I have been on here.Just stopping by to check up on all you guys.

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The Astro T5's are a special off set shifter and bell housing because a the Astro's one of a kind offset driveline.Using anything else places the shifter in a unusable location.

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Keep the faith

That is a NECO.That is when members got together for a campout.

We still email back and forth.He sends me jokes and stuff.

Well everyone knows how long I have been chipping away at this project.I am still going to be chipping away at it...................just much bigger chips.

Carbon up EGR valves are pretty common.A screened EGR valve gasket prevents that from happening.

The shop I have that I rented four yrs ago was 15 miles away from the rented apt I have been living in.Kind of a pain.There is four apt's in front of the shop.So I waited until the one I have been wanting to become available for four yrs.I am in the process of moving in there by the 15th.I'm furnish...

The after the wall I took down for the shop expansion: http://i172.photobucket.com/albums/w33/garysgifts/other/the%20wall%203%20001_zps0fgslhcd.jpg Alot more work than I had planed for. Some days are good and other days COPD slows me down alot.Here is a internet bud that drove from Syr to help me ge...

The short block at long last is done awaiting for my pick up. http://i172.photobucket.com/albums/w33/garysgifts/Ole%20Yellar/383%20SBC%20OLE%20Yellar%20build/11007489_1064094216940945_772175294_n_zpseyl160vf.jpg http://i172.photobucket.com/albums/w33/garysgifts/Ole%20Yellar/383%20SBC%20OLE%20Yellar%...

Nice.I have been considering how to reinforce the sub frame the trailer hitch bolts to in case I cheat alittle and go over 5,000lbs.Maybe slice open the floor pan and slide square tubing inside of that sub frame and weld that in and then close weld the floor pan. :-k

At long last this van will be moved to a separate space on Monday after this weekend and after I've completed taking a wall down in the shop.That is where it will be until it's done.I've contacted a sand blaster to take the sub frame frame to them on Monday as well.What this means is I can finally t...

I bought this too.

http://rochester.craigslist.org/tls/4841283351.html

I've always want to have both a cherry picker and a gantry lift to swap out the 4.3 and a second sub frame for 383 V8 to put it back in the Ole Yellar van.I've had the cherry picker all along and tonight I bought this: http://i172.photobucket.com/albums/w33/garysgifts/other/image_21628_zpsy96b7jze.j...