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TDCTDI
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 Posted: Sat Mar 06, 2021 10:06 am Post subject: Re: The Warthog |
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You could have at least press the hose tight (before the cut), so you don't have to take....a golden shower   |
Nope, no golden showers involved. Since it was already leaking rancid fuel, I placed a pan underneath, cut the line & walked away.
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kiwighia68
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| Posted: Sun Mar 07, 2021 1:51 pm Post subject: Re: The Warthog |
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Chris,
It's really good to see you back at your jocular/cantankerous best. Just reading the first month's worth of your endeavours with the Thing has me looking around to find one closer to home for a project.
"Over my dead body," says my wife. I think, that can be arranged, but say, "But Chris has one."
She's having none of it, so I'll get my pleasures vicariously watching your progress.
Chris M
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kgj
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| Posted: Mon Mar 08, 2021 1:13 am Post subject: Re: The Warthog |
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Hilarious that you have dragged the Ghia crowd over here to follow you. Me included.
I want one too!
I’m glad to see the story continue.
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TDCTDI
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| Posted: Mon Mar 08, 2021 6:59 am Post subject: Re: The Warthog |
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| kiwighia68 wrote: |
Chris,
It's really good to see you back at your jocular/cantankerous best. Just reading the first month's worth of your endeavours with the Thing has me looking around to find one closer to home for a project.
"Over my dead body," says my wife. I think, that can be arranged, but say, "But Chris has one."
She's having none of it, so I'll get my pleasures vicariously watching your progress.
Chris M |
Thank you sir!
Apparently, you have not learned the fine art of “ Look what followed me home!”, it’s easier to get forgiveness than it is to get permission and they sure as hell won’t forgive you if you get it AFTER they said “NO!”.
Hopefully you will never get a Thing at the expense of your Ghia.
| kgj wrote: |
Hilarious that you have dragged the Ghia crowd over here to follow you. Me included.
I want one too!
I’m glad to see the story continue.
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I was thinking the same, I doubt there has ever been so much crossover between the Ghia & Thing forums. All hell will break loose if Trylon gets a Thing .
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didget69
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| Posted: Mon Mar 08, 2021 9:44 pm Post subject: Re: The Warthog |
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Warthog?
Admit it, Chris...
The car's real name is Pumbaa -
https://ohmy.disney.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2...n-King.jpg
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TDCTDI
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| Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2021 6:19 am Post subject: Re: The Warthog |
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Sing it with me... ahh-WEEEEE-EEEE-EEEE-eee ah-wee-no-no-no-wayyy...
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TDCTDI
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| Posted: Wed Mar 10, 2021 12:21 pm Post subject: Re: The Warthog |
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In anticipation of engine extraction, I removed the rear bumper & upon closer inspection, it became pretty obvious that it was pretty tweaked. It looked like someone wrapped something around it & either tried to pull the vehicle or tried to pull something with the vehicle & bent the lower edge out by almost an inch.
Since this bugged me, I clamped the bumper to a section or 4” angle iron that I had & began to coax the bumper back into shape on the press.
After getting the face of the bumper straight & while it was still clamped to the angle iron, I used two adjustable wrenches to work out the waviness.
Here it is afterwards.
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Semper_Dad
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TDCTDI
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| Posted: Sat Mar 13, 2021 7:34 am Post subject: Re: The Warthog |
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Those easily offended, turn away now. 
This morning’s task was to remove the engine, how hard could that be? The harness was already disconnected, carbs removed, fuel lines cut, no heat exchanger cables... all I needed to do was remove the two bolts & two nuts holding the engine to the transmission. I grabbed my 17mm wrench & quickly discovered something was amiss. 
Alright, some jackass use a different fastener on the starter bolt so I go back to the toolbox & get another wrench.
Then I roll under & start trying to remove the other bolts & the first thing that I notice is these craptastic urethane transmission mounts.
Then, the Tourette-tial downpour begins, the inbred, cross-eyed, goat f%*#er of a mechanic that installed this engine used any g%*^amned fastener that he found laying in the dirt to put this POS back together.
Let’s start with this 7/16” SAE thread, too long bolt with a jamb nut holding above the clutch arm.
Then I try to remove the lowers & find that they too are not the same, one is a 17mm & the other is a 16mm. In total, there was 14mm (7/16”), 15mm (which look suspiciously like a cylinder head nut.), 16mm nut, & a 17mm nut, a different size for each attachment point.
OK, time to yank the lump... Miserable, MOTHERF^%#*NG, son of a mangy whore!!! little did I know that I’d be taking the transmission with it.
What was left of the mounts crumbled into dust.
With the engine out, it’s obvious that this fu*%tard’s favorite tool was a Pop rivet gun.
Trust me, the language was a lot saltier in person.
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Marcdeb
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mondshine
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| Posted: Sat Mar 13, 2021 6:48 pm Post subject: Re: The Warthog |
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Sad to see a '73 fan shroud so hacked up!
It's worth fixing though. Just take it one small step at a time.
When you get mad, tired or discouraged, walk away from it for a while.
This "Haptic Garage" guy makes some nice inspirational videos.
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TDCTDI
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| Posted: Mon Mar 15, 2021 10:15 am Post subject: Re: The Warthog |
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The more that I look at this engine, the more rivets I find, I’m unsure that I even want to bother looking underneath the patches.
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mondshine
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| Posted: Mon Mar 15, 2021 10:38 am Post subject: Re: The Warthog |
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The nut securing the fan looks a little funny too.
Just take 'em one at a time.
Good luck, Mondshine |
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Semper_Dad
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| Posted: Mon Mar 15, 2021 1:00 pm Post subject: Re: The Warthog |
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The nut securing the fan looks a little funny too.
Good luck, Mondshine |
I was told it was the nut holding the steering wheel
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flat4Imp
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| Posted: Mon Mar 15, 2021 1:24 pm Post subject: Re: The Warthog |
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That is some of the best use of symbols for "sentence enhancers" I've seen yet! I'm even more of a fan of your work/write ups now... I'd like to start a thread on my fire damaged Thing resurrection and have you narrate it!
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kgj
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| Posted: Mon Mar 15, 2021 3:32 pm Post subject: Re: The Warthog |
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An even more entertaining post than usual. I actually laughed out loud when you showed the rivets in the fan shroud.
At least it will be sorted when it goes back in.
Thanks for sharing. I still want one.
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TDCTDI
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| Posted: Mon Mar 15, 2021 8:18 pm Post subject: Re: The Warthog |
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| flat4Imp wrote: |
| That is some of the best use of symbols for "sentence enhancers" I've seen yet! I'm even more of a fan of your work/write ups now... I'd like to start a thread on my fire damaged Thing resurrection and have you narrate it! |
Thank you sir! However, I’m sure that conveying the emotions would be far more difficult without personally having had donated blood.
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I was told it was the nut holding the steering wheel |
WAIT! How’d you know that I was holding the steering wheel?!?  (wait until I get to the issues there.).
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An even more entertaining post than usual. I actually laughed out loud when you showed the rivets in the fan shroud.
At least it will be sorted when it goes back in.
Thanks for sharing. I still want one.
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Thank you, I’m glad that I can keep it entertaining.  Since you’re so interested in a Thing, I’d entertain a trade. Hmmm, a low light Ghiapet, that’d REAALLLY tweak the purists.
So, back to the beast, I have to wonder what that oil cooler looks like & whether the shroud was perforated & plugged before or after it was installed. 
I guess we’ll find out soon enough. Since it’s ‘spoda rain tomorrow, I decided to address the transmission mounts instead. First up, I snagged the front mount off of the transmission from the Ghiapet.
I’m sure this is gonna bite me in the azz but, after shifting the transmission through the gears & spinning the input shaft & not hearing any obviously ominous sounds, I opted to leave the original Thing transmission in place.
I then slipped the mount into place.
And then prepared to install the front transmission strap.
But then I decided that I needed to address the rear mounts first & removed all of the bolts...
And then the support bracket. Once the bracket was removed, and then remembering how nasty the inside of the torsion housing was, I straightened out a clothes hanger & passed it into the frame horns to scrape off any excess loose rust in the tubes.
After blowing the tubes clear, folded an old hand wipe into the end of the coat hanger to sorta fashion a cleaning rod.
After inserting it into the frame horn, I then attempted to pour some Ospho in... well folks, let’s just say that pouring caustic solutions into voids above oneself ain’t the brightest idea of the day. While I was far enough away that it didn’t directly drip on me, it did splash up as it dribbled into to the ground. Dumb ass. Fortunately, I were smart enough to immediately start cleaning it off instead of waiting for the discomfort to persuade me to rinse it off, which is really too late.
Once cleaned up, I opened the engine lid & continued swabbing the inside of the frame horns from higher ground & got enough in there so that it began running out of the drain hole in the center of the tunnel.
My improvised cleaning rod allowed me to coat all of the inside of the frame horns all the way up to where they meet under the access hole for the shift rod.
Unfortunately, in my haste, I failed to vacuum out the excess rust scale before saturating it with Ospho 
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TDCTDI
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| Posted: Tue Mar 16, 2021 7:46 pm Post subject: Re: The Warthog |
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Adding to the list of thing that I’ll probably regret, I decided to make a go of this engine. In my quest to remove all of the upper tin, I found that most of the fasteners were also a hodgepodge of different sizes, some 8mm, some 10mm, a few 11mm, the obligatory flat blade , & even a few Phillips.
I removed the pulley from the generator & not only was the woodruff key MIA, so was the spacer on the armature to keep the pulley from rubbing the housing.
I also removed the block off plates for the heat riser ports on the exhaust & it was obvious that there was a leak.
I rummaged through my spare parts & sourced some stock replacement bits. WTF is up with that color?!?
Now begins the slippery slope, once you clean up and/or paint one or two parts, you have to purty the rest of them up to match... and I hate doing that crap, it only takes a few thousand miles before it looks like shit again. Oh well, I treated the parts to a quick silicone carbide exfoliating spa.
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mondshine
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| Posted: Wed Mar 17, 2021 5:35 am Post subject: Re: The Warthog |
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Keep up the good work!
I hope to see you and the Warthog in July where the rocks are flat and the Things are many.
Good luck, Mondshine |
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