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 Most of the body work is on, but I have a lot left to do. Brakes, clutch, all the electrical, prop shafts, and the interior. What I hope to do this weekend is get the seat box in so I can start on the electrical. I'd like to leave the floor and dash all apart until I complete my wiring job. I still need to find the right T valve for the brakes, and I don't know how much of a pain in the ass that is going to be. In storage above the truck is the Pickup top. In the box in front of the truck is a pipe bender. What I want to do is fashion a roll bar/seatbelt mount. I have some nice 3 point belts from the Porsche that would work nicely. The trick is to make the bar fit under the pickup top, the soft top or the hard top. I don't want to lose my top changing options. That is one of two useful tools I got this holiday. The second was supposed to be a cutting/welding torch. Unfortunately the shipping company screwed up and sent me an industrial can opener. Not an exciting gift to open on Christmas morning. An attempt to exchange has resulting in the news that the torches have a flaw and keep catching fire burning the operators. Thats not such good news. I think we'll take the refund, return the incorrect can opener and just go shopping at the local welding supply for a good oxy/acel torch. I have to cut the old frame up, make a few mounts for the truck and I want to make a cool art gate for the back yard with some leftover rover bits. I also wanted to make a gate in the shape of the Rush starman for a friend of mine. I have no idea where he would hang it but I think it would look very cool. On the linux front, this new work desktop is working nicely. I am running Fedora 11, as for some reason Fedora 12 refused to see the dual monitors. I have two 17" Nokia (CRTs, ewww) in 1280x1024. Whats nice is that I can have a full screen of my linux apps, and one remote terminal back into my windows box for work (Outlook, ewww) and not have to change keyboards or do the switch on the KVM. A few friends from the rover list gave me some wonderful backgrounds to use that stretch across both and are mostly inspiring me to get the truck back together. I suppose at some point I will atempt to upgrade it to F12. The whole no xorg.conf file idea kinda confuses me, but this system has a built on Intel card I am not using and a dual port nvidia I am using, so X -configure just builds me a non working .conf file anyway. Maybe I'll wait for F13 and then get a new HD at the same time, just to be on the safe side... The plans for Moab in 2010 are still slightly shaky. Mostly due to transportation. I want the truck tested well before I attempt to drive it so far away. Unless I drive the Subaru but then I'd miss offroading. What I need is someone with a tow vehicle to drag this truck out there. Hopefully I can get it done for the spring events around the area, and give it a good workout. If all looks well I might just join the caravan west that I think is starting in New Jersey the weekend before the National Rally. By then I should have my dutch oven cooking skills down too. Back to take office temps. Weirdly my desk was 71 degrees, the office air was 70, but the seat of my chair was an icy 64. No wonder I feel so cold when I get to work in the morning. post a comment |
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