What are you doing today?

[Crosley]

something happening here, or about to happen

[kb426]

My lame project for the afternoon. I had run my ac hoses under the dash, letting them blow straight down to hide them. That didn't work well when it was 105 degrees outside. I bought 2 dash vents and installed them in the lower panel I made when I built the truck.

[kb426]

Tony , do you have one of those high tech two piece bearings in that?

[enjenjo]

[jaybee]

Worked for a couple of hours, then got on the leaky p/s my son brought me. An hour and a half to find out it's a bad pressure hose, find one at a parts store and go get it, then back to work until about 7:30.

Maybe tomorrow I'll get a chance to finish the job...if I can hold the paying job at bay long enough.

[GPster]

Went to a local indoor Swap Meet yesterday. Was sponsored by a local club (W Va) "Country Roads A and T (not T and A) Club". It's mostly an old guy restorer's get together where they can sit around and enjoy each others company so it wouldn't be anyplace I could sell anything for the Crosley fund. One guy did have an old Quadrajet clear on his back table (didn't want to be imbarassed by it) that I could have gotten for $20.00 but spending more money on that 4.3L V6 and donating it to the cause didn't appeal to me at the time. GPster

[Crosley]

[kb426]

Dish washer quit. I don't think I need to tell you what I did for awhile today.

[river1]

[UGLY OLDS]

[kb426]

Good answer Bob. We have to go to the next city that has anybody open on Sunday and see if we can find a new one. The choices were very limited but we were able to find a comparable unit to the one that quit. The connections were different so the 10 minute job turned into about 1 hour with a trip to buy parts to hook up the water supply line. Bottom line is it's completed but more than half the day was consumed.

[Glen]

I bought a new trailer and found that nobody makes a coupler lock for it. I spoke with the dealer and several people in the business and everyone said to make one.

I copied someones idea and made one today.

the legs are 1" solid steel and have a hole in the bottom to accept the pad locks. The plate is .500 thick and the stud in the center is a piece off of a motorcycle transmission coupler, its a hardened steel shaft. Of course a thief could find a way to get it off, but i think it will slow down the average idiot. I know they are not going to pry it off.

If you think your trailer lock is good, look at the videos on the website for mega-hitch lock, they have some demo's of themselves knocking trailer locks off.

[Crosley]

Glen, with the current list of battery powered grinders and cut off wheels available , thieves will cut one side of your lock pins, swing it open.

i am surprised the Mega lock folks did not use more battery powered tools, that would have been easy on the demo locks they used too.

I would suggest you add some "C" channels down the side of your lock to conceal the pins on the side , front and back. Also cover some of the access to the locks too. Of course you then have a 15 pound locking device

[Glen]

[idrivejunk]

[Crosley]

The Craftsman electric garage door opener quit today. Plastic gears inside chewed up after 13 yrs.. odd though, this is the opener on the single width car door.

Guess i need to find a new garage door opener

[Glen]

[Crosley]

[midnight sun]

Fitting and cutting emergency brake cables and eliminating leaks in the brake lines on the 48. Did get the ZZ4 fired up a few days ago. Sounds real strong.

[Carnut]

I've bought a couple of those garage door opener repair kits off ebay,

They easily installed for me and so far are working great.