Friday, May 19, 2006

 

If I made a list of what I did today after 4pm it would look like this.
1. I set and took a rest.

From what. watching cops:

I will made my list from the week. and it still won't be like Annies list.

Monday morning I was at Brand Mart usa when they open. Got a 21 ft refrigerator for Dad.
They couldn't deliver for 3 days, so I had it loaded and carried it to his house and put it in and hooked it up, and moved the old one in the garage.
That afternoon I put the third member chunk in the new rear end housing and got it mounted in my old car. The next day I put the new axles and the backing plate and installed the new brakes. Wednesday I went back to Dads and cut the back yard grass, trimed the bank.
Watered the flowers, and trimed the bushes in front.
Wednesday afternoon I started to hunt some wheels to fit the old car now that it has new bigger hubs and brakes. They will still have to be just 6" wide to fit under the quarter panels.
I went to Jasper to see if the junkyard that I have got parts from before. no luck,
The wheels I need would have to come from a sixies or early sevenies ford mid size car.
Then I went to one of the biggest yards I know of. Fagan's Auto Parts in Piedimont Ala.
It is about 150 acres and they informed me they have no cars that old in their yards and few older than 1995. I stopped at Cables just west of Cartersville and they said they didn't have anything older than late 90s but said I was welcome to tour the yard and see if I found anything I could use.
I found a crown vic mid eighties. They let me take one wheel with me to see if it would fit. It was 7" wide.
I had an old tire mounted on it, and I put it on my car, but it rubbed. I carried it back the next morning.

Turns out all late model cars carry wide wheels and no one has old stuff any more.
I have a 1988 regular driver, and I get a lot of comments about the fact it is still on the road.

Time to get some professional advise. I called the guy that I will be getting the front disc brake kit from. The only difference is the size of the center hole in the wheel. He agreed that it is next to imposable to find them in a junkyard. (Fagan's corrected me by saying that it was an "auto recycling yard" not a junkyard. ) The solution: Money! There is a company in Ca. (http://www.stocktonwheel.com/) that can build any stock wheel. and any custom wheel you want. They use a computer set up to cut, roll, shape, and weld the wheel. I talk to the owner and he said he had the 1950 Ford listed and he could build them with enlarged center holes to fit the new chassis. I ordered 5 new wheels with 4 new 1950 hubcaps.

Today I went to two doctors apointments, and then went to the cemetary and clean the inlaws graves and put on new flowers for the church decoration this Sunday. It looked good.
The whole cemetary had been mowed, and cleaned up.

Going kick back the rest of the day.

posted by Johnnie 3:28 PM