Wow, been a month since I've been on here. Haven't had much time to much of anything with the race truck. Had my son's truck down several times because of his transmission. Started off with him loosing reverse. Thought ok, band needed adjusting, struct fell out or servo stuck... nope. The little lip on the pivot part of the fulcrum broke off. So had to pull his transfer case and rear tail housing off his truck to fix it. Got it fixed but found quite a few bolts wouldn't tighten up on the pan... So while we waited on heli coils to get in to fix his pan, his truck leaked. Thought that was where the leak was coming from. His truck left him on the side of the road one morning, so we parked it till we could get it in the shop and work on it. Heli coil kit came in and we fixed the pan on the trans, filled it back up with fluid and he went to test drive it... Had to pick him up 2 miles from the house. Wasn't the main leak. Finally figured out he didn't get the bolts tight enough on the tail housing extension and it blew out the gasket at the pressure port there. So pulled transfer case again and tail shaft housing, fixed the leak and it's been on the road since.
While that was going on, had to drop the gas tank on the wife's avalanche and replace the fuel pump assembly since the regulator went out on it. Got that fixed and while I had it up on stands, searched where the noise was coming from while it moved. Thought it was a ujoint... nope it was coming from the transfer case. So ordered parts to rebuild and got it rebuilt. Turned out it was the rear main bearing, was missing several balls in it.
After all that in the shop, it was a disaster so several days were spent just cleaning, hauling off trash, cleaning and putting tools away.
Bought a few new tools, picked up an 80 piece 3/8" impact set for my new dewalt 3/8" cordless impact and had to order a new paint gun. Decided to try the new 3m system and got to use it for the first time tonight spraying primer on the grill mold pieces. That thing shoots ultra nice and took me about 2 minutes to clean it up afterwards. Liking it so far.
Rods and Pistons were dropped off yesterday to start the new engine build with Austin, should be ordering the cam and a few other parts in the next day or so.
My wife and I started running the lounge at the American Legion we are members of on Friday nights. It was deader than a door nail on Fridays, trying to get people in. Before we started lucky to sell 6 bucks worth of beer, first night we did 36 bucks, granted most of it was mine. Last Friday we did over 200 with the start of a karaoke night.
Part of the mess:
Cleanup:
New clamp storage
New 3/8" impact set
3m paint gun
Primed Mold parts