What are you doing today? Thread

[barnett468]

You can get big bottles of co2 for paintball. 20, 24 and 40 oz? I haven't played in 15 years but I still see the equipment around at Walmart and Dicks.

ahhh yes paintball. I frequently played at a place here called SC Village. I always thought it was amusing when we would take out the other team that had semis with our single shot pump guns and they'd get pissed off.

I used a bright silver Phantom similar to this with a stock.

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[barnett468]

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Well my green Tecate was lonely, so today I bought it a friend to keep it company. I also had to ship the silver police interceptor I sold. Fortunately I live at the end of a cul de sac and have nice neighbors so I can commandeer the entire area whenever I need. Tomorrow I will tow it up our long driveway with the black Navigator on the right that I bought at an auction a few weeks ago for $1800.00.


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[barnett468]

Love me some P71! Usually the ones available are all "serviced out" and worn to the hilt. I know you had one that was clean and never put in service..........if I wasn't knee deep in vehicles I'd hit you up for one with the "homie hookup" price.

The the ones I get are administrative or detective units so they are not beat nor do they have a zillion idle hours. I have had 4 of them in the last few months and they were all extremely nice after I cleaned them up but I only buy ones I know are good that will turn out nice. The single biggest problem is from coffee spills everywhere. These guys NEVER clean anything. The last 3 Interceptors and 3 Explorers I had all went back east.

I am always open to some partial trades, so just don't forget to bring that ol' ragged 200x with ya when you come to pick your new PI up.

Here is the engine compartment of the one above after I detailed it. It still ha all the factory tags and paint daub markings etc.

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Here is the bottom of the trunk area after I detailed it. I sure love so cal desert cars, lol.

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[fabiodriven]

I've been working on a 99 Ram 1500 I bought for a winter beater so I can park my Super Doody for the season. I'd rather not get any salt on my good truck after all the work I did to it this year. The Dodge was a fantastic buy at $500, but it's certainly not perfect. I spent hours over the course of two days cleaning the inside of the cab, which was disgustingly coated in layers of coffee, then dust, some grime, more coffee, food, and god knows what else. It was absolutely gross and it had never been cleaned. Just when I thought things couldn't get any worse, I discovered the previous owner's booger collection. I literally dry heaved. I couldn't look at it while I was trying to clean it. I ended up taking the garden hose to the interior, but much to my chagrin, it appears as though the layers of gross may have actually preserved the interior because it cleaned up really nice. Even the cloth is in great shape. It became a $1500 truck after the cab was cleaned.

The truck has 182,XXX on the clock, and it appears as though one of the clutch pedal bushings wore out about 82,XXX miles ago. The hardened steel shaft ate away at the cast aluminum bracket to the point the clutch barely works anymore. I wanted to remove the bracket and replace it, and the intranets told me it's certainly feasible to remove and replace, however my attempt netted me far less positive results. I'm not positive this thing can actually be removed, lol, so I'm fixing it in the truck. I spent some time today crafting a bushing to take up the worn out bushing boss. I have a new bushing to put in there as well once it's ready to be reassembled.

[plastikosmd]

Booger collection? Eww
Nice repair
Is it a steel bushing that will be pressed in after or some sort of plastic guide bushing?

[fabiodriven]

Just a plastic guide type bushing plastikos.

[knappyfeet]

Attachment 246871

Setting up the new work area

how's the GS coming along?

[barnett468]

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Today I took a couple minutes to look at the very nice 86 swingarm I got from 3 Wheel Drive for my 84/85 pet project to figure out the easiest way to move the dog bone mount rearward around 2 inches to the 84/85 position so the shock leverage ratio is correct. Leaving it in the current position would cause the rear to be much softer and bottom more easily.

I used a piece of manila file folder to show where the new mounting plate for the ears will be, however, I will most likely extend the front of the mounting plate forward around 1 1/2 inches to cover the area where the existing mount will be removed because it will mean less grinding time to finish off that area nicely plus it will give a cleaner overall look. I will most likely have it polished along with the fork tubes and wheels and possibly the shock and aluminum rocker arm if I have one of those made.

I am looking into having the bottom cast iron tripple tree cnc'd out of billet aluminum. This will save several pounds in weight, plus if I do that I will polish both it and the top one. I may reuse the original steering stem if it's practical, however, if it's not I will likely have one made out of chromoly which will save around 40% in weight or I may possibly have it made out of aluma steel if I can get my hands on some.

The bars are aluminum Aero tapered ones, so I could polish those as well but likely won't.

Since this is all suspension related and fairly technical, I was considering asking onformula1 for some advice or maybe even just have him do all the engineering and also make all these pieces for me....or maybe not.

oops....I think I just wet my diapers!

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[Shep1970]

So i've been working for this older couple for about 8yrs off and on doing different things decks/windows u name it. They have a son mid 20's maybe 30 that does cement/concrete work. Well part of there house frame "the sill" is rotted away and i'm here to fix it. There son was told i'd be ready for him tuesday am (plenty of notice given) meanwhile i have this wall holding up two floors with shims/blocks/studs which is fine but "very temporary" i was told yesterday he'd do it this am, well until now i didnt know that he's living at home and in bed "its mid-day here"
Talked with homeowners said i would just take care of concrete work i do it all the time. Well appaerently he owes them lots of $$$ so i'm not to touch it "he will". He's been out of work!!!
I have to say this zucks.....
i tell ya i would like to put it all back together rotted and all and call it a day "but"
Sorry i had to vent, welcome to my life.....

The son was supposed to cleanout garage for me also "didnt happen"

All the son needs to do is a 3" cement cap on the old foundation not a big job...

Shep

[knappyfeet]

Sorry to hear that Shep.

I guess the parents want him to be responsible for something/show responsibility but at nearly 30......maybe he's a late bloomer.

[3 Wheel Drive]

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Today I took a couple minutes to look at the very nice 86 swingarm I got from 3 Wheel Drive for my 84/85 pet project to figure out the easiest way to move the dog bone mount rearward around 2 inches to the 84/85 position so the shock leverage ratio is correct. Leaving it in the current position would cause the rear to be much softer and bottom more easily.

I used a piece of manila file folder to show where the new mounting plate for the ears will be, however, I will most likely extend the front of the mounting plate forward around 1 1/2 inches to cover the area where the existing mount will be removed because it will mean less grinding time to finish off that area nicely plus it will give a cleaner overall look. I will most likely have it polished along with the fork tubes and wheels and possibly the shock and aluminum rocker arm if I have one of those made.

I am looking into having the bottom cast iron tripple tree cnc'd out of billet aluminum. This will save several pounds in weight, plus if I do that I will polish both it and the top one. I may reuse the original steering stem if it's practical, however, if it's not I will likely have one made out of chromoly which will save around 40% in weight or I may possibly have it made out of aluma steel if I can get my hands on some.

The bars are aluminum Aero tapered ones, so I could polish those as well but likely won't.

Since this is all suspension related and fairly technical, I was considering asking onformula1 for some advice or maybe even just have him do all the engineering and also make all these pieces for me....or maybe not.

oops....I think I just wet my diapers!

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What are you doing with all those Tecates? . Inquiring minds want to know.... You sure are keeping yourself busy, what's going on?!

[El Camexican]

What are you doing with all those Tecates? . Inquiring minds want to know.... You sure are keeping yourself busy, what's going on?!

Yeah this. Come on Barns, Tecate build thread time. Git er done!

[barnett468]

Yeah this. Come on Barns, Tecate build thread time. Git er done!

Well with my insanely busy schedule a full build thread is a looong time off if I ever even get to it, so for now I'll just post the swingarm info as I go and maybe eventually make a thread just for the swingarm mod in case some people want to know one decent and fairly fast and easy way of adapting the 86/87 arms to the 84/85 bikes so the suspension will still work properly. When I first thought about putting the late arm on the early bikes I had no idea that some, if not all of the people that did that left the dog bone mount in the same position. It's no surprise some say their suspension sucks after doing that and they need a much stiffer spring etc, lol. Anyway, I can assure you that other than a couple possible one off parts like this, the one modified bike I'm doing won't be all that trick or highly detailed and there will be a LOT of things that can be picked on. It also won't have the bling factor that yours and some other peoples bikes here do, but one thing it will be that other peoples bikes aren't is, it will be, FOR SALE!


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[barnett468]

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soooo...today, while dodging the cross fire and the collapsing towers, I spent a few minutes hacking off the dog bone mount. What I am going to do is use 1/4" thick 6061 in the location of the painted cardboard piece in the photo. I am then going to run a vertical piece between the main tubes at the rear end of the new top plate. On the bottom I will run a plate similar to the one on the top then weld the vertical plate to the new top and bottom plates which will form a structural box. I'm locating the rear edge of the dog bone mount even with the rear edge of the top plate. This way much of the load will be placed on the vertical piece between the tubes which will allow me to get away with using only 1/4" instead of a thicker plate.

I also rotated the dog bone mount 180 degrees so it now slants forward instead of rearward so I can use top and bottom plates that are long enough to provide enough clearance to install the vertical plate without having to modify the existing braces for clearance for it.

The box formed by the new pieces will also increase the strength of the swingarm, which in this case is actually unnecessary since the 86/87 arms are stronger than the 84/85 arms even though the 86/87 arms are 2" longer.

The 86/87 dog bone is the same length as the 85 dog bone (which is designed to be used with the 85 shock linkage arm only) but the 86/87 bone is slightly narrower, so I am going to use it because it fits the 86/87 mount on the swingarm plus it is adjustable, plus it is part aluminum so it looks cool and can also be polished. I will just use shims on the top mount to take up the clearance between it and the wider 85 linkage and Bob's yer uncle!

One of the bolt holes in the 86 arm does not quite line up perfectly with one of the holes in the 84/85 carrier so I am going to simply weld the hole up in the arm then re-drill it to match the hole in the earlier carrier.

In theory it will be a direct bolt on replacement for the 84/85 arm when I am done and I will only have around $200.00 total in it which also includes the initial cost of the arm itself. This seems like a lot more reasonable deal to me than paying $400.00 to $500.00 for a nice steel hreatv arm or maybe $600.00 or more for an old Calfab aluminum one if one could even be found.

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[El Camexican]

it will be, FOR SALE!

WTF? I thought this was going to be your 2018 Invasion ride???!!!