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I'm a thinking and budget guy so it took me several weeks of debate before I dropped the cash for mine. Only regret is not purchasing it sooner.
Honestly I've used it enough that it's been worth the investment in my vehicles alone. It is the line flaring equivalent of a Swiss Army knife only it actually does a good job at everything it's designed for. Now I'm considering the AC version but I may just go with the E-Z Clip instead since I'm not trying to go for the OEM look... who knows.
Funny you should mention the Mastercool A/C line crimper..... I bought one a while back after paying like $5 a crimp, you find out it pays for itself in a short time.
I usually mount the crimper to my pick up bed trailer since I don't have a really string metal bench to mount it to, but the bed is on that, so I got creative and found a couple holes in the truck frame that it could be mounted to. Worked well, got both lines crimped.
Here you can see the hardline from the condenser to the evaporator is made of two lines welded together. There is a tab welded to the air cleaner mount that I bolted a clamp to, to hold it in place.
Lines all in and starting to put the grille in. Headlights go in first.
chucked the original bumper bolts in the drill, and used some Mother's aluminum polish on a rag to polish them up to a chrome like finish.
Grille in and bumper on! Quick light check and all is good.
Polishing out the hood. Just need to recruit some help to install it, not really a one man job. LOL
I feel your pain, when I was a young man I lived in an apartment above an elderly woman, she was really nice for the first couple of years but then got dementia and then all hell broke loose she used to call the cops on me all the time, I raped her I stole all her clothes, her car, locker her out of her apartment etc etc, she would call the fire dept about cats stuck in a tree, it was just pitiful, I tried dealing with her next of kin but they were just hoping she would pass so they could inherit everything. I finally got married and now I have a house in the country and no close neighbors! Good luck finding a place where you can work in peace, you are a very talented individual, and I admire your work.
I think we had the same neighbor, I sold drugs, I was a drunk, I made noise all hours of the night, worked 2nd shift till 2am, strange people all hours of the day and night, crazy, cops finally said they were going to take her to jail,
We have a nuisance neighbor law here. If a neighbor has the cops called on them so many times per month, the police can evict them without the property owner doing anything. Of course, if they are the property owners then you're pretty much screwed.
Anyway, we have light! Looking more and more like a truck.
Give me a call if you want some help installing the hood, I can drop by after work.
Thanks, Bry, but the hood was actually already on when I wrote that, as I was still catching up the thread. But now I am up to date, so everything from here on out will be in real time.
The hood is on and got the cowl put on tonight. Starting to look a lot more like a truck now!
Since I'm obviously not going to make the Texas show with the truck, I decided I would just take the Family Truckster, but it needs a wheel cylinder in the rear, so going to bring it home tomorrow and get it fixed. To work on it though, I need the garage, so will have to pull the truck all the way out to the street to get the wagon in, and since I had never greased the front wheel bearings, I decided to get that done tonight. Now I know you shouldn't put bearings in completely dry, but since I wasn't sure how many times I would be taking things back apart, I didn't grease them, and never had a problem before. Well, tonight I pull the right side apart and everything is kosher..... Pull the left side cap off and to my surprise the outer bearing is completely rooted! WTF????
That is the bearing cage, or what's left of it....
The carnage......
But I think I found the problem. I have three 'made in the USA' bearings, which I almost suspect are original, probably 1972 vintage, and one 'made in China' bearing......
The right side bearings....
And the left......
I hear people say "country of origin has nothing to do with quality", but I think it gives you a pretty good indication of it. Granted, there was no grease on any of the bearings, but they have maybe moved a grand total of 150 feet, at 2 mph tops, so there's no reason this should have happened, and I don't think its just a coincidence! I will have to go to the auto parts store tomorrow and get a new bearing and I'd be willing to bet all I will be able to get is another China piece of crap.......
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Not quite that far south, Fort Worth, the Goodguys show. I have been checking the weather and it keeps changing, 50% chance of rain on Saturday now, but I'll take it over what it is here. That's almost 40* warmer, and no snow or ice. This winter has been unrelenting, and I'm just so over it, a few days where it is warmer will be a nice change.
This winter has been unrelenting, and I'm just so over it, a few days where it is warmer will be a nice change.
That makes two of us. I can't get motivated and when I do I spend all my energy and time trying to keep warm so I can't stay productive. My mood is going to $#!t, I need some warm weather ASAP. I seriously don't understand how people live in places like Minnesota, Michigan or Alaska.
Wait, you have a snowblower? I should have known you would cheat at it, I have a shovel.......
Would love to but there are a few problems with that... first I didn't plan to go so I didn't take off work for the drive there and back. A flight this late in the game is... unreasonable and the worst part (because the first two aren't impossible) is the weather forecast for the area. WTF.
I own a shovel too but my driveway is larger than yours. If it was up to me I wold have a heated driveway and a large shop with heated floors... plus a winter home. Hahaha!
That makes two of us. I can't get motivated and when I do I spend all my energy and time trying to keep warm so I can't stay productive. My mood is going to $#!t, I need some warm weather ASAP. I seriously don't understand how people live in places like Minnesota, Michigan or Alaska.
It's almost tempting to follow you there.
This is why my floor/a pillar repairs still aren't done. It's too cold in the garage. I would have already moved south if I was single.
Michigan sucks.
Haha warmer... well we don’t have any snow down here.
Yep! Definitely warmer! Made it to Texas, its 35* at home right now, but 71* here. Going to be 81* here tomorrow and 43* at home, so yeah, a lot warmer! Should be a good show.
Just read this build from the beginning and enjoyed every bit of it as well as the rusty 71, but I read that one last year. You are very knowledgeable and am getting alot of ideas for my build. I wonder if a 96 f150 has the same wiper motor as the 91? I done the s-10 speedo conversion but need the stickers for it to finish it up. Keep up the good work.
So just to let everyone know about us MN hot rodder builders. Forecast for Saturday thru Sunday is 6"-10" of "heart attack" snow.
Please if any one is near Carlos MN and need help let me know.
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