General junk collector and hoarder of less desirable things

zmotorsports · Sep 8, 2022

Old Man Roger said:
Take your effing ad down! Lol

I did. I marked it sold as soon as the guy pulled out of my driveway with it. However, it takes a day or to for an add to delete but it will be posted sold immediately.

What I think happens is people either print them off or save them to their computer at first so they don't have to go back and search for it so they don't see it marked as sold.

Trust me, I am one of those who go in and mark sold and delete as soon as I have cash in hand. It bothers me when I call on items 2-3 weeks later that I am seeing for the first time just to find out they were sole weeks earlier.

To be honest, I HATE dealing with people lately and why I hate buying or selling things. I rushed home the other day after a guy text me telling me he would meet me @ 2:30 pm to look at the bike. At 4:30pm I text him, nothing. At 6pm I text him, nothing. People's integrity means nothing any more.

Old Man Roger · Sep 8, 2022

zmotorsports said:
I did. I marked it sold as soon as the guy pulled out of my driveway with it. However, it takes a day or to for an add to delete but it will be posted sold immediately.

What I think happens is people either print them off or save them to their computer at first so they don't have to go back and search for it so they don't see it marked as sold.

Trust me, I am one of those who go in and mark sold and delete as soon as I have cash in hand. It bothers me when I call on items 2-3 weeks later that I am seeing for the first time just to find out they were sole weeks earlier.

To be honest, I HATE dealing with people lately and why I hate buying or selling things. I rushed home the other day after a guy text me telling me he would meet me @ 2:30 pm to look at the bike. At 4:30pm I text him, nothing. At 6pm I text him, nothing. People's integrity means nothing any more.

Yup, nothing pisses me off more than a flake. Buyer or seller.

bigdave_185 · Sep 8, 2022

Iv actually been pretty successful at selling things for folks on KSL. Mostly as a middle man so those who hate it don’t have to deal with it.

I post a very detailed post, cover all my bases with scam **** and if people sound stupid on the phone the generally are. I’m also not afraid to send the scam folks pictures of fat naked people.

I’d love a bike mike but I don’t think that type of bike is in my future anytime soon

I’d lover to get a new off-road bike but that doesn’t fit the family off road

bigdave_185 · Sep 8, 2022

New parts added today lol
Ceramic window tint
Ol man mudflaps
Some good GM floor covers

bigdave_185 · Sep 24, 2022

Been a busy week!! Got my bed cover installed

bigdave_185 · Sep 24, 2022

Got my semi truck back after a 20k front axle install, new rear spring hangers, new shocks !! Oh man happy driver following my favorite two lane road hogs!!

bigdave_185 · Sep 24, 2022

1999 Peterbilt

bigdave_185 · Sep 24, 2022

Then the skeleton of the welding table cobbled together

40” tall, 32” deep, 1/4” thick top plate.

bigdave_185 · Sep 25, 2022

Adjustable feet finished
Cabinet shelving built out and waiting for the shop to build me a box
Primed and top slid in place!

bigdave_185 · Sep 25, 2022

Slid into approx location

zmotorsports · Sep 26, 2022

Table looks great Dave. Sorry I wasn't around on Saturday to help you out drilling the holes.

Question. Aren't you afraid of having the welding area on carpet?

bigdave_185 · Sep 26, 2022

zmotorsports said:
Table looks great Dave. Sorry I wasn't around on Saturday to help you out drilling the holes.

Question. Aren't you afraid of having the welding area on carpet?

Nope not a bit. Usually the hot stuff splatters and melts into the carpet. It’s not so much flammable.
But I also don’t do most my welding on a bench yet so….. looking at my space I think I’ll dump my lifetime table and fab another roller table in its place so I can weld all the way around it as needed

bigdave_185 · Oct 7, 2022

Had a fun car in the garage this past week, nothing top of the line but still a nice car compared to Escalades and full size trucks to detail.
I don’t know the details nor really care it was fun to drive home for sure! Wide sticky tires are always fun!

With a little iron removal from meguires, some quick work from the rupes and my favorite single step polish I had a recipe for a happy customer, a price that fit his needs and my timeline. And out the door in five hours.

Old Man Roger · Oct 7, 2022

Was the customers name Joe Walsh.? :pimp:

bigdave_185 · Oct 7, 2022

Old Man Roger said:
Was the customers name Joe Walsh.?

No sir, not sure I know him but no. It was Tim F

Old Man Roger · Oct 7, 2022

bigdave_185 said:
No sir, not sure I know him but no. It was Tim F

My humor is wasted here.

bigdave_185 · Oct 7, 2022

I can honestly say that went way over my head!! I’m sorry. More country over in my neck of the woods

Old Man Roger · Oct 7, 2022

bigdave_185 said:
I can honestly say that went way over my head!! I’m sorry. More country over in my neck of the woods

My bad, the lyric in the song “My Maserati Does 185” is always the first thing I think of when I see a Maserati.

I think with all the different guitars, it kind of has a country vibe to it. In the beginning there almost sounds like there might be some steel guitar in there. Might just be mixing and track layering though, I’m no musician.

bigdave_185 · Mar 4, 2023

Been a few sine I posted on here but if anyone has a suggestion I would be glad to hear

Tool box organizing is on my agenda.

In the gov facility I worked we had to “shadow” our took boxes for tool accountability and I really liked it. We used two pieces of foam stacked. The bottom was ESD rated form the top was black dense foam ( I wish I knew the type) and carved out the tool box layout in the black foam then set it on top of the pick to highlight what was missing.

Anyway I’d like to do similar but not sure if others have better ideas

zmotorsports · Mar 6, 2023

Dave, while there are industries where shadowing is mandatory such as in the aerospace industry, personally, I don't care for it for a couple of reasons. First and foremost, the wasted space. I simply don't have enough room to give up to foam taking up space in the box and secondly, it eliminates or at least greatly reduces the options for adding, subtracting or even moving things around. I don't know about you but I add to drawers and move things around almost on a monthly basis and this would be negated by having to conform to a foam outline. I seldom subtract however.

Just my opinion on shadowing. My drawers are still organized but things are so tightly packaged in the drawers there isn't much chance of things moving around and most things can only go back into the drawer in the manner in which they were removed. Even when we were racing and I had my toolbox in our enclosed race trailer things were so well organized and packaged in the drawers I could drive from here to the LV Dragstrip and only have a few wrenches shift in their places.

bigdave_185 · Mar 7, 2023

zmotorsports said:
Dave, while there are industries where shadowing is mandatory such as in the aerospace industry, personally, I don't care for it for a couple of reasons. First and foremost, the wasted space. I simply don't have enough room to give up to foam taking up space in the box and secondly, it eliminates or at least greatly reduces the options for adding, subtracting or even moving things around. I don't know about you but I add to drawers and move things around almost on a monthly basis and this would be negated by having to conform to a foam outline. I seldom subtract however. Just my opinion on shadowing. My drawers are still organized but things are so tightly packaged in the drawers there isn't much chance of things moving around and most things can only go back into the drawer in the manner in which they were removed. Even when we were racing and I had my toolbox in our enclosed race trailer things were so well organized and packaged in the drawers I could drive from here to the LV Dragstrip and only have a few wrenches shift in their places.

I mainly want to do the wrench’s and driver drawers, tired of the junk sliding around. Kids make a mess of them as well. I think I’ll try those and see.

bigdave_185 · Apr 29, 2023

I got the hole patched on the Rv this week.

bigdave_185 · Oct 20, 2023

Next agenda.

Toro horse tiller

I need help finding parts

624-325 is the only serial number I can locate

bigdave_185 · Apr 15, 2025

Two years almost since I hosted this ol girl. Wow!

How about some Peterbilt restoration photos iv been doing the last four months

bigdave_185 · Apr 15, 2025

Started with a motor rebuild in December which left me with do we buy new truck or rebuild. The rebuild let go restoration
1999 850k miles with a new transmission and rear ends leather four years ago. Let’s restore it instead of spending $289k to buy a new one specked the way I wanted

bigdave_185 · Apr 15, 2025

Started tear down in Feb, after running it a bit after the motor rebuild. Squeezed out the last of our decent winter to haul dirt.
Gutted every interior part, hood, fenders, lights, trim panels all of it to I could sandblast the cab and panels I was keeping. The rear frame outside got and blasted as well, needed a clean surface to freshen up

bigdave_185 · Apr 15, 2025

Truck had way too much junk on the roof, four air horns, three misc antennas, two beacon lights, plus the cab lights. Somewhere it leaked and I never truly found the leak through the years and years of reapplied silicone I just kept leaking so I tossed the roof in process to install new one. New roof gets non of the mess, just cab lights.

bigdave_185 · Apr 15, 2025

Boss man pulled me for a side project. To install carbon fiber flooring in his air plane, neat idea to save weight while in the bush. Looked cool to

bigdave_185 · Apr 15, 2025

Sandblasting is such a mess, wet blasting is a bigger mess!! But I got rid of a handful of layers of paint with out hand sanding around all the hawk rivets

bigdave_185 · Apr 15, 2025

Polished all the stainless steel and aluminum parts, tossed them in the cargo trailer ( cargo trailer I was going to convert to a camper, I yarded out the bed sold it for cheap, toy hauler is so much better and instant)

bigdave_185 · Apr 15, 2025

Interesting installing the new fiberglass roof. Fit snug, used an epoxy from sika to seal the seam. Ratchet strapped it over the weekend to hold it to cure.

bigdave_185 · Apr 15, 2025

Then on to paint. 2024 gm grey. I tried for a Porsche gt3 yellow but boss man said no

bigdave_185 · Apr 15, 2025

Found a local company who was willing to let me borrow and pay a painter cash to come into my shop to paint. Not many spray booths around here can fit a semi so we made our own type of booth. It worked and boy did I pay for it with wet sanding

bigdave_185 · Apr 15, 2025

As the truck was unmasked I painted the frame rails with por15. Added lots and lots of sound mat to hopefully keep down the 8” straight pipes.
As parts kept coming in Iike the girl and hood insulation the parts got put on. New glass all the way around, new rubber seals, new door hardware and hinges. You name it I replaced it

bigdave_185 · Apr 15, 2025

Polished the door jams in typical Peterbilt fashion. Installed new chrome shop mafia mirror mounts with rivenuts, stainless hex cap screws. I put rivenuts everywhere, getting this truck apart was a PIA with all the broken bolts. Every rivenuts got taped and cleaned before new hardware went in with a dab of antisense.
The grill finished up my hood so I could install it.
Marked out the cab lights in Tyipical Peterbilt style.
Added a few new watermelon glass lights for the back of the cab. It’s what all the cool kids are doing I guess

bigdave_185 · Apr 15, 2025

More install of more parts.. parts everywhere.
Took the dash apart to cover the ugly wood grain, it’s going brushed aluminum.
Polished the mirrors to hang.
Rebuilt the whole headlight assembly, tapped every screw hole, redid the whole headlight harness, and installed some heated headight housing because Utah winter is snowy and frosty headlights make it hard to see.
And of course mounted the front fenders on the hood.

bigdave_185 · Apr 15, 2025

Polished some standard stainless steel fittings off the shelf to use for my PTO return tubes, plumbed in a new 90° shut off for the hydraulic tank as well but I failed to get photos of it.

bigdave_185 · Apr 15, 2025

Took the ugly old nasty air intake tubes and made them look like the are ready for Friday night date night

bigdave_185 · Apr 15, 2025

Installed the new door striker and latch
Installed some freshly polished air tanks
And a freshly powder coated PTO control tower ready for install later on.

bigdave_185 · Apr 15, 2025

The old rear end needed some help, I welded in a piece of 2” angle, then stacked a piece of 3” pipe in behind it. Welded it in solid where the old parts were bolted in, rusted out and mostly gone. Then I’ll hang on a new center panel light deal

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