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I'll be happy to have these tests over, then next week I have to get a bunch of things worked on. First will be getting the shop cleaned up so I can get more than just one thing at a time in there. Since my dad has the other building blocked up with grain wagons, and the fact that I have to get electricity back in there, the tractor has to sit in the workshop. I need to get the intake changed on my mom's car, (3800 series II plastic upper intake failed) Head or transmission swapped on a Neon ( I have two) so I can have another econobeater since the Cavalier transmission won't downshift while moving, transmission changed in my sister's van if/when I get time since I also have to take it out of another van, and whatever else gets broken in the meantime... That is the short list. I would like to get my truck back from my friends so I can get it to run proper, as he seems to have the injection timing off by one tooth. Then I can have my diesel back... It fires off in this cold nice, but has no power at all. I have the pump cranked as far as I can and just started to get it to start to run good, but lacks power, which it had plenty of before. It was impressive for a non turbo 6.9.
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That is pretty much normal around here... I didn't mention the projects at all in that list... I'm still trying to get the title on a 78 4x4 shortbed, they haven't gotten it turned over yet, two party deal, and trying to get ahold of the title holder has been tiresome.. Pretty much all the sheetmetal is shot, but I have the parts to put it together for the most part. It already has a 4" lift on it. What i would really like to do to it would be a 4 cylinder Cummins, but the cash isn't there at this time... The 351M in it that was supposed to be a runner seems to be stuck... so even more to deal with...
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Roger, you need more to do......LOL! Yeah, it would be nice to have my own shop. I can use the one out at my mother-in-laws, that's where I've been working on my 67. But, we'd really like to get some land, so I can build my own shop.
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Mine is an old hog house, but no slatted floors at least... I have to take the exhaust off the tractor to get it in, the doorway is right about 8'. My old man put the engine hoist outside to get the little loader tractor out that I just got done with a couple weeks ago, and it is now stuck in a snowbank, in the way a bit of course. I had wanted to get some cleanup done before winter so it wasn't such a PITA to get in to the shop (the way in right now is an angle, door is only 8' wide) but that didn't happen. I also wanted to get the doors hung properly so they would seal a bit better, no go there either. Right now they are just plywood sheets hanging, no structure at all, so they are bowed nicely. (my uncles doing...)
Looks like I have a squirrel doing some last minute gathering, it likes the area I cleared by the house to find acorns... plenty of them.
I spent a few winters in South Dakota with no shop, it sure can make life interesting...
Looks like I have a squirrel doing some last minute gathering, it likes the area I cleared by the house to find acorns... plenty of them.
I spent a few winters in South Dakota with no shop, it sure can make life interesting...
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I wish the furnace in the in-laws shop worked, I'd still be working. I HATE working in the cold, so I stored the truck away for the winter. I also have to share the space with my brother-in-laws, who need to use the shop on occasion.
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Better than being cold though... my biggest issue is with cold tools and parts. I got my fingers frostbit and they also have been crushed, so it is real easy to get my hands too cold now. Much of the work I do can't be effectively done with gloves on either... I do so much wrenching by feel, due to being too tight by design that gloves just don't work out.
