HAPPY HOLIDAYS
Happy holidays. I can’t believe in 2 days I will have been up here in NH a year already. I should do the year in retrospect but I think that might depress me a little. I do miss Bufflo and hope to spend a little more time there this year
In the shop this week…the engine rebuild went home. We had a bit of trouble with the front carb, the fast idle cam wasn’t on the carbs and we didn’t have a set up on hand, so dad is going to make a house call and correct the problem.
That leaves the fender repair as the last service job of the year. Dad hopes to have that fender painted and on shortly.
On the restoration front… the Beasts frame is painted…yeaa!!! That opens the paint booth for BlownTC to finally move to the front of the shop and get into the booth. The only problem is that there is now 2 feet of snow to go through to get to the back of the shop. I guess dad is going to have to bring the tractor and blower down to the shop next week.
In the shop this week…the engine rebuild went home. We had a bit of trouble with the front carb, the fast idle cam wasn’t on the carbs and we didn’t have a set up on hand, so dad is going to make a house call and correct the problem.
That leaves the fender repair as the last service job of the year. Dad hopes to have that fender painted and on shortly.
On the restoration front… the Beasts frame is painted…yeaa!!! That opens the paint booth for BlownTC to finally move to the front of the shop and get into the booth. The only problem is that there is now 2 feet of snow to go through to get to the back of the shop. I guess dad is going to have to bring the tractor and blower down to the shop next week.
TF Frame
The Beasts trans was pulled apart yesterday…ouch. I seems as though something (a bit of metal?) has been through the trans at one time. There are small chips out of a few of the teeth in second and third gear. There is the usual wear on a 50 year old transmission, wear on the cluster gear, first gear and the first and second gear sliding hub. The scare came when we tried to get parts. The cluster is no longer available, as well as the sliding hub. Luckily a few phone calls secured the parts we need for this trans and a few spares for the shop. Unfortunately we probably found one of the last cluster gears available. I hope there’s enough demand for trans parts to make it lucrative for a machine shop to tool up and make them.Some of the major steps done outside of the shop are completed. The sheet metal is back from the stripper, the machine work is completed on the engine (it’s back) and the shocks have been rebuilt and are back.
Sheet metal back from stripper
The engine is going back together. The crank, cam and pistons are in. The timing gears and chain are back on. The oil pump has been rebuilt and is on. So there is some decent progress on the engine. I could see the engine back together and ready for paint in no time.
TF Engine
It’s late, I’m beat, I hope this post made sense…Later
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