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About 3/4 of the way done with my new lift for the shop. I'm only 35 but most days my knees and back feel like I'm much older! Living in Michigan also means cold floors even when my shop is heated up to 70 the floor is like a popsicle. 8ton air over hydro has no problem lifting my old 2 stage simplicity blower (about 200lbs) and my 200lb butt at the same time, have not tried the 312 or the 520 yet but I don't think it will have a issue. The lift comes apart in 2 sections in about 15 min and can be put along the wall for more space.

More cleaning scraping wire brushing... And even a bit of painting. Trina put another coat of textured metallic brown on the frame-to-transmission adapter. LOVE this sparkle.... We each took a turn or 2 degreasing half the transmission case. She wire brushed a few things and painted some. *****NOTE the color of that spring. VERY nice copper. Here's the seat spring and base. And the seat back bracket I got from @Stepney

Saw this while searching FaceBook Marketplace just now. Kinda cool 😎 ain’t it !

My wife’s 2011 Suburban is getting up there in miles and now’s the time to unload it, if we ever will. Years ago, she had this ‘97 Jeep she got from her dad. It was hurting, with the wrong rear ring and pinion, a knock in the 4 banger, the transmission would jump out of gear, etc. She ended up selling it to her mom, as a gift to her step dad who had the time and means to give it some lovin’. It has matching ring and pinions now, a fully rebuilt 5 speed and an engine with about 87k miles on it. He built the front bumper, added some 1.5” or 2” lift springs, etc. It’s been in many of my pictures, because when they sold us the place, the vehicles never followed them home. After a few years of not “jeeping” with buddies, he parked it. Tonight, they agreed to sell it back for her to put around town in for the same $500 she sold it to them for! Now while we hunt for a newer “Burby”, she’ll have some reliable wheels to scoot around in.

Wow. I tossed the WH steering together for grins and giggles. I’m not sure if I can do much better than what we’ve got here already! Before I proceed too much further, I’ll use a long skid to build a new lift table top.

We decided this year to plant a garden. So my oldest son and I laid out where we want it, and spent the better part of the morning digging up rocks. I've got a new dump cart ordered, but it won't be here for a few days and he was getting impatient wanting to haul off the rocks we dug up. So with a little help from the 753 and an old bathtub we had laying around we got it done.

I'm going to bump this back up to the top...and for good reason. Check these out. My Binny's store called me, they have it in stock now. $24.99 + tax...I bought 4 bottles. It's 95% Rye mash. Excellent. Notice, these do say Batch 1.

Took advantage of my last oddball holiday for the school year and replace the throttle cable on HHHOOOWWWAAARRRDDD!!!

Did manage to get the blackout on the hood done Saturday; added a few unique touches. Figured if it's black on the outside, it should be black on the inside......

They can only go in the holes shown Tom... trunion is 1/2 and brake is 3/8"...

Ed, just in case you weren’t aware... there’s a squirrel eating your nuts.

That's a sweet lift ! Should make working on your projects much easier. It's also good to see that you are prepared to keep your fluids up while you are working in the garage. Don't want to get dehydrated.

All these years,I've mis-used my bathtub...…….by only using it to take a bath.I NEVER realized it could be used for anything else.Great idea.Haha.

The things we can’t get rid of... the S10 is V8 powered and the reason we met. She did a burnout at work to scare a kid she worked with and she caught my eye. Yep, another project

Chevy hubcaps!

As hard as the ground is out here that might be my next option Trust me if I wasnt on 24 hour call it would be something other than a Pepsi

Was expecting dynamite.

Well not as nice and tidy as you lads, but it does me. 9" hollow concrete blocks. Built up in three tiers. Four 3" x 6" x 12ft spars topped with two stainless steel sheets. All materials came from where I used to work. Demolished wall. Very large machinery packing case and the stainless was part of a wrong order. Below an ex hospital bed. Again free. Rescued before it was consigned to a scrap skip. Really handy multi use. Lift, welding table. Also for working on engines etc and all sorts of other things.

No problem, we've all been there at one point

Yea me two! My heard sank when I saw oil pouring out.

Thanks a million!

Well I just put my belt guard on and what do you know! Shifts fine! Now that I look at it while I was stuffing the belt in there from dangling down.

I like them, you'd have to pry them out of my cold dead hands if they were mine.

101 proof

I refer to that pict. Remembers me a bit on that... 😎 ok, let me tell it so - i have a dream..... 😂😂😂

The 312 is flying high

Gee, that’s purty.

Thinking out loud, and sometimes talking out loud to myself... the parallel beam would be much easier to fabricate. I already know the kick up is a 45 degree angle. I have proven that I can cut the angle iron to bend that way. Anything I build will be stronger than what is there currently. I think I’ll stick with what I know on this portion.

Oh man you have no idea!!!!! Stuff is awful. My buddy gave me 48 of em and I made it thru .50 of one 🍺.

Exactly. The belt GUARD is the belt GUIDE on many tractors Without that in place it won't shift or clutch right.

Oh because it has that piece on the end so it would hold up the belt? I best put it on tonight and see what happens.

@Stormin I’ll surely be beefing up the chassis and plating this area will be part of it all.

I can't help thinking that a couple of gusset plates, under the joints would add some strength. Belt and braces. Suspenders to you.

I haven’t decided. Steps / fenders / mud flaps / curb feelers?

Uhm...And so...where is the build thread and progress pictures on the Boss’s rig? Tick tock...

A small 2-3 inch buffing wheel in a drill or small hand held cordless buffer works great with some rubbing compound to bring the shine back. A heat gun also does a great job of bringing the color back out, just keep the gun moving and don't get too close; once you get a little heat built up in the area you're working on the color will actually come back out as the oils in the plastic re-flow.

I like lambs wool buff wheel at low rpm and light compound. 3M polish not cutting compound is my go to.

Did a little work on the frame cross member, tried to grind the spindle welds, and tried 1" 1/8 hole saw, (1st pic ). Then tried 1", cut it easily, will bring to a friends to press them out.

I ended up with the front section of the frame about 1/4” higher than at the transmission mount. That can be adjusted with air pressure. The chassis overall length ended up a tickle more than 67” and I was shooting for 65”. Once again, close enough for the girl I go with! Next, I should work on the steering arms, correcting Ackerman and building the front of the steering system. It’ll be nice to roll this thing around in the shop without fighting the front wheels flopping all over the place!

More shop time today, made a dummy plug for the hole saw to bore out the 1/2" pin holes in the arms. Drilled top holes on posts to accept thd 1" pins. Cut crossbar to lenght and made the bottom plates.

Plowed the snow that drifted into the driveway overnight back and then used the blower to get it back even further sounded and operated normally.

Made some progress today. The seat has been dropped off at a buddies house, who happens to be clear coating some small parts. I was thinking it would be better for wear and tear. The hood is coming along nicely, but I don't have enough paint to finish. So this is where I am stopping today

Yesterday I took the 16 auto out of the shed in order to melt the snow out of the blower housing while it sat out in the sunshine. I heard a bang while it sat idling. When I went to move it, it wouldn't move and the belt wasn't spinning. OH NO I wanted to get it back to the shed, so I released the relief valve and I still couldn't push it. I didn't really want to "but" I got chain and the 877 and dragged back to the shed and pushed it into the shed with the plow blade against the blower. One problem solved! Today tore it apart and found this Easy fix with a new belt, checked the pulley, oiled it, put it back together, closed the relief valve, and fired it up. Runs and operates like it should

I was hoping to see a few Trail ride pics this year but I would assume in some parts of the Country there just isn't enough white stuff so I hope I won't bore you with my pics from today. After packing the snow down there is a real good base for a tractor ride, walking the woods or a ride on the ATV.

After a few chores outside, a Winter Trail Ride and pulling the SD card from the trail cam I could not get that image of you @Ed Kennell in front of your stove yesterday out of my mind so I decided to join you today. It is so quiet sitting here that all I can hear is Bacon frying, thank you tinnitus.

shhhhh ... way back in 1993 we had a really mild winter ... until mid-March / St Patrick's Day - and we had 24" of snow the blizzard of '93 !

Oooooooooooh I think I’m excited!

It’s a great sunny day to make a frame look a little straighter than it was.