[Rattiac]

That hat.  Awesome. 
Thanks guys.  I was kinda shocked when I came home and was like,  oh no. 
Had a lady come over and get us through training her.  So far she can sit and lay down.  Also loves belly rubs.  She'll need more training before a camping trip. 

Car related:::; I finished the dodge bench seat the other day.  Only got pulled off of it about 6 times.  Glad it's done. 

[chopper526]

Nice looking seat.....better looking dog

[TFoch]

Nice work! 

[Essex_29]

That seat looks great, Rattiac!

[sixball]

Wednesday I lost the idler pulley & belt on my way home on th '07 Silverado. A few seconds if squealing and done. I had left my phone at home. I limped it the four miles home taking cooling stops along the way. Yesterday on a subfreezing but sunny day I replaced the belt, idler, & tensioner in driveway in the snow. It actually went pretty quick & well except when I dropped the wrench into now of those  hidden tool swallowing cavities the GM engineers build into all of their products. Sometimes it seems they start with a few tool traps and design a vehicle around them. 

[62131]

Well, there's another way to look at it.  It's not lost you have given it away to a unknown person as someone will find it

[sixball]

Oh, I found it after a bit if snow rollin', scraping off some old hide, and the use if some language I'd scold my grandsons for using.

[sammons]

Rattiac, seat looks great!

Sixball, seems the newer the vehicle....the more places for tools to hide. I've found a lot of under hood tools on teardown on cars through the years.

My furnace failed last night. I woke up at 4:30am cold🥶 I've had an intermitent problem with the pressure switch so i had got one last week. Put it in this morn and blew out the codensate line. Working again anyway. Spent the rest of the day locking down my 16' wide garage door. Faces the north and a lot of winter wind. Made a clamp (years ago) to pull the center to header tight and a 3 lb sledge jams perfect in the bottom to concrete floor step up. Pack insulation all around the opening. We got a nasty one coming in wed night thru friday. Thursday high 3°, low -10° and high wind chill predicted at -30° 🥶

[Essex_29]

Speaking of engine bays hiding tools, or in this case, keys.
My '78 Malibu V6 didn't start a cold morning as the block heater hadn't been on (plugged in
badly, so the plug didn't do its thing). So I ran in, took the wife's keys and tried the old
diesel Mercedes. Too cold, so I got a can of starter fluid, hit the nozzle on the fender so
it broke, and finally got the fluid out by pressing the thing at the top with my home key.
Got the car started and got to work in time.
After that my keys were missing, and I had no idea where I had dropped them. The next
fall a guy calls me, he was the new owner of the Mercedes, and he had found my keys
between the diesel pump and the engine block. The keys were worn from rattling against
engine parts. I use them to this day.

Well, that's the segway that brings us to "Today".

So what do we learn from this?
Probably nothing, but don't run and don't hurry, it doesn't pay.

[sixball]

When my son was very young he dropped the key of our '40 International truck behind the fixed metal kick panel on the driver side. I fished for it for a while then had a couple of new ones made. A few years ago I met the present owner (3rd one after us) and told him where there is another key if he ever needs it. 

[Rattiac]

Since I work on cars all day,  coming home to work on another is...... let's just say I've been letting mine sit for quite a while.
Haven't finished the trans swap,  still need to cut the original crossmember out and fully weld the other.
Saving up cash to fill the torch tanks.

I've been getting on the significant others nerves so I filled up the propane bottle 🥶 to do some small projects .
We did have a cool car at the shop (49 Cadillac) getting the seats done while I worked on convertibles.
Took the new dog Sugar out to the trailer and spent a night in it to get her used to camping.
Kinda slow around here. What have you guys been up to ?

[sammons]

Since I work on cars all day,  coming home to work on another is...... let's just say I've been letting mine sit for quite a while.

I hear you there, more so when you've been really busy. I would get off work,  walk across the street to grab beer and start in on mine. If i went home...... chances are i wouldn't go back to the shop😁

I was gonna ask how the pup was working out. Prime learning time.
Haven't done anything car related except go to the shop and watch Tom working on a new wire harness for the Cab forward '58. I did become a first time Grand(?) or Great Uncle tuesday, (brothers daughter).🙂

[sammons]

Got a call form an old friend, co-worker from the Mobil sevice station days. Wind caught his door, it was rubbing/clicking on the fender and terrible wind noise at the top. Nice day today, (60 and sunny) so i told him to bring it over. I would see what could be done, but any wrench turning yanking etc he would do have to do it😁

 Door was out a bit and forward. Fords are a pain to get to the cowl side hinge bolts. I have a couple "S" wrenches with built on sockets on each end for that... but couldn't find them.
Told him we could try the Chevy pickup trick. Pre '88 Chevy trucks were about the same on hinge bolts, but cowl was stronger then. In 88 new style, they glued the hinges on the early ones,🙄 later they guled and put bolts on. When wind caught them the cowl side hinge would bulge out at the upper hinge and cowl a bit. You had to pull pin, remove door and hammer hinge/cowl back in. I discovered that if you placed a short fat socket in the hinge and bounced door toward closed it would bend back in place, hinge and cowl.

So we attempted that.  With Ford being more of an open"C" style door side hinge i had to find an 1/8" thick steel plate to stick against the socket so it wouldn't just bend the thin door sheet metal between hinge bolts. It worked, got the door moved back and in. Had a good door gap and the top was sealing tight. Just needed a little tweek on the latch plate, a touch of grease on the door latch and all was good.😁

[sixball]

There is no replacement for the your experience & knowhow. You should do a video series to save some of it for the future when skills will be a rare thing.

[TFoch]

Nice work Sammons!