What did you do to your pig today? (1 Viewer)

[PabloCruise]

Not a darn thing!

Between life, and trying to get the 40 functional, Pig has just been waiting for me.

I hope she's not mad...

 

[RUSH55]

Pig has just been waiting for me.
I hope she's not mad...

I’m sure she understands.

Your 40 is a beaut!

 

[PabloCruise]

I’m sure she understands.

Your 40 is a beaut!

Thanks @RUSH55 - at this point the 40 is looking better than she runs. It is time to do the work.

Today's goal is to pull the carb and see if the mounting stud can be run back into the manifold, or if the threads are toast...

 

[PabloCruise]

Your 40 is a beaut!

Thanks...

 

[DTC72]

Went for a ride with my wife, her older brother and his wife into Red Rock National Conservation Area. They were visiting from NY. I let him drive the pig and at one point he looked over at me and said, “I really like driving this thing.”

 

[scrapdaddy]

You just set the hook.

 

[RUSH55]

What’s not to like?

 

[RUSH55]

That is actually a really good picture of the three of them. I’d say a wall hanger

 

[DTC72]

Went to the garage to work on my tailgate window that requires hand assistance to go up and down. When I tried to open the front door…nothing. Reached around from the rear door to open it. Spent the next 2.5 hours fixing the front door. I thought it was the handle and know I could buy a used one or a NOS from Binmahmoodstores. Took everything off including the door card to take a look. Moved the rods around manually and everything seemed fine. Finally decided to take apart the passenger door to compare and found it was not the handle but rather the lever plate in #3 below. First thought it was the rod #1 was bent too much. Old right? Tried to bend it but that thing was solid. Took a few things apart including the screws for #2 then repositioned the angle of #4 so that #3 was closer to the pushrod from the door handle. Put it all back together and it worked. Actually I took it apart 4 times and several times thought to work on this cramped space it would be so much easier if I had tiny little hands. Tailgate window will have to wait for another day.

 

[scrapdaddy]

Good Job! That's one job you're guarantied to bleed.

 

[trainbufftony]

I replaced my passenger front window with the one from my parts donor. Then I carefully cleaned up the 3 remaining door cards I was missing and put the door cards on with all of the trim.
Drove it to Jesse's place because he needed my help with something, then, when I got home I unloaded it, blew it out with air, washed it, and cleaned the windows. For some reason now my tailgate keyswitch, decided to quit working while i had the window up for cleaning.
I got it to go back down by jumping power with my power probe, but it's not fixed.
I made a few steps forward and unfortunately one step backwards today.

I think the fix in the tailgate will be to use the switches to activate relays and the relays will handle the switching of current to the motor.
Then I'll run one big fat new 8 gauge wire to provide current for the relays to switch, and it should work really well for a long time.

 

[bobm]

Who's Pecker

 

[trainbufftony]

Who's Pecker

She's mine.
I've got about 50 of the little devils

 

[PabloCruise]

Went to the garage to work on my tailgate window that requires hand assistance to go up and down. When I tried to open the front door…nothing. Reached around from the rear door to open it. Spent the next 2.5 hours fixing the front door. I thought it was the handle and know I could buy a used one or a NOS from Binmahmoodstores. Took everything off including the door card to take a look. Moved the rods around manually and everything seemed fine. Finally decided to take apart the passenger door to compare and found it was not the handle but rather the lever plate in #3 below. First thought it was the rod #1 was bent too much. Old right? Tried to bend it but that thing was solid. Took a few things apart including the screws for #2 then repositioned the angle of #4 so that #3 was closer to the pushrod from the door handle. Put it all back together and it worked. Actually I took it apart 4 times and several times thought to work on this cramped space it would be so much easier if I had tiny little hands. Tailgate window will have to wait for another day.

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It's always something!
What was the issue w/ the #3 lever plate?

 

[PabloCruise]

I replaced my passenger front window with the one from my parts donor. Then I carefully cleaned up the 3 remaining door cards I was missing and put the door cards on with all of the trim.
Drove it to Jesse's place because he needed my help with something, then, when I got home I unloaded it, blew it out with air, washed it, and cleaned the windows. For some reason now my tailgate keyswitch, decided to quit working while i had the window up for cleaning.
I got it to go back down by jumping power with my power probe, but it's not fixed.
I made a few steps forward and unfortunately one step backwards today.View attachment 3635067View attachment 3635068

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I think the fix in the tailgate will be to use the switches to activate relays and the relays will handle the switching of current to the motor.
Then I'll run one big fat new 8 gauge wire to provide current for the relays to switch, and it should work really well for a long time.

I made a few steps forward and unfortunately one step backwards today.

That's how my projects go!
Monday I removed the aftermarket Auto Meter tach from the 40 to confirm it was dead (it was). When I fired up the 40 to take it to the gas station I saw that none of the factory gauges worked. Fantastic...

 

[PabloCruise]

She's mine.
I've got about 50 of the little devils

At least you had good company!

 

[PabloCruise]

I haven't done a thing to my Pig lately.
I have been poking around on the 40 a little bit.
Yesterday I worked on my DD, and then maintenance on the 470.

 

[DTC72]

It's always something!
What was the issue w/ the #3 lever plate?

Somehow the plate was too far away from the door handle plunger so when the button was pressed on the outside handle it only pressed the plate a little so the down rod #1 wasn’t releasing the mechanism enough. Now how the plate went from close enough to too far, ie working to not working…who knows.

 

[trainbufftony]

I made a few steps forward and unfortunately one step backwards today.

That's how my projects go!
Monday I removed the aftermarket Auto Meter tach from the 40 to confirm it was dead (it was). When I fired up the 40 to take it to the gas station I saw that none of the factory gauges worked. Fantastic...

You probably either blew the fuse while hacking out the wires, or perhaps the power feed from the tach feeds the rest of the gauge cluster. It should be a simple one to figure out, as all gauge circuits are basically the same.

If you're ever cutting wires out, and you cut a power wire at the same time as a ground, you can blow the fuse on that power wire via the short circuit to ground through the blade of the cutter. Go ahead and ask me how I know this...

 

[PabloCruise]

You probably either blew the fuse while hacking out the wires, or perhaps the power feed from the tach feeds the rest of the gauge cluster. It should be a simple one to figure out, as all gauge circuits are basically the same.

If you're ever cutting wires out, and you cut a power wire at the same time as a ground, you can blow the fuse on that power wire via the short circuit to ground through the blade of the cutter. Go ahead and ask me how I know this...

I think I already know how you know this!

I had one of those taps in place on the AGC fuse for power to the tach.
I thought of blown fuse, and then had to remind myself which fuse drives the cluster...

It's da HEATER fuse - why not?

So I checked for continuity - fuse was good! What da fuq???

Then I pried the fuse out, pushed back in - Fuel gauge moved.

Good times...