DNFXDLI's 79 F150 Build Part 2

[bucks77ford]

Any updates on the build?

 

[DNFXDLI]

Done a little more welding/grinding on the frame but nothing really worth posting.

I just don't seem to have had the time lately, I have been still buying parts though.

At the very least I'd like to have the frame done, crossmembers riveted back on and powdercoated before fall.

 

[fatherdoug]

It will be revered by all when it is done.

 

[Big Jim F150]

Agree with Doug

 

[LEB Ben]

Crazy how time gets away from you. Seems to me I remember a time when I could get up at 4am to go running, work until 5-8pm...grab a little dinner, wrench until midnight-1am and be perfectly fine. Now I'm like, dammit, I have to take off all 8 lugnuts to take the 75lb bogger off to take the 3 screws off the control valve, and then reverse the order to get it all back together. Man, I'm really not sure when I'll have time to squeeze that 45 minute project in.

 

[m78]

Crazy how time gets away from you. Seems to me I remember a time when I could get up at 4am to go running, work until 5-8pm...grab a little dinner, wrench until midnight-1am and be perfectly fine. Now I'm like, dammit, I have to take off all 8 lugnuts to take the 75lb bogger off to take the 3 screws off the control valve, and then reverse the order to get it all back together. Man, I'm really not sure when I'll have time to squeeze that 45 minute project in.

It gets worse. 4 lug nuts one day 4 the next day. Lower the jack so you don't have to lift the wheel. etc,,,,,, Right Duncan ?

 

[fatherdoug]

I opened the incision on a hernia surgery trying to change a flat tire on the truck, a week after the surgery. The Dr. was, how you say, very pleased.

 

[m78]

I opened the incision on a hernia surgery trying to change a flat tire on the truck, a week after the surgery. The Dr. was, how you say, very pleased.

I stretched the bond to the mesh on my hernia surgery 4 days after.
I was cutting the grass and the dust made me sneeze really hard.











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[fatherdoug]

I stretched the bond to the mesh on my hernia surgery 4 days after.
I was cutting the grass and the dust made me sneeze really hard.











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Ouch. I was warned about sneezing.
Guess we should have our own hernia thread.

 

[m78]

 

[LEB Ben]

I was born with a hernia...that's all I know about them.

 

[fatherdoug]

Do tell......but save it for the hernia thread.

 

[DNFXDLI]

I sorted out some stuff from the last Montana trip....and it seems I now have 5 sets of mirrors

There will be no more mirrors bought.

 

[DNFXDLI]

This weekend I have to add on to those temporary shelves as well.

 

[bucks77ford]

I love seeing new parts.

 

[DNFXDLI]

They smell old as well

 

[bucks77ford]

They smell old as well

Oh man, that's the best kind of smell. And seeing those old ford boxes for NOS parts is cool. If I wasn't putting them on, I would be opening them and looking at them all the time

 

[DNFXDLI]

I have looked at those horn pads on more than one occasion!...I've sealed those up real well now though!

I have another order with all NOS body trim coming as well as an A/C condenser, rear glass and stuff I can't remember.

 

[LEB Ben]

Man that's a gorgeous sight. Those little blue boxes are like my little blue pill, making me harder than chinese algebra.

 

[fatherdoug]

That's quite a haul. Did you just get the manuals also?