Funny how nothing ever changes…
New Project – Pocket Anvil!
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Knox Mountain Hillclimb Car Show!
My son and I:
Trailer’s Done!
Front and back flip down now. Sides cut down so I get all the plywood from just two sheets (one sheet cut into three 15″ strips). AND it can ACTUALLY carry 4×8.
There is a lot more horror underneath, though…
What I started with:
Now Named: The Trashy Trailer
Road Trip to Catalina
My Son’s Catalina Came Home Today!
And boy he takes good pictures.
Special Visitor Today:
Maiden Voyage
Maybe I should name the “Terrible Trailer II” the “Titanic,” since after this trip to Art Knapps, I started restoring/modifying the trailer; it sailed once, and then came apart.
12 Hour Rebuild
My son’s car suffered a headgasket failure.
Turns out there was a lot more wrong, so in the limited time we had, we boogied to rebuild the engine in a weekend.
You can’t fix a broken cam
Or can you?
During a rebuild, my son’s D17A1 stock cam slipped through my fingers and fell on the floor and instantly broke. There was language:
On the lathe, I threaded the broken end of the “front” half of the cam, drilled through the back two pieces, and counterbored the back of the back of the cam to fit a 9/16″ socket. I also threaded some 3/8″ rod:
Red locktite and some tight like a tiger, and it’s fixed:
No, this will NEVER be pressed back into service, it’s going back in a “dead” engine at work (our original engine when we got the car) that the cherubs work on (I stole its cam for my son’s car).
I guess, in theory, you could weld it once it’s assembled like this….