Pineapple Slices, Gyro Meat

When you're outta degreaser
and you dont feel like getting any more,
cause its like the 48th can you would need to go purchase,
and youre just sick and tired of spraying it and scrubbing it and all the mess it makes.....
just get your hands on a nice chefs knife
and make a little music, caroline....

Chasing Unicorns

I have found my first unicorn, and I hope there arent too many more I need to find with this project.

For those of you who haven't noticed, there arent too many of these B-vans left out there, and that means very good chances replacement parts may be obsolete.

The front section parking brake cable is one of those parts.

I have been looking for one of these for better than a week, and trust me when I say this, I have been relentless.... and was thoroughly convinced that I was completely SOL for a new part and would have to go find a decent used one....

I found one.
It arrived today. I am forever grateful to a stranger named Tim from Brake Pad Wholesale and the strange twist of fate encountered in getting our paths to cross.

I know, its just a fucking parking brake cable, but for some reason I think its an important item to have operational, especially when towing.

 FYI- PN is 18P2377. And I, being a recent convert to MoPar, am getting a small sense of satisfaction that the part I needed came from "uncle AC"!

Parts!

Everyday has been like Christmas around here with packages arriving... the downfall is that our budget is getting a little blown with all the nickel-dimey shit, but incidentals are incidentals I guess....
Somewhere in there is a posi "489" thirdmember case....

The snowblower isnt going in Ed, smartass

Got a tranny in your trunk?
I do.
Got a little more stall and a heavy duty overhaul.

Done by none other than the legendary Hipster hisself.

shades of grey

More painting and detail work.
The devils in the details....

Dry film applied to all reused chassis/ engine hardware.

No matter where the new parts come from, I have never been happy with the final product- so it all gets a better coat of paint/ corrosion protection/ final machining, whatever.... case in point these new rotors and steering gearbox. The rotors would be brown by one humid summer day and the gearbox was painted, but put in the cardboard box while wet and had a complete stripe of fuzzy fibers stuck to one side of it.

I would advise to also run a 1/4-28 tap into any replacement suspension part with a Zerk hole. Don't fall for the "self tapping grease fitting"- there ain't never been one and there ain't never gonna be one made. The manufacturers just decided to save cost by skipping this step... ( and I think they are asses for doing that). 

Of the twelve replacement pieces I have purchased (from Napa, mind you)- only the idler arms came tapped for the Zerk. The ball joints, links and tie rods weren't tapped- the holes are drilled and that's it.

Kroil

This is the only penetrating oil you should have in your arsenal.
Bar none.
Its not cheap, but quality never is.

get it at: http://www.kanolabs.com/

For seriously corroded pieces, plan ahead and apply to the joint over a period of time.

Phantom Grey

If somethings worth doing....

Its an awesome single stage polyurethane, sprays like a dream.
The green primer was Super Koropon, an epoxy primer that was used primarily on Douglas built airplanes- that shit is tough.

Great Nothern Boogie

 Neato guido.