What Part/s Did You Buy Today for Your Hobby or Project ???

[Dutchrebuild]

Picked up 2 sets of real nice 68 charger doors...a pair of absolutely clean 70 sport satellite fenders...and a nos 4-door quarter, possibly for 70 Plymouth. Don't really need any of it...just add it to the hord.

 

[Budnicks]

Got my tank yesterday. Since there was an Industrial Metal Supply on the way back, scored a piece of 18ga and 11ga cold rolled for future projects.
Budnicks, are the any Indian reservations around? The reason I ask is that at many of them, they don't have the CARB additive package in the fuel. Still have Ethanol though. My friend in Vegas hauls fuel from over by Nellis to the Rez's in Cali. Might help. I know Amsoil has additives for both short and long term storage, think Sta-Bil does too. Might help to move the rides periodically to circulate/shake up the fuels.

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Yeah 'sort of' not a reservation to say, but a village
not sure they go by that there, I will check though

my dad says; "they don't have an actual reservation here"
I had no clue, he's been up here, since 1980

For sure, I need to drive my RR more too
seems every time I go to drive it a needle & seat are stuck or fuel overflowing etc.
it's getting old
nothing I can't handle, just getting really tired of it all
I've been busy of late with dad's (88) health & DR's appt.s etc.
neglecting my stuff, hard to get motivated "sort of"

after I do what ever I may decide,
I may start buying race fuel again, in a drum etc. & doing a mix
I may go to the airport down in Columbia 30+miles, down the hill
& get some avgas too
I know people (neighbor Shea, 22), otherwise that can get me a couple 5 gal jugs of it
every so often & do a blend at a min.
that work there (neighbor's son) 'sort of',
well he teaches flying lessons (for CalFire applicants) privately there
I'm sure he has a fuel-pass (card) they are really strict there...

Thanks

 

[Fran Blacker]

I have a NOS left tail light bezel for my Satellite. Have had it for 30+years, been looking for a right hand bezel. Have seen one with a lens but the price was $535 to much for me! Today I was on ebay, I seldom check it. I was on there because they turned on email notification for parts and I was turning them off. I get to my 1966 tail bezel search and right on top is an NOS right hand bezel at a reasonable price. Score! By the way they didn't notify me.

 

[ckessel]

The correct, for cast crank, flex plate came in yesterday from Mancini. I sent it off to Fresno for the machinist to have when its balance time.

 

[33 IMP]

After struggling with trying to make some braided line and fittings join up (used to do this fairly easily, apparently lost the talent) bought a koul tool for assembly ease...... and a few fittings, some braided line, and a bracket for a fuel regulator mount to a carb, that I could have made in ten minutes when I was working. Oh well.
Since mounting the regulator on the firewall is nhra illegal, and I don't have inner fenderwells, had to come up with something else.

 

[33 IMP]

Yup, our Gasoline is horrible.... But our Diesel is even worse... Currently i'm helping my farmer buddy with seven diesel powered pieces of farm equipment... All of the fuel systems have had to come apart & get flushed, injection pumps, injectors, fuel tanks, fuel pumps & lines.... All of it.... First one we sent the injector pump out... But with seven units down we decided to try doing one pump ourselves.... Youtube to the rescue.. We've got all the pumps & injectors back together, six machines are running... Waiting on the pump that got sent out to the professionals...

I never buy diesel in california if I can help it. It may be crap,... but it's EXPENSIVE crap. I buy as much diesel as I can in Arizona, before my Cali trips.

 

[33 IMP]

I have an Indian casino nearby here in AZ, with a gas station and smoke shop, but it's across the river in Nevada, and gas/diesel prices are around 75 cents/gal higher than on my side. It has alky in it too.
But the Nevada gas is still at least a buck cheaper than the California side of the river!

 

[PROSTOCKTOM]

Bought a bunch of Timken bearings for the Dana 60 project from Rock Auto and used this discount code below for 5% off.

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Tom

 

[Vaanth]

 

[Belvedere408]

Got the wheel installed today.

 

[58belvedere]

I found a Road Runner wood grain steering wheel pad/adapter, turn signal switch/lever, plate, column insulator & bearing. Black door panels, arm rests/bases/ash trays. pedal pads, lower dash pad, lower switch panel and circuit board for my 1969 project.

 

[Black_Sheep]

This morning I ordered a full set of UMI upper and lower tubular control arms and QA1 tie rod adjusters. These will be going on my ‘58 Apache with a Nova front sub. Summit, Jets and Speedway Motors all offer private label control arms for a lot cheaper but the UMI are made in the USA.

 

[Triplegreen500]

This morning I ordered a full set of UMI upper and lower tubular control arms and QA1 tie rod adjusters. These will be going on my ‘58 Apache with a Nova front sub. Summit, Jets and Speedway Motors all offer private label control arms for a lot cheaper but the UMI are made in the USA.

Getting ready to do the same for my Wrangler. All the bushings are shot (19 years and 115k miles...go figure). Going with Core 4x4 tubular adjustables - front and rear, upper and lower, as well as adjustable track bars. Same deal - made in the USA. Also, the cheap-o's have a crimp in the bend (weak point), where these are mandrel-bent with no crimp. Greaseable poly bushings, fully rebuildable...and if I ever do decide to lift the jeep, it's one less thing I'll have to get at that point.

Started the Liquid Wrench spraying today - maybe by the time I have the money, order the parts, and the parts arrive, the hardware will actually move! (I'm ordering the set with full hardware kit anyway - for the extra $100, it's cheap insurance in my book)

 

[Black_Sheep]

Getting ready to do the same for my Wrangler. All the bushings are shot (19 years and 115k miles...go figure). Going with Core 4x4 tubular adjustables - front and rear, upper and lower, as well as adjustable track bars. Same deal - made in the USA. Also, the cheap-o's have a crimp in the bend (weak point), where these are mandrel-bent with no crimp. Greaseable poly bushings, fully rebuildable...and if I ever do decide to lift the jeep, it's one less thing I'll have to get at that point.

Started the Liquid Wrench spraying today - maybe by the time I have the money, order the parts, and the parts arrive, the hardware will actually move! (I'm ordering the set with full hardware kit anyway - for the extra $100, it's cheap insurance in my book)

A couple years ago I rebushed the GTX with poly bushings and installed QA1 uppers, it dramatically changed how the car feels. I’m hoping for the same result with the truck. Not that it’s bad, but the mid 70’s suspension geometry can be improved upon.

 

[Triplegreen500]

A couple years ago I rebushed the GTX with poly bushings and installed QA1 uppers, it dramatically changed how the car feels. I’m hoping for the same result with the truck. Not that it’s bad, but the mid 70’s suspension geometry can be improved upon.

Jeep drives fine...99% of the time. Hit the wrong bump, though (usually an angled train track, or an angled road patch)...and death wobble. BAD. I've done shocks, a front track bar, a steering stabilizer shock, and a balance...still happens. Less often...but still. And I can see the bushings are shot - they look like muffin tops, squeezing out between the control arms and brackets.

I have a contract offer for 11 weeks in Miami...once that's set in stone (GOOD $$), I'm gonna order. Mainly because...11 weeks in Miami, Jan-Mar....I'm taking the Jeep! Winter sunshine...convertible beach machine...hell YEAH!!