What did you do today not on your truck...

[FleetsidePaul]

It's funny how opposite brothers can be. You all grew up the same, went to the same schools, lived in the same house but in the end you are totally different.

I knew two guys. They were identical twins. They looked exactly alike but you couldn't find two people that were more different. They were nothing like each other. I could tell right off who was who. They looked the same but they weren't. Not even close.

[special-K]

I knew two girls who were identical twins and I couldn't tell one from the other in how they acted.

For us it was growing up different in a different time I think. I grew up in the country in the '50s & '60s, moved in '70 to literally a new town with new concepts (Columbia, MD) for my HS years. He was born in Columbia 1970, moved to the mountains for his HS years in the '80s. He stayed up that way and I'm still down here.

I'm building a pantry in a gal's cellar stairway. It was her idea to store canned goods on the ceiling. It was my job to make it happen.

In progress picture

[72c20customcamper]

Busted my ass on the Yamaha got it 90% back together . This was the down and dirty fix cost all of $30 if I were to have done it by the book the motor would have had to come out and the cases split and new trans output shaft installed. Would have been 300 to $400 in parts .

I put the universal in the chest freezer overnight and warmed up the yokes before installation . Made it super easy to install

I got the rear tire installed let me tell you it ain’t easy lifting it up and getting the driveshaft to line up all by yourself. It’s all one unit going in differential rim tire driveshaft . I got it in and had to take it out again as I couldn’t get the brake caliper in .

[LT7A]

As long as she doesn't overload it, that ceiling pantry is a great idea. I'm assuming the door to her cellar is off the kitchen or close by. Hey, it even means you get a couple stairs worth of exercise when you go to get your canned goods. Bonus!

And nice work on the Yamaha. That does look like a wrestling match. But what a great feeling of doing it for 10% of the parts cost and no expenditure on labor other than your own effort.

[special-K]

Originally Posted by 72c20customcamper

Busted my ass on the Yamaha got it 90% back together . This was the down and dirty fix cost all of $30 if I were to have done it by the book the motor would have had to come out and the cases split and new trans output shaft installed. Would have been 300 to $400 in parts .

I put the universal in the chest freezer overnight and warmed up the yokes before installation . Made it super easy to install

I got the rear tire installed let me tell you it ain’t easy lifting it up and getting the driveshaft to line up all by yourself. It’s all one unit going in differential rim tire driveshaft . I got it in and had to take it out again as I couldn’t get the brake caliper in .

You paid in sweat equity today, I bet. It sure felt hot down here today.

Originally Posted by LT7A

As long as she doesn't overload it, that ceiling pantry is a great idea. I'm assuming the door to her cellar is off the kitchen or close by. Hey, it even means you get a couple stairs worth of exercise when you go to get your canned goods. Bonus!

I designed/engineered it to be able to hold the 8 cans across that will fit. All the trim, not just the shelves, is screwed on. Her water is heated by the oil furnace, so the stone cellar is anything but damp. I don't expect the wood to bow.

here it is 100% done now. The linoleum is a remnant from when her grandmother lived there. That was the kitchen floor and it was on the shelf at the bottom of the stairs. I had to remove it, so I made a wall panel with it to see it better. She was happy with that

[Willowrun]

Nice, clean work on the stairway shelves.

[LT7A]

Double post. Just trying to be like S-K.

[FleetsidePaul]

You do good work Tim. I wish you were around here. Forget about all that BS about taxes and all that other stuff.

It's all sunshine and rainbows around here. And I have a bridge that I can sell you...Cheap.

I didn't do anything today. It was 105 degrees. Screw that. Well I guess I did do something. I ran up my electric bill cranking up the air conditioning. And I paid a kid to wash my Porsche.

[special-K]

Thanks for the compliments. She's very happy with it. Let me tell you, I enjoyed doing it, but was good and ready to get out of there. Just an awkward place to work. Need the plank, plank in the way, remove plank to get behind the door, plank too high so had to sit on it, Plank too low so need 2' step ladder, move ladder out of my way to get through door...

There was no light in that staircase, but the basement ceiling light switch was right there. I offered to give a light over the door, only 3 - 4' from switch and I was paneling over the plaster anyway. Turns out, the way the wiring was done, I had to pull power from down across the cellar ceiling from off of the other light

this staircase is fairly close to the kitchen. The kitchen is in the added on part of this mid-1800s farm house. It's all one room with the den/sitting room/family room. The stairway door is behind this other shelving project I did for here a while back. The beam is in place of a wall that was removed in the '70s. The shelf area was just paneled over.

Originally Posted by FleetsidePaul

You do good work Tim. I wish you were around here. Forget about all that BS about taxes and all that other stuff.

It's all sunshine and rainbows around here. And I have a bridge that I can sell you...Cheap.

I didn't do anything today. It was 105 degrees. Screw that. Well I guess I did do something. I ran up my electric bill cranking up the air conditioning. And I paid a kid to wash my Porsche.

yo momma dint raise no foo'

That's exactly how I look at CA, especially since I'm not living there. Living there was a dream I grew up with and that influenced my life. Just the land, the sea, the sky, and yes, EVEN the people (some, right?) are all I look at and it's a great place. I have to shut out what I don't like to enjoy life in general. Judging a place only by what you hear in the news or politics is like judging a state by what you see from the interstate. Take a backroad if you want to know that place for real. I have people say all the time, "I didn't know Maryland had mountains". I think we have everything but tundra and desert on this postage stamp state. They call it America In Miniature. Few people who live here know the whole state very well. Back here people think the whole state of CA is landslides, wildfires, and earthquakes

I've always been a cool old car and truck nut, since a kid. That and surfing had California luring me. All the old stuff running around in the '70s was sensory overload. I always wanted to go back to stay but would find a woman that kept me here.

[FleetsidePaul]

Originally Posted by special-K

Few people who live here know the whole state very well. Back here people think the whole state of CA is landslides, wildfires, and earthquakes

I've always been a cool old car and truck nut, since a kid. That and surfing had California luring me. All the old stuff running around in the '70s was sensory overload. I always wanted to go back to stay but would find a woman that kept me here.

I've travelled the back roads. I must be doing something wrong. I always end up in a bad neighborhood with guys that look like they just got out of prison giving me the stinkeye.

I stay in California as well because of a woman. I was inches away from leaving but she didn't want to. She asked me to look for an alterative. And I found it. Central California. Light years away from Los Angeles. Small towns, hay fields, and cattle.

[72c20customcamper]

Only thing left to do is change the oil and filter which is a pain on these as the front head pipe on the exhaust needs to be removed to get at the filter. But it’s already off so I’ll change it out even though it’s not time . You change the filter every other oil change . I started to detail it too since it was apart finish that tomorrow also

[dieseldawg142]

rest of my kids tires showed up today.
we mounted them up and threw them on the 'bird
old and busted...new hotness

[Boog]

Originally Posted by 72c20customcamper

Only thing left to do is change the oil and filter which is a pain on these as the front head pipe on the exhaust needs to be removed to get at the filter. But it’s already off so I’ll change it out even though it’s not time . You change the filter every other oil change . I started to detail it too since it was apart finish that tomorrow also

You probably wouldn't buy another one of those bikes now would you?

[special-K]

Hey! Don't you be knocking on my Harleys!! Oh. sorry, I see you were referring to the more recent offerings. No thanks, it's go old or it's no go for me. For me, it's Evo or earlier. Yes, I consider the Evos old and they were as modern as a Harley ever needed to get. The beauty in the Harley was how they had survived so long with so little change in style or even general design. Like Jeeps and Vettes did... until more recently. All three came out as favorites for passing up on the fickle changes everything else went through. My dream is to rebuild a 66-69 (would consider '70-'72) Electra-Glide for touring this country's 2-lanes. I'd feel more secure with one of those than anything newer. Or build one off that frame design with an Evo/5spd/belt

Anyway, glad you got the bike done. Turned a nightmare into just a PIA

The Firebird has it's look now! I bet he's happy.

I got the shed roof cut back for the 32 1/2" barn move........whenever that happens. Poking at it here and there some and also nothing

If I showed these somewhere already, sorry for a repeat

[72c20customcamper]

Originally Posted by special-K

Hey! Don't you be knocking on my Harleys!! Oh. sorry, I see you were referring to the more recent offerings. No thanks, it's go old or it's no go for me. For me, it's Evo or earlier. Yes, I consider the Evos old and they were as modern as a Harley ever needed to get. The beauty in the Harley was how they had survived so long with so little change in style or even general design. Like Jeeps and Vettes did... until more recently. All three came out as favorites for passing up on the fickle changes everything else went through. My dream is to rebuild a 66-69 (would consider '70-'72) Electra-Glide for touring this country's 2-lanes. I'd feel more secure with one of those than anything newer. Or build one off that frame design with an Evo/5spd/belt

Anyway, glad you got the bike done. Turned a nightmare into just a PIA

The Firebird has it's look now! I bet he's happy.

I got the shed roof cut back for the 32 1/2" barn move........whenever that happens. Poking at it here and there some and also nothing

If I showed these somewhere already, sorry for a repeat

I went to pick up the oil filter today . Yamaha -Kawasaki dealer they had nothing but ATVs and a couple of sport bikes . Friend is a salesman there we talked he’s going to try and find a 1300 Yamaha bagger they stopped making them in 2017 said he’d if he finds one he can give cash back on trade with my Road Glide . This is the bike she wants. She tried the Kawasaki Voyager but didn’t like it said it was a tad to big .

[LT7A]

Originally Posted by special-K

Hey! Don't you be knocking on my Harleys!! Oh. sorry, I see you were referring to the more recent offerings. No thanks, it's go old or it's no go for me. For me, it's Evo or earlier. Yes, I consider the Evos old and they were as modern as a Harley ever needed to get. The beauty in the Harley was how they had survived so long with so little change in style or even general design. Like Jeeps and Vettes did... until more recently. All three came out as favorites for passing up on the fickle changes everything else went through. My dream is to rebuild a 66-69 (would consider '70-'72) Electra-Glide for touring this country's 2-lanes. I'd feel more secure with one of those than anything newer. Or build one off that frame design with an Evo/5spd/belt

Anyway, glad you got the bike done. Turned a nightmare into just a PIA

The Firebird has it's look now! I bet he's happy.

I got the shed roof cut back for the 32 1/2" barn move........whenever that happens. Poking at it here and there some and also nothing

If I showed these somewhere already, sorry for a repeat

That's good progress on your barn move. How is it going with fixing your friend's structure that got bashed by a tree?

[special-K]

I got all set up to make trim for a job. The sun was hot so I set up the canopy. Thunderstorms were predicted and I almost got it all made up before the few drops of rain began as I stashed the last pieces into a building. Then, did it rain?? It rained harder and harder. I had ducked into the building the trim went into. I don't know how long it rained like that. Less than an hour I'm sure. The rain gauge read 2" when the rain let up

[FleetsidePaul]

Originally Posted by special-K

I got all set up to make trim for a job. The sun was hot so I set up the canopy. Thunderstorms were predicted and I almost got it all made up before the few drops of rain began as I stashed the last pieces into a building. Then, did it rain?? It rained harder and harder. I had ducked into the building the trim went into. I don't know how long it rained like that. Less than an hour I'm sure. The rain gauge read 2" when the rain let up

I love that Suburban. And everything is so green. You don't see that around here. It's only supposed to be 98 degrees today. So it's cooling down.

I held the door open for a lady at the gas station yesterday and the door handle about burned my fingers off. But she was nice looking and she smiled. So it was worth it. Who needs fingers.

[Boog]

We haven't had measurable rain here in over a month but last night a line of thunderstorms came through here after midnight. All I heard was the wind. We got very little rain but plenty of wind. I spent much of my morning picking up limbs, again, and added them to the burn pile.
Of course, we are under a burn ban.

[72c20customcamper]

Originally Posted by Boog

We haven't had measurable rain here in over a month but last night a line of thunderstorms came through here after midnight. All I heard was the wind. We got very little rain but plenty of wind. I spent much of my morning picking up limbs, again, and added them to the burn pile.
Of course, we are under a burn ban.

We’re under flash flood warning .

[KW5413]

Getting so damned hot here the upstairs A/C compressor is struggling, during the heat of theand can't make 74 F. Holds at around 78F trying to get there. So, I have zip tied a soaker hose over both compressors. The fans throw the water on the fins. Keeps the fins cool which keeps the freon cooler which make the whole system run less.

We run the soaker from about 1:00 - 6:00ish...around the time the neighbor's house throw shade on the units.

Of, course now...I have to attack the new skeeter population.

Naturally...Iphone pics are sideways.
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[72c20customcamper]

Originally Posted by KW5413

Getting so damned hot here the upstairs A/C compressor is struggling, during the heat of theand can't make 74 F. Holds at around 78F trying to get there. So, I have zip tied a soaker hose over both compressors. The fans throw the water on the fins. Keeps the fins cool which keeps the freon cooler which make the whole system run less.

We run the soaker from about 1:00 - 6:00ish...around the time the neighbor's house throw shade on the units.

Of, course now...I have to attack the new skeeter population.

Naturally...Iphone pics are sideways.
.

Good idea but I would think most of the water would be blown up and away with the fans . I would think those little mist hoses like they use on patios around the outside would be more efficient.

[KW5413]

Originally Posted by 72c20customcamper

Good idea but I would think most of the water would be blown up and away with the fans . I would think those little mist hoses like they use on patios around the outside would be more efficient.

Yep...that may be more water efficient. I will certainly look into that next year. Thanks for the idea.

This year our "Hot" months are about a month ahead of average. May had June weather. June had July weather and now all of July is averaging August weather...if not higher.

[special-K]

Yeah, no shortage of green here. That's one thing great about that Suburban. I was able to stuff the two 1 x 8 x 12 footers in and slam the hatch to keep them dry. The storm passed and I was able to finish up. That was Saturday. Yesterday I got it all out, sanded, primed, and let it dry. Put it all back inside just before the thunderstorm.

Now today I got it all out and sanded it. More worried about earlier thunderstorms and now it's the pretty paint. I set it up to take directly inside on racks. And it did already come thundering through here a while back and still thundering. It's about time to fire up the grille.

[FleetsidePaul]

Originally Posted by special-K

Yeah, no shortage of green here. That's one thing great about that Suburban. I was able to stuff the two 1 x 8 x 12 footers in and slam the hatch to keep them dry. The storm passed and I was able to finish up. That was Saturday. Yesterday I got it all out, sanded, primed, and let it dry. Put it all back inside just before the thunderstorm.

Now today I got it all out and sanded it. More worried about earlier thunderstorms and now it's the pretty paint. I set it up to take directly inside on racks. And it did already come thundering through here a while back and still thundering. It's about time to fire up the grille.

We've got nothing but dirt and some very tough trees here that manage to survive. My wife wants to grow vegetables. Yeah right. They won't grow here. I put some fake plants out at the end of the driveway. They look real. We'll see how long they last in this climate. I'd take a picture but it's just too dang hot outside.

Paid bills today. Ugh! My electric bill was $287 and I wasn't even here for 2 weeks and I still get my 25% employee discount. I can't imagine what it would have been. i guess I'll find out next month because I'm back and the air is running.

My wife bought a bucket of KFC chicken...42 bucks.