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That is a '67 Cooper S. I drove it in high school. Well truthfully, I worked on it in high school and got to drive it I think 5 days my senior year. Colton and I have been autocrossing it the last few years. We broke the crankshaft last race. The rebuild is on hold until I get the Cowdog done...

Yes, it was a fun morning. Just came in for lunch from playing "this should fit". I didn't want to throw away all the little pieces of insulation left over from doing the truck and figured sticking them in the recesses of the hood would help noise levels. I still plan to put a factory type...

Jennifer and I made the 400 mile each way trek to see Warthog Sunday. We came back with a truck bed full of parts and a really ugly M1009 shell. Just a few of the parts will be needed right now for the Cowdog project. The rest just add to my future use stash. But, I got to use 3 of my trucks...

I have 30 or 40 nights sleeping in M35's as well. The wind will move the truck more than you might think. At an air show a few years ago the truck getting rocked by wind and rain kept waking me up. I was nice and dry inside and would just go back to sleep. The next morning shade canopies left...

I ordered a banks kit a few months ago. Each bag of parts has a sticker on it listing what the bag is with a build date. As mentioned above. All of my kit was put together in 2016. You can still get them. Money invested wise if I were to do it again here is what I would do. Factory a/c...

We also every year have a person show up in a MV that hadn't posted or had ever even met any of us until that weekend. All are welcome.

It looks like your slave port is what the big red wire that is not hooked to the buss bar. Your drivers side alternator belt is too thin. I couldn't tell if it was the proper belt that has just worn down that way or if it started off as the wrong size belt.

I have to beg a camera from the art teacher. She had surgery a few weeks ago and will be back in another week. Then I can start begging again. I thought I was going to be watching the woodshop class this afternoon and have a rule about no tools come out unless it is just my students in the...

Started pulling the front axle apart. There was good grease in both front bearings. After the way the rear axle looked inside I was not expecting the front bearings to be worth anything. They cleaned up super nice with no wear marks or any visible defects. The rotors are shot and way below...

The hoses all got put back on this morning and the system pressurized. It held pressure for 45 minutes without loosing any. I consider that done. We added 2 inches to the rod which goes between the transfer case and back of the engine. That makes it fit just right. Waiting for the paint to...

3/8 hose from lift pump to filter. 1/4 hose from filter to ip. 1/4 hose for return lines. Unless you have a lot of slack adjustment room on your alternator brackets. I would suggest new belts. Once they start slipping, the belts get hot and glaze over. Pretty much making then prone to slipping...

Do you have two alternators? Are they both hooked up? Where does the 10 gauge red wire on the back battery ground terminal go? Where does the power cable going to the starter motor come from?

Dang Mark. Colton is going to be near you tomorrow trying to buy some kind of special guitar. Does he need to stop by to help you with anything? get well soon.

The starter motor really sucks the batteries down. With old or loose belts, one dry ip refilling will have those belts singing. Charge your batteries and try it again. After a charge and belt snugging up.

It was a fluke. I started cleaning the backing plate with a putty knife. I don't know if the water pump backing plate is painted or coated with something black at the factory. Whatever it is, it was solid when we pulled it off the engine a year ago. It was still solid when we put on the...

Thanks for the encouraging words. I'm frustrated with myself for not checking all these fittings when we put them together the first time. I actually did the thermostat one myself and then had a student who watched me do the other 4. The water pump backing plate just seems like a fluke...

This week has been total frustration. I came in Monday with heater hose thinking once we put them on and it passed the pressure test I could let it run for more than a minute or so. Tuesday we found the thermostat housing leak. Wednesday another psi test showed the leaks at all 4 coolant...

1985 k5 blazer head light switch. Or, pretty much any GM vehicle of that era. The silverstar star lights don't like more than 14 volts. Check your alternators. Also, depending on where you bought them. They might have a year free replacement warranty. O'Reilly's told me that when I blew both...

Back on topic from disturbing baby pictures. I had written the other day how a M1009 front wiring harness plugged right in and at least the marker lights all worked. Yesterday I cleaned up my best set of front marker light lenses and put them on. The passenger side 1157 bulb didn't work when I...

Good news, bad news afternoon. The thermostat housing has no more leaks. But while spraying I saw bubbles at the base of the coolant crossover. I checked the other side and had a few there too. I sprayed the rear blocked off crossover passages and had bubbles there as well. 5 leaks at places all...