This is getting ridiculous. Why am I in the office sweating when the basement is 70 degrees, MAX? I dunno. I am about to head to town to buy electrical stuff to go work down there. Good excuse as any. I just painted the tailgate for the Scout, cause I was/am embarrassed driving around with [...]
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F me its hot, and Scout Pictures
Posted in cars on May 26, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Drove the Scout today!
Posted in cars on July 15, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Hooray! I got it done last night, but the battery was dead from Benji playing with buttons…I charged it and ate dinner and watched TV. Went out at 1030 to take the charger off for the night, had to try starting it. Had a real problem getting gas to the carb, it sat so long [...]
BJ’s
Posted in cars on March 30, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Brake jobs, people, brake jobs. Honestly, can we climb out of the gutter for just a minute? I don’t know exactly how many drum brake rebuilds I have done, but it certainly measures in the dozens. I spent one summer exclusively doing brake jobs on old beaters for a guy named Walter Brown that had [...]
Gears Take 3 – ACTION!
Posted in cars on January 13, 2009 | 6 Comments »
Dropped the pinion another 5 thou. So, I screwed up and set the pinion the wrong way to go from the old +0 to the new +4. Actually, I did it CORRECTLY, removing 4 thou in shims to get to 0.041 from 0.045. Then I went inside and had a couple drinks and read the [...]
Re-Gearing Scout Part 2
Posted in cars on January 13, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Ok, here is my pattern: First try with pinion set to where it should be if my old pinion shim pack was correct. I am going from a +0 pinion to a +4 pinion. I set it up with .045 thou plus .004 thou = 0.049 thou. Looks like pinion is too close to me: [...]
