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13 hours ago, Rustbuster78 said:

I'd think about doing the drive if I didn't have plans for this summer which I will need to use all my vacation time for. I haven't had much luck with communication the salvage yard the windshield is at. She said she'd call back but didn't so I called her back and she said oh sorry I meant to get to that, I think the windshield is stored in our train car in back. I have the note on my desk, so I'll get back to you asap. And now a few days have gone by again. So I guess I'll just wait now.

 

 

It's all good ,  Just tryin to give you the,  animal house Bluto pep talk.. 

 

  

 

 

 

      we will be there ,, not sure if camping. 

 

French Prunes for erry body 

 

 

 

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On 4/26/2024 at 11:12 PM, Rustbuster78 said:

I do have a lead on a windshield in Idaho now though! I just need to figure out how I'm going to get it. Shipping it is scary but that's a 27 hour drive for me.

 

 

 

i think i looked at that online when you first asked ,, figured it was way to far from your location you posted so i never mentioned. 

 

 

If it might motivate you to do the drive ,,,,  i drove my neighbor from Olympia WA, to Penn Valley Cali ,, then farther south to San Jose Cali , just so he could LOOK at how a 59 Datsun 1000 was put together ( googles says 13.5 hours one way without Penn Valley detour )  .. Crazy part was , other than having to ditch 510keepers party early ,, we were happy about, going all that way .  haha 

 

Same guy had driven his 520 pickup all the way from Olympia WA to half way down Baja  Mexico in search of a J16 a few years ago.. 

 

 

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Spent a day cutting up a 210 wagon for the 5speed and A14 to go in the Orangutan-sedan  

 

And it only took a year 

And yes,,  by WA state DOT fine print , that is a legal trailer with no fenders, because mudflaps are as wide as , and as high as, top of tire ,, look it up bitch 

 

 

 

 

i thought i was bad ,holy shit 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mah paw needs a rearend !!

 

 

That's enough of that noise

 

It's alot fuller of scrap metal meow

 

 

 

 

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Since this is kinda a 1200 build thread thing ,, i will post a few of my son FAT510s 1200 ,, lol 

 

We went to Westport WA on a cruise with a few others ( its about 90miles one way) and afterwards  we bolted to Grayland  to check if locate had sent a guy out to find power on my cranberry bog. And  stopped at my brother in laws place for some pics. 

 

Westport  jetty type action 

 

 

 

out in the cranberry bogs 

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tracks were removed on this bog so they could run bog buggy instead of happening to upkeep on rails. First year you could drive out there with a car without needing a 200 ft towline to get you out. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Whoops how did that sweet 411 get in there??  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

THEN!!  After what seemed like 15 god damn minutes of Austin Powers tunnel parking 

 

 

 

 

Riding the rails of justice man. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1 hour ago, Rustbuster78 said:

I wonder if there is another car out there that has a windshield with the same curvature but a bit bigger, then I could possibly have it cut down to size. For now I'll try the resin repair route, I'm not overly optimistic though as the crack extends from the bottom of the windshield to about 2 inches from the top.

 

im almost positive the hatchback windshield is different than the wagon and sedan style cars , but other than that I don’t know. 
 

there’s a few videos on YouTube , that the windshield crack repair you can buy at auto parts store , have like a suction cup stand thing.. Then the guy lubed the sides where suction cups are/sit  ( away from crack) and then crack repair is centered over crack .. Then they slowly slide down crack .. I don’t know if that would actually work but maybe. 
 

 

On 4/12/2024 at 7:26 AM, KELMO said:

FWIW,

The windshield did get installed this week and it went very smoothly. I have installed around 10 pieces of glass using the rope pull method and this one was by far the easiest. Once the weatherstrip (vintagerubbers.com) was on the glass it only took us about 10 minutes to install. Others have taken up to an hour and required a fair amount of futzing with both the glass and the weatherstrip.

A10 windshields are a glue in like modern cars ..

    and that’s probably why it’s so hard to find a used one. 

 

I bought one out of Oregon as a replacement for a wagon I bought a few years ago .. was 2 hour drive one way to get ,, took a few hours to carefully remove ,, was propped up against some tires in backyard. 

 

Wife hit it with walk behind weed-wacker  and destroyed it. 

12 hours ago, IZRL said:

"Come A Little Closer", by Cage The Elephant. Here's a catchy tune that sounds like it came out in the 60s but was actually written and released in 2013.

 

 

sounds like Oasis or Stone Roses 

    
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It's mashup night !!!

 

 

 

 

Went to coast this last Saturday with son and a small group of Facebook people . They went to a nearby fishing town to eat , but I can’t afford to eat tourist prices there and it was crab races weekend so no parking . Sooo me and oldest son drove around and parked out by the jetty.

 

 

 

 

 

 

unfortune-nutly ..

     For me and my IPhone skills …IMGUR has double posted them for some reason but I’ll delete doubles when I’m on PC and bomb this shit later . 
 

iPhone fanboi alert 🚨 
  There are things I have been shown , that an IPhone does that makes it way better than some phones though . 
 

 

 

 

Aaaaand my wife is now officially pissed off because of my typing noise 

 

 

 

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I don't know about numbers at all  but when i pull off a good valve job it is very noticeable .

 

  You can tell when you're cutting if it's going good or if you are just getting done. Never done it professionally i just have my own older Sioux machine and  seat tooling and been doing it for 30 years for myself and family.

 

 In the late 80s  I picked mine up with all the tooling from friends brother that ran auto shop in Seattle , because the older machines can't  grab the newer smaller valves in 3-4 valve style heads , so he was upgrading . And 98% of inserts the seat cutters ride on ,that i have, wont go into that kind of head either. 

 

i have never ported other than playing around with diegrinder on junk head

 

 

anyways.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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oops 

 

wrong button 

i was thinking this was farther out,, i may or might not have committed us to going somewheres else this Saturday.  

 

 

BUT ,, We got this ridiculous check in the mail from the government, for medical overcharges last Monday and i assume it will be just another stupid thing we have to figure out on our taxes next year.. 

 So what I'm asking  is,, is there a link to just donate to  the Marysville high school drama club ? 

  

 

anyway 

 

 

 

party on 

 

 

 

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Aloha snack bar everyone 

Thule Station, Antarctic geological research 1982

 

 

 

 

After watching the documentary about these guys ..  I'm of the mind nothing good will come  of this ice exploration business

 

 

 

 

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Black Crowes McCaw hall Seattle , last night,  bitches 

One of only a couple pics cuz,  heap big woman is dancing to left 

 

 

 

 

There’s a guy on Facebook saying awhile back he was going to host a Datsun swap up on one of those islands,, (up in like the Whidbey island area ) this summer. 
 

don’t remember any details . Or which island 

 

so I guess I don’t really know much of shit ,,,,, but there you go