Project Irene

[sellitall]

You should put this on that chair:

Over my dead orange and black painted body;D!!

 

[half cab]

Cool chair man.My son likes it too

 

[sellitall]

Beat me to it.

Can't get too mad, Flyers are my team in the east.

I can't argue with a Canuck. It's the Canadian gene pool which populates the NHL with some of the best talent to ever play the game.

Now a Rangers fan is a different story. Just watch if you head to Philly to see a game and decide to get a cheesesteak at Pat's or Gino's (pats is better for anyone deciding which corner to head to) afterwards http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/breaking/Winter-Classic-Fight-Suspect-137228313.html.

I'm proud to be from Philly and love my local sports, but SOME fans can be EXTREMELY embarassing and down right idioitc:-[.

 

[sellitall]

Got a hall pass to head up the shop for a couple of hours tonight after work. I actually had to pick a mirror cover that my father painted for a girl I work with who owns a 2011 Subaru Outback. She ripped it off backing out of the garage. OUCH!!

Anyway, got the tub all braced up for the spit. I may end up putting one in the rear section for safe measures. I also have to finish drilling a 1/2" hole in the extension arm on the rotisserrie. I broke my 1/2" bit drilling the holes for the arms, and completely forgot to get another one until today. Well, looks like I'm heading to Home Depot tomorrow after work. One good thing was the consumables I ordered for my Thermal Dynamcis plasma cutter came in the mail today. I will definitely be needing that up and running in the next few months. Also, check out my table of measurements for the door posts etc. That little piece of literature is invaluable on builds such as this.

Here's another video http://youtu.be/-OwiZu5jqL0 and a few pics. I'll be getting relly into the meat and potatoes in the next month or so.
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[half cab]

Cool chart there I've noticed that on here several times.Great work and looks to be getting down and dirty for sure

 

[sellitall]

Cool chart there I've noticed that on here several times.Great work and looks to be getting down and dirty for sure

Oh yeah, I forget which CB member put it together, but that has been in my filing cabinet for quite a few years now.

 

[sellitall]

Getting into the meat and potatoes now;D!! Spent the day cutting, grinding, plasma cuttting, grinding etc. etc. etc. I have to order an inner and outer rocker, kick panel, floor and striker. The upper floor along with the rest of the DS sheetmetal will have to wait. I'm hoping to get some decent OT at work these next few months to fund the build. We'll see???

The cowl isn't bad at all. I'll fab up a piece to cover the inside as well as one for the outer. I'll have to borrow my father-in-laws brake to help out. The channels are in good shape with only a couple of spots which I cut out. One less purchase I'll have to make.

Here's some pics and ANOTHER youtube vid http://youtu.be/BSrcSoj2oR0. I'm actually doing this more for my own justification than anything else. Pics are great way to show progress, but a live vid really paints a picture of progress!!
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[Unknown]

Great effort! It takes a big commitment to save a classic...

 

[half cab]

sellitall is big commitment to the eb's

welcome to the site there unknown.

 

[ky-resto]

I'm loving this build thread and please keep posting the videos to youtube! Reminds me of working on stuff in my dad's old shop!

 

[Unknown]

sellitall is big commitment to the eb's

welcome to the site there unknown.

Thanks half cab...looking forward to following these great builds.

 

[sellitall]

I'm loving this build thread and please keep posting the videos to youtube! Reminds me of working on stuff in my dad's old shop!

Did you sell your dad's shop? I know you said you had a 50 mile commute to it. That's the boat I'm in now. Mapquest Upper Darby, PA to Townsend, DE. It takes me at least an hour and fifteen minutes WITHOUT traffic. I need a garage.:-[

 

[Devin]

You do kick-ass work. I enjoy your build threads immensely.

I think that that table was put together back in the day by blue71 and mnkybiz. I can't remember who else contributed, but I thought it was those two that put it all together and put that picture out. My memory sucks sometimes, though. ;D

Anyway, nice work, as usual.

 

[sellitall]

You do kick-ass work. I enjoy your build threads immensely.

I think that that table was put together back in the day by blue71 and mnkybiz. I can't remember who else contributed, but I thought it was those two that put it all together and put that picture out. My memory sucks sometimes, though. ;D

Anyway, nice work, as usual.

Your red 69 isn't too shabby as well;D! I've watched that come together from the beginning. Nice work;D!! I hope to be at your stage one day though joining the "400" club is financially impossible for me now. Looks like the little 302 will have to do.

I was actually debating on going your build direction when I picked this up, but since it was original/uncut I couldn't betray it's lineage.

 

[ky-resto]

Did you sell your dad's shop? I know you said you had a 50 mile commute to it. That's the boat I'm in now. Mapquest Upper Darby, PA to Townsend, DE. It takes me at least an hour and fifteen minutes WITHOUT traffic. I need a garage.:-[

He's still got the shop- it's loaded up with all his stuff these days. So I started bringing parts and supplies to my house and have slowly started getting set up out here to work on this thing. Like a wise man once said on youtube... "it's a labor of love." True, true! I gotta tell you, I'm inspired by Project Irene. I may have to buy a couple gallons of molasses and start my own build thread! BTW- best part on the vids is hearing the classic rock in the background!

 

[sellitall]

Well, I acquired a new mig welder today. I saw another one on craigslist yesterday and called the guy up. It's a prest-o-weld 130 mig. Apparently, they were bought out by ESAB some years ago and everything I've read about them online says they are decent machines with plenty of parts available. The one cool thing is that it can run on 110V OR 220V by turning the dial and obviously having an adapter/extension chord for the 220V plug.

It is currently set up to weld with fluxcore wire, but I'm going to change it to run solid wire and use shielding gas. It has the nipple out the back to hook up a gas line, so I'm hoping it's plummed for gas. I'm pretty sure it is.

I paid $100 for it, and a girl I work with had her husband pick it up since he was local to the seller. Hopefully, I can put my gas line on the end of the welder, change the polarity, hook up my y valve to run both welders off the flow meter and weld away. The biggest bonus is the infinite settings for the heat controls. Nothing like the fine tuning ability in a mig machine!!;D

The main reason for the purchase is that 1)I'm a sucker for a good deal and 2)my dad gets pissed when I constantly need to use his SP100 for sheetmetal work. This way I can put both welders on one cart using one bottle, and avoid my old man pulling a Paul Sr. on me.

 

[sellitall]

?:?I had no bronco progress today. A few buddies of mine I haven't seen in about a year came down to the shop to see what I was up to. We wound up shooting the breeze for about two and a half hours, and I didn't get to touch the bronco. Oh well. I'll double up next time. I did get to put a lower shelf on my welding cart for my new purchase, and got my seat cushions mounted on my Flyers chair.

I promise next around it will bronco oriented.;D

 

[sellitall]

Well, the NY Giants just won the Super Bowl (and the Rangers beat the Flyers for the fourth time this year), but I did get to work on the bronco today. So all is still good in my univerese;D!!

Anyway, I pulled a couple of pieces of Irene from the molassas. One of them being the ebrake assembly. It was completely siezed from rust, but now it is as smooth as..........well, molassas. The other was the outer steering column collar which was also heavily covered in the "orange stuff".

I also removed the right side 1/4 and found some additional rust. Go figure!! The JBG sheetmetal wish list keeps getting longer and longer (aka $$$$). It's either that or find another tub, though I think I'm at the point of not return with this one. Once I get it media blasted I'll really know what I'm working with. Obviously if I go this route I'm in for the long run.

This vid is for ky-resto................AC/DC and molassas ROCKS!!!!
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[sellitall]

Here's a little talk before slicing the PS quarter off.
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[ky-resto]

This vid is for ky-resto................AC/DC and molassas ROCKS!!!!

Rock on man! I'm seriously picking some up this week. The e-brake working like that is amazing! Great to see you making progress!