Well I've been slacking... Almost two months since my last update. Not that I haven't been working, but I only find time to update this thread while I'm at work. (very strenuous job
) And I've been taking time off to try to realign my life to a different part of the state.
So I left you with a freshly bent rear hoop. To cut it to length I needed a good reference line. Enter 24" level:
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I figured keeping that rear angle straight to the bottom square tube would help greatly in bending aluminum over it. I feel like the book had a different angle, but maybe I'm remembering wrong. Anywho, it looks good attached.
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And all the major tubes in place and tacked:
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When I step back it looks ever so slightly off, but when I measure everything seems to be on point. I must be wearing mismatching socks or something.
The Mustang axle had an odd feature:
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It seems like it's little more than a spacer for the brake caliper, any chance that it spreads some of the breaking load further down the axle? Is this a "feature" I need to keep? If not I was just going to trim the top off to use as a spacer to keep the calipers fitting.
Speaking of superfluous axle parts, it also had these ugly, heavy, cast bushings:
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A little Hacksaw action and they were off in a matter of minutes... lots of minutes. It's times like this that I regret not having duplicates of all my tools at both my houses.
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At this point I had to take a bit of an intermission:
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The Fiance and I heading "back east" to WV to visit her 94 year old aunt, and go to a friends wedding. Aunt Aggie is great, she lives alone, curses more than me, and still makes a bitter beer face when she tries my beer.
One of the flights back I got to fly on a crowded "private" flight.
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It's a small flight from PDX to Pendleton. Always fun since there is no security and you have to get your own snacks.
Luckily not too much rust set in on my freshened up axle and I was able to primer it on my return.
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At this point I was at a bit of a standstill. I was still waiting on my suspension parts. So I figured, no time like the present to pull a power-train.
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A little bittersweet pulling the heart out of Pinkerton. He's been in the family for a long time, but I'm doing what I can to make the most of him.
And for my next trick I will move a 60x40 shop, and a small one car garage into this:
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I picked this container up from a guy up I-5 that's getting ready to retire. The plan is to consolidate my two garages into here, and tear down the small one for a house addition. It will also give me a place to store equipment for the Brewery build-out I'm starting as well... I would love to be able to finish the car in there, just because, but fully expect to have to set it aside for the addition, and you know, my new job... Oh well. I'll keep plugging away while I can.