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Killer progress!

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Doug, looking good there buddy...Jim

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Outstanding metal work

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Looks great Doug....I dig seeing the metal work. Oh its also nice to see others worried about my progress.....ha ha

Marc

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Thanks mongo, oh I think Marc is pacing fine. Everyone here knows my typical glacial pace on projects. :)

Thanks Robbie, progress is all Luke.

Appreciate that Jim. He is doing a nice job.

Yes, Luke is very talented.

Thanks Marc. It is coming out really nice. Progress I've done is nil...have many sub projects I could be working on and spent all day yesterday whipping the yard into shape.

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Awesome work on the firewall! You have my curiosity up with the part on the fixture. You show it on a skeleton fixture, with a ball peen hammer tactfully sitting on top, but I assume that it was actually formed with an English Wheel?

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Thanks, like I mentioned, LJ customs and Blasting handled this metal work. I checked with Luke and he actually made the recess by shrinking the edges using the big hammer shown below. You can see the waffling at the edges in the first picture. Then he planished for smoothness.

Search LJ Customs and Blasting on Facebook to see his work.

Re: 48 Burb, bagged, 5.3, 20 year wait
 

The firewall came out really nice.

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Peek inside.

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Made sure there was room for AC using the Vintage Air hollow evaporator. Very light making installation fabrication a little easier.

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That looks good..its amazing what some talented people can do if they have the right tools

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Looks great Doug. Let me know if you need to shorten your glove box lining. I did it on my 48 and it turned out slick. you really cant tell it was modified.

Marc

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Nice progress! I need to venture down there and see it in person!

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It is pretty amazing and Luke is talented. He has worked and studied metal shaping for several years now.

Thanks Marc, the truck will probably need a 2 inch deep liner.

Brad, you are welcome anytime!

Luke is done with what he is doing on the Burb and I need to run over to bring it back to the shop.

Afraid if I don't soon get back on it soon .....

Re: 48 Burb, bagged, 5.3, 20 year wait
 

That's some nice metalwork!
Haven't looked at others projects in a while, have some carching up to do.
You are making nice progress Doug!!

Re: 48 Burb, bagged, 5.3, 20 year wait
 

wow outstanding progress!

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Hey Doug, I haven't seen any updates here lately, is everything OK?

-Richard

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Hey Richard.....Thanks for checking in. All is OK, and we've been busy with other warm weather outside projects.

The Burb did come home in July and has been hanging out waiting on me.

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One important event we had going was our daughters wedding out in PA.

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So while we were out in PA I headed over to Iceburgh's place for advice on Burb building. Jim and his father in law are great guys and very nice. Really appreciated our brief time together. Plus the Burb is really nice! Drool!

Jim's advice was to keep building, get the Burb done and move on to the next project. He picked up a really nice 1960 shown here!

Thanks again Iceburgh!

Planning to get back on the Burb soon and will update when something worthy gets done!

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Doug, glad to know all is well!

-Richard

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congrats, out in PA hey!!!!!! my neighborhood. beautiful scenery.

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Doug, congrats on daughters marriage....Jim

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Thanks Richard. I am enjoying your big truck build!

99 thanks. We've always really liked the scenery in PA. Appreciate following your build updates...helping me to get shop focused again.

Thank you Jim. It was a nice outdoor ceremony. Hope your alternator revision is working out.

Grandson spotted this 3 foot black snake in the shop. Snake wasn't very happy when I carried him out. He didn't know how lucky he really is. When I was a kid and a snake like this was encountered, all heck broke loose. German Shepards went nuts, Grandma would really work the snake over with a hoe....Snake never had a chance.

They still kinda creep me out and I DON'T want them in my shop.

Re: 48 Burb, bagged, 5.3, 20 year wait
 

might want to lay out some rodentcide or traps. Mice might be trying to find a winter home!

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Life got in the way, haven't installed the newly revised yet...Jim

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Congrats on the wedding outdoor ceremony's are the best. What kind of snake? Poisonous?

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For sure, baited up with peanut butter. We typically have a few traps out. When you come across a trap they aren't as startling as a snake.

Understood for sure Jim. I finally got the Burb back on the lift Saturday...life...

Thanks Lower! It was a nice laid back outside event. And being from mostly flat IL, we marvel at the hills out east. Love the scenery. I am not sure of the scientific name for this species of snake and it isn't poisonous. We call them black snakes because they are black.

In other projects, last winter I put up a few pictures of a friends LS swap build on a 66 Pontiac Tempest wagon. He has had it on the road for about 300 miles....until Saturday...

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Oh the agony....probably needed some clean shorts on this one.

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Whoa, never seen something like that...Jim

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what the heck? did he powder coat and loosen the axle joint? inquiring minds need the story!



I feel the same way about spiders. everyone freaks out and says "agggghhh burn it with fiiiyyyeeerrrr" and I just scoop them up and put them out. education is the right way to handle it, taught my girls catch and release, when my oldest was 9 she brought me a jar of bees. they werent even mad, just confused. I even stopped a guys foot from smashing a jumping spider that popped out to see what all the noise was when I was cutting some old metal. he jumped on my hand (the spider, not the guy) and walked around then popped off somewhere.

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Wow..never seen that happen to a rearend..heard about it happening but never seen it...any idea of what caused it? That's a nice wagon btw..and congrats on the wedding..

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Holy crap! This is why I stick with the 9". They are pretty strong.

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Wow what happened? That's one long trail of death.

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Me neither Jim.

The rear was painted. Good idea on the powder and heat possibly causing the problem.
Our daughter is the same about spiders...catch and release. Wife is more the scream and stomp group.

Mark, I was thinking of your story when looking at the pics...and trying to figure out what happened.

Thanks mongo. It was a great wedding. The wagon came from Cali and is pretty solid. We have some ideas on what happened that I will speculate on below.

They are...and pretty sure a 9" is going back in.

That's what we've been wondering. Friends reported it sounded like a grenade going off at a steady cruise speed. Fairly high speed though. The rear was just rebuilt with new gears, diff case, bearings by a guy who specializes in rear ends in WI. I expected something like the pinion shaft bolt broke and ran between the pinion and ring gear. Or a diff bearing cap came loose, or loose pinion nut. None of the typical contributers were noted.

Another friend with a long and strong auto service engineering background is theorizing the drive shaft (newly manufactured) failed at high speed. The length and weight caused it to begin whipping, contacting the ground leading to the failure. Driveshaft jammed to the ground, prying the pinion up and back, leading to the housing failure. He advised if the rear locked first, the driveshaft would have twisted rather than bent.

He might have a point. There are three fresh gouges in the road evident before the oil was spread over the surface. So, possible he is right...he makes a compelling case.

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To me that sounds like a good Failure Analysis. Drive Shaft being the cause, with evidence on the road, axle and trans resulting failure. A good write up and photos sent to the driveshaft company may result in compensation.

Best of luck to your buddy, that is a killer wagon, I've always liked it.

Re: 48 Burb, bagged, 5.3, 20 year wait
 

First congratz on your daughters wedding!!

Second, nice pics!!! ;)

Third, that was quite a road rage, to damage all that!
Never seen that before...

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That theory makes sense. Was there any other damage to the car? Glad they got pulled over safely.

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WOW! Never seen that kind or destruction. Do you know if the driveshaft was on the edge of being to long for a one piece?