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Good morning folks.

I had one of the busiest days at work so far yesterday. It started at 9:45am and went to 7:55pm. That's quite unusual for a men's clothing store. Typically there is quite a bit of down time in our industry. The real story from yesterday was the sewer backing up into the basement. Man did that smell pretty!:rolleyes: While we waited for the drain guys to come, guess who got to suck up the water with a shop vac? You guessed it, me. Since there was no where to dump the water, I had to carry the full shop vac up the stairs, through the store, out the back door, and down the sidewalk to the alley. After doing that fifteen times while having the busiest day of the year so far, I was beat. The really funny scene is seeing me do this in about a thousand dollars worth of clothing! Oh well, at least the cash register was full of money. Maybe there's extra to pay for my dry cleaning!:)

We are headed to my mother's lake house this weekend. It's suppose to be highs in the upper sixties to lower seventies. Not quite boating in the sun weather, but it's certainly drinking weather!

I better get to work. Have a great day everyone.
 


Glendia is almost doing cartwheels. The new counter tops for the new cabinets were installed this morning. She now can do dishes and whatever else she needs to do in the kitchen now instead of doing dishes and whatever else in the bathroom sink and the dishes sitting in the bathtub drip drying. It is starting to look like a kitchen again. The last major hurdle is to get the Pergo flooring down and then come the new Hard Maple door casing and baseboard that we had custom made at a local saw mill. I will post a few pictures when I get time to show the progression of the kitchen remodel. I can actually see the light at the end of the tunnel. Yeah!!!!! cause I is getting very tired and look forward to a nice easy couple of weeks here on the home front.
 
Hiya y'all!:D

Bill, I don't know where ya find those waitresses, but keep em comin!!;)
I may, like most of us here, be on a diet, but jeepers, it sure is fun to look at the menu!!

Chris. Heel boy, heel!!:rolleyes: Remember howya got in this to begin with??

Matt. I understand the cig remark, but the waitresses? You don't have to be 18 to enjoy those. You just need a car, a good job, plenty of cash, etc...:rolleyes:

Major progress the last 2 days on the garage. I almost can park a car in it now!! :eek: At this rate, the Ranger and the big Deere will once again be stablemates by the end of the weekend. Then I have to paint the dining room, new light fixtures and paint for the kitchen, trim the living room, and repair the master BR before I can repaint the basement and start bolting up modules. I could have it all done in a week, if I didn't have to work. With working, 1-2 months :( Oh well, once its done, its done and the basement is all mine!!!

Gotta go,,,,,momma says suppertime!!!:D
 
Good evening. I've been bust with the van yesterday and today. Got the fuel line hooked up permanently, corrected the problem with the tail lights, got the backup lights working and found a couple of fuses that were blown, but you couldn't tell by looking at them. The fuse strip had burned through in the end cap on each one. So when I looked at the fuse I saw an intact fuse strip, but the meter told another story. So I had to get some new fuses. But that was only the start of things to come. When I went to start it, guess what? It wouldn't start. The engine would crank over but there was no fire from the coil. An investigation showed that the coil had a hairline crack and was leaking, so it was assumed the the coil was the problem. Well, you know what they say about assuming things. And yes, by this afternoon I did feel like south end of a north bound horse. I replaced the coil with a brand new high performance one. That I thought should fix it. Cranked it over and couldn't get enough out of the coil to even raise my eyebrows. I had one of the plug wires off and holding it with a pair of insulated pliers near a bolt head on the engine. Not even a teeny tiny spark! Talk about feeling a bit ticked! Next I pulled the control module and had it tested. Also tested the ballast resistor. Both checked out fine. By now I'm feeling really ticked off. Everything I've done so far and it wouldn't fire. Everything was fine. The engine should fire. So then I started looking at the wire connections for the third or fourth time. Everything in the engine compartment looked fine. I get out and go look under the hood again. This time I move stuff around in case there's a loose wire hiding behind something. Then I see it! A three wire cluster just hanging. It looked SO insignificant. The only terminals they could fit on looked like nothing had been connected to them in quite some time. Well, I decided to connect it. Heck, the worst it could do was burn the thing to the ground. So I connected the wires. No pops, no sparks, no smoke. I get back in and turn the key and it fired right up! A flipping day and a half of chasing this problem and it turned out to be as simple as connecting a few wires! How could I have missed that on the first, second and third run-through? I felt like such a dunce! Well, there is one consolation. My nephew and a couple of his buddies are the best shade tree mechanics in this area and they couldn't find it either. And the funny part to all this (wasn't funny at the time) was that when I cranked the engine after connecting the aforementioned wires, I failed to notice the loose spark plug wire touch my right leg. I sure noticed it when the engine fired! The muscles in my legs spasmed and catapulted me upward resulting in my butt parting company with the seat and my head meeting the roof, then I got introduced to the bushes beside the driveway as I fell out the door with every nerve in my body screaming in agony. No major injuries, just a couple of scrapes from where I landed in the bayberry bushes. I reached in and killed the engine then reconnected the spark plug wire that had jolted me with such a vengeance. There are still a few little things to do before I get it inspected. It needs new head lights, a horn and the brake light switch has to be adjusted. It's not against the brake pedal enough to immediately turn the brake lights off when the pedal is released. As a result the brake lights stay on for a few minutes before finally turning off. I drove the van around the neighborhood a couple of times. Everything seems fine. No roughness, no overheating. Well, that was my day.
 
LOL Jeff!

1st there was the jitterbug,,,,then the electric slide,,,,now ya got a new dance,,,,,the electric jitterbug!!!! :eek: :D

Glad there was no serious injury, cept maybe your pride.:eek: Been there, done that before. Spark plug wires have gotten me before too. Electric fences too! Something about shocks like that that always seem funny afterwards......especially when it happens to someone else....it musta been something to see!! Like when my Uncle's Great Pyranees (big white fluffy dog) peed on an electric fence! I swear, even my Beagle laughed at him!!!:D

I guess you'le get that engine cover back on real soon?
 
kbkchooch said:
LOL Jeff!

1st there was the jitterbug,,,,then the electric slide,,,,now ya got a new dance,,,,,the electric jitterbug!!!! :eek: :D

Glad there was no serious injury, cept maybe your pride.:eek: Been there, done that before. Spark plug wires have gotten me before too. Electric fences too! Something about shocks like that that always seem funny afterwards.

I guess you'le get that engine cover back on real soon?
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Too bad there wasn't a representative from Webster's present. He might have picked up some new words as I was cussing in several languages and even mixing some! And yes, my normally straight hair is still slightly curled this morning. The dog house (engine cover) was quickly put back in place afterward. I then took the van out on a test drive to make sure it wasn't doing something interesting.
 


It is kind of coolish outside-we are currently sitting at 14C--or 57F--and dull dull dull--we are supposed to see showers today although not by a great chance of that happening.

Welp, I had some fun the past few days. Seems my heart was doing the badump bump thing and I ended up with chest pains again.:eek::eek: Turned out my chest muscles got pulled for some dang reason--probably when I was hauling my Princeton Amplifier downstairs from my studio so I could fix the blame thing---first the primary went on the power transformer and now the tubes are soft---GROWL!!!:mad::mad:

As for the RR right now I'm attempting to finish off some off the actual scenic stuff for the diorama I'll be using for the compression photographic stuff, then, it will be the building up of the trackwork around the Exceda Wye project---:eek::rolleyes::rolleyes:

Chris We''ll continue praying that things will work out for you--;)
 
Well I discovered this morning that to get the van started for the first time of the day I have to prime the carb. Now I quickly realized that taking the dog house (engine cover) off every time I need to prime the carb would get very old very fast. So, being the inventive guy that I am I cut and hinged part of the drivers side of the dog house. The hinges are on the bottom and it's held tightly closed at the top by a sliding barrel lock. The locks normal position is down so there's no danger of it vibrating open. Tools required: Dremel with cutoff disk and drill bit, drill with screwdriver bit, pliers, JB Weld, knife. I cut about 6 inches high and 7 inches wide in the left side of the dog house then used the knife to carefully cut the insulation lining the inside. I mixed up some JB Weld and applied it to the back side of the piece from the dog house and pressed the insulation down on it. I then drilled 4 holes in the piece and ran 1.5 inch machine screws through from the outer side so the ends of the screws came through the insulation (washers on each end). I put a nut on the end of each screw and while holding each nut with pliers I used the drill to spin the screws tight. That done it was an easy matter of placing the hinges and screwing them down. I then put the piece in place in the side of the dog house drove in the screws for the lower half of the hinges. I then placed the barrel lock at the top and drove the screws to hold it. Here's a couple of pics to show the end result. One with the side closed and the other with it open.

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Necessity is the mother of invention. Mine is a redneck solution but it works. I did another one today. There's a wood snack tray sitting on top of the engine cover. It has 2 drink holders in it. Problem is they're only a hair over an inch deep. Well I made a simple modification on them. I got 2 schedule 40 3" PVC pipe connectors and painted them silver. I then applied some JB Weld to the bottom of them and pushed them down onto the tray. Now the drink holders will do their job very effectively.
 
Morning all from ye olde London Towne.
A cool 14c to start the day with a sunny high of 20c. Time to fire up the bbq for Sunday breakfast. After that I get the whole day in the shed preparing my modules for next week's club meeting. If you hear a scream it means I grabbed the wrong end of the soldering iron again. :D

Jeffery: A great idea but I'd be wanting to put some weather stripping around your new engine hatch just in case you have any manifold leakage. The last thing you need is exhaust getting into the van.

Take care all and have a great Sunday.
 
AndrewC said:
Jeffery: A great idea but I'd be wanting to put some weather stripping around your new engine hatch just in case you have any manifold leakage. The last thing you need is exhaust getting into the van.
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Don't need to. It's already there. It just doesn't show in the photos
 
I worked on my father's truck this morning. Yesterday I couldn't get the passenger side window to go back up. Power windows, gotta love 'em! The problem turned out to be a loose wire on the control switch. It took less time to correct the problem than it did to get the door panel off and back on. Then I went down to clear out the Century a bit more. I went all through it removing anything that had my name or address or any other personal info on it. Then I removed the magnetic signs and flags from the doors. They had been on there so long it was almost as if the they had bonded into paint. The fire dept sign on the right side came off with some persuasion but the one on the left side ripped all to pieces. They had only been there since 2000.
 


Havent been in here in awhile

Alittle update from NYs Adirondack Mts.
Our football season has officially begun, our first game was against our biggest rivals. We destroyed them. A come from behind finish put the final score at 34-14. We kicked ass. This is a huge event even at the JV level, and we were the first team in 6 years to beat them. Thats an accomplishment.

Ive been crazy busy getting ready for school, catching up on school work, and doing regular work. School shopping is done for the most part, i have to grab a belt and probably a few more pairs of jeans but its not needed for the first days. Its been chilly and windy here. Not quite jean weather, but i put a hoodie on and wore my slippers around the house today. Its 64 out right now and really windy. 72* and rainy is the forecast for the first day of school... how appropriate :rolleyes:

Hope everyone is doing well, congrats on almost finishing the van Jeff.
 
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