Nothing fits!
 

...Arrrg, had one of those day$. Just sayin'...

What to much dinner and the smoking jacket dosen't fit now ;)

Sorry Ron here's to a better day tomorrow :cheers: :woot:

Oh and what didn't fit??

That's why cars get built BEFORE they're painted....

:rolleyes:

I've lost count of how many "bolt on" parts I've had to modify to make them actually fit. :rolleyes:

Lat-g shrink: "And how does that make you feel?"

Awwww...Need a hug?

I could've told you that if you'd just called. :lol:

cant get into those skinny jeans ron?:D

hahahahaha :lol: he won't ever post here again. lol

If he doesn't we'll just keep teasing him via Face Book or resort to text messages if we have to. :yes:

I think Ron is talking about the new spandex short's he got for his Birthday.:lol:

Ha, been wearing the 'fatty' jeans for months. I'm cool w it (for now)...:lol:

Ah see I went the other way dropped 25 since Jan 1 :woot:

But my diet you don't want to try trust me :yes:

Ring ring...hello Fidanza? My buddy G Weld (you know him, right?) showed me this picture of your killer flywheel. I want to make sure I order the right part for my LS7. OK...got it. Thx!

Ring ring...hello Mcleod? Yeah, I've got your RST clutch. Will it work w a Fidanza aluminum flywheel? What's that? I need to cross hatch .005? Ok, thx!

Rong ring...hey QMP I need to drop off my flywheel to get crosshatched .005. You can do it right away? Cool see you in 20 mins. Thx Bro!

(doesn't fcukin work w the RST)

I'm all better now...:lateral:

Da*n straight! Nascar will be calling one of us anyday now...:cheers:

W friends on Lat-G who needs facebook? :lol:

Skip or Vengance will be posting something funny any moment now! :D

Ya still got it though....

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Chubbs...

:lol:

I live in a van down by the river!!! :woot:

Now there's one that died to early :(

Don't ya just love hot rodding??


I gave all the measurements on Rudy's Ford 9" ladder bar/coil over rear end to Art Morrison (they're all buddies and local)... approved the drawings - waited 3 weeks... picked it up - welded in the new crossmember and landed the ladder bars (tacked) got everything all set up -- final check before welding it all tight was to drop the pumpkin in. WTF! Drawings are noted -- PINION CENTERLINE... they built it HOUSING CENTERED....

Back to AME - no biggie -- I'm right they're wrong -- wait 3 weeks - finally call and say WHAT'S UP.... OH CRAP.... so sorry... THEY forgot... and will jump right on it... Okay - stuff happens - no biggie.

Pick up the housing... oops -- axles are now wrong because they were ordered for the housing that was wrong the first time. Okay -- they order ONE new axle -- I can cut the other one...

Using a pumpkin with 3:70's that I had laying around (brand new - for my 37 Ford)... I try to slip the axles in -- they won't go in on one side... so take this to my "guy"... something is wrong with the set up on the pumpkin.. Okay - I'm leaving for europe so ya got 2 weeks to fix it and I'll pick it up when I get home. Press the bearings - and the wedding band on while you're at it... and don't forget the seals...

Get home - go to pick it up... He hasn't touched it.... Crap - okay he says - I'll have it by Friday. Fine - what else you going to do? Go on Friday to pick it up and notice that now the axles will slip into the pumpkin -- I grab the yoke to give it a spin and there's ZERO backlash - and she will barely turn...CRAP... Well -- he didn't notice that... but will work on it tonight and I'll have it in the morning.. Okay

Now I have all that - final weld it all up -- grab a slip yoke (1350) slam it in the tranny - pull a measurement WITH the slip yoke pulled out 1".... take the measurement to my "guy"... to build driveline - we discuss the fact that I pulled tape with yoke OUT 1" - it's noted on the work order... 2 days later I pick up the driveline == it's ONE INCH TOO LONG... WTF... pull tape - go back to guy... he's yelling AT ME! I said "HEY!" we had that whole discussion - much mumbling - finds his paperwork - sure enough it's noted right there - his handwriting. Okay - he'll fix it... next day sure enough she's done...

Go to slip it in.... and the pumpkin yoke is "close" but no way....

Call my guy -- no biggie -- pull the pinion out and bring it up... okay.... take it up and much head scratching -- turns out the yoke is a "big cap" 1330... not a 1350 as we both "thought". Mind you - he's built the pumpkin and did the set up... so has had this in his hands etc... but a big cap 1330 looks just like a 1350...

Okay - no biggie - just get a 1350 yoke and I'll pick it up tomorrow... tomorrow the phone rings.... "in 30 years I've never had this happen!? What happen? I ask. I stripped the pinion putting the nut back on... And oh by the way -- those 3:70 gears are noisy I hate them. You should run a 3:89... so do you want to change it while we're at it?? (WTF -- I wasn't "at it" to begin with).... YEAH OKAY... Order 'em up... and I'll get the pumpking out.

That means drop the rear end off the coil overs -- pull the giant 18X29 Hoosiers off... pull the new wilwoods off -- use the rotor like a slide hammer to pull the axles - OF COURSE -- I've used gasket sealant to seal the pumpkin to the housing -- so much work to now break that seal... pull the plug and drain the brand new gear grease (I hate that smell)... pull the pumpkin and take it up to my guy... whom I'm now ready to strangle...

But it's just hot rodding.... in the meantime I made the brake lines and did some other stuff...

This
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Then That

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^^^^^^^^That, and then walk away for a couple of days :yes:

Can somebody get me the cliff notes on Weld's post?

Too technical for you? :rofl:

Murphy was trying to be nice and help Greg without informing him of his actions.:D

I got half way through an had to take a nap.

Sounds like my Monday, except my customer wants to know exactly what it's gonna cost.

Ron, just moved my car from one shop for electrical to another. You don't want to know why:mad: Stick w/it, always tomorrow.:yes:

Thx Lenie! I hope that situation gets resolved. Me, I now own three flywheels and enough hubs for two and a half cars...:)

Sounds like a good excuse to start a second build:lol:

No big deal Ron, Just put them back in the boxes and return them. :_paranoid

You did keep the boxes...? right?

:cheers:

Oh, and one other thing... Just for the record all the stuff I built fit just fine :rofl:

Damn Greg... Sorry for your luck but you just made me feel a little better i thought that kind of crazyness only happens to me. As i've been told sometimes you gotta just step away for a little while. Here's to continuing success though :captain:
BB

That was the point of the whole rambling post --- is that this is just the way things go sometimes when building these cars....

The part that you absolutely have to have -- gets lost in shipping -- or is on back order for 3 months... or arrives damaged...

I just laugh about things like this now -- because this is -- in the end - just a hobby... none of it is real important in the scheme of things.

I tried to build a car with a buddy once - but his reactions to things not fitting or a company that didn't have a part in stock - was to go nuts.... and I just couldn't work with him. I kept telling him -- if it was a part that HE was working on that didn't fit -- "well... just hot rod it". That's the way I look at it - if it isn't perfect - you just do whatever it takes to make it that way... that IS why we build this stuff... it IS why we have all these special tools and machines... if IS what separates us from the other guys.

yep. If it was easy, everybody would do it...and then there would be no point!

And I thought it was just me. Seems everything I have touched lately either did not fit or required more parts to buy to go together properly. I have accomplished about 1 day's worth of work on my car in about a months time due to Murphy's Law, here lately

Finally there's a thread about my buisness card :woot:

I always try to tell the customer or friend it's like winning the lottery if a bolt on part bolts on.

Just read the bottom of the card. Ben on there since day one:wow:

^ Nice welding torch Mark! :D

Now that's funny Brett! :lol:

First time someone told me I had a nice Torch!:unibrow:

I thought not fitting was the definition of hotrodding.

Damn, I've been doing it backa$$ward for years
I'll try it your way :cheers: