RDP'S "What are you working on?"

[Bugginout]

My fat ass feels like cutting the door bars out 6'4 315 fat guy in a little car

 

[monkeyswrench]

Yeah I just went to Michael's and got poster board. Appreciate the tip brother. I have to cut more floor and driveshaft tunnel out. I've got the front half close. I'm making it big but I like the way it's turning out. I've got good help as well.

Are you going to make it removable? I've done a couple that I'd wished I had after This is a doodad I made for stuff like tunnels. A 4" tube and a 2" tube, clamped together with the sheet between. Two different available radii. In my case, one side is mounted to my slip roll stand now. At one point it was on a 2" receiver.

 

[Bugginout]

Are you going to make it removable? I've done a couple that I'd wished I had after This is a doodad I made for stuff like tunnels. A 4" tube and a 2" tube, clamped together with the sheet between. Two different available radii. In my case, one side is mounted to my slip roll stand now. At one point it was on a 2" receiver.

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I've got to do that for the smaller sections. Actually used a piece of telephone pole I have in the backyard for the big sections.

 

[Bugginout]

Trying to make it removable for sure. Zeus fasteners is what I am shooting for. This is going to take me some time and may look like a decent patchwork quilt

 

[FlyByWire]

Gonna start to wire up some Dakota digital gauges.

 

[monkeyswrench]

I've got to do that for the smaller sections. Actually used a piece of telephone pole I have in the backyard for the big sections.

Acetylene tanks work good, same with nitrous bottles. I may or may not have used a 5" pole at a basketball court at the high-school when young.

 

[Bugginout]

Acetylene tanks work good, same with nitrous bottles. I may or may not have used a 5" pole at a basketball court at the high-school when young.

I didn't even think about nitrous bottles!! Good call bro! Those I have!!

 

[Your ad here]

Had a busy couple of months with work and worked 6 weekends in a row. Got this thing finished up couple days ago. Testing it out today. Everything is good. It was a gas powered saw with a blown up Wisconsin V4 engine on it. This is the 2nd one I've converted.

 

[Morehart]

not fun

 

[Morehart]

time to chill. First fire in the old cabin.

 

[4Waters]

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Did you end up finding the 10mm you dropped?

 

[monkeyswrench]

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Drive motor issue? Those things are great, until they break...lots of stuff buried in a big steel bucket

 

[just_floatin]

Sneak Peak

 

[TPC]

Got the wife a MacBook Pro.
Discovered it's the American Express Card of laptops. Doesn't work anyplace.

Won't jive with her hospitals programs when we are on the road for her to keep in communications.
Doesn't work on Disney properties or Disney cruise ships for the same reasons.

(Wife's $79 Wal Mart notebook will BTW.)

So I put the MacBook Pro in the RV closet. A year and a half later we finally can get our RV back from repairs and can use it again. I bust out the MacBook and charge it up.

Start it,,, after charging it for an hour.

Window pops up asking to update it. After almost 2 years well,,, of course.
Click on the window, the $2000 laptop crashes and locks up solid.

So I go online for the remedy.
Press 4 buttons while starting up,, remove the battery with Y zero drivers and replace, dig in the tool box. I got Y zero drivers, press this button, press that button, stick my dick in a wall mounted pencil sharpener and turn the crank backwards, go talk to lesbians,,, 12 remedies, still nothing.

Locked up - pure hate.
"Recommended not to use the update until Apple clears up the issues" prefaced the last failed remedy.

So a day later I Google for one last remedy. Found one that was posted yesterday. Someone going through the exact same frustrations had the cure.

Step 1: Turn laptop off, hold the shift button for 10 seconds, turn laptop back on.
WTF, fans come on, pin ball machine sounds whirl in, a start menu pops up and the screen grudgingly flashing sparks and asterisks eventually lets me get to Safari with animosity.

Step 2: Restart lap top on and off several times and it'll clear up the new loading/booting/populating issues and chrome will start working too. I hate to turn it off, it may default back to frozen dead in the water, but what the hey,, I do it.

Screen keeps flashing,,, and finally got the Laptop back.
All this time and frustration for something we can't use anyway.

 

[Eliminator21vdrive]

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Been to that movie!

 

[gotpablo]

 

[Bugginout]

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Hell yeah bro!!

 

[82daytona]

Got the wheel mocked up

 

[Bugginout]

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Got the wheel mocked up

Car is turning out amazing bro!

 

[Morehart]

Drive motor issue? Those things are great, until they break...lots of stuff buried in a big steel bucket

Yah blew a hose. That's my cousin in the coveralls. He's already had to do another one so luckily he knew what tools to bring.it blew when they were digging a pond. It's pretty remote, so one of those situations where you had better bring all the tools needed

 

[TonyFanelli]

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What kind of chopper?

 

[Romans9]

Just installing some little heli-coils……

 

[monkeyswrench]

Just installing some little heli-coils……

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Who stripped them out?!

 

[ChrisV]

Prepping for an 8.50ET cage.

 

[530RL]

What kind of chopper?

500

 

[Morehart]

Did you end up finding the 10mm you dropped?

No metrics on this unit. Just want to say thanks for creating this thread. I'll have to start a thread about this ranch. I didn't realize a boating website had so many like minded people. Hard work on all sorts of projects. I'll sip a coffee and get a sense of accomplishment even if my efforts are small. Thanks for liking post

 

[4Waters]

No metrics on this unit. Just want to say thanks for creating this thread. I'll have to start a thread about this ranch. I didn't realize a boating website had so many like minded people. Hard work on all sorts of projects. I'll sip a coffee and get a sense of accomplishment even if my efforts are small. Thanks for liking post

I had no idea how amazed I would be at the talent this place has when I started it. Truly amazing

 

[Bugginout]

My favorite thread on RDP some really talented and smart people.

 

[Bugginout]

Prepping for an 8.50ET cage. View attachment 1301750

Can't wait to see it done.

 

[lenmann]

Prepping for an 8.50ET cage. View attachment 1301750

Update us with the process on this one. I know cages aren't your favorite but I think it would be pretty cool to understand how the magic happens.

Last full cage I did was probably 45 years ago on a '57 VW. We pulled the body so it could be fully welded. Guessing thats not going to be the case with the Audi here.

 

[just_floatin]

Getting close. Need to calibrate the Dakota dash gas sending unit next.

 

[mjc]

Found some body work i actually paid for was done crappy so will redo myself and door needed cleaning after lift problem.

 

[River Dirt 2]

A little 4 corner prep on the boys new toy
Install new Kenwood radio, PCI intercom, headset wiring, antenna, thicker skid plates, adjust ride height, spare tire, lock tight everything.
Waiting for light bars and crescent storage box.

 

[Bugginout]

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Install new Kenwood radio, PCI intercom, headset wiring, antenna, thicker skid plates, adjust ride height, spare tire, lock tight everything.
Waiting for light bars and crescent storage box.

Bad ass

 

[Ace in the Hole]

I hung on to this trailer after selling my ski to another inmate… didn’t want to eat the cost of the perm reg etc.

I have a pellet smoker already and a griddle coming my way shortly. Plan is to put both of the “grills” facing opposite on the back end with a prep station, sink, and cooler setup on the front. Something I can take back-and-forth between cave creek and havasu, or tote with me to work events or whatever. I’ve bitched long enough about not having a smoker at the lake so I got a wild hair up my ass to do this.

Getting everything stepped down today…

If anyone needs a skidoo winch, fenders, wheels, or bunks I’ll make a deal on them. Trailer was for a ski that I sold with I think 8 hours on it so it’s all like new..

 

[4Waters]

I hung on to this trailer after selling my ski to another inmate… didn’t want to eat the cost of the perm reg etc.

I have a pellet smoker already and a griddle coming my way shortly. Plan is to put both of the “grills” facing opposite on the back end with a prep station, sink, and cooler setup on the front. Something I can take back-and-forth between cave creek and havasu, or tote with me to work events or whatever. I’ve bitched long enough about not having a smoker at the lake so I got a wild hair up my ass to do this.

Getting everything stepped down today…

If anyone needs a skidoo winch, fenders, wheels, or bunks I’ll make a deal on them. Trailer was for a ski that I sold with I think 8 hours on it so it’s all like new..

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In Havasu fashion you're gonna have to add 2 more axles to that trailer . Looking forward to seeing this done.

 

[Morehart]

I got invited to a neighbors wedding last minute. I've never done anything like this before so I scavenged the garage for something. Hopefully i can make a nice sign to hang in front of their home. Shit i might make one for my self next time. Old 2x8 and a torch. With a couple rotary files. Hand is shakey from a hangover

 

[4Waters]

The owner of the dealership my dad and I worked at got into drag racing and converted his 93 Cobra into his race car. After pouring the coals to it the stock block broke and along came the A4 race Block. His last pass was in 98ish against me where he leaned it out and burned a couple valves, we pulled the motor and had it rebuilt put it back in and in the trailer it went until another employee bought the car and he wanted to put it back to stock. Pops and I ended up getting the engine and the IRS showed up a couple weeks later to the guys house that bought the car and took the car and everything thing else he owned and arrested him for tax evasion.

We never figured out a project for the motor And have decided to sell it. The guy that bought the car kept the intake but let go of the rest.

I have been assisting my pops on hanging everything again since I have the most knowledge of the build, even though that knowledge is very very fuzzy now I was still able to remember how it went.

302 with an A4 race Block forged knife edged crank H-Beam rods and JE pistons. It still has the GT40 heads with work done, the cherry on top is the Vortech Supercharger. I have a 97 Explorer GT40 intake that I set on it. I couldn't find my EGR spacer for the mock up so I shimmed it and it works for pics.

 

[monkeyswrench]

The owner of the dealership my dad and I worked at got into drag racing and converted his 93 Cobra into his race car. After pouring the coals to it the stock block broke and along came the R Block. His last pass was in 98ish against me where he leaned it out and burned a couple valves, we pulled the motor and had it rebuilt put it back in and in the trailer it went until another employee bought the car and he wanted to put it back to stock. Pops and I ended up getting the engine and the IRS showed up a couple weeks later to the guys house that bought the car and took the car and everything thing else he owned and arrested him for tax evasion.

We never figured out a project for the motor And have decided to sell it. The guy that bought the car kept the intake but let go of the rest.

I have been assisting my pops on hanging everything again since I have the most knowledge of the build, even though that knowledge is very very fuzzy now I was still able to remember how it went.

302 with an R Block forged knife edged crank H-Beam rods and JE pistons. It still has the GT40 heads with work done, the cherry on top is the Vortech Supercharger. I have a 97 Explorer GT40 intake that I set on it. I couldn't find my EGR spacer for the mock up so I shimmed it and it works for pics.

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SBF porn! It's like some weird fettish stuff...damn that could be fun!

 

[4Waters]

SBF porn! It's like some weird fettish stuff...damn that could be fun!

Don't you have a 60 something Ranchero or Falcon

 

[monkeyswrench]

Don't you have a 60 something Ranchero or Falcon

Yes, yes I do. I'm just lacking in the finance department...so the Ranchero sits hibernating in a trailer. Funny, figure it's last pass was in 96, when my buddy turned an 11 with it. That's why it was parked, was supposed to have a cage in those days. So, he started the back half and cage, and it sat for almost 20 years. Then I ended up with it. So, eventually

 

[TonyFanelli]

I took these pics at my brother's place in Ennis, MT...the more I looked at them, a light bulb went off in the Ole noggin. I had them printed up on canvas, searched the interweb for the lights, placed the lights and switches accordingly and came up with this

 

[4Waters]

I took these pics at my brother's place in Ennis, MT...the more I looked at them, a light bulb went off in the Ole noggin. I had them printed up on canvas, searched the interweb for the lights, placed the lights and switches accordingly and came up with this
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Bad ass

 

[TPC]

Changing the tires on the generator.
Pneumatic air filled tires don’t last. Some die in a week.

Switched over to solid and use a hose washer as a ratteling-reducing shim.

 

[FlyByWire]

Threw the Dakota digital gauges in today.

 

[Cdog]

Fitted this in yesterday. Waiting on my new miller welding helmet to be delivered.

 

[Cdog]

Had to hand fit the inner extensions with the titanium hardware. Lookin dead sexy

 

[Cdog]

Measure 20 x’s cut once

Inner extension & full inner fender set. Probably gonna rivet them together so it’s serviceable.

 

[FlyByWire]

Threw the Dakota digital gauges in today.


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Finished this today, and threw in some TMI buckets to replace the bench while I was at it.

 

[CarolynandBob]

Wife made a stain glass nativity scene for her mom and needed a base for it. She is getting better with the soldering, but still needs some practice. Pretty simple. Used Rosewood. Got the basic done and now sanding and finish. Going to use brownish epoxy to secure it in.