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[seapotato]

is that puke over by your front wheel??

ain't mine...

Cam and I did our best to kill that keg sunday night, but it still got the better of us.

Monday morning was not kind to me, kept everything down,but it was touch and go for a minute there...

Got the keg emptied by 2pm tho.

My liver is now soaking in a bowl of milk, and I gotta go return the dead soldiers, mel's car smells like a brewhouse...

 

[Rigpig]

ain't mine...

Cam and I did our best to kill that keg sunday night, but it still got the better of us.

Monday morning was not kind to me, kept everything down,but it was touch and go for a minute there...

Got the keg emptied by 2pm tho.

My liver is now soaking in a bowl of milk, and I gotta go return the dead soldiers, mel's car smells like a brewhouse...

Glad to see you guys gave er' the ol' college try!!! Also dissapointed, yet glad i "nancy-ed" on that one, had a great time for the short time i was coherent...

 

[slowandsteady BJ]

What an event! Thanks Mel and Ryan. My liver is now off the "organ donor" list. That 2nd keg was real fighter but by Monday it was clear I had to throw in the towel.

I nearly took a header off the top of the sixty trying to pack up the tent. Things went fuzzy fast and I found myself woundering if I could hit the burn barrel with puke and still hold on to the truck. I decided to hold down the vile lagoon of death and digest it on the way home. I'm still hungover.

Ryan and i also returned some of Steve's items to their real owners.

 

[seapotato]

What an event! Thanks Mel and Ryan. My liver is now off the "organ donor" list.

yeah, turned out ok

As for the donor list, I always figgered if I died with a single organ fit for transplant it was a sign of weakness..

Ryan and i also returned some of Steve's items to their real owners.

dang punk...

wasn't that the rest of us on the 4am stumble didn't want to swipe a flag, the little bastard was just too quick for us...

 

[seapotato]

a form of progress...

got a couple walls built, another one removed and das boot flipped.

so it's now something of a cruiser chalet, and actually has room for more than one truck as well as the boat... kindof nice having some space for a change

then we have the contents of steven's pipe bomb which I adaptinated to the ass end of the truck so I now can make the blinky lights on the trailer function and not pop 12v bulbs ...

yes it was mildly headache inducing...

also a rather ghetto tailgate that came with the truck...

swapped in another steering box ( thanks adam) and almost feels like I have power steering now. quite a surprizing difference. I don't think a drop of oil had touched the old box since it was new...

 

[hellbent40]

glad that box worked out for you....
still dont know where that one came from.... could be the one i took of my 73

 

[Rigpig]

Hey nice lookin' XL's!!!
Not so nice McGiver-esk relay from hell thing???WTF... Is that Toshi's??? If so, tell em' to take 4 of the 6 out of there and it'll still work, with less conductors, stak-ons etc... yada yada...

 

[lineman_fj40]

what are all those relays for. ARe you using a converter

 

[Toshi38]

I found it in the back of the 70 I took apart... so I left it at ryans ... looked like a pipe bomb but I guess it wasn't...

Hey nice lookin' XL's!!!
Not so nice McGiver-esk relay from hell thing???WTF... Is that Toshi's??? If so, tell em' to take 4 of the 6 out of there and it'll still work, with less conductors, stak-ons etc... yada yada...

 

[seapotato]

heh, figgered that lovely little nest of vipers would get your attention...


Steven's pipe bomb was some sorta 5-4 wire converter, ( or 4-3 if you don't count the ground I guess...) but dunno why he used 6 relays in there...I wasn't about to trace it out, I just took a pic before disassembling the rats nest


For my trailer lights,

I tied into the tail light pigtails ( fresher wire )

then ran those leads to some 24v relays to switch a 12v supply, which then gets run through a trailer light converter.

Had the converter and obviously a decent supply of 24v relays thanks to the bomb .

had the same set up on my old 40/42/45 then on my 70. seems to work pretty well, no extra load on the 30 year old tail light wiring, other than the relays.

even if I left the plug 24v I'd still use relays, but I like having a 12v trailer plug, having to switch bulbs in s***ty old trailer lights is a pain in the ass.

time to start monkeying with the m101 again...

 

[seapotato]

Finally got around to slapping on some more mustard. Had barely enough left, had hoped some better doors would show up so I'd been holding off. These ones are about as fair as a can full of smashed assholes, but fxxxit. Least they're the right colour now.

 

[Toshi38]

looks great! must be nice to have a work area that can fit 2 trucks and a boat eh!

 

[lineman_fj40]

Just wondering cause I use to do that for some guys at the shop and I believe it only took me 4 relays.

 

[seapotato]

Just wondering cause I use to do that for some guys at the shop and I believe it only took me 4 relays.

ya, 4 relays is what I use too, don't know why there were 6 in that old thing, not sure what the hell that thing was sposed to do...

Like I said, that's how it came from stephen, buggered if I know what the guy was thinkin...

when I wired up my converter I used 4 and one of those 4-3 trailer converter things.

 

[seapotato]

looks great! must be nice to have a work area that can fit 2 trucks and a boat eh!

well it fits 2 trucks so long as one of them ain't yours...

 

[Toshi38]

haha ... I'll just drop off a truckload of parts to take up some space in there for you....

 

[seapotato]

haha ... I'll just drop off a truckload of parts to take up some space in there for you....

heh, that's what the goat barn is for...


one of these days I'm going to have to start on h/t sides and amby doors...


One of my extra sides is workable, I think the other is too tweaked after a rollover to be much good, other than as patch panels...

I'll happily put that off for a while tho

 

[seapotato]

Update.

Rebuilding knuckles sucks.

I'm going to the pub to recover.


that is all.

 

[seapotato]

So, after several days of messing with the worst job on a cruiser, which came with several irritating issues, the front end is back together.

I should have taken a picture of what the back yard looked like after unloading stevens stuff...

it was getting kindof retarded out there....

a half dozen hard top sides layed out on the ground as I try to find a decent pair( amongst random doors and fenders and s*** everywhere)...

and I did find a decent pair, just they were both lefts...

So after a bit I figgered the easiest thing would be to ad the divider to an old style ht side, as there was an early one there that was near minty fresh...( I can almost hear stephen grumbling...

Annoyingly Mr.T decided to make the newer windows about 1/4" smaller than the old ones, so after adding the center divider, putting the newer window in has it somewhat loose...but meh, I'll just ad a little stickyflex when it goes in and it'll stay put. this is waaay easier than rust patching the new style side.

And because, it occured to me, that once the lid was on, I wouldn't be adding the cage till next summer, I threw in the mt front kit I picked up in orygun a few months back.

I still need to pop it out and finish welding it, and paint it, but it's a start. went in pretty quickly, I'd been waiting till I had a dash pad to put it in. ( so it went in the right spot, it's tight up there between the doors and dash)

I was going to do the ghetto cheap bastard rear cage with a second factory roll bar, but ran out of steam. Think I'll call this good for now.

the thermal overload "whoa dude take it easy on me" light started blinking on the welder , which I took as a sign from the flying spagetti monster that it was time to quit for the day.

 

[FLYINGLOW]

the thermal overload "whoa dude take it easy on me" light started blinking on the welder , which I took as a sign from the flying spagetti monster that it was time to quit for the day.

Isn't that the "go to the fridge and get a beer" light?