What are you up to?

summers ben real busy, nothing done to van. showing pic of new toy house.

that a nice pair you have there, what's in the roarrunner ??

My shop in the woods, still under construction but so is the van...

Engine is pretty much ready.


Got the sway bar in.



Just trying to patch up dog house and slap it all back together before Petite Jean.

Lookin good Neal! Love the heater shut off valve!

My buddy Jeremy will have the site next to you with the '63 FJ3A!

Scored some Astro van seats for $100. :-) I need to hack the bucket brackets a bit but they will fit. Of course, this means a few more holes & bashing to fill in the the previous owner had done to fit the seats that were in it.

GOING TO LOOK SUPER!

Purty!!

I want to see how those Astro seats go in, I have been wanting to hit the salvage yard to get some. Is there room to keep the arm rests on the front seats?

I think the armrests will be ok...should know this weekend.

Doghouse is awesome

Anxious to see these installed. SCORE!!!

nothing new with the van but working on some new ink

Finished patching up the dog house.

This is what my front seat brackets started as...



This is how I hacked them up...



After some more grinding and welding...



After filler and paint...



Unfortunately I did not have time to get everything set in this weekend, and I still have some old holes to fill in on the fender wells. I should get the engine in this week, then I can mount those new buckets in and see how well they will work. :-) My neighbor will be bringing scraps so I can start fabbing the quick release brackets. They should be fairly easy, jusy angle iron and 1/4" round.

Youve been busy this weekend! looking good. Still going to be ready by Labor Day W/E?

Finally got back to working on this 4x4 conversion for William Bodnar. Right now we have 10" of body lift and 2" in the suspension... add that to the 3.5 inches of lift with a tire change and you get the picture!

RipVanArkie wrote:Youve been busy this weekend!  looking good.  Still going to be ready by Labor Day W/E?

I am still hopin so. Got the FUBAR'd engine mount bolt out too. So, that will go in maybe WEDS (?) or worst case this weekend so I can drive it some before hand to determine if it will be reliable enough (lol). I think wife plans to drive her car anyway, just in case.

RipVanArkie wrote:

Finally got back to working on this 4x4 conversion for William Bodnar.  Right now we have 10" of body lift and 2" in the suspension... add that to the 3.5 inches of lift with a tire change and you get the picture!

Can't wait to see it done.

If you have any trouble along the way, just call, I'll have an empty truck and trailer. I'm not leaving til 5PM Friday. Dad will be around after that.

Looks like both of you have been busy... Nice work on the seat brackets. Look nice and clean!

Got back seat mounts fabbed and in (still need to mount seat belt straps).

Also got my front fender wells patched today (all the old seat holes that have been drilled).

Well, I spent 3 days this weekend and got the engine in and all buttoned up. But, when I tried to start it yesterday afternoon...no go. It was late so I had no time to pull out my timing gun to see if I was getting spark (assume not). !st guess is some of those crappy brittle wires snapped (pretty sure I got the few wires there are hooked up right ;-). Or, maybe the distrib was too far out? Or, maybe it's just cranking waaaay to slow to do anything. And on top of that, the new fuel line I tried to bend leaked...lol. Oh well, should have time to get back to it after the holiday and hopefully get it runnin. Then I can try puttin in my HEI, then my wiring kit and go thru more headaches. :-)

Looking real nice! Should be hanging the suspension tonight and rolling it out of the shopWednesday! I'll have just enough time to clean Goober out and get it packed up, ready for the weekend!

you have been busy!!!