Over the weekend I managed to get a number of things taken care of around here. Of the several things I did do, I started with having to cut up a bunch of firewood. This was done for two reasons. One, I had to get more of this wood taken care of as its been sitting around for a few months and needs to get cleaned up. Second, I needed to clear the area along the driveway for when I have to stage the F250 and the small trailer that I plan to load up with scrap to haul out. By clearing more wood from the area I'll be better able to pull the rig in place to park and still be able to pull back out with little effort. I spent a good chunk of time moving branches and other refuse to the burn pile for future disposal while moving a wheelbarrow full of logs and other wood to a staging area by the log splitter where I also had the electric chainsaws on hand to help cut everything up. I managed to get another pallet filled up with more split and cut wood ready for drying and future use this winter. Even though I did this much wood, there is still a lot of wood remaining to cut, probably another couple pallet's worth of wood there. With the area cleared fairly well I moved on to loading up the bed of the F250. A large amount of the scrap I had piled up next to the truck was loaded up with minimal remaining. There were a few items that still needed to be loaded up, a couple of seized engines, an old fuel tank as well as an old satellite dish. After loading the truck I went to the garage where the small trailer is kept and hitched it up then loaded up the seized 318 engine I had up there. I still had to remove the cylinder heads and intake but chose to do that down at the yard. I also grabbed the Dodge's old fuel tank from the garage and threw it on board too. After getting the 318 engine on board I came back down, docking the truck and trailer along the driveway as intended. I spent a few moments using the impact wrench to pull the intake and heads from the engine. After taking care of that I took the 302 engine that I pulled from the F150 and loaded it up on the trailer. I had already stripped any remaining usable items from the engine so it was all ready to go . A couple other scrap items were tossed on the trailer and the old sat dish was thrown on board. With that all taken care of, the rig is ready to haul and a large pile of scrap will be on its way out. With that work done I moved back on to the Mustang Chicken Coupe. The first and main thing I wanted to do is install the hood hinges on the car so the heavy large hood can be opened and closed by either of us with easy. The passenger side hinge had all its bolt clips in place but I did have to cut back the firewall lip I welded in place on a past day in order to accommodate the hinge body. This was pretty insignificant as the area is still able to move water the way I intended. After getting the passenger side hinge in place I did the driver's side. One of the bolt clips was missing so I ended up just making sure the other two bolts were on tight. With both hinges in place I recruited my help to help me get the hood in position where I could add the bolts to secure the hood to the hinges. After getting the hood on I was able to test the hood out, opening and closing the unit while still having it line up decently. Satisfied with that I moved on to installing another cooling fan but this time on the firewall somewhere and blowing into the main cab. As for the cooling fan, I had a couple more large computer fans in stock I was able to take from. With that I ended up finding that the only good spot to put the fan was over the hole where the brake master cylinder used to be. I did enlarge the circular opening with the die grinder, making a large oval shape so more area was opened up to the face of the fan. I drilled two holes, diagonal from one another, so I can drive some long wood screws through the fan body's mounting points and into said holes. The wood screws' thread has a shallow pitch that allows it to grab into metal easily when the pilot holes are the right size. With that I was able to secure the fan in place over the opening. All I have to do now is find another 12v power supply to power this fan.
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