WOW, this a quiet morning.
nice weather
its been quiet for a short while, only 3-5 topics active almost during a week.
in redoing some stuff on my car. Brakes, put in the steering gearbox from the parts car, was going to post a shift indicator image as a question, (steering is all worked out and is great)!. Now I need to redo the PS lines to the Heidt valve, I have a new style Ford pump going to the old PS, I seen this allow some adjustment to it so its not so fast. (if anyone knows that there is a valve I can just put into the pump, please chime in!)
Re-doing the brakes- all around.
using the SVO 1-1/8 master going back to the swift-sure pedal, I am missing my reservoir can, I need to get a parts bin from my brothers house. I know I have it.
It had the original pushrod- and it is exact in the position, I have not adjusted the concentric brake pedal bolt yet.
I think I may need a residual valve to the rear. still getting spongey pedal after bleeding it all. it stops all around and the rear brakes are adjusted. I did bench bleed the master.
I have a prop valve, but may just also have a metering valve I need to reinstall, looks like there rabble, rabble about it.
Then the battery dies, having issues tuning the old Edelbrock 1406- it turns on nice, but in gear it has a funky idle. I really just need to rebuild it and set to to the stock configurations.
I need jump onto service for my wife's '33 Plymouth. that needs an oil change, going to clean the cooling system and also adjust the brakes.
O yeah and I have a regular day job.
Sorry guys, haven't been posting as much as I usually do. Between work, this '57 Bird and fighting the town since last September to build my garage, I haven't had much energy left to exert here....
Thanks guy's, this evenings read was great. Gary you are right, nice weather, my director of social affairs has me digging up her flower beds and planting trees. I can't say I am really into it but makes life easyer if you no what I mean.
Same here..been up to my eyeballs with getting readjusted after my trip, getting caught up with chores, springtime yard work, spring cleaning, BASEBALL JUST STARTED LAST WEEK!!!,Helping my wife with trying to tame the new dog from hell.
I do need to do a report on my 3820 mile roadtrip.
I have been trying to bring grass areas under control after they have been left alone to do as they pleased for the last 5+ years. Also trying to get 3 apartments up and ready for rent...and looking to either sell or trade my apartment building to acquire the storage unit complex next door. He wants to trade if we can pull off the swap. If not, I'll sell and then buy.
Also...fair warning...the "one the Road Again" thread is coming back to life. Moving my son and his lady from WA to MO soon...as in I will be back on the road with the big box trailer to haul his '68 Pony car and house hold stuff back. I thought I was done with this!
Good news is I will be able to stop in Billings and shoot some sweet pics of Alvin's Retractable! Those I will post when I get back...with his permission of course. :003:
Does everybody else think that the pandemic and tiring circumstances are taking a toll as well ?
I am on 3 different type car forums, with members of different age and location, and all 3 are really down to the basic or no action at all.
Times are pretty exhausting and maybe a lack of motivation for our projects, since nobody knows where, when and if cruises and shows are going to be held. At least here in Europe.
Things are getting pretty much back to normal here, at least in the southwest/south central. The past 2 months, our first Saturday cruise-in is as big as I've seen it, and the Goodguys last month was pretty big. Road traffic has been normal for a long time now. Baseball games / sporting events are limited to about 1/4 capacity, but they're hoping for full capacity by July. Lower age groups are finally getting their vaccinations. My 51-year-old son in Florida is getting his first today.
Had a NSRA Appreciation Day last Saturday. Very nice turnout. Right around 125 cars. Got the 36 "Safety 23ed", met up with folks that I haven't seen since all this crap started and enjoyed the nice 150 mile round trip drive.
Most are like me with respect to the Covid....lets get on with life and face what ever we have to face and deal with it then. Most agree that we just don't know who to trust with respect to who, what and where. Numbers make sense then they don't, who can get really sick and who don't.......and an overwhelming number of the guys feel that "living scared" is not living. So on we go.....
Here in Texas, at least the counties I'm in and out of are, and have been having some car shows and gatherings. I've been to a couple car shows and will be attending a swap meet/car show in the last weekend this month. I was surprised when Biden said we should be able to have gatherings around the 4th of July. We've been doing that for months. Some folks were not calling them car shows, they were called food drives and drive thru car shows. I counted over 60 classic cars at a "food drive" last November. Everyone/ most were practicing social distancing and filled the parking lot. Fortunately our COVID numbers have been declining and our weather has been nice as of late, I'm seeing a lot of classics on the road every weekend.
In Missouri sort of depends on where you are. The larger cities are still pretty tight...medium and small cities seem to have relaxed their grip on people's lives. Forsyth (near Branson and the county seat for Taney County) repealed their mandatory mask ordinance a little over a week ago. Where I am now (Shell Knob) no one has been worrying about masks for a few weeks. Ditto for Berryville AR which is about 10 miles from me.
Like Blue Blood said...people are just ready to get on with life...and deal with what comes. America is tired of being held hostage, and with vaccines becoming more available the citizens of the country are getting more restless to toss off the government enforced shackles and get on with their life...with or without approval/sanctioning by their local/state governing bodies.
There is a gathering this Saturday in the small town of Cassville about 45 minutes from me...hot rod show...about 4 in the afternoon. They apparently do this every 2nd Saturday of the month at the Cassville museum. I'll be there with the Chrysler. time to start enjoying life again. Enough drudgery. :006:
After a week of cold symptoms and a 99.7 fever one night , I got tested , and was positive. I'm in a 2 week quarantine. I feel good, basically just a congestion, cold .Been getting lots of spring chores done, probably go see my girlfriend this weekend, she is about an hour away. I guess it could be lots worse, Mark
That's what my wife had as well. She got the "oh Damn...I have a cold" version...me? I got a three week "residency" in the hospital over Christmas/New Years. Go figure. Never had a temperature though. And they checked my temp 3-4-5 times a day. Never got over 98.4 and spent a few days at 97.6. Confounding to say the least.
Alvin, I did lose my sense of smell which motivated me to get tested, It came back already. Mark
Guys, it seems you are somewhat better off. vacc is very slow in continental Europe. no getherings are allowed in the public at all. except 2 persons or households. some regions of my country incl our capitol Vienna are back to curfew. all car shows as far as July and even some in Spetember have already been canceled.
No curfew in my town, but basically- there is nowhere to go. Shops are open but I don't care for shopping at all. all restaurants are shut down since before Christmas. Some offer food to go, but only pre order and select few.
social dancing has (naturally) been prohibited for over a year now. Not even allowed with a dancer couple.
Add to that it has been freezing and polar winds.
it sucks.
I'm in general, pissed! My government has asked me to wear a mask, distance and avoid groups. I'm fortunate to be retired. I can stay home and still get paid. I have tons of stuff to do in the shop. I am a part time loner and don't really miss people that much. As I watch the economy collapse and debt pile up, I wonder who's in charge. There seams to be no leadership that makes consistent plans, decisions, or recommendations. Many small businesses are restricted but not the big stores. Airlines...business as usual. Public grade schools are open for business. March Madness and the Masters have record attendance. The vaccine is available so everything rushes to open. Spring break areas were packed. Michigan's numbers have skyrocketed. Schools are implementing a 'pause' after spring breaks. Small businesses are bracing for more restrictions. For some time now, I have considered complete shut down. If our government had any balls they would shut down everything for three weeks. I just watched an infectious disease specialist recommending shut downs be considered. These viruses are not traveling by themselves. They are traveling on the backs of people. Stop traveling! Quit expecting other people to do it for you. There are so many exceptions that there are no restrictions!
Sorry Gary, but I don't think you are loner. There are a lot of guys on this forum that think like you. It is a common sense thing,[what is common sense ]. As far as who is in charge, when they are brain dead from the Ass up who knows. Set back and have an adult beverage and remember you are not alone.
Without the stamina for a long day and with nicer weather, the screened porch is the late afternoon hangout. A shot or two bourbon takes the edge off for a little nap (just 5 minutes) before dinner. I sure see now what my grandparents saw in the summer time, early evening porch sittin'.
Gary, I enjoy the rural setting of my home, and the peace and quiet that it offers. Especially after my job taking me to urban settings on a daily basis. I think Michigan and Wisconsin governors are in way over their heads! Mark
The most feared words in the world......"Hi, I'm from the government and I'm here to help"! We as a people have put our selves in the very situation we are in. We as a people have grown dependent on the government to "fix" all the wrongs. If you take a good long hard look at all the "fixes" they have provided you will find those that worked can be counted on one hand and have leftovers.
I'm old school (old fashioned) as my kids will say. Well I'm here to tell you if you can't take care of yourself uncle sugar will "help" you out and you most likely won't like the results. Navy ships are a good example. Out there in the middle of the ocean if something goes wrong there is no "posse" to call in, you sink or swim. So we learn how to fix stuff so we can get home.
Having said all that, when the Covid hit everybody was running scared. "Experts" said there would be 3 - 4 million dead in the U.S. alone. All the "experts" miss information caused more confusion and miss trust then can be counted. They, the government, had to do something. Be it right or wrong, they had to do something. So we are where we are now.
Who had the right answers and who had the wrong answers? Jury is still out on that. But there are a couple of examples to look at. FL and CA had two different approaches to "controlling" things. Funny thing, the infection rate and the death rate are real close to the same. CA was locked down hard, FL was open pretty wide. The rate of infections in TX is going down despite the "neanderthal" thinking of the governor. Meanwhile the infection rates in CA, NY, DE, IL and MI are going up? Europe locked down hard at first, their infection rate fell, they opened back up and their infect rate skyrocketed. What is the correct answer?
I'm a strong believer in sunshine and fresh air. I also believe there is a large amount of the population that is already immune and would never have the covid. I am retired, I don't have to "go out" but did just that. I continued to live life as much as could be lived within the restrictions imposed, we traveled to visit with family. We used common sense (I know an original thought) with respect to gatherings outside of the immediate family and friends. Yup, life goes on and we will be back on the road again in a couple of months........
Off my soap box now.
Samples of things that the government has run so efficiently? Post office...AmTrak...Social Security...
If the government "fixes" something you can bet that it will break soon and often and worse than before the "fix".
Why should the government run efficiently? It's not their money they are spending it's ours :005:
Quote from: hiball3985 on 2021-04-09 09:19
Why should the government run efficiently? It's not their money they are spending it's ours :005:
I don't even think of it as ours. I think of it as our grandkid's, if the country can survive the debt!
Think of it like this, as the fear of a pandemic began, we were told masks didn't do a thing to protect us and that we could get covid easily from surfaces. Now we're told masks are the keeping us from spreading the virus and there is a very low chance of catching covid from surfaces. If they had a brain, they'd probably be playing with it!
Mask makers probably had a strong lobby that kicked in to gear after the statement that they wouldn't protect us. Look at the millions if not billions that have been made on masks...especially the throw-away ones...which you now see littering every parking lot in America.
Quote from: terry_208 on 2021-04-09 09:52
I don't even think of it as ours. I think of it as our grandkid's, if the country can survive the debt!
Very true, but I think our kids and grandkids will be having bigger problems then just money..
Blue Blood, I was just thinking about that very saying earlier " hi I'm from the government and I'm here to help you!
Well stated comments. (soap box)!
I know in the past, politics has had a post or two of mine removed, so I'll keep it short.
One of things my dear old dad taught me was: "Remember son, the government can not give you something unless they take it away from someone else first".
Just my $0.02
Quote from: CobraJoe on 2021-04-10 06:51
I know in the past, politics has had a post or two of mine removed, so I'll keep it short.
One of things my dear old dad taught me was: "Remember son, the government can not give you something unless they take it away from someone else first".
Just my $0.02
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BTW...I sent you an e-...did you get it? Few days ago.
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Quote from: CobraJoe on 2021-04-10 06:51
I know in the past, politics has had a post or two of mine removed, so I'll keep it short.
One of things my dear old dad taught me was: "Remember son, the government can not give you something unless they take it away from someone else first".
Just my $0.02
Got that right! I have the same slant on that...."The government only gives you part of what they have already taken away from you".
Hope we are not getting toooooooooo political! :<)
I'm not a big fan of Ned Lamont, and given the fact that Trump made matters worse, I think Lamont made the right calls for Connecticut. When Lamont took office in 2017 he added a penny to Connecticut's gasoline tax, all of that money collected from that penny went into a "Rainy day fund". That fund still has some money in it and for that reason there will be no new state taxes because of Covid.
As for myself, I didn't like it but I spent a year in more or less a quarantine, I'm 79 and have COPD, getting Covid would have killed me.
On the up side (I use that term loosely ) I managed to borrow my favorite horse from the stable my wife keeps her horse at and with no one in are local park wife and I went riding together for the first time in 4 years. I'm glad I did as I lost "Rusty" to old age 2 months later. (He was 34) I got some long over due work done on the house ( I supervised ) Not being able to travel or eat out saved my wife and I some money which helped pay for part of the house repairs.
Yes,as a country we have problems ahead made worse my national leadership that wants to reward what other countries call a crime. It seems that every national election since 1964 has been to chose who will do the least amount of damage.
Could it be that instead of sitting on the computer talking car stuff, a lot of folks are back out actually doing car stuff with the nicer weather? I have been very busy and seldom see masks in small town MN or WI now, except gov't offices. Bought 5 cars in a lot to get a 57 hardtop that was included with them.
Have hauled 3 from WI so far, cleaning them up, freeing frozen brakes, cutting out roached headliners, fixing tires, etc.to make them more presentable. Other vehicles are a 52, 70, 72 and 73 and are all Chevy, so not in my area of interest which is mid-50's to mid-60's. Will try to sell those 4 others as projects or part them. Iron prices seem headed up anyways, if no takers.
Already have industrial shelves full of parts, so trying not to take anything else apart and just pass them on as-is to somebody more interested in them than me and recoup some of my investment.
Getting too political guys! I'm going to lock this thread. Continue discussion of what everybody's been doing in morning coffee.