What did YOU do today?

[Curious Hound]

Update, I can get a new distributor for about 65 bucks delivered. The car is pristine, so that’s the way I’m going to go. I fear I may have damaged the housing when I drove the gear back on.

But here’s the number two question. The distributors come with a steel gear or with a cast-iron gear. Mine has a bronze gear. The difference is because of the tappets and roller cam, etc. bla bla. I don’t know any of that. But I would assume I need a cast iron gear to replace my bronze gear Since it’s the softer compared to steel, and apparently the steel are for higher output engines.

So if I have bronze, I go with the cast-iron gear?

The steel gear may be manufactured with a softer steel than the cam gear that drives it. Therefore, it would still be a wear item. But would last longer than brass or bronze. If it’s a decent name brand, I would trust it.

 

[Blmpkn]

Dumped & refilled the coolant in the 96, as it's been mostly water since I got it back on the road. We've had 2 or 3 good heavy fronts in the morning so far up here... Figuring I'm pretty lucky to have not popped a freeze plug or unseated one of the end tanks on the rad.

Found a rock in the bottom of the my drain pan too lol.. idk how it managed to work it's way into the cooling system but.. it WAS purchased from someone who lost most of their teeth via drugs so mabey it's crack?

Uncut coolant has gone up in price too compared to 50/50... I remember bottles of 50/50 being 10 bucks and a bottle of the pure stuff being 11.. now a bottle of straight coolant is 16


It's nice having nice fresh martian piss in it though.. when I bought the thing the coolant was pretty much the same color as sewage water lol. I'm gonna try some of that chemical flush stuff in the spring in hopes of really cleaning out the coolant passages to a factory like state.

 

[racsan]

Brought home the trailer & tractor from last nights hayride, put the 3-point blade on it so its ready when needed. serviced the lawn deere & its now got fresh oil, filters & a new spark plug. Started the light bar install on my escape but felt tired so decided to just relax for the rest of the day.

 

[scotts90ranger]

Went to my brothers this morning and walked around for a while looking for deer, when I'd given up and was most of the way to the explorer I panned to the center of the dang field and the stupid deer I was looking for was right there in the middle, was apparently not looking that way for a couple minutes... annoyingly that direction the backdrop is a city so no shooting that particular direction... he wandered further down the field but it's arched so I couldn't see him until he got to the point which I could only see his rump and was still like 200 yards... tried to follow from there but there's no chance of being covert... but hopefully I know his routine now...

After that decided to be productive for a bit and got carried away/distracted and built the roof for the firewood lean to, then started the burn pile, then added the small pieces of metal to the boat lean to... still early enough I'll probably head back over to my brothers and wander around looking for that deer...

 

[jballard81]

Yesterday I stripped out a nice "roller" equipment cabinet at my local metal scrap yard. Took about 5 hours to get 95% of everything removed. But now I have some good bones to work with. Decent casters as it rolls around like a dream. No china junk detected...so far. Was a piece of medical gear, now a chassis for a wet 24" lapidary saw with storage doors. Next step is start in with a sawzall and finish removing the steel inner structure leaving room for a 18" deep liquid tight sump for the mechanical feed & drive assembly. Lucky for me there is a rigging company called Murphy Industrial Products, Inc. Anything & everything you need to tie down stuff on your barge, and / or other mode of hauling. Depending on my feed motor rotation, I may require a left handed lead screw & clamshell nut. Easy to find in hard galvanized metal as part of a turnbuckle assembly. I have a 5 foot tall (1 inch) turnbuckle I purchased from them to level my transmission tower. The cost was not bad at all.

Today still sore, as the rolling cart weighs 170lbs stripped. It rolls so good, (how good does it roll?) ....any undetectable tilt or slant on any surface it heads to the low spot when you least expect it. When I'm ready to start work on it, I'll screw down the included jack screws holding it in place.

Care to share any pics of this project? Sounds interesting!

 

[Rick W]

Found a rock in the bottom of the my drain pan too lol.. idk how it managed to work it's way into the cooling system but.. it WAS purchased from someone who lost most of their teeth via drugs so mabey it's crack?

Put it in a pipe and try to smoke it. If it’s a stone, no big deal.

If it’s crack, you’ll also think it’s not a big deal.

 

[Blmpkn]

Put it in a pipe and try to smoke it. If it’s a stone, no big deal.

If it’s crack, you’ll also think it’s not a big deal.

I'll take your word for it

 

[LilChebbie]

I finally started the remodel process on the house. Currently removing and patching all the old subfloors. It's tough work with a slight learning curve, but better to pay in sweat equity than pay the price of labor nowadays. Plus if I fall through the floor, I have no one to blame but myself LOL

 

[JohnOn620]

Lincoln voted too.

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Hey, it’s Atlanta. He can vote a couple more times, and even after if it’s needed

Way to go Lincoln. Someone get this man a treat.

 

[Shran]

I finished up the majority of the fence project on Saturday. I had to pull out way more bushes than I wanted to but it had to happen. I need to buy privacy strips that get woven into the chain link and do some raking/haul out brush but otherwise I'm pretty happy with it. Then I can start reassembling my junk pile.

We took Sunday off from working on projects and went bird hunting with my wife, father in law, and youngest son. He shot 3 grouse, I shot 3 grouse and two pheasants but I lost one - It dropped like a rock but it must have run off somewhere, we looked for a good 30 minutes and couldn't find it. All in all a great day though.

 

[lancasterpunk29]

I decided to work on the “Shiftster” revived project . making a worm drive and “standard” crawl under the truck variants.

 

[lancasterpunk29]

Adding again today, put on manual locking hubs , and cranked the torsion bars. I need bigger tires now. lol. Forgot to mention “Shiftster revived” I am making the “standard version” for both shorter screws and stock screws. worm drive will be the stick screws as well. For the 4wd yoke , the bolts are 1/4x28 x 3/4 but the tip is the last 1/4 . it’s really closer to 1/4x28x5/8 or 1/2 might make it.

 

[bilbo]

I finished up the majority of the fence project on Saturday. I had to pull out way more bushes than I wanted to but it had to happen. I need to buy privacy strips that get woven into the chain link and do some raking/haul out brush but otherwise I'm pretty happy with it. Then I can start reassembling my junk pile.

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We took Sunday off from working on projects and went bird hunting with my wife, father in law, and youngest son. He shot 3 grouse, I shot 3 grouse and two pheasants but I lost one - It dropped like a rock but it must have run off somewhere, we looked for a good 30 minutes and couldn't find it. All in all a great day though.

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Looks like an excellent day! I miss bird hunting. Pheasants are such strong runners it's dang near impossible to find them without a good dog. Even then they are hard to pin down. Sharpie season was always open before pheasant and they were much less sought after. I used to go out late summer and have everything to myself it was great!

They're definitely different on the table though. I hated eating them until I started kind of treating the meat like beef. I made sharpie fajitas once when we had company over, and also made some with chicken for those who didn't want to eat the wild game. The chicken was pretty much untouched and the sharpie meat was all gone!

 

[Shran]

Looks like an excellent day! I miss bird hunting. Pheasants are such strong runners it's dang near impossible to find them without a good dog. Even then they are hard to pin down. Sharpie season was always open before pheasant and they were much less sought after. I used to go out late summer and have everything to myself it was great!

They're definitely different on the table though. I hated eating them until I started kind of treating the meat like beef. I made sharpie fajitas once when we had company over, and also made some with chicken for those who didn't want to eat the wild game. The chicken was pretty much untouched and the sharpie meat was all gone!

Yeah, there are definitely a few grouse hunters out here but not like the pheasant hunters though. I like grouse hunting because I can road hunt and just about shoot my limit every time by myself without a ton of walking or a dog... that's really hard to do with pheasants. I think pheasants taste better but grouse aren't bad if you cook them right (like anything.) My favorite recipe is to brine the meat in pickle juice overnight, then soak for 30 minutes in buttermilk, bread them in flour, corn starch, italian seasoning, salt & peper and paprika - then deep fry. They retain a little pickle flavor and are nice & crunchy.

 

[bilbo]

Yeah, there are definitely a few grouse hunters out here but not like the pheasant hunters though. I like grouse hunting because I can road hunt and just about shoot my limit every time by myself without a ton of walking or a dog... that's really hard to do with pheasants. I think pheasants taste better but grouse aren't bad if you cook them right (like anything.) My favorite recipe is to brine the meat in pickle juice overnight, then soak for 30 minutes in buttermilk, bread them in flour, corn starch, italian seasoning, salt & peper and paprika - then deep fry. They retain a little pickle flavor and are nice & crunchy.

Pheasants are tough birds, a dog is almost a necessity to be effective. Grouse seem to die a lot easier and they are weak runners. A friend of mine calls them flying livers. If cooked like liver they come out pretty good! Pheasants are definitely more table friendly though; they're basically an imported chinese chicken.