Rustbin

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It won't hurt the foam to steam clean it if there are any smells, I have used steam to revitalize foam cushions that have been squished and the rust stain on the foam won't do anything with the steel pan coated.

If you pull it apart and it is all good then your out new gaskets, if not your in it for all that it'll take to make it good, either way peace of mind. If you just run it you will always be wondering when it'll blow something.

I liked my private wrecking yard! The bylaw officer was just doing his job, it was the bitch of a neighbor that has been looking for something on me, since we got access to the lane way and screwed up their plans of making their RV shelter a proper building, need 5' from a property line 25' from a lane way. The cars could not be seen unless you were on my property and I had the shelter purchased waiting for the fall cleanup so it just messed up my timing. I'm on the waiting list for a storage unit for the '69 and some of the parts to make room in the shop and basement so when that happens I should be able to roll the '72 into the shop.

So after my last post I was visited by the bylaw enforcement officer because of a noise complaint, noise violations are hard to prove without a decibel reading, so he looked around and saw that he could cite me for derelict cars and scrap metal piles. I immediately started pulling all the stuff I had stored in the minivans replacing it with the scrap metal I had piled up to take away which included cutting some larger pieces to make them fit inside. Bylaw enforcement rolled up and said there were grinding and banging noises heard, he saw our look of dismay then looked around as I replied "we were filling the van". After the scrapper took the 2 vans I dragged out the D20 pulled the engine and electrical, then filled the box with anything else I could find to get rid of as well.I put up a 12' x 20' shelter up where the vans had been to store things formerly in the vans or under tarps, using saw horses and planks, I made shelves for the stuff. All this caused upheaval in the shop as well as in the basement, everywhere I have stuff stored as I went through every thing deciding whether I should keep it or not. I still had the fall yard work to do and my wife finished painting the pergola which I then had to assemble, after redoing the gravel patch and finishing the rock edging, and the time came for moving the rhodo and planting the rose bushes. The planks and other wood pieces were stored on a platform made from pallets and the steel bed from '67 to '72 truck bed which I had decided to chuck, so that left a low spot that I filled with yard waste and covered with mulch to become a beautiful garden bed where we placed potted plants. With all this stuff on my plate my wife called in two young guys to do the gutter cleaning and one caught a look at the Fourunner and had to check it out. I told him what was wrong with it, he checked out the mileage, asked me what I wanted for it so I told him, he said let me think about it, we went back to look at the gutters and he said I'll take it. The gutters were cleaned out very quickly with the use of a leaf blower and then they were off to the bank to get the money. So at this point I'm down four vehicles, the gardens are ready for winter and I have a shelter for the parts and stuff. The bylaw says I can only have one derelict car so I put insurance on the Corona wagon, my wife found a clause that a project car is not derelict so only the parts 510 is derelict. When I was at work the bylaw officer came by after the allotted time and said to my wife " he's done a lot of work,as of Friday the file is closed". This was a weight off my shoulders but still left the mess in the basement and shop left to be dealt with. The weather had turned and the 510 was covered up so the stuff I saved for projects was my focus. Mmm, I was going to use this is to make something for my daughter inlaw, so I started working on it for her Christmas present. (pictures have to wait till after Christmas cause) The guest room / office was affected by the upheaval so now we need a bedside table, I dug through the boards in the basement and stuff in the shop and 5 hours later it's in clamps waiting for glue to dry, next weekend after the paint has dried it's in place. Work got rid of IV poles of unknown brands so I brought them home with thoughts of making a "slapper" for bodywork. I had planned on making two but because it went so smoothly I made a third with a curved face which I formed with a sledge hammer, I only polished them to 400 grit. This is a very condensed version of the last three months but hopefully I can start working on things for the 510 soon and if I'm lucky make space to roll it into the shop to work on.

Sure buddy, and a tree just jumped out and busted your tail light.

Below -30C that's the part I couldn't handle when I worked in Edmonton years back, but at least it's sunny. The clouds and rain here can get people really down this time of year. Will a soap based cleaner work on the goop?

They would be sooo cool to use on a vintage Corvette or something exotic, concourse with patina, I'd love it.

Back in high school guys were casting their own shift knobs in resin, turning them out of aluminum or brass in shop class, I turned one out of walnut with a thin maple stripe in the center and glued in a threaded insert to screw it on. Do you know anyone with a 3D printer? There are so many possibilities for them.

WOW, you are not kidding, maybe better than the great jazz pianists.

I had flooding occur because the regulator eventually couldn't handle the electric fuel pump pressure then it would overcome the needle and seat and flood the carb. Till I could get a mechanical pump in I added a "T" before and after the pump, connected them with some soft fuel hose then slowly tightened a hose clamp around a bolt and the hose till the restriction gave me 3 or 4psi fuel pressure.

I've always thought it would be cool to paint faux rust on one of those old vettes.

All those little details add up to a huge difference in the car. Wow.

Does Rustbucket refer to something you had when you first came to Ratsun because these cars look the total opposite, or you have done a shit ton of work on them. They are nice.

Mmm, wet and dry shop vac method, center the filter, have the intake directed to spin the water around the side to fall to the bottom while the air gets sucked out the top. The space looks to small to shove a shop vac in there. My Montana van airbox had a sort of air horn plate between the inlet side and the airflow meter which would have stopped water, I think it also has a tiny drain hole but I'm not certain of that. Just thoughts.