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Ripped into my wife’s bike . Had to take pretty much half the bike apart . Got the mid shaft out u joint was binding and caused pressure on the output shaft causing it to snap. The fix is drill and tap the shaft to accept a 5/16 grade 8 bolt. New u joint is on its way . Next it file a flat onto the shaft and make up a drill guide to drill it square .

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Dressed the shaft up

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68 the gate is beautiful. Well done

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Put in 2nd day gages . The gages in the 85 K20 have been acting up first the volt gage went to zero then intermittently the fuel gage doesn’t work . Now the temp gage never moves even if I ground it out oil pressure goes from 30 to pegged whenever it feels like it . That I traced down to the sender . Guess I’ll be getting a printed circuit. I’m going to delete the volt gage and buy a fuel gage for a temp fix anyone know off hand the wire color for the fuel gage in the harness to the instrument panel ?

Going to tidy up the wires tomorrow .


Edit : been out in the sun to long posted in the wrong area

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so you are saying you didn't do nothing to your truck today :cool:

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I looked at th 68 stepper

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That’s my daily routine :)

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Sorted through this two fold purchase block and tackle I stumbled across. Check out the woven rope at the thimble end of the block.

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We got some seedlings from the local FFA kids a while back, and my kids have been growing a few things in the garden. Starting to get a lot of peppers and tomatoes. I pickled a few El Jefe and Flaming Flare peppers. Should add a little kick to burgers and sandwiches. :)

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seeing how i got a new job today and was feeling good, we finally bought the kid a vehicle. ya i know been goin' on the last 2 months about it, but a good deal came up that was too hard to pass up.
no, it's not a truck (maybe later...) but a '91 firebird.
the 2 things that impressed me most was how original this thing is, hasn't been butchered or modified at all (older gentleman owned it) and everything works, and yes even the lights pop up and down perfectly. and we got all the orig and any other work paperwork for it- a complete history of the car.
has 102 000 miles, very minimal rust bubbles around one of the wheelwells and a couple issues need to be fixed. needs hatch struts, the old ones don't hold the hatch up, outer window seals are shot and the turn signal/wiper switch needs work or just a whole new stalk. wipers and lights all work, but it won't click off hi-beams.
it's got the 3.1 with the auto overdrive so it's not bad on fuel. we drove it about 60 miles home and the gas gauge only went down 2 hash marks.
and ya, when i was testing it on the way home, it can light up the tires more easily than i thought. was weird my teenage son giving me hay for spinning the tires :metal:
overall it seems pretty solid and drives beautiful, no shakes or shimmies on the freeway, tracks strait, nothing abnormal or weird
i figure it was worth the $3700 we paid for it.
just got it home at 10pm and the kid is already online showing it to his buddy's. he wants to put a set of cragar 5 spokes on it.
i think it will work well as his first car ever
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Hows that going to be for insurance , pricey ???
Guess it would be classified as a sports car
At one time it use to be cheaper if you put it in mom or dads name.

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must be the alignment of the stars. That's exactly what I did.
Awesome. Not only the very early foundry work and hand forged hooks, but to have the rope survive to show the lost art (it seems) of rope splicing takes it over the top!
Homegrown and homemade. It doesn't get any better.
HEY! Go easy on the kid's car, wooja? :lol:

I can appreciate your son has old school taste. But if I ever got a car like that I'd be wanting something like BBSs, like what came on Grand Nationals or other road race type wheel. I'm not going to change the world and he should buy what he wants. Just sayin'...

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it still is cheaper in mom or dads name. ;)
we have to buy our basic insurance from a gov conglomerate (ICBC) if we want additional insurance we have the option to buy private.
'bout the only good thing having to buy basic from ICBC is they don't go by age, they go by your driving record, and they don't care if your driving a Lambo, Smart car or a Firebird, basic premiums are all pretty much the same. if it was insured by my son it would cost about $2500 a yr, as he has no driving record to speak of yet. so we put it in wifes name which is $900 a yr and pay an extra $180 to have him on the policy so he can drive it....or wreck it...:lol: (actually that's not funny now that i think about it...)

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i just find him a bit hypocritical, he spins the tires on my crewcab, yet i light up his and he's like DAD. :lol::lol:
he is like his old man though, likes the old school, woulda went older, but the prices on old iron are crazy!
asked him if he wanted a nice sensible gas sipping honda or something, he was like NOPE, don't want a foreign car, came across a real cherry 85 buick, he was like nope, old mans car....ok then....
this is pretty much how he wants his to look
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Oops ,double post
Not enough coffee yet

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I like the look of the Cragars. But I've always loved the Cragar S/S's. So I am biased. Believe it or not I have never owned a vehicle with them on it and I've owned a helluva lot of cars.

Congrats on the new job. And the car, and having a cool kid.

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Hopefully there is no wrecks for him
Here I think there is restrictions on when you can drive and how many passengers .
That $900 seems very reasonable
My youngest was a show off and didn't work well for him and then he got a motorcycle and that tested mom and dads nerves , we begged him to get rid of that thing.

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I like the look of the Cragars. But I've always loved the Cragar S/S's. So I am biased. Believe it or not I have never owned a vehicle with them on it and I've owned a helluva lot of cars.

Congrats on the new job. And the car, and having a cool kid.

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Looks like that freaky double post gremlin is at it again!

I love Cragar S/Ss a lot, too. I'm just showing my age and I guess personality. By the time those cars came out I had already been a solid truck nut and the only cars I liked were '72-back, but for a few exceptions. I see Cragar S/Ss as right for the time period vehicles I mentioned. But I don't expect everyone to see things the same as I do. People are drag racing those cars and Cragars fit in there just fine. I like the look of that red one and realize for a teenager this is an awesome car. If there are any teenagers driving a '72 or earlier Firebird they were probably born with a silver spoon in their mouth.
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I love my county in many ways! Here is what I have already done today. Still half asleep, at 5 am I hear a loud sound. My son comes upstairs and asks if I heard it. He said there was a truck in the front and a dog or deer laying there. By the time we got out there the truck had left. It's a pregnant doe and she must have died about instantly. It's going to be quite hot today and I don't have a good way to remove the doe to where she won't be stinking somebody out. So right at 7 I call my county roads office. The gal was really nice and she said they'd be out today. Good, right? Nope!

Here's the complication. My road is the county line. Rather than maintain each individual side of the road, the counties have an agreement where the two mile stretch between two roads of the other county gets maintained/serviced by the county across the road from me. So I get a call-back, no can do. She gave me the other county's number.

This is why I love my county. It seems to be a hole surrounded by way forward moving into the future counties. I guess you could say we are backwards, which seems to be a good thing these days.

I call that number and instead of a sweet woman answering ready to help, I get a 5 minute long recording, first telling me they open at 7am. Good to know, it is now 7:25. I'm given all the options and choose the number I need. I get a recording! I have left a message, it's been a half hour and no call back. Gotta go make another call. I wonder how many messages I'll have to leave on this wonderful new yet ineffective way of conducting business.

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I guess you made your point. Twice :lol:

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And further more... :lol:

I always check after posting and delete since it happens to me so much. But the posts also take forever to post. I waited and thought I had deleted it. Guess I got pulled away by the deer incident.

So the 'other' county was not picking up the phone and not calling back. The idea was to call first thing to give them a fair chance to fit it into their schedule today. I tried the second time after another half hour, no answer. I never did get a call-back. The neighbor I've known since before I lived here drove by, I waved and pointed down at the doe. He stopped and backed up. I tell you, that '90s 3500HD with an empty flatbed was looking good to me about then. But he didn't offer to haul her and I didn't ask. But... as I told him the difficulty I was having, he says "Too bad she isn't in the road. You could call 911 and report it as a road hazard". I thanked him for the great idea! A road crew guy was here in 45 minutes

EDIT: Yep. Had to delete a duplicate

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:lol: Do they come out and scrape up dead skunks, too?

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I couldn't wait that long even if they did! :lol:. I'm usually a take matters into my own hands kind of guy. This is the first time I've had to deal with a struck deer right in my yard. I've stopped and dealt with struck deer up and down this road more times than I can count. But with my pickup not available and beings this stretch of road has houses, meaning I'd need to take it pretty far to not be dumping my problem on someone else, I went for put my tax dollars at work. I had a busy day planned, too. I cut the grass while waiting and after the doe was removed, errands in town, set window air units, go do some work on the job, then up to my buddy's shop to replace the multi-function switch on the '95 Suburban. I also have a job at his neighbor buddy's place to look at, which sounds interesting.

I know this guy through my buddy and have hung out with him. A few years ago his neighbor put his small farm up for sale and Mark bought it. It's an old place, log house, mortise & tenon barn, summer kitchen, and all. A tree fell on the summer kitchen, shifted it on it's foundation, and gave the building a decent lean. He hired a crane to remove the tree and it sprung back a little. This is an insurance job and the contractor that repaired the roof damage on his house told him this building would be a knock down/build new thing. He's not having that. He knows I do historic, creative, and/or challenging jobs and have saved a carriage house that had an 18" lean and a twist to it. That thing wanted to be laying on the ground and I brought 'er back. I'll save a structure if at all possible and that's what the owner wants.

EDIT: Yeah, that duplicate thing 3 posts in a row. A funny thing that also happens is once I delete the duplicate, which also takes a long time to happen, I get taken back to Pete's original post. Dang gremlins

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yeah, guess that's what i meant, the S/S series. their timeless and classic and sho do look good!
we'll stay with the 15 inchers size so it's a bit cheaper, cause if he burns the tires, 15's are cheaper and a dime a dozen around here.
been quite a week FleetsidePaul. monday got fired, tuesday got a job, and then even managed to get the kid mobile...:metal:

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yup, same here, any car i like is '72 and down.
and if we found an older firebird, that would be going in MY name, i have 2 fav cars and one is a '67 'bird, only prob i was born with a wooden spoon in my mouth...lol.

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got 2 dawgs that love skunk if ya wanna borrow them Special K :lol:

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yup, he does have some restrictions here too. it's a graduated program, you get your "L" (learners) and can only drive with a licensed driver and your not allowed on the freeway or out after 11pm. then he did his road test and got his "N" (new driver) can hit the road by his self now without a licensed driver along for the ride.
when you do have your "N", your only allowed 1 passenger, unless it's family, then any amount is OK, no daylight/nightime restrictions and can use any road or highway
the $900 is somewhat reasonable, should be cheaper cause me and wife have almost 40 yrs each wit no accidents...but that's why it's also only $900, we both have 40% safe drivers discount and we both have Roadstar savings

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I got up there, looked at that summer kitchen, multi-function switch replaced, and finished my heater control conversion. Then it was grill burgers and drink beer.

This poor old building. Mark had plans to fix it up and use it as a summer kitchen and I'm going to make that possible. It's ruff but I'll see it through. He grilled the burgers on the porch of it, yet. Plans are for a brick pizza oven, griddle, grille, whatever. He even has a N.O.S farm sink and faucet. It is an old plumbing supply house display

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That is a COOL building .
You can bring it back to life:metal:
A little TLC and lots of Beer:lol:

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What do ya do on a 90 degree holiday weekend ? Go get firewood of course. I got a full truck load in my dodge and my son filled his Ranger . All down dead oak , hickory little bit of ash .Be ready to burn this winter

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I went out to get the VIN for my Bug It wasn't there. But there was a lot of dust. And I mean a LOT!. That car's been sitting in the desert for decades. So I sprayed some cleaner in the area where the VIN was supposed to be and what do you know. There it was. :bann: I also found the VIN in front but my old peepers can't read it. But I think I have enough for the DMV. We shall see.
I looked it up. My car was built in March of 1963.

I wrestled the rear bumper out of the back of the car which was a struggle. Like wrestling a fat chick over the last slice of pizza but I got it out.

I also found the rear license plate. The car was last registered in January 1983.
Almost 40 years ago. The old Bug's been sleeping a loooong time. But I now have a set of the original black license plates for the car.

I have it parked by my side fence which was a mistake because my neighbor likes to talk and he caught me and I got his life story for about the 15th time. That was an hour extra.

While we were out there a guy was honking. I guess that he didn't want to get out of his car because I had my dog. I asked him what he wanted.

"Do you want to sell that VW?' He smiled.

I politely turned him down. He seemed like a nice fella. :)

Here's a pic of the bumper. I didn't put it on because I'm going to pull the motor once I get the tags.

http://67-72chevytrucks.com/gallery/...dium/Baja4.jpg

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If that's the back yard, you can put up a 6' high cedar fence as a "wind brake", and a "wind break". :D

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It's an acre and a half lot. That's a lot of lumber especially at todays prices. I'll just move the car.

My neighbors across the street put up what is probably the longest cedar fence I have ever seen on their property when they moved in.

They also put in a big greenhouse If the wind blows my direction it smells a little bit like skunk. Hmm. :confused: I wonder what they're growing in that greenhouse?

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Hmmm yeah, whatever could it be? :smoke:

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:lol: Yeah right I know. I know that smell. But they are very quiet neighbors. I've never had one problem with them. What do I care what they do.

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ordered up some new rolling stock for the boys Firebird today.
$1467 for tires, rims, lugs and hub rings...free shipping-bonus!
wanted S/S rims, but rare up here (15 inchers) and the one or two places i found them they were like $350-400 per :ack:
settled on some nice Ridler 675's instead
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and for rubber we got a set of Cooper Cobra Radial GT's coming with the Ridlers
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should make the 'bird pop a bit. son is estatic, don't know how he's gonna handle the 2-3 week shipping wait...lol
speaking of tires...after my kid gave me the stink eye for lighting up his tires the day we got the car, noticed this on his fenders this morning....what was he doing last night?...oh well, there just cr@ppy chinese tires anyways...
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$1467 for the whole shooting match isn't a bad deal at all and those are nice looking rims. That bird is going to sing.

You nailed it with the Cragar S/S's. The reason I've never had a set. They are EXPENSIVE!

I was looking to put a set on my Baja because I'm going for an old school look. But when I saw the prices I about had to call the paramedics.

The fender reminds me of a guy I knew. His dad woke him up and asked him what time he got home? (He had been out pretty much all night) But he said that he was back by 10:00

His dad said sure and asked him if could move his car because it was parked on the morning newspaper. :lol:

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I had them on my 81 , their a nice rim , 18's on the front 20's on the back

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I'm sure they're doing a public service and scraping up dead skunks from the middle of the road. :rolleyes:

I have a neighbor who smokes that skunk weed. I smell that stuff at 6 AM sometimes.

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My wife said that the fence was a legal requirement to grow it. It has to be out of sight. These people don't strike me as potheads. Not even close. They seem like a nice family. I believe that it is just a business for them. I've heard that you can make some very good money growing it legally ( for medical purposes). It got me to thinking about how tough it might be to get a permit myself. As long as it's legal why not make a couple bucks. I've got the space just sitting there doing nothing. I'd just have to spring for the fence and greenhouse and all the legal stuff. Some up front costs. But I can see how it might be a profitable venture. All done legally.

For once it might pay to live in California.