Was he "helping" you? because it's now a father son truck and you cannot sell it.
EVAR.
Was he "helping" you? because it's now a father son truck and you cannot sell it.
EVAR.
Great pic. I can't wait till my girl's old enough to pick up a Magic Metal Fire Gun.
Mad_Ratel wrote: Was he "helping" you? because it's now a father son truck and you cannot sell it. EVAR.
He welded a washer onto a scrap piece of the old roof panel. I am not sure if that counts.
In his mind it does!
To give you an idea on how the past 24 hours have looked:
Tunakid #2 went batE36 M3 crazy and screamed and whined all day, which included hitting (accidentally) Tunawife twice in her (still sore from surgery) face with his elbow. When she text messaged me "It hurts to cry", I came home to ward off the advancing Tunakids for the afternoon while still managing a huge project at work from home.
The kids did badly enough (except Tunakid #1) that we skipped church and I put them and Tunawife to bed early. Tunakid #1 and I welded, and then he watched a movie with Tunawife while I worked on the truck. For a while I chased a tripped breaker for a while until I realized that it was actually a tripped hidden GFCI. I came in at 11 or so and remembered that I hadn't thrown the clearcoat down on the counter yet (do not use that painted on countertop stuff, it does not last!) so I did that. Then I remembered that I had not made muffins yet (sweet potato), so I did that (with half of a countertop). I threw the laundry around and went to bed.
This morning the kitchen faucet wouldn't allow more than about 1/2 flow. I took it halfway apart and realized that the little crappy screw holding the handle on had backed itself out and was mangled, so I welded it to a cut off Phillips bit (because Phillips bits are for suckers anyway) and reassembled while feeding Tunakids #3 and #4 who woke up with me. Happily, that didn't actually fix the problem. Now off to the manufacturer to see if they will replace their faucet valve thingie AGAIN and go to work about 20 minutes late.
I am just now breathing normally again.
The B pillar sort of sucks. I pulled the seam out with my stud puller, but there are these little voids that keep the surface from being flush. When I weld the voids and try and get it straight, new voids appear from the heat I just added. I can't just grind it all flat because there isn't enough metal thickness to work with. We're talking 1/16" deep. Do I just leave it and let the filler get it flat? I am stuck.
First Breathe! Second. go mangle something hopefully inexpensive... third. you welded in a new strip of metal right? Was the new strip too thin? 1/16" seems teeny however, i'm not really a body guy.
tuna55 wrote:That's Tunakid #1, he's six. He did a decent job after some coaching.
Somewhere in this post is an awesome photochop of a Padawan being taught how to use a light saber from a jedi master...
The win is strong with this one!
Mad_Ratel wrote: First Breathe! Second. go mangle something hopefully inexpensive... third. you welded in a new strip of metal right? Was the new strip too thin? 1/16" seems teeny however, i'm not really a body guy.
So... imagine the seam I welded onto the strip patch panel I made. It puckered inward as you'd expect it to do when I welded it up. I hammered it out the best I could with my slide hammer. When I ground it flat, I found many areas which were low. When I welded up these areas to bring them up to the surface, and then ground that flat, I ended up with different areas which were now low. I am not sure how beneficial it is to keep chasing these...
If the low spot is less than 1/16" low then let filler do it.
Lead it. :-D
While Mrs Chucker and I only have one youngin to tend to, our house is about 100x more falling-downy than yours is (being at least 150 years older), so I can relate to the stuff breaking around the house bit.
Tuna,
That picture of Tunakid #1 is awesome! Save that one for his high school yearbook! You can either go terribly embarrassing or totally awesome with the parent pics in the yearbook. That qualifies for totally awesome!
Thanks!
Worked on something top secret last night. You'll all find out soon what it is.
Tonight I decided to start the fuel line setup. I had a helper again:
He helped me pull out the new driveshaft crossmember, the transmission crossmember, and the first few fuel line clamps before it was bedtime for him. You can see him poking his finger up through the hole where the fuel line used to go:
I then pulled the rest of the bit and removed the fuel line. It turned out to be in really good shape, and way more complicated than I thought. I changed directions. Instead of redoing the entire length with 3/8" line, I am going to keep the GM stuff to the cab where it used to go, and get a coupler to the new 3/8" stuff there and run it back to the new tank. There are enough areas going through holes, into and out of frame gussets and such that I'd rather like to keep it.
So not the frame rails forward of the cab (are all stripped of stuff. Recall that rearward of this I've already painted. I am going to stop where the engine mounts are until the engine is out and such. So I've had to remove the parking brake stuff, the rest of the exhaust stuff, some wiring, the fuel lines (which I will put back in but in a different form), the transmission crosssmember and the aforementioned driveshaft crossmember.
And then I realized that I am out of paint brushes.
So I cleaned the big storage workbench thing in preparation of cutting the cut off and using the surface more readily later on.
the remainder of the framerail, some of my right ear, and a bunch of spots on my left hand, are all painted!
Preparation for Tunakid #4s birthday prevented any work last night. She's two today!!
Happy birthday, youngest Tunakid!
Here she is now enjoying her Mommy-made shirt and pants.
Super cute 
Get back to work.
You never heard of the Birthday party game called "Rub the sandpaper on the truck"?
But don't let her paint...seems to have a thing for pink, and I don't see it as your color.
NOHOME wrote: Get back to work.
hehehe
Tunakid #1 wants to help install the fuel line, but he's six and that's slightly more practical.
I was cleaning up after a master cake made by Tunawife as well as assembling a doll crib and high chair. I hit the sack at 1:30 or so and there were no lulls in the birthday party creating action.
This weekend is the real deal, a tea party for little girls. It sounds like... like I'll take all of the male Tunakids and all male siblings of guests outside for the duration.
oh yeah. Now you got a workforce!
There have potentially been some exciting developments regarding the far-away-still interior. Stay tuned!
tuna55 wrote: There have potentially been some exciting developments regarding the far-away-still interior. Stay tuned!
4cylndrfury wrote:tuna55 wrote: There have potentially been some exciting developments regarding the far-away-still interior. Stay tuned!
Can't spill until I know more for now. You'd be pissed if I told you there were similar hidden engine plans! Ooops!
tuna55 wrote: There have potentially been some exciting developments regarding the far-away-still interior. Stay tuned!
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tuna55 wrote: Here she is now enjoying her Mommy-made shirt and pants.
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Your wife got a stronger needle and is going to custom make your interior?
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