Comfortably Numb Archive

Posts for Mai, 2024

Brush-waggling and tinkering   13 Mai 2024

Didn't manage to grab my drill from work, because my saturday morning shift turned into a most-of-saturday driver cpc instead. And without my drill, I can't make up the other injector hold-downs. Painted a bit, instead. And, just as the rain rolled in, loosely bolted the front wing on for the time bean, to keep it out of the way

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Fixture continues    5 Mai 2024

Lovely. (Pay no mind to the slightly wonky bolt.) Then, follow this up with some additional fettling (carefully applied weld, then dress back with a file) to ensure as snug a fit as possible. That'll do nicely. Next step, pull all the new inlet runners back off the engine and try them in the fixture.

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Posts for Ebrill, 2024

Paint n Brackets   29 Ebrill 2024

brushie brushie brushie< That's coming along quite nicely. I also gave the nearside front wing a cleaning and another coat, too, since I had the paint out. Really should finish repairing that cheek panel, so that I can refit this one, at some point.

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A fixture   26 Ebrill 2024

First off for this evening, let's start with that fixture plate. A 33" long piece of 100x16mm should do nicely. Spend an hour and a half measuring, marking, re-measuring, re-marking, re-re-measuring, head-scratching, drinking coffee and thinking real hard, then measuring again just to make sure. It's recommended you do

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A second coat of paint has hit the truck!   21 Ebrill 2024

Another coat of paint has definitely made a big difference to the side of the truck. It really does take a few coats to build up the opacity. And I got one tab welded onto the air pipe, and as expected that was the last dregs of the argon.

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I got a jar o paint, I got a jar o paint...    6 Ebrill 2024

I have a big tin of yellow paint! And I've not touched it since it turned up because after a good couple of months of relatively decent health, joints-wise, I have come off the 4-day Easter weekend and faceplanted into the meatgrinder. I have managed to get a little tinkering done, however.

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Posts for Mawrth, 2024

A productive week away from work   31 Mawrth 2024

I've had a fairly productive week/long weekend so far, away from work (Which has been the land of gearbox/clutch hackery...) ## The 26th I got my new MIG torch in, so I celebrated by welding on my remaining two side-marker light brackets on the offside. Which, if my doctor's reading this, involved exactly 0 crawling or kneeling on the floor

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And it's all yellow~ (But not really)   23 Mawrth 2024

I know I said I wasn't planning on painting the side of the truck 'til I was sure about bracketry and whatnot, but I had an oopsie and my brush slipped. First coat always looks pretty grim; seems like the opacity isn't really there when brushing this stuff. I had enough in the tin to give a second coat to that centre panel, and that looks significantly

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