Stop in for a cup of coffee

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yard sale is pretty near a total bust. :( But I am making some progress in the garage. Which was actually my main objective. :thumbsup: Was originally going to rain tomorrow, but now says not. so might just leave everything out for a part 2. At some point tomorrow, I will put away what I don't want to give away and put out a 'free stuff' sign...
 
zkx14 said:
yard sale is pretty near a total bust. :( But I am making some progress in the garage. Which was actually my main objective. :thumbsup: Was originally going to rain tomorrow, but now says not. so might just leave everything out for a part 2. At some point tomorrow, I will put away what I don't want to give away and put out a 'free stuff' sign...
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Put a sign that says $10 and it'll all be gone by morning
 
zkx14 said:
yard sale is pretty near a total bust. :( But I am making some progress in the garage. Which was actually my main objective. :thumbsup: Was originally going to rain tomorrow, but now says not. so might just leave everything out for a part 2. At some point tomorrow, I will put away what I don't want to give away and put out a 'free stuff' sign...
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Had to do that not long ago at the in laws house and got rid of a lot but still had 30 pick up truck loads to the dump. :BangHead:
 
OK ...

Much better

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Evening. 0500-1730 funeral mission, now an 8 hr drill shift . Shoot me now
 
The soldier we laid to rest was a pilot in Vietnam. They managed to drag up an old Huey to do a final flyby

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That was yummy. Baked some of my fish from our trip. Coated in bread crumbs and parmesan. Little lemon and garlic in the mix. :thumbsup:
 
HankRearden said:
That certainly enters into it. Shitty organic pads went the way of the dodo and we have pads now that allow for better friction and cooling with less surface area. But also modern cars are cast with less steel. It wasn't uncommon a few decades ago for the difference between nominal thickness on a brake rotor and the machine to spec to be .090.
Now days many are .030 from nominal to discard.(hell its kind of tough to even come up with a spec book it seems these days)
This isn't all bad it reduces unsprung weight and contributes to better ride and handling characteristics of modern cars.
Now we also have a problem that brake rotors now days are built of an inferior metallurgy. The engineers may spec out a specific alloy but by the time the rotors are cast in a foreign "factory" they are a hodgepodge of recycled junk with no real metallurgy.
Anyone who has ever cast their own bullets can attest to the dramatic effects alloying metals can have.
You can watch the process on youtube
I haven't seen one of those on car lathes in forever. When I started wrenching those were supposed to be taking the industry by storm. They would allow for complete elimination of runout compensating for uneven mounting surfaces and all manner of imperfections. But they never panned out around here. Mostly because we could pull a brake rotor and have it machined on the old ammco faster than we could set up the on car lathe.

In a modern shop a brake lathe is almost useless although I have turned a bunch of flywheels and machined many other things that the machine was never intended for. I even once used a brake lathe to cut wheels apart and weld back together a wider steel wheel.
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I widened wheels with my brake lathe too. Great minds think alike..
 
So,made it home. I was testing tractor and 3 point wouldnt lift. There was 2 hoses that were incorrectly installed. All fixed.

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WV64Signet said:
Thanks Hop :thumbsup:

Of course I have the wrong one "This fits your car" failure.

Moparmall has one. Haven't seen an alternative source
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I have heard, may or may not be true that Schumaker’s was back up and running again? Just not satisfied they have inventory again? Some of the others may have more up to date scoop? Schumaker’s was all things motor mount for Mopar at one point.
 
Sublime one said:
I have heard, may or may not be true that Schumaker’s was back up and running again? Just not satisfied they have inventory again? Some of the others may have more up to date scoop? Schumaker’s was all things motor mount for Mopar at one point.
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I bought my motor mounts from a guy in Oregon that @RustyRatRod told me about... the OEM style were too thin for the headers to clear the steering gear. Might look him up again
 
Slowly coming to the realization that I am a dinosaur these days in uniform. When the average age of the unit is 20 years, 8 months, it’s extremely weird.
 
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