Moderator: MalcolmV8
Its been about a week and no one has anything to post or say? 
I am on a few other boards and there is always something posted on them every day. I check in here every day only to be amazed that nothing is going on. Does anyone have any thing that they would like to add to this post? Come on guys lets hear it. 
Yea its been very HOTT here to. We are waiting for it to cool down so it will be very nice out. Winter here is so great as the temps are are usally in the high 60's to low 70's during the day. It does get cold at night here in the desert. It gets down into the 20's at times.Dave wrote:Yep, kind of dead lately! Got thru the hot weather and stayed in working on the neglected house. When it did cool off, it rained. When that stopped, had to mow grass, so long it leaves rows that I aim to pick up the next day but then rain again. Trying to put some fence up but had to dig the holes with the old manual digger, too many rocks. Hate to think about it but we could have frost in five weeks up here. That means getting the trucks and car ready. Need tires for the "new" 4x4. Need to clean out one stall of the garage to get the dead one moved in. It never ends.
Dave
Good catch there. I did have that happen to me to but it was a little diffrent. I droped off a 302 to have boared .030 over and when they called me to come and pick it up. As it was getting loaded by them I just happened to notice that it was a flat tappet block and not a roller block. I told them that was not my block and they said it has to be as they didnt have any other ford 302's there. I told them that mine was a roller block and they said there is no way and that was the block I droped off. I told them that I have the roller cam and lifters I took out sitting on my work bench so I know mine was a roller block. Well I searched to whole shop and like they said there was no other 302's there and I got stuck with a nonroller block. I think that they messed up a roller block and took mine and gave it away and then found out that there was a nother customer who had a block there. I now always mark my blocks and take a picture of them at the shop with the markings that I made. Lesson to be learned here guys.plowboy34 wrote:It's just my busy time of year, I look quite often to just keep up just don't post much.
cgrey, I know what you mean about machinist. A real good one is hard to find. I had a Great one in Sacramento then I moved here to SE Missouri and it took a while to find one. He is expensive but he does awesome work. I actually took one of my 460 blocks to a shop here(I always stamp my blocks somewhere to make sure I get mine back) they told me they were really backed up and would probably be two weeks before they could get to it. They called in two days and said my block was cracked.....hmmm....two weeks....called in two days. So I boogie on down there and what do you know, no personal stamp on said cracked block. You should have seen his face when I informed him that was not my block and told him of my stamp and I proceeded to check all big block Ford blocks until I found mine. I loaded all my stuff up, he told me how much I owed him for the work he had done, I laughed and told him to call the cops got in truck and left. Seems funny that shop is no longer in business. I assure you if I thought something funny was going on I would be looking for another machinist.
it still needs some more labor. I hear ya on the fire wood, I've got about 20 more face cord to split and stack to be ready for this winterv8ranger wrote:I have just been real bussy..... lots of projects to do around the house. Then theres fire wood.. Any free time I have had I have been getting my wood cut and split.. Any extra money I had went into my Mountaineer...
