1969 Torino

[carbuff]

Originally Posted by FETorino

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]

Originally Posted by carbuff

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....

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

[Sieg]

Originally Posted by FETorino

Just for everyone's future reference here is the Chevy specific tool.

[GregWeld]

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]

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

[FETorino]

Originally Posted by Vegas69

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

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

[Flash68]

Originally Posted by carbuff

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

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

Originally Posted by FETorino

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

Never forget. Never forgive.

Originally Posted by Vegas69

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

Originally Posted by FETorino

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

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

[Rick D]

Soooooo is it done yet???

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

[FETorino]

Originally Posted by Sieg

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

Originally Posted by GregWeld

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

Originally Posted by Flash68

Never forget. Never forgive.

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

Originally Posted by Rick D

Soooooo is it done yet???

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

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

I know, you know better Rick and you're just busting my chops. 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

We aren't building kit cars with instruction sheets or manuals (well there are those first gen LS Camaro builds ) 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 bi 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.

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.

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

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

[Rick D]

Originally Posted by FETorino

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



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



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

I know, you know better Rick and you're just busting my chops. 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

We aren't building kit cars with instruction sheets or manuals (well there are those first gen LS Camaro builds ) 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 bi 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.

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.

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

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

Very well said brother!!!! Nothin but love!!!

Oh and yes I remember the 69 every day I walk out and see the 73