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And I took up baking bread....sharpening my straight razors, shooting my Flintlock Rifle, Salmon Fishing ( now that the ice is gone)... restoring a 1960 Old Town wooden canoe, and getting the Pontiacs out of storage at the end of the month....and a bunch of other things.
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1966-1970 Pontiac Blue Metallic.
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1964 Tempest Coupe LS3/4L70E/3.42 1964 Le Mans Convertible 421 HO/TH350/2.56 2002 WS6 Convertible LS1/4L60E/3.23 |
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Winner!
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I've never looked closely, but I'm curious how those handles were put in place... and how they are removed?
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Anybody else on this planet campaign a M/T hemi Pontiac for eleven seasons? ... or has built a record breaking DOHC hemi four cylinder Pontiac? ... or has driven a couple laps of Nuerburgring with Tri-Power Pontiac power?(back in 1967) ... or has a Pontiac born the same year as Jim Wangers? (1926} |
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The screw drive is held inside the sliding jaw with a pretty simple round locking collar. Here is a borrowed picture of what I am talking about. There is a huge thread on Garage Journal about antique vise restoration.
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I'll put another picture up when I get the decals on it. My daughter-in-law has one of the Cricut machines and was going to do them for me, but she is an RN working an insane amount of hours right now. What she is doing is way more important than making decals so I found a place on line that does decals for wagons & pedal cars & tractors. Good time to give support to small business's that could use the income.
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What extra time?...
Between my old house, daughters new/old house, and now sons car ate 2 pistons(coolant into cylinders while on highway), cant keep up. Hoping to pull engine out in driveway Sunday(only day off this week) and ck rebuild vs replace.
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going stir crazy. LOL My hours were cut so now I have 3 and 4 day weekends. Our weather has been sucking so going outside is out of the question and don't have the money to take on any projects.
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But how is the handle removed from the screw? I've never wanted to tear up the surface of the ball ends with a pipe wrench to see if they are screwed on.
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Anybody else on this planet campaign a M/T hemi Pontiac for eleven seasons? ... or has built a record breaking DOHC hemi four cylinder Pontiac? ... or has driven a couple laps of Nuerburgring with Tri-Power Pontiac power?(back in 1967) ... or has a Pontiac born the same year as Jim Wangers? (1926} |
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Jeez, what a variety of talents on this forum. If I had all of you and all your tools in a giant Boeing hanger you could make or fix anything.
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Things completed:
Organized basement junk on shelves, threw out a lot. Cleaned and polished granite counter tops in kitchen (wife request !) Painted spare bedroom, replaced baseboard and door casing moldings Labeled a few “mystery” breakers in our fuse panel.....used the spousal live cellphone method as I walked through house and she flipped off breakers. If I could only find the warped individual that tied some of these circuits together......example basement bathroom and outside motion detector security lights Still to do (and now in Michigan I can’t get supplies) Mulch landscaping, I probably need 20 yards Preen all beds Spread ten yards black dirt in backyard and reseed patchy areas I can’t wait to get outside but lack of supplies killing me |
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Been outfitting our new travel trailer and upgrading the Silverado for trailer duty. Rear axle rebuilt with 3:73s, new Posi, axle bearings, brakes. Found out my factory installed receiver is marginal for towing (seems they develop cracks in the welds) so bought a new class 5, B&W receiver and put that on today.
In-between storms, I've been working on the 68. Don't have access to a sandblaster due to the SAH (Stay at home) orders so I've been using paint remover on all the small parts. Finally repaired the broken mounting bolt for the passenger door operator. Ames delivered a new throttle cable and interior bolt kit this week so now that the weather has cleared I can start working on the interior again. (I have to move the ElCo outside to have room to work on the 68). Sending the wiper motor out for rebuild and hopefully Pete has time to do my gauges soon. And I try to devote a least one day a week to pulling weeds.
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I just spent a couple hours down in the shop fixing the broken tabs on my motorcycle fender. Ground off the old broken tabs (part of the plastic fender) and bent up these new stainless pieces. Added some rivet nuts, drilled the fender to mount them ... work nicely. Better than spending $175 on a new one for a 20 year old motorcycle.
Also ordered a new pan gasket for the TH400 ... better work, it's the $33 Moroso piece. And going to try to find a new/better o-ring for the modulator (trying to track down a leak). Started sanding on the body, looking at some small patch panels, going to starting changing the tractor tire tomorrow, tire weighs 85 lbs without the fill, or the wheel, so that should be fun. This is like a warm up for retirement for me ... never been out of work so long in my 45 years of working. Loving it so long as the unemployment keeps flowing. Last edited by dataway; 04-12-2020 at 05:51 AM. |
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Rebar is +, all daisy chained together, suspend the part in the soap water (tide), and it gets the -. About 5 amps @ 12 volts and it'll take all the rust off of a part, but it won't remove paint. In a pinch it worked pretty slick.
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I did that with some hopeless looking brake backing plates, they turned out nice ... makes some nasty water though
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Now that you mentioned this, however, I am going to head over to the Garage Journal to see how those ball ends are removed. I am kind of curious now. |
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I am not saying this is your problem, but look here for sure if you can't find anything else. |
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