Well not too much of an update on the car this time. and pretty much got the reinforcement brace to the transmission tunnel pretty close to the shape it needs to be. The brace is just a piece of 1/8” X 2” flat stock and with some heat and a hammer I was able to get the shape and twist I needed to make it fit. I was hoping to have a picture of it welded into the car and painted but that will take a while.

We also pulled the lower control arms off and replaced the urethane lower bushings,

tunnel brace by M Patterson, on Flickr



The weather turned nice a couple of weeks ago and I figured it was an opportunity to make up some progress on the car. You guessed it, I did too much and caused an issue with my poor old body……fortunately as it turned out it was “minor” but confined me to the house/recliner for about the last week and a half. So instead of following the advice I’ve given others in the past (“ don’t push yourself to hard and give yourself time to heal”), I gave myself a self-inflected wound.

This is pretty much the first time I’ve been in the shop for a week and a half and for the few days I’ll probably restrict myself to the computer and maybe some small bench tasks. So yeah trying to do too much ended up costing me at least a couple of weeks instead.

Zull’s missed coming out to the shop too, she’s pretty much stayed on the porch or inside the house with me since this has happened. I’m not sure whether it’s the shop, me or the treats she knows she’ll be able to con me out of in the shop (my votes’ on the treats LOL).

22525 by M Patterson, on Flickr

One of the projects I’ve been looking at is getting some simple shelves I can stack the small parts boxes on so I don’t have to unstack them every time a need a small part.

PB by M Patterson, on Flickr

If anybody has an idea on who sells shelves that would work or are super simple to build I am definitely interested in any input.

Oh well…..still kicking in Arizona LOL



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