Hey Ehsan-check out my new workshop

[65swb45]

Choose your favorite idiom:

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery

Necessity is the mother of invention

My 40 is down for the count with some serious powertrain issues, and I've been so busy at the shop that I haven't even found a day I could spare to pull, repair and replace my ORION in a YEAR! So when the karma cruiser went down, I said F it, rain or shine I'm gonna fix this truck. And it was definitely raining. So I put a plank of plywood across the rigs, a tarp to 'expand' the work area a bit, and got busy.

Even with the @#$%^ column shift linkage, it only took an hour ten to drop the trans in the rain, using only hand tools.

One of my buds stopped by this afternoon and said it looked like a Mexican operation. I proudly corrected him and said it was Pakistani!

 

[1tontoy]

Hehehehe, nice! I said $&$^&#^# it, today, and threw a tarp on the welder and kept on weldin!

 

[Kief]

What... I don't get it... it looks like normal Oregon to me..










Oh, you're in California and you are getting a little rain-

 

[DanS HJ-45]

That's awesome Mark!

I know I'm normally pretty picky about working inside my heated shop, with my good tools and stuff--but every so often I end up fixing something someplace miserable, with some super crappy tool set for some reason or other. It's almost therapeutic to be miserable, because I find that I work harder to just get it done faster. It also reminds me just why I need to budget for a shop with the house ASAP.

Dan

 

[65swb45]

That's awesome Mark!

I know I'm normally pretty picky about working inside my heated shop, with my good tools and stuff--but every so often I end up fixing something someplace miserable, with some super crappy tool set for some reason or other. It's almost therapeutic to be miserable, because I find that I work harder to just get it done faster. It also reminds me just why I need to budget for a shop with the house ASAP.

Dan

Haha. I have a nice garage.


It has a nice swb45 in it that I wasn't about to put out in the rain!

 

[Combat Chuck]

you got a paved driveway? Lucky!!!!!!!

 

[MoCoNative]

Worst outside job I ever did was pulling the engine from a 1959 John Deere IC440 Crawler Tractor, (a bulldozer) in late October cause she spun a rod bearing. Had to do the work outside, cause dozers don't go in garages too well, and it was at my home site that was still under construction, so all we had was the temporary power drop. Of course my house sits in the middle of hundreds of acres of sage and reclaimed wheatfields. So saying it is dark around there is an understatement.

We rebuilt the engine in Dads garage, so that bit was nice aside from trying to find parts for such an old rare engine, (and you all thoguht cruisers were hard to get parts for,) but getting the tractor ready for it was tough. Spent many nights with a headlamp and droplight laying on frozen snow covered ground cleaning up decades of oil and grease, and flushing out old hydraulics and such after work. Finally got the engine stuck in on a rare sunny, nice day in December or so that fall. She fired right up, was glad to get it back together, especially since it belonged to my father-in-law. We felt bad the engine blew on us, so we made sure we fixed it right.

Loving the garage I was building at that time now though.

 

[Combat Chuck]

My neighbor's got some equipment. Whenever his Cat needed service, I feel bad for the tech who's likely never had the pleasure of being indoors while doing his job. One time in mid-spring, the guy had to come up and drop a transmission, I'll bet that was fun.