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So I wanted a cupholder. ...

Had to make a little benderator. Finally a use for my press...

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Tried it on the heater but kinda hated it, so now it's between the seats.
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manual steering and boiling hot coffee are an awkward combo..

Point is...the press brake actually works..I'll have to make something cooler than a cupholder next time around.:hillbilly:
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Toshi38 said:
Nice!

Does this mean that you can't use the old "if you can't hold a beer betweek your legs and drive ..." Test anymore?
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Ha beers no problem, you can get a grip on cans and bottles, its the damn hortons cups..:hillbilly:

Need a couple valve springs for the brake, it'd be a little easier to use if the blade lifted on its own, but its not bad. Considering it only took a half hour to put together.
 
Nice. I'm going hunting for a shop press when Princess Auto opens up. I plan to make an adaptor like yours so it can be a small "poor man's" metal break. (or is it brake) dunno.

I used one to make my center console a year ago and have wanted one ever since. So handy.

Now all you have to do is run heat to the cup holders to keep coffee warm, as well as AC to keep em cold. (like an 80) lol.
Too bad 42's don't have AC...... Come to think of it, heat isn't exactly plentiful either!
 
slowandsteady BJ said:
Nice. I'm going hunting for a shop press when Princess Auto opens up. I plan to make an adaptor like yours so it can be a small "poor man's" metal break. (or is it brake) dunno.

I used one to make my center console a year ago and have wanted one ever since. So handy.

Now all you have to do is run heat to the cup holders to keep coffee warm, as well as AC to keep em cold. (like an 80) lol.
Too bad 42's don't have AC...... Come to think of it, heat isn't exactly plentiful either!
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Yeah, I finally got annoyed at my press being a coat rack for the past couple years, so I went searching for uses for it.



Lotsa heat in a 42, it's the air leaks that suck all that heat back out that are the problem...

I'm going with heated seats before heated cupholders...priorities...
 
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Toshi38 said:
Nice!

Does this mean that you can't use the old "if you can't hold a beer betweek your legs and drive ..." Test anymore?
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You can spill beer in your lap without any major issues...
 
Toshi38 said:
I was at princess auto today... got a little heater to heat the barn :) works great... they had a 20ton press for 170 bucks ... :)

I'm pleased I'll be in victoria for opening day at princess auto... maybe they'll have better deals :)
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ya but how you gonna get it back east?

You should just buy some $100 dollar piece of s*** car , fill it with parts and crap and drive back to ontario.


FLYINGLOW said:
You can spill beer in your lap without any major issues...
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Zackly. No one wants hard boiled eggs...
 
so my pyro FINALLY got here, but I can't really complain, they shipped it as a gift, so it escaped the eye of the gub'ment.

I'd forgotten how damn small these things are...

That's a quarter in front of it.

( it's a US quarter, so I took the pic with it on top of a canada toque to compensate...:hillbilly:)

Don't worry cam, I'll find a discreet place to mount/hide it.

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And now, for a new episode of "As The Turd Extrudes"....

Had a wee setback in pyro land. The one they sent me was moribund. Emailed Auber about it and they promptly sent another, which I thought was pretty good of them.
At any rate it is now installed, with a fancy blinky light(yet oh , so discreet and tastefull...cam :flipoff2:) on the dash that triggers when it hits whatever max temp I set.

So, this brings me to the mid day fun, which involved a mouthful of diesel. (Tasted clean, could've used a lemon wedge. )

Hooked up the junk trailer to go get a couple sheets of plywood, and as I pulled onto the highway, instead of the usual , slammed back into the seat, jowl flapping, testicles pressed deep into abdomen, raging 3b acceleration, I had an anemic lurch that had me hiding on the sidewalk in 50 yards.

Reminded me of my VW with Solex carbs days...(barfey smiley goes here)

Managed to limp the truck to the parking lot of the pub ( serendipitous, and may have led to the grandiloquence you are now experiencing...:hillbilly:)

After fxxxing around for half an hour blowing into fuel lines, listening for bubbly sounds at the tank,( and hearing them) I initially concluded the fuel filter was plugged, or maybe the little screen on the lift pump. Naturally my lift pump is the original P.O.S. and not a bosch so it does more dumping than pumping...

Initially the pump was springing about as if it was pumping against a blockage,(even with bleeder cracked) which led to the diagnosis.

So I pulled the lines off the filter and blew into them, ( yes, this was unpleasant.)

After a while of this where nothing enlightening happened, I put it all back to gether, pumped the primer, a whoosh of air came out of the filter, and it ran again at something more than an idle, so I scooted home before something else went wrong.

So at the moment, I still have no idea whether it's just air in the system from sitting for a week, or if something is haywire.

I'll stick a new filter and a bosch primer on it soon, clean out the screen and maybe get rid of the water separator on the frame, see if it happens again. Other than that, I'm adding rags and some of the gay little blue gloves to the tool bag in case this happens again.

Cuz I kindof think it will.


the end.
 
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gamaman1 said:
as per toshi don't forget to add the rag to the gas tank trick
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yeah, that was one of my first thoughts..

Toshi38 said:
you know what broke it... all that talk about never having to bleed it... :D
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...and that one followed shortly after...:lol:




I think it's just pissed off at the lack of attention it's been getting lately.
 
Ok. In true christmas spirit, I am 18 different kinds of pissed off right now.

Check out this email I just got from Auber Instruments about the defective Pyro gauge I sent back.

Ryan

We received the return and inspected it. This is not the gauge we sold to you in October 2011. Although the serial number matches the one we sent to you on Oct. the front label shows SYL-1812 instead of SYL-1813. SYL-1812 was discontinued in 2009. The gauge also has tool marks on the side indicating it was opened not by us. The internal electronics is marked 2008 and it is a 12V unit. Our record shows that you purchased a SYL-1812 in 2008. Based on these information, we believed you shipped the old gauge with the new shell. We don't accept this type of practice. I am sending you a paypal invoice for the second unit. You can either pay it or send the second gauge back to us. We can also repair the bad unit at reasonable cost.
Sincerely,
Suyi Liu
Auber Instruments
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Naturally I replied telling them I did no such freaking thing, the 2008 gauge they're referring to is in a truck I sold two years ago (bj70) ,refund me my 4 bucks for return shipping, and...kiss my ass.

(Was a bit more to my reply than that:hillbilly:)

but WTF eh? apparently they sold me a mishmash of old crap the first time around.
So yeah, anything nice I previously said about those f'ing dbag mf'ers is now rescinded.

Pretty sure if the present one I have installed stops working, it might be tough to get it warranteed.....:lol:
 
So the Auber thing is pretty funny now. "Suyi" is convinced I've cheated them, and says there is "irrefutable evidence " that I have.
Which of course there isn't , because I didn't. I'm going to have to call up the dude who bought my 70 to take a pic of the gauge in it.
Don't know if even that will be enough proof for them, there's not much else I can really do, but it bugs the s*** out of me having someone call me a liar and a thief, when in actual fact it's their own mistake, otherwise I'd just drop it.
Oh well. They won't be getting another dime from me, I've paid for my one gauge, won't be paying for it twice, they can go piss up a rope.

Don't buy Auber gauges . I'm mad at them.:rolleyes:


Anyways, enough of that, I did much work to Mootard over the weekend, I have 3/4's of the new suspension in. One leaf pack to go. Maybe tonight if I'm feeling strong.
Leaf swaps suck balls when they've been in there for 30 years.
HO-LEE CRAP were the bushings seized in this thing. Standing on a 4' crowbar wasn't enough to get the shackles to turn in the bushings , so you can imagine how fun it was getting the fixed end pins out. Enough rust and lumps in there that even when the bushings were on fire and the pins were glowing they still wouldn't come out without the liberal use of colourful metaphors.
First time I've missed my oxy-acet kit since I got rid of it two years ago. Ol' bernz o matic doesn't quite have enough heat for this.

Ad all the seized bushings to the busted leaves bouncing off the bump stops in front, and no wonder it rode like freaking buckboard wagon.
I may invest in some greasable pins at some point, for now I've just put the stock shackles and pins back in, ( with mucho grease) until I can figger out how long I need. short as possible for me.
No big gay alberta/north bay ontario shackles here.:lol:
TrailMart has some reasonably cheap bolts that are drilled for grease nipples etc. May grab some of them if I make new shackles and such.
If it turns out the stock shackles are long enough, I'll just ad a little anti reversal tab to them, because the rears for sure will be inclined to snap up the wrong way. . ( damn near did when I was letting the jack down.)


I did a Ubolt flip in the rear, and some funky s*** in the front to make things a little smoother under neath.
Dakar 2.5 heavies in rear, and mystery leafs in front, also a couple inches.
Heavies are probably stiffer than I want, so I may have to start carrying more s*** around. Probably be better when I get that second fuel tank in under the rear. It's heavy as hell when it's empty...:lol:

Gm spring plates for the top, these things are cheap and common, this is a stolen pic. Mine were free, and therefore, rustier.

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and I made these dealios to hold the ubolts on the bottom. Would've been just a smidge easier with a mill...my drill press didn't quite catch fire. :hillbilly:
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So yes, a good shakedown pound on the backroad is coming this weekend. Not quite wheelable yet, because I still need to brace my side steps.

But, it's never been closer...:lol:
 
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The gauge thing sucks. I'd be so angry at the stupidity of the whole thing, on top of that it is so difficult to prove one didn't do something. Then of course there's the matter of whether or not its worth it to put in the energy or just say screw 'em. And to what avail? And after all that cr*p its still a digital gauge in a 40......

Seriously though.... how'd you make those U bolt holder things with a drill press!?

Moutard is indeed coming along nicely and I'll come for the shake-down run / exploratory mission.

Better get a CB in that thing so you can hear the clatter...... and Ill glue the face of it up solid with the volume knob cranked.... James May style. Too bad CB's don't have wireless remote controls we could all get see how well 40 sound deadening (or lack there of) works.

On second thought, I could never put Mel through that kind punishment should she have the misfortune of coming along that day. :flipoff2:
 
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