Coronavirus project thread

Productive corona day. Did a clutch pedal assembly on my dads F250. New reservoir and all. Put a transmission pan gasket on his Fairlane. Moved a new washer and dryer in the house. Got rid of the old. Made dinner for everyone. Fried catfish nuggets and French fries for the win.

Edit: put a new throttle body and idle control sensor on the wife’s car also.

mucho productivo
 
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Stained the deck yesterday


planted a bunch of stuff today which has been on the list since I got the house 5 years ago. Yellow roses, blueberries and did the front with an assortment also. Just need to weed fabric it and do mulch now.

and the boat is ready for when it’s warm enough now! Painted the shed addition two weeks ago also

Lowes is getting all my money that would be going into Motorsports
 

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Broke quarantine for the day.

De-wormed two herds, cut a tree out of my wife’s grandma’s back yard and “fixed” the fence it took out, dragged a dead heifer out of a pond and cut in a drainage ditch to drop the water level in the pond so a bigger culvert can go in. Out of the house at 6am and back by 8.

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jeepin' jen said:
We rescheduled our OBX trip and started working on some of the house projects we've been putting off for waayyyy too long.



Then we finally removed the old, broken lattice from under the porch & cleaned out all the shit that had gotten tossed there over the years (errr decades):eek:

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That looks like an ATC 90 or 110. I had a 110 when I was a kid. Is it for sale?
 
Pulled the entire grill assembly off the M35, broke it down to individual pieces, sanded each, primed, painted and reassembled with grade 8 hardware. Rebuilt the passenger side mirror vertical support. Got parking brake cable removed, found i needed a specialty nut to reassemble, so cleaned up the lever assembly and chased all the stud threads.
 
One thing that has been on my bucket list for a long time. A building to work on my junk in, no matter the weather, and no matter of what time it is. Crunching numbers as too what I could afford, and still be able to do what I want and need to do. So as for now, it's gonna be a 24X30 building. 12' walls, 2 10'X10' roll up doors and a walk through. Vertical roof, roll up doors on the 30' side, walk through on the 24 side. I bought a 10K challenger lift, Got a secondhand trans jack, and a new EBAY oil catch can. Also bought myself a woodstove for the cold winter days. Plan on at least 2 ceiling fans to push the heat back down in the winter, and an attic fan on one end to suck out the heat in the summer. Also will be using my Bose Radio/CD player for tunes with an outside antenna. Second phase is complete (excavating being the first phase) Hope to begin the building in a week or so.

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I spent the weekend figuring out why the back windows didn’t work on the Excursion. Ordered new motors and regulators for an easy install. Riiigggghhhhttt..... driver side was easy until the test. Widow wouldn’t roll all the way up and tried to go out the bottom the door on the roll down. On the plus side at least it moved under its own power. Long story short had to disassemble the whole thing inside the door and remove it piece by piece. I compared both assemblies side by side and all parts were the same but the arms were clocked differently. Do I took both apart and combined the to make one workable window setup. Tada!!!! 2 1/2 hours later mission accomplished.

Today was the passenger side and armed with experience time for a quick fix. Rrrriiggghhht! Today’s adventure was brought to you by broken wires hidden in the harness.

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So many rounds of profanity and more skinned knuckles I now have a functioning rear passenger window. At this point I decided screw putting in the new regulator it works and I need an adult beverage!
 
Still been working, but making the most of being home more. Got a few projects going. Chicken coop, bridge for the ditch to get to the coop, steps and platform for our pool, re doing the eaves of shop, putting in our first garden, and who knows what else. Got five truck loads of free wood, so I've got plenty of "repurposed" deck wood.

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I'm about to wire up some reverse lights on my trailer they arent going to point directly behind it since I cant see back there anyway but more off to the sides. This way I can tell exactly at night were the back is.

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More tractor time this week. The backside of the carport slab dropped off at about 1:1 slope, so several loads with the dump trailer and a few hours back and forth on the tractor and I got this:

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Got it framed up for the most part. You guys use 8x8 locust for post when you build tree houses? :D Reused the rough sawn 2x6's out of my house for rafters and 2x8' for ridge beam and the main valley rafters. I feel like I spend more time gather material to use and making sure the generator isn't burning my tools up :rolleyes: than working.

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They decided down here that burning was bad for Crono victims. So I decided to work off the Mexican take out the wife wanted for lunch yesterday.
 
Bout to get wild in the garage. T5 swap into the foxbody. Don’t worry. I’m not reusing the clutch, flywheel, pressure plate, or clutch arm. They don’t look terrible, but might as well go new on everything while I’m in there. I can’t find any info or numbers on the harmonic balancer. Hope I got the correct flywheel. Everything I’ve read on the 347 stroker kit is 28oz. I’ll know pretty quick if it’s vibrating like a mofo. Think I’ll mount it and fire it up before I attach the bell housing. It’s an adjustable weight flywheel. I’ll start at 28 and go from there.
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Wes said:
Bout to get wild in the garage. T5 swap into the foxbody. Don’t worry. I’m not reusing the clutch, flywheel, pressure plate, or clutch arm. They don’t look terrible, but might as well go new on everything while I’m in there. I can’t find any info or numbers on the harmonic balancer. Hope I got the correct flywheel. Everything I’ve read on the 347 stroker kit is 28oz. I’ll know pretty quick if it’s vibrating like a mofo. Think I’ll mount it and fire it up before I attach the bell housing. It’s an adjustable weight flywheel. I’ll start at 28 and go from there. View attachment 316098
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Very cool! Don't worry on the T5. It is a Ford so it won't make enough power to break it anyway. ;):p
 
Blaze said:
My next project is cleaning my shop. I have about a truckload of scrap metal and a truckload of trash so far.

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I carried off 1500 pounds of trash Saturday from my shop. Haven't finished loading the scrap metal yet, and the price is too depressing to be in a hurry lol.

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Blaze said:
Very cool! Don't worry on the T5. It is a Ford so it won't make enough power to break it anyway. ;):p
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Blasphemy! I am gonna take it easy on it though. Well, I say that now. I beat the shit out of a T5 behind a 306 for years. Hope this one holds up like that one did.
 
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I carried off 1500 pounds of trash Saturday from my shop. Haven't finished loading the scrap metal yet, and the price is too depressing to be in a hurry lol.

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I know, it is almost cheaper to just take it to the dump rather than to drive to the scrapyard. At least diesel is cheap now.
 
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