I bought some thinner welding wire. When I talked to Andy Nelson at the challenge, he said that many of my difficulties with sheet metal welding may be due to using a wire that's too heavy.
I bought some thinner welding wire. When I talked to Andy Nelson at the challenge, he said that many of my difficulties with sheet metal welding may be due to using a wire that's too heavy.
Took off cv axles and disconnected engine/transmission wiring harness and assorted and sundry hoses so I could drop the engine and transmission out of the Infiniti G20. Would have had the engine out but ran out of daylight.
Very little. I went out with a plan (just a few things) but man, it's freaking cold. I waited for it to warm up a bit and it only hit 15 by the time I threw in the (frozen) towel. It's gonna be a long winter...
Pulled the rotors & calipers off the 914. Tried to pull the exhaust manifolds to replace the gaskets.
Too frikkin cold!
Going junkyarding hoping to find the stuff it needs.
VarioCam solenoids and spark plug tubes on my 1997 Boxster
Fabbed a tow hook for the MG to make it a little easier to load for its new owner. 
At least it felt pretty good to fire up the welder.
Dropped the engine in the truck. Running next week we hopes.
Y'all need pics in yer updates, eh?!
Replaced the lifters, diagnosed a 100% dead turbo, replaced a wheel bearing, flipped a camber plate, found two more big oil leaks, and generally considered taking up drinking as a cheaper and less stressful hobby.
oldtin wrote: Fabbed a tow hook for the MG to make it a little easier to load for its new owner.
pik of tow hook ?
I pumped the bilges in my boat. I gotta find that leak (it's on a trailer, so it is rainwater) and I need to drill a hole in the bottom to install a garboard plug
I asked the neighbors to leave so I could get the motor pulled.
chandlerGTi wrote: Brought a new one home; vacated the rodents and spiders and got it to fire today. 13 year slumber means nothing!
Running and driving, ordered pump and filter. Drained tank and rewired pump since it had a nice chunk worn out of the first 8". Found interior Monday at JY and may swap that in shortly. I'd prefer a crazy 80's recaro setup to match the body kit.
I installed a new cam, high ratio rockers, and and offset crank key to pick up an extra 8 degrees timing advance last weekend. Once I had it out on the road, the power was much better, but it seemed to level off about 5000 RPM. I suspected weak stock valve springs, so today I popped in a set of aftermarket performance springs, and not only was power was up everywhere, but it just keeps on pulling, harder than it ever has. With a bit of carb jetting and custom intake, I suspect power will be up almost 50%.
Oh, here's the pro-ject 
Finish welded out the header for my X1/9 today. I even got it painted!
Hopefully I might be running before Xmas.
Kar wash workin at the kar wash yea
Swapped the left hand main fairing and clutch lever on my VFR for new parts after a parking lot drop a couple weeks ago. I'm confused how I keep losing the fairing attachment capscrews on this bike; I'm short four of them, and I could use another couple of those stupid plastic push-pins that go on the inner panels as well.
And since I want factory hardware, I get to wait until Tuesday at the earliest to find out what isn't on the shelf at the local dealer I like to work with.
Refitted the sunroof and got the headliner in place. Not much but the first work in months
Played with the lathe all day making solid aluminum rear subframe bushings, trans mounts, motor mounts and a couple other doohickeys for my E36 race car.
Generally, just doing productive and hard to berkeley up turning jobs as a way to learn enough to do some of the more complicated things I'd like to tackle.
Added a quick connect to one of the bikes for a battery tender.
Sometimes it's nice to have simple, achievable goals...
I started on the pedal box. I'll update the build thread later.
looked at it out the window, yea it's still there.
I got mine muddy
In reply to wae:
I was coming on here to say the same thing!
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