Ddaddy
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Just be careful eating that King cake...don’t want to choke on the King!
Stop in for a cup of coffee
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I've been practicing more Solidworks...
Ball Joint Arm:
Center Ball Joint:
Ball Joint Arm:
Center Ball Joint:
Ddaddy
Just doing what I do
Don’t you have a 408 to install? Plenty to do!
Flat Blade Screwdriver:
Here's some practice on cut outs with varying shapes....
Yes, this one has a little plastic baby in it, kinda weird but they do. There's a few different opinions of what that means, but we go with it's tradition, when having King Cake that whoever gets the piece with the baby in it buys the next years cake. Fortunately for us, on this one it was visible, right in the middle of the cake.
Here's a profile of a rim that I have to revolve and add a radius after... I'm saving it to show my son how easy it is...
You do know if you have to say what the drawing is, it might not be any good? Not in this case.......
And here's a bottle that we practiced revolve and shell on, plus added the threads on top with helix and sweep....
Ddaddy
Just doing what I do
You do know if you have to say what the drawing is, it might not be any good? Not in this case.......
The flat blade screwdriver is easy, maybe I should try a phillips sometime....
Ddaddy
Just doing what I do
Go big...do a Torx driver!
Glad the truck is done. full size pickup on the hoist makes it 5” taller. Then add 4 more to clear shop crane. On and off the step stand hundred or so times, im paying for it now. Three days of it is enough.
That's hilarious because this Camaro has a hacked up steering column and a screwdriver starts the car
Years ago there was a rash of car thefts,all gm’s with tilt columns.
They would break the column by the signal lever and somehow manipulate ignition from the backside. One friend’s car was stolen twice in a month. Both times it was found in the same place with a free screwdiver on the floor.
The gm parts guy grew to hate steering column parts. I would joke with him about needing all the parts to fix a column, and he would tell me to f-off
Good evening Mr. Fargo FrankYears ago there was a rash of car thefts,all gm’s with tilt columns.
They would break the column by the signal lever and somehow manipulate ignition from the backside. One friend’s car was stolen twice in a month. Both times it was found in the same place with a free screwdiver on the floor.
The gm parts guy grew to hate steering column parts. I would joke with him about needing all the parts to fix a column, and he would tell me to f-off
Brrrrr the temp is dropping fast.
I really hope master Luke is ok out there
I really hope master Luke is ok out there
Evening.
I have a third gen firebird in the back 49, pulled the engine out for a friend’s squarebody. That car spent its last days on the drag strip. It was pretty spicy for a small block chevy...
Ddaddy
Just doing what I do
Back in Philly in those days, the car thieves would steal GM cars just to strip those tilt steering columns and sell them to body shops doing theft recoverery repairs.Years ago there was a rash of car thefts,all gm’s with tilt columns.
They would break the column by the signal lever and somehow manipulate ignition from the backside. One friend’s car was stolen twice in a month. Both times it was found in the same place with a free screwdiver on the floor.
The gm parts guy grew to hate steering column parts. I would joke with him about needing all the parts to fix a column, and he would tell me to f-off
I once worked on a GM car that had been stolen 3 times and the body shops actually installed the same stolen original column back in it 3 times at 3 different body shops. I had scratched a random mark on the underside so I could ID it. I thought it was funny as hell.
A firebird is cooler than a mero' in my opinion because of the smokey and the bandit thing, night rider and you don't see many of those around
Just looking at forecast, above freezing for the next 3 days!
Yippee!!
And looking warmer for the next 10 days. Hope it stays mild from here on..
Yippee!!
And looking warmer for the next 10 days. Hope it stays mild from here on..
Ddaddy
Just doing what I do
Maybe not there, but around here there are many. One guy in South Philly on Penrose Ave has 3 Knight Rider replicas in various stages of completion sitting in his driveway. One is 90% done with the paint completed and the roving “red eye bar” in the front fully functional.
I guess we are going through a Chevy 350 to install.
He thought LS but budget doesn't allow that right now, so I said it doesn't matter what engine to me, heck I would even stay with the V6, but the main thing I would do is a manual transmission swap to make it a fun car to drive.
He thought LS but budget doesn't allow that right now, so I said it doesn't matter what engine to me, heck I would even stay with the V6, but the main thing I would do is a manual transmission swap to make it a fun car to drive.
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Duster De-ruster
My son just sent me this Firebird pic the other day. Guy that does some of his car work is building it. Didn’t know any details whats going in it...
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