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...stumbled onto GJ :)

I'm looking to build myself a garage, so I was looking for information on how to go about the initial site prep before trenching for footings, and how to deal with a sloping grade. That got me to a thread in the Garage Gallery; it may have been this one by Falcon67, or maybe this one by R. Deschain... I don't know, I've been binge reading ever since... Spent quite a while finding out how Woody managed to achieve what's shown in his sig...!

The Garage Gallery is my favourite place to hang around, but I've also learned a lot from some of the other sub-forums. I've been lurking in Lighting, Heating, Tool Discussion, and bouncing around a few other areas. So much to learn!!

What's in my garage: nothing yet, it's not built! ;-) But my 1968 Plymouth Fury Convertible is tucked away in the barn, awaiting a space where I can get to working on it.

What I did in my garage today: or in the equipment shed, anyway:

  1. aired up the flat rear tire on the little JD riding mower; I already have a leak at the front, let's see how bad the leak at the rear is...
  2. put air in the half flat tractor tire, discovered the rear tires have water in them, and that the Schrader valve in the tire I was filling is bad... air in, water out... apparently the valve cap was the only thing holding pressure the last couple years!
  3. resurrected the ATV! I figured out the other day that the -ve post on the battery was arcing to the case when I tried to crank the motor, so I pulled the battery and cleaned it, cleaned the battery wire terminals, and put it all back together with dielectric grease. It cranked over great, but wouldn't start. I figured I'd have to rebuild the carb, but I tried cranking it today and it fired right up! Yay!!

Some other stuff too, but this is an intro thread so enough fir now :)
 
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Thanks HOTFR8! I follow another Aussie guy on YouTube that's into restoring Falcons and the like :) Hopefully I'll have more interesting stuff to contribute to the forum soon...
 
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Care to share more about the Falcons ?

Don't know much about them beyond what I've seen on that YouTube channel I mentioned. I watch because the guy shares a lot of awesome tips on making old stuff new again, and is great at retrofitting parts made for one car to work with whatever he's building.

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Don't know much about them beyond what I've seen on that YouTube channel I mentioned. I watch because the guy shares a lot of awesome tips on making old stuff new again, and is great at retrofitting parts made for one car to work with whatever he's building.

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Send me a PM with a link to some of his stuff on you tube if you can as I would like to see.
 
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Thanks!

Send me a PM with a link to some of his stuff on you tube if you can as I would like to see.

PM on its way. I apparently mis-spoke; I guess it's a Fairmont he's working on at the moment. I must have been thinking of someone else I've watched but don't subscribe to... Anyway, I'll send you a link in case it's still interesting.

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