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Painted and marked up the floor. Added an air line to the area ehere the work stations will be.

The sites tells me my messages space is 25% full. I see you can delete them all but is it possible to delete only selected messages>?

Here is the new, larger room (double the size of the original) which will become the restoration shop. I will continue using it as back drop. The left wall will be where most of the benches and tools will be. The back wall is the original back wall with a bathroom door in the new section. The right wall is the original right wall with a little section added.

Fantastic job!

Thanks Bruce. I think next is the line-boring machine. As well, I have almost doubled the area of the "storage room" that I was using as backdrop and I'll turn it into a restoration shop.

Mine looks like this. A small room I share with the freezer, some camping stuff and a couple of storage chests. Some of the stash is in the furnace room and some is on and on top of the bookcases.

Back in the day I owned a 1976 example with steel wheels, 4 speed, no back seat, a 8000 lb. Warn winch and the 258 6 cylinder engine . Much later, I had built this model of it. The model has spoked wheels with Tracker AT tires and the 304 V8, a back seat and no winch. I found some steel wheels. Does the AMC 6 cyl. exist anywhere? I think I could scratch up a winch in a pinch. I also found a blue which is closer to the original.

Made a jig to mount the block to the machine's ways.

Thanks Domink and Wayne. I kind of like the result myself.

The 8V71 block has arrived at the shop for some work and is being prepped to load on to the deck grinder.. I almost had as much fun taking these pictures as the actual build.

Ready for paint.

Continued to work on the block. Added material to give it visual interest. Filed the bottom of the block's skirts to make it look like bolt bosses. Cut & filed small styrene squares to make crankcase webs. Drilled out all the dots. Made a bore pattern and proceeded to drill perfectly uneven holes. The drill kept walking. Finally redecked it and went to where I should have gone in the first place: the drill press. Feeling good again, I drilled some head bolt holes.

Deck surfacer is done.

Beautiful workmanship. Nice finishing. Love it.

I think you are right. I cropped it and blew it up.

Coming along. Working on the controls module.

Not exactly lately, but the other day in 1981. I found this while looking through some old albums. I remember driving on the road in the foreground and thinking I was seeing things. It was coming down the adjacent service road and was wider than the entire road. I think it was hung up on a pile on the shoulder.What is the tractor?

I've been thinking of a tracked vehicle for years. Maybe the time has come. very neat work.

Not on the road but on the web.

Started work on the surface grinder. I got this 8V71 engine in a trade. Its block will wind up in the dio. Starteddoctoring it to add detail.

I had an unfortunate experience on eBay today. There is one seller whose stuff I like very much and have been following for a while. However the shipping prices in his listings are exorbitant compared to others for similar items. So I had a few item in the cart and was attempting to discuss some form of combined shipping with him. we were getting somewhere but Ebay wouldn't let me send the message "request a total".It thought I was trying to work my way around them. It ended up blocking his stuff off and then it blocked me too. I don't know if it was him blocking me or eBay. Anyway, if you are on here, whatever happened wasn't intentional and I am very sorry.

Installed in the "shop". Its location may change as other pieces of equipment arrive.

The machine is being delivered to FTB. The controls module is already on the ground.

Beautiful work.I wish I could splice in new styrene this neatly. Mine always winds up being visible. Great work on the rear suspension. You are right, it is tough getting all those sparate pieces straight.

Thank you Mr. O'Dell. A bit more progress. Added water tube to grinding wheel housing, adjusted the wheel mount to allw the wheel to reach the crankshaft,. Started working on the controls console.