I like that color on a stock setup. My first rebuild everything was cast coat iron/aluminum and matte black. Looked really nice.
Nick's "lvndpst" Restoration (and Slight Modification) Thread
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I used it on the block, valve covers, timing cover, and water pump. I also plan to use it on my factory CC plates, as they are starting to see surface rust. My plan is to use it as my third detail color, along with the car's red and silver outside scheme. May do some sort of design scheme on my '83 hood scoop before I mount it. Havent decided yet.
I used to work in orthopaedics and one time we did a custom surgical hammer for a good customer surgeon of ours. He wanted a heavier one than was available commercially, it ended up looking like a mini Thor's hammer.
You get the
beat out of you when you get a joint replacement. It's not that the surgeons are sadistic, (well, some probably are) it's just a very physicaly intensive process.
Well, Im waiting on some parts to arrive tomorrow and Thursday, and I'll be back at it. I have the majority of my connections all hooked back up, but honestly cant find my alternator wiring hanging anywhere. It was dark last night, and my A/C compressor is still bent up out of the way, so Im sure its mixed in there somewhere. If all goes well with dropping the tank, I may have this btch ready to fire this weekend.
Need to upgrade the fuel pump, change out the sender, and replace the filler neck grommet while Im there. Got the upper intake installed, and hooked up all the vacuum lines. That was all I was alotted time for tonight. Then my wife reminded me. We are going out of town this weekend for her sister's husband's sister's wedding. Turns out its gonna be Spring before this car runs, because we can never just fuggin stay home. 
because we can never just fuggin stay home.
Gotta love that huh? I always thought the best weekends were the ones I could stay home and relax. The wife however goes stir crazy and needs to plan things just to get out.
'She' says:
Lets go see a movie
I say:
Shutup and make me a samich, I got things to do
Then we go to the movies
Lets go see a movie
I say:
Shutup and make me a samich, I got things to do
Then we go to the movies
Im right there with ya, and not even just to work on my car. I built my kids a really nice big fort in the backyard (basically a tiny house), put a full size trampoline out there, set up soccer goals, and we have a hoop in the driveway, all of which barely gets touched because we have to be somewhere else for life to be fun, lol.
I'm starting to get some grief for sneaking out an hour a night to piddle. Tonight I was able to cut my TB linkage off the stock TB, and weld it onto the Explorer TB, then I taped it up and got it painted silver, along with my A/C compressor. I am not going for show car, just cleaned up stock appearance. Here is the only pic I have for tonight.
Slowly picking away at it.
Slowly picking away at it.
You get grief too huh?
I've spent two weeks trying to find time to change out my fuel pump. I cant blame my wife though cuz she's a couple weeks short of due date and really needs my help now
I've spent two weeks trying to find time to change out my fuel pump. I cant blame my wife though cuz she's a couple weeks short of due date and really needs my help now
I'm lucky I guess..... my wife comes out to the shop and gives me ideas..... which with my mad max approach to things it usually turns into me fabricating something......
She also tells me I have no taste and points to a different color spray can..... I listen it turns out better.
She also tells me I have no taste and points to a different color spray can..... I listen it turns out better.
I'm that voice in the background that keeps say'n 'it's gotta stick through the hood and look scary, you know like FrankensteinTrue..... but... one question..
Who are you again.
It's cause you guys haven't been married long enough.
I used to hear it Everytime I wanted to get something done to the car. My argument was that it had to get done, if it ever was gonna be "done".
Her argument was that "one of these days" it was gonna get done elsewhere.
When I was younger and money was tighter, I was always robbing Peter to pay Paul to build the car. In the grand scheme, Everything was ok as long as I was working, and our bills were getting paid.
But I had a lot of jobs in our early years....10 different employers in 10 years. Trying to justify building a car, or spending any money or time on it was always a cat and dog fight.
Justifiably so.
Then I started working for myself,...and money started falling from the sky.
Over time, things softened to where it was understood that Saturday was mine..She could have me any other time, but that one day..( it also helped that everything that needed done to and around the house, I was capable of doing, and able to make happen)
now days though,....I run out of gas long before she starts to wonder if I'm ever coming out of the garage...more often than not,..ill look at something that I want to do to the car, and think.......................
Naaaaaahh.
And go back upstairs pour a glass of Jameson,...and sit down next to her on the couch and watch GOT.
It does help that the car is technically " done" though...
I used to hear it Everytime I wanted to get something done to the car. My argument was that it had to get done, if it ever was gonna be "done".
Her argument was that "one of these days" it was gonna get done elsewhere.
When I was younger and money was tighter, I was always robbing Peter to pay Paul to build the car. In the grand scheme, Everything was ok as long as I was working, and our bills were getting paid.
But I had a lot of jobs in our early years....10 different employers in 10 years. Trying to justify building a car, or spending any money or time on it was always a cat and dog fight.
Justifiably so.
Then I started working for myself,...and money started falling from the sky.
Over time, things softened to where it was understood that Saturday was mine..She could have me any other time, but that one day..( it also helped that everything that needed done to and around the house, I was capable of doing, and able to make happen)
now days though,....I run out of gas long before she starts to wonder if I'm ever coming out of the garage...more often than not,..ill look at something that I want to do to the car, and think.......................
Naaaaaahh.
And go back upstairs pour a glass of Jameson,...and sit down next to her on the couch and watch GOT.
It does help that the car is technically " done" though...
'Yes honey, it's done but now I have to fix it'
Works for me
Or maybe she's glad to get rid of me
Works for me
Or maybe she's glad to get rid of me
I swear we are somehow related. I told my wife the exact same thing when she was upset that I bought the welder. That rust HAD to be fixed while the engine was out. And I also keep stating that the more I can pick away each night, the sooner it will be "done," lol. Crazy.
Shes a good gal, and my life is good. I'll get it done, and then force the next stage of the build in a couple years.
Tonight I finished painting and swapping over the TPS and IAC onto the Explorer TB. Got it all mounted up, and also mounted the A/C compressor. Primed the oil system once more, rotated the engine to #1 TDC, and stabbed the distributor. It was then that I saw I really need a new rotor and cap. I tell ya, so many little parts have added up over the process of this swap. But in the end, I will have a pretty fresh set up.
Pics from tonight.
I thought it was cool that I could see what looks like the original date on my IAC, so I taped over it before painting. Maybe its just a part number, but it looks like 12/20/88, and my car is an '89 year model.
I dont have much left as far as the engine goes. New cap, rotor, plug wires, clean the MAF and install it with the intake tube, get a short belt since I eliminated the smog pump, and get new A/C line insulation before hooking up the second line to the compressor. That should wrap up the engine until its time to fire it and set the timing.
Im thinking I am going to need a few nights off, as the wife had another moment tonight. I was sure to have the kids fed, bathed, and dinner cleaned up before I went out there for an hour, but still got an earful about what else I could have done with that hour's time. Its time to put her on her pedestal for a bit.
Pics from tonight.
I thought it was cool that I could see what looks like the original date on my IAC, so I taped over it before painting. Maybe its just a part number, but it looks like 12/20/88, and my car is an '89 year model.
I dont have much left as far as the engine goes. New cap, rotor, plug wires, clean the MAF and install it with the intake tube, get a short belt since I eliminated the smog pump, and get new A/C line insulation before hooking up the second line to the compressor. That should wrap up the engine until its time to fire it and set the timing.
Im thinking I am going to need a few nights off, as the wife had another moment tonight. I was sure to have the kids fed, bathed, and dinner cleaned up before I went out there for an hour, but still got an earful about what else I could have done with that hour's time. Its time to put her on her pedestal for a bit.
