10 30 Impromptu Mini Meet

[DDV]

@ Bugzuki's, to work on Tropictour's SVT.

Replace:
Lower control arms & ball joints
Left drive axle
L & R tie rod ends

Bugzuki taking a peek


WIP


Tropictour hard at work

 

[shotwell]

Good times!

We had a little mini meet of our own down here. Aussie Ford came over to my place and we made a list of stuff to buy for my 2000 Contour. No work done, but hey. It's raining ;-)

 

[Bugzuki]

It was raining here too, but we still got work done.

 

[shotwell]

If I had a shop with a lift, I would LIVE in there!

 

[Lance Kinley]

Nice! I probably need to drop the sub-frame at some point and replace bushings. I get pops/clunks when backing out of the drive way and the wheels are turned.

We're having power issues at the house. One of the hot legs in the cable from the street went bad on Friday, so half the house didn't work (on side of the panel.) PSE came and installed an auto transformer that takes the one hot leg and feeds both sides of the panel with it. This morning the other hot leg failed No power -- running the critical stuff off an extension cord from the neighbors. Waiting for Potelco to show up and fix the cable.

-Lance

 

[blu_fuz]

Oh you guys are spoiled having a buddy like that around to use his lift. Bugzuki, you the man .

 

[PDXSVT]

Power issues? I'm imagining a PGE truck from Portland shows up outside Lance's home...

 

[shotwell]

That PGE truck would certainly already have a rear dome light installed, possibly even lighted switches and heated mirrors ;-)

 

[Lance Kinley]

Haha, that'd be hilarious.

All fixed now. Power feed was fried at a previous splice. Surrounding soil was...warm

-Lance

 

[Aussie Ford]

Now how come a techy didn't have a UPS and emergency generator installed.....?




Tour powered e-gen patent pending :laugh:

AF

 

[Lance Kinley]

Haha, I have a generator but knew it'd be fixed today so I didn't really feel like digging it out.

There are plenty of UPS units around the house. It was the freezers and refrigerators I was most concerned about so I ran an extension cord from the neighbors (with permission!)

 

[Aussie Ford]

LOL...... WAY too much explaining going on there Lance...... I think you realize that mine is the only true solution since it includes a Tour and some duct tape (not specifically shown) Just put on the parking brake, set the cruise at 45mph and your generating somewhere around 50kw.....