
I hate driving through Bend/Redmond, Portland no thanks. This from a guy that used to drive on the Brookyn Queens Expressway, or should I say parking lot.

Glad you got your gimble back Don, now your really in trouble everyone will be coming after you for welding work. Didi you retire two years ago, ha.
I just THOUGHT I'd retired.............lol




Originally Posted by Seabiscuit-P3
Yeh, thanks. If this week is anything like last week, I'll need some valium and Lorazepam. Just have to get there, hang out for 3 to 4 hours and then come home in the rush hour traffic! In a perfect world we would be out of there by 4 in the afternoon, but so far, it's been 17 to 1730 before we got out of there.
I would rather drive in Seattle than Portland.........Those Portland drivers are NUTS!
 
Old Apr 30, 2013 | 10:59 AM
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That I-5/I84 interchange is a bearcat.
 
Old Apr 30, 2013 | 11:00 AM
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That I-5/I84 interchange is a bearcat.


More like a nightmare...................
 
Old Apr 30, 2013 | 11:03 AM
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Hows the Mikey mobile coming along?
 
Old Apr 30, 2013 | 11:07 AM
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We got the bed and front clip off this week. Next week he's coming up for a couple more days and tear the front-end apart, and we'll mount the box on the gimble.
 
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Ok took a look at the gimble, saw the brake setup, how do you rotate it with something heavy on it?
 
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Old Apr 30, 2013 | 11:08 AM
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Would you believe that after me being on FTE for almost ten years, Harley just joined last night!
 
Old Apr 30, 2013 | 11:09 AM
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We got the bed and front clip off this week. Next week he's coming up for a couple more days and tear the front-end apart, and we'll mount the box on the gimble.
I thought Harley's '61 would be the first.
 
Old Apr 30, 2013 | 11:11 AM
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Ok took a look at the gimble, saw the brake setup, how do you rotate it with something heavy on it?

When I built it, it was for building aluminum flatbeds, so no problem. I'm thinking of adding a gearbox and small geardrive 120v motor for turning heavy cabs, beds, etc.
 
Old Apr 30, 2013 | 11:12 AM
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Nope. Mikeys 65 is first on the list.....
 
Old Apr 30, 2013 | 11:24 AM
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Well I'm hoping my used manifold will show up sometime next week. Picked up some black engine paint, to take it back to original color. The PO installed a oil pressure gage and left the idiot light unhooked, thinking about getting another sensor and hooking it back up. Would like to have the red light as a visual warning "Hey idiot pull over and shut the truck off". Found another wire just dangling that have to check out as well. At one time they moved the battery from under the cab to the engine area, thinking about moving it back, just need to get the holddown.
 
Old Apr 30, 2013 | 11:29 AM
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I hated it when they were under the floor in the cab.........

Since Harley's Uni is getting a custom aluminum tonneau, we're going to put the battery in the bed. Along with a custom aluminum fuel tank.
 
Old Apr 30, 2013 | 11:29 AM
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hey Don you knw that ride of the week you picked, the Econoline truck? Well there is one sitting in pieces down in John Day, interested?
 



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