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Ripped 06-25-2013 07:02 PM

Looks like you are making good progress, along with your skills ;)

carbuff 06-25-2013 07:32 PM

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Originally Posted by FETorino (Post 489345)
Hm my little FOrd (you guys keep adding a J to Ford so the O is an emphasis reminder for spelling) pitman arm puller is doing me no good on this Bowtie balljoint excursion.

I personally prefer FErd, and actually not in an offensive way. :)

Glad to see ONE of you Cali guys making some progress these days...

FETorino 06-25-2013 07:55 PM

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Originally Posted by carbuff (Post 489360)
I personally prefer FErd, and actually not in an offensive way. :)

Glad to see ONE of you Cali guys making some progress these days...

Brian I approve this message....:thumbsup:

Now I may even have to forgive you for the Salt Lick:D

:cheers:

Sieg 06-25-2013 08:55 PM

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Originally Posted by FETorino (Post 489345)
Just for everyone's future reference here is the Chevy specific tool.


GregWeld 06-25-2013 09:08 PM

I was looking thru my Salt Lick BBQ book today.... Great recipe for BBQ chicken.


BTW -- Chevy guys have many specialized tools similar to the one you used. They come in different sizes and are very effective to find the most expensive part nearest the one you meant to hit.

Vegas69 06-25-2013 09:48 PM

Good to see you working on the car. Hopefully the commotion scared the resident raccoon out of his home. :lol:

FETorino 06-25-2013 10:11 PM

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Originally Posted by Vegas69 (Post 489401)
Good to see you working on the car. Hopefully the commotion scared the resident raccoon out of his home. :lol:

He's been tagged and relocated to BMF v2.2 :thumbsup:

Flash68 06-25-2013 11:47 PM

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Originally Posted by carbuff (Post 489360)

Glad to see ONE of you Cali guys making some progress these days...

Yean Ron has been kicking ass lately hasn't he.

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Originally Posted by FETorino (Post 489368)

Now I may even have to forgive you for the Salt Lick:D

:cheers:

Never forget. Never forgive. :disgusted:

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Originally Posted by Vegas69 (Post 489401)
Good to see you working on the car. Hopefully the commotion scared the resident raccoon out of his home. :lol:

:thumbsup:

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Originally Posted by FETorino (Post 489412)
He's been tagged and relocated to BMF v2.2 :thumbsup:

He better watch out for the Mossberg 500 I am taking delivery of tomorrow.... :guns:

Rick D 06-26-2013 06:05 AM

Soooooo is it done yet??? :poke: :poke: :smiley_smack: :smiley_smack:

So I get it now, if you start posting all this technical stuff in your thread we not notice that there still isn't any real progress done :peepwall: :mock: :stirthepot: :thumbsup:

FETorino 06-26-2013 07:38 PM

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Originally Posted by Sieg (Post 489387)

Sieg I'm sorry if I mislabeled your favorite carb tuning tool.

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Originally Posted by GregWeld (Post 489392)
I was looking thru my Salt Lick BBQ book today.... Great recipe for BBQ chicken.

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Originally Posted by Flash68 (Post 489422)
Never forget. Never forgive. :disgusted:

Yea thanks for pulling me aside. Those were dark days in Austin. Where is that Brian guy ... :guns:

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Originally Posted by Rick D (Post 489439)
Soooooo is it done yet??? :poke:

So I get it now, if you start posting all this technical stuff in your thread we not notice that there still isn't any real progress done:thumbsup:

Ha sometimes a bit of reality needs to set into these build threads. :snapout: Seeing huge amounts of work magically appear really gives the wrong impression.

:twak: I know, you know better Rick and you're just busting my chops.:D Remember that 69?

For anyone building a car yourself you fast begin to realize how much time things can take.

I spent a couple hours the other day accomplishing nothing with my hubs. Then I spent a couple hours building all my rotors. Then a couple more taking the hubs off the floater and test fitting the brakes. So I have a days work into it and not much to show in pictures but I have made a bunch of progress and when it comes time for finally assembly of my brakes it should go pretty smooth.

People lose sight of this when they drop a car off to be built. Just the grunt assembly work takes a considerable amount of time. Then the planning :headscratch:

We aren't building kit cars with instruction sheets or manuals (well there are those first gen LS Camaro builds :stirthepot: ) things need to be thought out.

Just staring at the frame rails and envisioning how to route your lines is working on your car. It is something, one of many mundane things, you have to do but nobody wants to hear about it.

When somebody looks at a shop bill and goes WTF that means they probably never went through doing any of this stuff themselves. If somebody is going to do something right you are going to pay. If you do it yourself be patient because it is going to take you time.

So I made progress today. I spent 20 min following up with a source for stainless tubing in straight sticks so I don't have to try (unsuccessfully what a F:censored: bi:censored: if you don't have some fancy roller tool) to uncoil the long sections running down my frame rails. Nothing to show, but progress none the less.:D

Don't worry though I have some eye candy progress that I'll be posting coming around the corner. I just have to get some more of the boring stuff done so the car can actually run one day. :thumbsup:

Moral of all this babble. Take a breath and get somethign done even if you can't post it.:lol: One day you (I) will walk outside and have a car.

For now I'm still just an enlisted man in the Jackstand army.

:cheers:


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