Builds 3 days and 3300 miles later

[DanS HJ-45]

Hi Dag,

We need to see a picture!!

Agreed. Pictures required.

Matt, your truck is looking fantastic. It's got me totally pumped to get to start working on mine.

What kind of plane is that? Looks like fun, and grass strips are nearly always fun.

Dan

 

[buckroseau]

Agreed. Pictures required.

Matt, your truck is looking fantastic. It's got me totally pumped to get to start working on mine.

What kind of plane is that? Looks like fun, and grass strips are nearly always fun.

Dan

Hi Dan,

Yes, you should work on you truck....and post some pics

Plane is called a, "Challenger II" and yes, it is FUN...total blast to fly, kinda like a little sports car. I built this one in 1999, I got the airworthiness certificate in the spring of 2000. Since I built it myself and I have it registered under FAR part 91, I can apply for the airman's repairment certificate....which I did and have. So I do my own annuals on my aircraft and sign off on the airframe and powerplant log books every year.

Threw in a pic of it on floats.....even funner yet ;p

Thanks, Matt

 

[pportmd]

Hi Dan,

Yes, you should work on you truck....and post some pics

Plane is called a, "Challenger II" and yes, it is FUN...total blast to fly, kinda like a little sports car. I built this one in 1999, I got the airworthiness certificate in the spring of 2000. Since I built it myself and I have it registered under FAR part 91, I can apply for the airman's repairment certificate....which I did and have. So I do my own annuals on my aircraft and sign off on the airframe and powerplant log books every year.

Threw in a pic of it on floats.....even funner yet ;p

Thanks, Matt

...Beautiful plane! Don't tell me, you also own a boat, right?

Thanks for the paint code. Just dropped $450 on primer, MTK and clear coat alone for the miscellanious gray and black parts I will be sandblasting and painting over the next many weekends--not even close to your speed and efficiency, but having just as much fun fooling around with the project. Who needs vocational school when all one needs is to read your resto postings?

Ricardo

 

[Beowulf]

Plane is called a, "Challenger II" and yes, it is FUN...total blast to fly, kinda like a little sports car. I built this one in 1999, I got the airworthiness certificate in the spring of 2000.

I can hear the conversation in my head... I'll bet it went something like this.


"Honey, let's fly to the Bahamas next month for spring break."

"Yes Dear, that sounds like fun. That's 4 weeks off so I think I will build us a plane."

"OK, honey. Paint it white. I like white. We need enough room to take the kids too."

"Yes Dear, I'll build a 4-passenger model." ( .... Scurries off to order plane kit and paint.)



-B-

 

[DanS HJ-45]

Yes, you should work on you truck....and post some pics

Agreed. Soon. Soon. I'm shooting for August to really start on it.

That Challenger looks awesome. Anything with that kind of visibility has got to be tons of fun. Is it Rotax powered?

Dan

 

[buckroseau]

Didn't really manage to get any time on the lpb, but I did manage to drive some of my junk out in the front yard for a few glamour shots. ;p

LV is bit dusty and the 40 looks a little ruff around the edges if you get up close...since that is my DD. But, it was sunny and thought it might look kinda cool.

Anyway...few pics.

Matt

 

[pbgbottle]

nice pics , nice house and yard also . sure would love to have a place like that ,how big is your lot ?

 

[buckroseau]

nice pics , nice house and yard also . sure would love to have a place like that ,how big is your lot ?

Thanks, lot is about 2 acres, nothing huge. House has been a work in progress....started building it myself 10 years ago and I am almost done. I'll see if I can dig up a few pics of the the wife and I building. I know I have a few of when I cleared the lot...it was solid tree's and I bought a cat to clear it.

Thanks, Matt

 

[buckroseau]

Question(s) for the electrical guru's out there??

My fuel gauge and coolant gauge are still not working. I was playing around with it today, but not getting it and struggling.

From the wiring schematic I have oil, fuel and coolannt gauges are fed off of the blue/red wire coming into the speedo head. I have power on one of the threaded posts on back of the speedo head for the oil presure gauge. I have power to one of the threaded posts for the fuel gauge. I have no power to the either of the threaded post's for the coolant gauge.

Oil presure works, fuel and coolant do not. I have the yellow/green wire hooked upto the coolant temp gauge. I have the yellow/red wire hooked upto the fuel sending unit. On the area of the wiring harness there are 2 white/black wires coming out of the harness next to the yellow/red for the fuel gauge...I have both of those together running to ground on the fuel sender. I also tried running a ground wire from the negative post on the battery to both of those white/black wires on the sending unit.....nothing.

On the back of the speedo head, if I bring the hot threaded post for the fuel gauge to the threaded post across from it, the fuel gauge works..but, not the coolant gauge. I also tried making a jumper wire from the hot threaded post on the fuel gauge to the threaded post directly above and between the 2 post on the fuel gauge....I believe that threaded post runs to one of the other threaded posts on the coolant gauge. Both coolant and fuel will rise, but they are not accurate and are basicly spiking the needle to the top.

I am assuming the 2 gauges are some how connected, just not sure how. Maybe has something to do with those 2 - white/black wires coming out of the hareness with the yellow/red for the fuel sending unit in the tank???

Anyone....bueller.....????

Thanks, Matt

 

[Texican]

In this pic look at the terminal at 6 o clock....the torquoise shade is current path, the 2 terminals inside this are tied together..the black lines on the back of the cluster are open sections that isolate the copper layer that transmits voltage......or if you understood this, disregard

I keep a spare cluster at the shop I know works, first thing I always do is plug it in....

 

[pportmd]

Matt,

Sounds like a bad fuel gauge or sending unit if you have power to the post. Continuity checked OK on these two?

No power to coolant post -->...may want to check for continuity from female pins on the harness connector with the other end of the harness wire to check for a brake on the solder inside the connector, if you haven't yet done so.

Not sure I helped any. Good luck,

Ricardo

 

[green73]

The colors on the LV make it look photochopped in there. Strange. Also your lense needs cleaning.





Yes I am jealous or your heard!




So, what cruiser is next on the list?

 

[buckroseau]

The colors on the LV make it look photochopped in there. Strange. Also your lense needs cleaning.





Yes I am jealous or your heard!




So, what cruiser is next on the list?

No cruisers on the radar right now...just a few things to finish up on the wife's house I think I am going to build another bike next winter....but that doesn't have anything to do with cruisers.


On another note........had some stuff come up that is going to prevent me from going to that car show this weekend. There is another car show in 2 weeks in a town a few miles away I went to last year and was planning on going to this year, but was still hoping to hit the local one.

How does that saying go......,"life is what happens when your making other plans". ;p

Thanks, Matt

 

[TJDIV]

Didn't really manage to get any time on the lpb, but I did manage to drive some of my junk out in the front yard for a few glamour shots. ;p

LV is bit dusty and the 40 looks a little ruff around the edges if you get up close...since that is my DD. But, it was sunny and thought it might look kinda cool.

Anyway...few pics.

Matt

WHOA...holy right click save as batman!


You're like, the poop.... dude.

 

[79fj40moneypit]

Matt, Find a old triumph bonnie and then work your magic.

 

[rutbeer]

I have a 66 Austin Healy 3000 if you want to try your luck at LUCAS electrics!
It's my dad's first car though, so you'll have to give it back when you're done.
Or....you could restore my 45. It'll be WAY easier than what you just did, just a driver's floor pan under the pedals. Nice work dude!

Oh, how is this...my dad has a kit plane that he started 40 years ago. It's a french something or other.... Low wing 2 seater, side by side, tail dragger. It's an all wood frame plane that he never finished and likely never will. Don't know if you would want to buy something like that, but you'd be just the man to finish that project and fly it around. I believe he has the landing gear and some of the gauges, but he sold the engine long ago. I just saw the blueprints for it the other day.....have to look and see what design that was again. It's fairly large though, the wing spar barely fits in a big u-haul.....about 2-3' of it sticks out.

 

[buckroseau]

LUCAS electrics!

LUCAS.......The prince of darkness......

 

[buckroseau]

On another note.....I was over at the neighbors house tonight and that mechanic buddy of mine stopped over to give him a hand on his 1940 Ford truck project..

He is by no means done, but was ready to fire up that fancy boy high horsepower motor tonight for the first time and wanted the expert there. Few minor problems that took an hour or so to work out, but in the end they both jumped in and took it for a drive out on the highway.........few pics of tonights action.

That thing sounds bad ass!!! ;p

 

[buckroseau]

last 3

 

[rutbeer]

Found it. It's a Piel CP-30 or Émeraude. Here's a pic of one.
http://www.avions-piel.com/galerie/displayimage.php?album=17&pos=16