Build Thread 1978 Mercury Cyclone. The pig is in the pen.
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It'll be harder to weld the diagonals in place if you currently have an existing SFC in place. You'll only be able to get about 270 degrees around.So,....
I'd clamp the .125 wall 1x1 against the pinch weld, and cut and fit the diagonals in place,.then tack weld them to the 1 by. Drop the 1x1 with the diagonals in place and weld the pss out of them. Then reinstall the 1x1 w/ the diagonals welded and cut and tack the perpendicular bars. Then do the same thing after they are all tacked. Once that is done, put the whole mess in place and weld what can be reached to your existing SFC's
I may seriously look into this.... after the 3.08 install the Frankenstang twists up something massive.
All I can say today is that as good as this crap (the right stuff) has stuck to every nook, crevice, and hiding place on my hands,..(and won't seem to wash off with anything,...including solvents) I hope it does the same sealing that access panel I made for the top of the tank.
Let me tell you what kind of idiot I am.....
I drain that tank,...remove it, and then fill it with water so that the cutoff wheel sparks won't ignite the residual gas and fumes...
Smart.
I cut a large rectangular hole in the top of a gas tank.
Dumb.
I make a sealing flange out of 1/16 aluminum flat bar, and goop, and rivet that flange to the cut piece.
Dumber.
I slide the plate around on top of the tank,..trying to position the now flanged plate so that it sits back in the hole it was cut out of.
I drill and rivet that plate on top of the tank,..and then seal that plate w/ the right stuff. I let it dry overnight.
Dumber still.
I install the tank and screw the return and the vent lines back on the tank.......They don't seem to be oriented the same way that they came off. The sender wires don't reach.
I have managed to put the plate that I cut off just hours before on backwards......
Drooling, slobbering Idiot.
It's there now,...and I ain't changing it. I had enough slack built into everything that I only had to cut wire ties to get the wires long enough to work,....but I tell ya,...The stupid sht I do.....
Let me tell you what kind of idiot I am.....
I drain that tank,...remove it, and then fill it with water so that the cutoff wheel sparks won't ignite the residual gas and fumes...
Smart.
I cut a large rectangular hole in the top of a gas tank.
Dumb.
I make a sealing flange out of 1/16 aluminum flat bar, and goop, and rivet that flange to the cut piece.
Dumber.
I slide the plate around on top of the tank,..trying to position the now flanged plate so that it sits back in the hole it was cut out of.
I drill and rivet that plate on top of the tank,..and then seal that plate w/ the right stuff. I let it dry overnight.
Dumber still.
I install the tank and screw the return and the vent lines back on the tank.......They don't seem to be oriented the same way that they came off. The sender wires don't reach.
I have managed to put the plate that I cut off just hours before on backwards......
Drooling, slobbering Idiot.
It's there now,...and I ain't changing it. I had enough slack built into everything that I only had to cut wire ties to get the wires long enough to work,....but I tell ya,...The stupid sht I do.....
Just drink some chocolate beer and channel your inner forest gump.
If I did something like that I'd be an idiot,
You do that you are an idiot savant.
If I did something like that I'd be an idiot,
You do that you are an idiot savant.
I think some of those are ancient pictures of Birmingham,... Evidently, there were big assed lizards running around before the my Monster...
Mike, I appreciate the honesty and humor in your posts. Only someone with a good sense of themselves will tell everyone their screwups in minute detail. Don't be so hard on yourself. It's not like you are building a small block 350 Camaro where you can run to Wal Mart and get parts for it and every 10 year old knows how to put it together. You've built a 1 off Gila Monster USA/Australia half breed. Don't forget that NASA with brilliant engineers, blew up 2 space shuttles! At least, so far, you can walk away from every incident!
For those of you who may also have a fuel tank you need to seal or reseal, here's some help...
http://www.vansairforce.net/articles/tank_sealant.pdf
PRC fuel tank sealant is expensive and may be hard to find, but there is nothing that does a better job. I have a 40+ year old sample of the leftover cured sealant my toolbox and it is still flexible and in good shape.
http://www.vansairforce.net/articles/tank_sealant.pdf
PRC fuel tank sealant is expensive and may be hard to find, but there is nothing that does a better job. I have a 40+ year old sample of the leftover cured sealant my toolbox and it is still flexible and in good shape.
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And you didn't call me why?........To think....You were so close you could've touched the G monster....
Do NOT change my CT....Two lousy spaces too long.
That is mine....
I made it.
Leave it alone.
Yeah I did.....That is the one I gave myself when I had the power of Greyskull.You don't get to chose your CT.
You think I offer up full disclosure?.... How many pictures do you spose I don't show because there's some ghastly hack in the shot?
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