so waht ya doin today?

Todd M

Todd M

Craftsman of metals...always learning.
To do that I would have to put the front driveshaft back in that I pulled out before last weekends 7 hour trip to Idaho. I was afraid of more wear and tear if it was turning full speed. However, when I pulled out the shaft, I could turn the front output of the t-case by hand (rear wheels still on ground).
 
fiver

fiver

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stupid lyman mold.
324 barely,,, by 322 at best.
can't heat it up, gotta run it cold, and flood it with alloy, even the little 1lb. ladle was too much heat for it at 675-F and 2 pours a minute.
spent an hour running the vent lines.
time to break out the lapping compound, or the big hammer.
 
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popper

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Snow memories last a long time. Used to sled down road next to the ball park (blocked off cause all the kids did it) get to bottom and walk up the other side, back down to middle. Mom had the fastest sled in the hood. Sled down the hill from folks place and if fast enough jump the creek. 70s took the kids on carpet behind the Suzuki with big knobby rear tire. She looks like having fun. Ms Sears always gave us hot chocolate on the way home.
 
Brad

Brad

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A very young Brad, likely in 71 or 72 at KI Sawyer AFB, Marquette MI. They got some hellish lake effect snow. Like 240” the one year. 90” in Feb alone.
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462

462

California's Central Coast Amid The Insanity
I'm right there with you, Fiver. The 311284U will require further work. Even with a four inches of 95/5 solder dropped into maybe five pounds of straight clip-ons, the bottom band can maybe, just barely, make it to .309" while the two bands above it are right at .310", but all measurements are .003" fatter along the part line. Too skinny for the 03A3.

That Lyman stamped the mould 311284U, and hand wrote the same on the box (old cardboard box with metal reinforced corners), tells me that the mould was knowingly cut with a well worn cherry. It does make me wonder how it was that only the bottom band was undersized.
 
oscarflytyer

oscarflytyer

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Ian said:
Popper, back in about 2004 we had a 4" snow that stuck. Bunch of us yahoos that sorta grew up together in the neighborhood got together and took turns riding a tractor tire to and from town behind a diesel pickup. The trick was to ride it standing up. No helmets of course. Nobody got maimed but there were some pretty good bumps and scrapes from losing it at 50 MPH on the frozen ruts. It didn't hurt too badly until the next day.
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AH! The GOOD OL' Days!
 
smokeywolf

smokeywolf

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Emmet, you can also make your own strop by buying a piece of balsa wood from your local hobby shop or home improvement store and rub rouge into that. You can buy the balsa at least a 1/2" thick or buy thinner and glue it to a piece of fir or birch board to keep it flat and add some weight to it so it doesn't skate around too easily while you're using it.

The three or four sided strops like Waco bought are the cat's meow.

I have 2 latigo and canvas strops and a balsa strop.
 
Mitty38

Mitty38

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smokeywolf said:
Emmet, you can also make your own strop by buying a piece of balsa wood from your local hobby shop or home improvement store and rub rouge into that. You can buy the balsa at least a 1/2" thick or buy thinner and glue it to a piece of fir or birch board to keep it flat and add some weight to it so it doesn't skate around too easily while you're using it.

The three or four sided strops like Waco bought are the cat's meow.

I have 2 latigo and canvas strops and a balsa strop.
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Currently I just have one of those generic Outdoor edge sharpeners, and a steel.
 
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JustJim

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Got started on my New Year's resolution to convert several of the "what was I thinking?" guns into stuff I actually want to shoot. I think this is going to be a long-term project. . . .
 
Bret4207

Bret4207

At the casting bench in the sky. RIP Bret.
popper said:
GK has and old CJ V6, pops out of first and grinds going into 4W. Dad said he can't find any linkage problems -so when it warms up I might look.
Back to the house, no problem, heat OK and no broken pipes (crossed fingers). Water pressure may be a problem but she decided to do the wash anyway. We'll see how that works. They did have fun yesterday. To be young again - NOT.
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The popping out might well be worn of bent shift forks. My 59 CJ5 does that in reverse, but it hasn't had brakes in the 30 some years I've owned it and I know I caused it trying not to hit things. Yeah, slam it in reverse to avoid hitting SWMBOs car, things like that. The grinding going into 4wd is probably a lube or adjustment issue based on what I've seen.
 
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Todd M

Todd M

Craftsman of metals...always learning.
Growing up in northern Indiana, we got pretty decent winters. Always had the local sledding/tubing/toboggan hill. By tubing, I mean large tractor or combine inter tubes around 5 feet in diameter. We would lay 3 big guys across the tube, then 3 more 90 degrees to them, then another layer and sometimes a fourth! 2-3 people to get us moving and down the hill we went to crash at the bottom in a tangle of carhart.

Another pastime was car-hooding. Any of y’all know what I mean?
 
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