Memorial weekend - plans ?
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Re: Memorial weekend - plans ? (Corey 68)
1. Lie on my back under the car wirebrushing rust off the last remaining section of the frame aft of the trans X-member. Go crazy with the assortment of man eating electric tools with the nasty wire thing which never wears out, the dainty blue air powered tools which likes to fling individual wires and impail flesh, the collection of hand brushes from big boheemeth to tooth brush sized, to the little itty bitty dremel tool to get the last rust flakes out of the nooks & crannies. :lol: ALl this while making sure I'm optimally positioned to get rust crud in my face, eyes, stuck in my hair and the big chunks in my ears. :eek:
2. Lie on my back straining my neck to make sure I mask everything that's not supposed to have John Deere Blitz Black on it. Ruin every fingernail (what's left of them) in the process and impail every remaining uncut knuckle on those oh so original and SHARP drips of 32 year old very cured and hard nasty goopy factory body glue. Don't forget to get at least one long icicle drip stuck in my touchpad finger like a splinter requiring a minimum of 30 minutes of digging with a needle. Attempt to shop vac up the rust crud from under the car. Get the shop towel stuck in the middle of the hose and with just the right set of expletives go find the broom handle to unstick it. ;)
3. Double clean everything with lacqeur thinner, making sure it cleans out the cut knuckles and dug out splinters. Get black paint & overspray on everything, including myself. Make sure I'm not wearing socks. It's fun taking the pumice stone and nail brush to the ankles above the shoes, and below the sweats, to remove overspray. Get high from the combination of simple green, lacqeur thinner (prep ya know) & paint fumes. :D
4. Spend the next hour in a hot shower trying to remove the rust, paint overspray and general automotive & garage grunge from my bod. :)
5. Sleep
6. Take another 1 hour shower to get all the paint off the spots I missed the night before. Don a clean set of grunge clothes and head out to the garage. Deal with husband complaining about parts / tools / air lines / strewn everywhere. Get all the stuff back out & set up (after husband put it away at the crack of dawn). Dive under the car making sure to catch my long hair at least twice in the creeper wheels. Find all the spots the paint fisheyed, the paint sprayed over, the paint missed and fix 'em. (Repeat steps 1-4) :p:
7. Find the rear suspension. Admire the beautiful restored parts I *paid* to have restored (the things which are actually already done and waiting for yours truly!) Find the rest of the hardware for the rear suspension while taking a trip through boxes down memory lane of other parts purchased over the last 2 years which have yet to be installed. Piddle around with the rest of the hardware which still needs to be wire brushed, sand blasted, painted plated, polished or otherwise de-grunged. Spend hours driving everyone nuts figuring out what's supposed to be painted, plated, polished or natural. Agonize over au-natural or clear coat or cast blast. :yesnod:
8. Find the AIM. Spend 2 hours poking through the AIM attempting to figure out where every whatsamadoo and thing a majigg goes. Spend the next hour identifying the thing a magiggs in the box of dumped parts and half labeled illegible writing baggies. Spend the next 2 days trying to put it together consuming liberal amounts of time figuring out how to actually fit & use the torque wrench in the cramped quarters to make sure the rear suspension of the car doesn't fall out 3 houses down. ;) (My wrenching hands aren't even close to calibrated yet.)
9. Figure out how much I have to disassemble, & disassemble it (the hard way of course) so that the 3 leftover parts can be properly installed the second and third times around. :D
10. I'd say that step 10 is drive the car, but I figure that'll just jinx me. :jester
[Modified by Juliet, 12:24 AM 5/24/2002]
2. Lie on my back straining my neck to make sure I mask everything that's not supposed to have John Deere Blitz Black on it. Ruin every fingernail (what's left of them) in the process and impail every remaining uncut knuckle on those oh so original and SHARP drips of 32 year old very cured and hard nasty goopy factory body glue. Don't forget to get at least one long icicle drip stuck in my touchpad finger like a splinter requiring a minimum of 30 minutes of digging with a needle. Attempt to shop vac up the rust crud from under the car. Get the shop towel stuck in the middle of the hose and with just the right set of expletives go find the broom handle to unstick it. ;)
3. Double clean everything with lacqeur thinner, making sure it cleans out the cut knuckles and dug out splinters. Get black paint & overspray on everything, including myself. Make sure I'm not wearing socks. It's fun taking the pumice stone and nail brush to the ankles above the shoes, and below the sweats, to remove overspray. Get high from the combination of simple green, lacqeur thinner (prep ya know) & paint fumes. :D
4. Spend the next hour in a hot shower trying to remove the rust, paint overspray and general automotive & garage grunge from my bod. :)
5. Sleep
6. Take another 1 hour shower to get all the paint off the spots I missed the night before. Don a clean set of grunge clothes and head out to the garage. Deal with husband complaining about parts / tools / air lines / strewn everywhere. Get all the stuff back out & set up (after husband put it away at the crack of dawn). Dive under the car making sure to catch my long hair at least twice in the creeper wheels. Find all the spots the paint fisheyed, the paint sprayed over, the paint missed and fix 'em. (Repeat steps 1-4) :p:
7. Find the rear suspension. Admire the beautiful restored parts I *paid* to have restored (the things which are actually already done and waiting for yours truly!) Find the rest of the hardware for the rear suspension while taking a trip through boxes down memory lane of other parts purchased over the last 2 years which have yet to be installed. Piddle around with the rest of the hardware which still needs to be wire brushed, sand blasted, painted plated, polished or otherwise de-grunged. Spend hours driving everyone nuts figuring out what's supposed to be painted, plated, polished or natural. Agonize over au-natural or clear coat or cast blast. :yesnod:
8. Find the AIM. Spend 2 hours poking through the AIM attempting to figure out where every whatsamadoo and thing a majigg goes. Spend the next hour identifying the thing a magiggs in the box of dumped parts and half labeled illegible writing baggies. Spend the next 2 days trying to put it together consuming liberal amounts of time figuring out how to actually fit & use the torque wrench in the cramped quarters to make sure the rear suspension of the car doesn't fall out 3 houses down. ;) (My wrenching hands aren't even close to calibrated yet.)
9. Figure out how much I have to disassemble, & disassemble it (the hard way of course) so that the 3 leftover parts can be properly installed the second and third times around. :D
10. I'd say that step 10 is drive the car, but I figure that'll just jinx me. :jester
[Modified by Juliet, 12:24 AM 5/24/2002]
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Re: Memorial weekend - plans ? (verskel)
THIS dudette is not going to work on the car this weekend!!! Uh HUH..no way!!!! going to the Coca Cola 600 at Lowe's Motor Sweedway!! The most work I plan on doing is carrying my cooler!! :lol: :yesnod:
