I'm doing a lot of mix-n-match with what's on hand, or at least easy to get, or isn't original but gets me some other feature that I want. Y'know, more resto-mod than restoration. It's all part of the fun! And if someone else later down the line wants to go full restoration, that's cool too. Anyway, I finished picking holes in the roof. Read more…

After the disaster that was starting the truck to get it out of the workshop, using a bit of steel bar to bridge the contacts on the starter switch, I decided that maybe it was time to start doing some of the re-wiring. This is part of why there are some real janky bits -- or, at least, parts that I would do very differently now -- in the new(er) wiring; it wasn't done properly start to finish, it just sorta grew in place, most important stuff first. But, that's why I got this truck; it's a bit of a playground and learning experience. :D

The forum thread dump continues Early April 2016 I got the new radiator, lightened my wallet not inconsiderably, and fitted it in a giddy rush. (Hence the little mark in the glorious blackness of radiator enamel. sigh)

Time to text-dump the forum thread here, too! 2016, Feb, 11: Not content with having a car that occasionally

Yes, it's been nearly a year since my last post, shush. Shit's been hectic. Have some potatographs.

My last post left off with me dumping a broken garbage-truck at the workshop. Unfortunately, it was still there when I got back in the morning, so I supposed I'd best fix it. The day was to bring plenty of fault diagnosis and headscratching, but the first order of business was to take it out back and shoot it jet-wash out the slime that inevitably builds up in and on refuse collection vehicles.

Following is an 'after-action' report of a sorts from a little bit of site and retrieval work; because it didn't go to plan, and that's when it goes hilariously. Our story starts at approximately 13:15H, when I receive a panicked phone-call from my head of department, who was out on site two hours away, requesting that I drop everything and head out to a (more local than he was) site.

I'd forgotten just how much of a pain in the arse it is to juggle all the configs for mail servers and all that shit. So many things I'd set up, then expelled knowledge of from my brain, because I've not touched it in so long. So here I am trying to stand up a newer version of the server this is -- currently -- being served from, as a migration from the legacy