Thread: Project "Left Overs" is back alive !

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Dave W. -

I like the dry erase board idea of where the things were put, I just imagine losing the dry erase pens! The worst things to find for me are screw drivers, safety glasses, and paint can lid openers/bottle top openers. For some reason they seem to have feet of their own, and like to hide!

The ones I can't figure out are the tools or parts you are using to do a job. You lay it right down beside you, do the next step, and when you reach down it is nowhere to be found ! You haven't moved from a 3 foot radius and yet it is GONE!

I still can't find the collar to my Chevy preluber. I prelubed the engine, set the whole thing down beside me, and when I went to put it away the collar was gone, never to be seen again. I've looked everywhere, even under tool boxes, but it's just gone. Gremlins I tell you, gremlins.

Don

Originally Posted by Itoldyouso

The ones I can't figure out are the tools or parts you are using to do a job. You lay it right down beside you, do the next step, and when you reach down it is nowhere to be found ! You haven't moved from a 3 foot radius and yet it is GONE!

I still can't find the collar to my Chevy preluber. I prelubed the engine, set the whole thing down beside me, and when I went to put it away the collar was gone, never to be seen again. I've looked everywhere, even under tool boxes, but it's just gone. Gremlins I tell you, gremlins.

Don

OMG - they've invaded Florida as well. One of my workbenches needs an exorcism - it does the same thing.

Originally Posted by IC2

OMG - they've invaded Florida as well. One of my workbenches needs an exorcism - it does the same thing.

I think "they" escaped from Florida and came north! 8-)

Originally Posted by stovens

I like the dry erase board idea of where the things were put, I just imagine losing the dry erase pens! The worst things to find for me are screw drivers, safety glasses, and paint can lid openers/bottle top openers. For some reason they seem to have feet of their own, and like to hide!

I wish I the wall space for another dry erase board. I had one back when I was racing. The things to do, chassis settings, etc. Worked good was about 4' x 6'. Now I don't have the wall space for a 4" x 6". Now I have written lists for the store and stopped somewhere else first, and thrown out a scrap of paper I didn't need only to find out it was the grocery list. Now whats really bad I don't remember throwing it out, I get home and assumed I forgot it and it would be on my bench or desk, I can't find it and after looking for about 15 min's it dawns on me what I did..........

Don look under the distributer HAHAHA man I tell you I sure am glad I'm not alone in this. IC2 I know your feelings I have a shop by my trains by my radios and 1 in each garage actualy there are 3 work benches in the big shop and no telling what is where. I bet I have a dozen 3/8 ratchets can never find my 3/8 drive 6 point 1/2" socket and there are 3 set + in the shop

That's another thing.........where do all the 1/2 and 9/16 sockets disappear to? 10MM and 13MM are the same way. I must have 10 of each size but never can find one when needed.

Don

Thanks guys for all the laughs and it is not only in America,those gremlins are everywhere,even down here in NZ. My personal one is "I will put that in a safe spot so I know where it is" I must now have a garage full of safe spots as I can never remember exactly where that safe spot is.

I started taking pictures with my cell phone and putting them in a folder. Can't remember what I named the folder!

Bet you can't find the cell phone either !

Don

Originally Posted by Itoldyouso

Bet you can't find the cell phone either !

Don

yep have to use house phone to call cell phone to find it.hoping the battery isn't dead

Looking good,Don. Pretty soon you'll need another shop,one for parking,and one for building!!!

Lookin' good so far, Don. Chassis fabrication is my favorite part of building a car. Progress happens in big visible leaps so you can step back and see your progress. For future reference - when you need spring plates, check out the trailer parts aisle at your local ACE Hardware. I needed 4 matching plates for my roadster. Rather than spend a couple of hours making them, I bought them at ACE (see pic). They have 3 or 4 different ones with different hole-spreads and hole sizes, so measure before you go.

I am interested to see how far your front end settles. With that 7-leaf spring I'm guessing only about 1 1/2 inches. Actually, if it rides a little high, that would be fairly typical of a mid-60s Altered...

I have 8-inch Ford rear ends in my coupe and roadster. If I had it to do over, I would either go with 9-inch Ford or Toyota pickup. Why? Gears and parts for an 8-incher cost more than gears and parts for a 9-inch. A posi unit for an 8-inch is out of sight... if you can find one! With that big high-torque Olds engine and tall slicks, you may need the beef of the 9-inch. On the other hand, Toyota pickups came with a bunch of different gear ratios, many of them are posi, they're pretty beefy for their size, they're plentiful in junkyards, and they have a Ford bolt pattern (5 on 4 1/2)!

Jim, that's good info about the Ace hardware trailer plates. I just am not sure if the bolt pattern would have been the same as the Total Performance perch I used, but worth checking out, that's for sure.

You are right about 8 inch stuff being a lot more expensive than 9 inch stuff. I don't know if it is because of availabilty or what, but it costs a lot more for everything. I'm not too worried about hurting it, as I rarely get on my cars hard, even my 27. I drive like an old man.............oh wait, I AM an old man. Don has an 8 incher in his T bucket, with only something like 2:79 gears, non posi, and he does push his harder than I do, and it has held up well.

I was going to buy him another center section with deeper gears for Xmas sometime, but that ratio seems to work great with his light weight, 3000 stall convertor, and good HP. When I am following him in my 27 and he leaves a light I have to push it a little just to keep up with him............for high gears it launches hard. If I remember correctly, I think the rear Kurt gave me has a similar ratio and that will be nice because I want this rpu to be the car I drive on the interstate to distance events. The 4:30's in my 27 make it very unpleasant at anything over 50 mph.

As you can see by this picture, Don has a somewhat heavy foot.

Don