Bob, you know they make a chrome brake booster for that right?Much better use of time than me. On a whim I polished one piece of aluminum in the engine compartment. Being retired means those whims go a little haywire.
Have you checked the gonkulator armature?
You don’t want the bottom of that bottle popping out over a bump or something. Maybe a second chain down low?Reassembled the top shelf and new bottle rack on the modified HF welder cart. I didn't like how low the original safety chains were positioned to hold the gas bottle in place, so I made a taller rack. Then changed the oil and filter on the Cub Cadet, blew out the air filter and gave it a wash.
I don't think it's going anywhere, but appreciate the thought. The bottom lip is 1" tall on 4 sides. I have a hard enough time just lifting it from floor over the lip, and no bumps on the floor to worry about.
Ain't it fun? I had to do that at 19.
Beats the hell out of running out of anything to do.
50K lbs of stolen snowplow. After a long sleep and thousands of seizures, I got to start over. My doc said, "Welcome to 70, kid.". In another convo, "You'll be lucky to make it to 30.".
I started to pass out and I fell and could not get up. There was no feeling below my waist. The ambulance took me to the hospital. I was in ICU for the next 6 weeks. I had an infection called sepsis. I lost some eyesight. hearing and much of my balance. The nurses dressed in Haz Mat protection when dealing with me.
OK, without delivering a reasonably full story including who did what to whom, that kind of teasing is unkind.
I'm gonna say that you are some kind of tough. Everything I've heard about sepsis is really scary.
My thoughts are with you, cancer patient here, I have a small understanding of your plight, everyday can be a struggle. Hang in there and keep swinging
I did not notice any warning signs. My left lower leg was a little numb, now and then, but that could have been an old age thing. I learned a few things.
Damn. That is really scary. I thought maybe you were one of those "tough guys" who would never go to a doctor because it might hurt their reputation. I'm glad you are still here.
Aye, but it's starting to catch up with me after half a century.
I hope you are around for a long time. Maybe we could fall together.
This video makes me think of the two of us. It is raining.
No worries. I've been retired for 10,751 days (yes, 30 years in a few months) and my list of projects is still growing. Sometimes I start new ones so I don't feel so guilty about the old ones.
So long as when we go, I get to hit the shed, yellow building and propane tank, I'm in.
Nicely done!Time for some Visual Progress....
Measured twice, marked out some cut lines, and went to town. Used Electric shears for most of the work, cutoff wheel on a grinder for cutting the roof cross ribs and channels.
I used some bumper jacks and magnets to support the roof during the final cuts.
And just like that, giant sunroof!
I lost my helper at this point, so I had to get creative moving the top around.
First I had to get it off my utility trailer. My 2 post lift worked fine for that, but then was about 1, too short to get it onto the van.
I wanted to try and use my Gantry to lift it, but had to get it off the 2 post to do so.
A transmission jack, hydraulic lift table and some sketchy cribbing did it.
After about 25 adjustments, I was able to lift the top sorta level. It was still barely enough to clear the roof, I had to drop the rear van tires down to 7psi for a couple extra inches of clearance. My Gantry frame will still go 1' higher, I will make that adjustment if I need to remove the roof.
I tried using the bumper jacks again, but they didn't work very well. I have to lift on the frame, and it is outside of the roof cutout.
With all of the extensions on one set of arms, I was able to lift high enough to get some of the cribbing out, one end at a time.
Almost down...
Last thing I did last night was to build these corner lift points that should allow me to drop the top all the way to the roof to determine what else needs to be done.
I figure the top will probably be raised/lowered at least 10 times in the next few days to figure out how to make this 3rd gen top fit my 4th gen van.
