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Final stage of the Big Show seat resto.

I was given this as a joke gift years ago as I’m a bit partial to Fords. Although with the quality decline and complexity increase over the last 6 years, this could be used on just about any brand. Especially the newer stuff. I haven’t found a good place besides the obvious for it yet.

July 17, 1955 Disneyland, Walt Disney’s metropolis of nostalgia, fantasy and futurism, opens. The $17 million theme park was built on 160 acres of former orange groves in Anaheim, California, and soon brought in staggering profits. Today, Disneyland hosts more than 18 million visitors a year, who spend close to $3 billion.

Agreed. On the value, you'd have to have some better pictures to really determine the condition of it. Those mid-mount pieces have gotten some good prices the last few years. If it is solid overall and not badly damaged, $300 minimum.

Check this out. Pay By Plate - Illinois Tollway I set up a pay by plate account a while back when I went to the @stevasaurus pad in Elgin. It works well but you don't know for sure when you're getting your picture taken. I used it again when I took a tractor to Oak Creek, WI last summer. I relied on the phone to find the route with the least tolls. It will save you some and with auto-pay you won't get late charges. Their notifications work well and it was easy to keep tabs on it.

First time to the BS I dropped coins in the proverbial basket. Tolls with no basket I had the attendant sticking his head out the window and count axles and really took it in the shorts. 2nd tie we borrowed @PeacemakerJack Ipass and the cost/hassle went away. Another toll road score we just ran the damn thing figured pay on line. Well they didn't post my plate and what i owed until AFTER the due date and took it in the shorts with a overdue charge. I took it up with the Ipass Nazis goons to no avail. After that I got my own which was rather painless. It's free but you give them plastic numbers and a amount to charge to it when tolls rack up and its paid automatically. Works pretty good and like Dan said good for the countries of IN, OH, PA and others. $369 to go both ways to the BS for us so we still take it without being kissed. Trick is to know the best routes with low tolls even if it takes a tad longer. Chi town yer on yer own or like Sylvia says one of the many reasons to stay the hell out. We gotta pay 30 just to go have breakfast with @stevasaurus.

IMO, the sealed bearings are the way to go. They keep the grease in where it is needed and keeps the dirt out. No need to fill a wheel hub with a pound of grease that makes a mess. The low RPM of these sealed bearings should insure a long life.

I've wanted to do a video montage at Disneyland of bits of tired, crying kids and title it "Disneyland, the happiest place on earth".

I'd rather go to Wally World...

I have had this box about 45 years. Some stickers have come and gone. A lot of them were held on by magnets.

Look for the ID tag. It should be on the dash support just under the dash.

Looks like a 67 era long frame with a engine not available on it. Engine has both a recoil and electric starter on it which I have never seen on a Kohler

A FrankenHorse??

I don't claim to know everything, but I've been with Ford for 20 years, 10 of them as a Senior Master tech.

I'm going to do a mini-split system in my garage mostly for a/c but also for heat too.

I like the heat to a point. Usually up to the point you can’t do anything but sweat. After that I’m done. My basement/workshop is half in the ground, and except for the 80-90+ days it stays around a cool 50 degrees. So no A/C as of yet. I’ve got one in the house though, as that becomes an oven during the summer.

I’ve used Bill’s Place to get a 103990 switch from Toro and it’s still going strong.

Found one reference in a illustrated parts list. 6-32 thread by 3/8" long

Nice thing about the I Pass little blue box is you can put it in any vehicle. Couple months ago Dan with down to fib land on a score and just took mine down with him. Still had to pay about 4o in tolls but the tractor was FREE! Now they did away with the little blue box I been told and it's some kind of sticker on the wind shield.

@76c12091520h Our own vendor.

When I think of Springers I think of short legged somewhat zealous, energetic & high strung bird dogs but some are fairly relaxed. Especially in their older years. Yours Don gives the impression of a larger mellow house springer. I'll have to do some reading on bench springers. I had a female Chesapeake once that got tangled up with the neighbor's springer. Result was a smaller single female chessispring?? Had the oily coat of a chessie and the body of a springer. Turned out to be a great dog. I eventually gave it to a OTR trucker that fell in love with it and was a great cab companion.

@WHX?? My dog is an English Springer Spaniel, there are basically two kinds. There’s bench bred, which is what my dog Lucy is and field bred. Field bred is obviously bred for field work. However I had a bench bred Springer named Wallace that was literally outstanding in the field.

came across a couple oldies today -- inlcuding an old horse - I have little knowledge of the early era models - What is this Tractor? - - Also found this belly grader under a 416 horse - is grader OEM ? Hopefully, I will get a better view in the future of both the oldie model tractor as well as the grader blade -- but in the mean time, any preliminary info would be appreciated ? Also, hoping to establish their approximate value ? thanks, Bill

There is no charge for the Illinois I-Pass. Cuts your bill in half. Also works as an EZ Pass in other states. https://agency.illinoistollway.com/about-ipass

We picked up an ezpass in Ohio one time, actually two of them. For the 75 cents per month they cost in rentals, it’s worth having for the few times per year we hit tolls east or west of Michigan. The savings are close to 50% of the advertised rate as well, so it’s money saved to rent them indefinitely.

So you have a neighborhood "Karen" Few years ago we moved into town off of 14acres. It was a big change but due to my girlfriends health issues shes unable to drive so we needed to be where transportation is available for her Dr appts. Fortunately, we have great neighbors. My driveway is really close to house on right side. Shes retired clerk of court for our town & really nice lady. Shes not outside much but has a 5yr old Pug that just doesn't shut up! I dont ever say anything or complain because shes never complained about me making noise in garage or driveway. She told me I dont need her permission to drive up thru her back yard to easily access my trailer. Shes 82yrs old & I know she wont be my neighbor forever......I try to be respectful of time of day etc. Nice to have thas sorta "understanding"

Got a little more done on @Natejc_98 's rig this evening. Trina reinstalled the belt guard and right step. I got the transmission drain plug cleaned out enough to righty tighty / lefty loosey repeat repeat repeat repeat and dropped the nasty fluid. I've seen worse. It'll do with a short hours repeated flush and new fluid again. I also relocated the solenoid wire we were using for testing purposes. We had it laying around and over the gas tank. I got the harness loosened up enough to add it along side the factory taped up set and installed 3 terminals in it. What's left.......? Install hood. Refill transmission and replace shifter boot and drain plug. And.......????

Those look like regular garden variety rubber work lamp size

My two neighbors are some of my literal family members so we get along great. And neither like myself, care if something gets moved in or around. An example being having temporary parking spot for a trailer etc… things are going great.

Do you have it home yet.

I’ve been wrenching professionally since the 80’s. I left Ford in 97. I was the only one that could read a schematic and got all warranty work after the others slurped all the gravy customer pay off of the ticket. Been with an independent ever since. So we have the joy of working on everything. Very little gets turned away. I’ve seen a lot over the past 4 decades. Unfortunately, since all cars have started to all look the same to me, i can’t recall who does what for many things, i just know it when i see it. Things that seemed like a great trouble-free way of doing it gets replaced by not so great ideas. I still attend training when something worthy comes around, and i read a lot to stay up to date or learn about something new to me in my bay when needed. We see a lot of F series and Explorers, and a few Escapes, but i’ve never come across this exploding bag of sand issue yet. Definitely will keep it in mind. I cut open another dryer, can’t remember what it was for, but the new condenser came with one so it wasn’t needed but they included it as a kit. It has the same larger size of desiccant, like I’ve always seen.

I agree. Someone really put some pressure on that blade. It appears to be really bent where the blade itself attaches to the quadrant, as well as the upper support frame is also bent. Probably fixable, but not without some reinforcements welded on.

yes, that is OEM

Holiday Road...

I worked at a Ford dealership way back when there slogan was “Quality is Job One”. Apparently that has changed.

Very much appreciated. I'll talk to Trina about a list of wants/needs etc.

I didn’t ask for a ton of detail when I spoke with the shop, but what I remember he told me was that they initially ran the car and checked pressures. Was very high on high side with compressor running and very low on low side. And the pressure switch would then shut it down. I saw the same thing at home a while ago but it was much cooler and apparently it was a little less clogged at the time and was still circulating a little. It had gone to nothing since. He suspected either a bad valve ( which I asked him to go ahead and replace since it was cheapish) or something blocking flow in evaporator. talked to him later in day and they had cracked it open and took out old valve. I don’t remember what else. Indicated that they tried to blow compressed air through evaporator and not much was getting through and that some gunk and dye was coming out. They were going to tinker with it a bit and see what happened. later they called and asked if I needed the car back right away. I didn’t. They’d gotten stuff out of the evaporator thought it was probably still clogged at least somewhat and were going to let it hang on vacuum a few hours in the morning then put gas back in it. He didn’t seem optimistic, but they needed to close it up anyway so it didn’t hurt to try. next day they did a what they said, found it still didn’t work (no huge surprise but I was hoping…) and asked if I wanted to go further. I don’t. He said the book says it’s 6 hours to remove the dashboard and thought it probably takes every bit of that at least. I mentioned the dessicant filter rupturing and he said, “yep.” this is a great shop. Full confidence in just dropping off a car and having them do their thing. They mostly work on Mercedes, BMW, Audi, and VW but not exclusively. They spent a lot of extra time dinking around on my air conditioner and only charged me about $300. Plus the axle shaft job ftom one of those speed sensor rings that broke and lit the ABS lamp. I would have ignored it, but the pedal was pulsing on almost every stop so it needed to be done. Now I just wait for the other side to break. There are other takeaways here of course, but a notable one is that @adsm08 is our resident Ford go-to. A while back I recall him commenting about some weird split fuel sender issue on a Ford that had befuddled mechanics. Thanks for all the input! Steve

first pick is 520H with Facet metal pump 2nd pick is Facet plastic pump that went on 312-8 in same place as 520h, I cant find pic of 312 pump mounted but you get the idea. Both work great but believe I prefer the metal cube type better just because it takes up a little less space than the plastic pump.

It was a short 5 hr shift at work today that about halfway through, we had a freak rainstorm that was snapping trees off and moving anything that wasn’t bolted down. Then, I mowed the fire station lawn, and my lawn as well. The new lock tited mule drive knob worked like a charm with no issues. Now just relaxing and browsing the internet. The next two days I have off and I have a bathroom that needs to have tile that needs to be finished up being taken out. At least it is supposed to get cooler.

U got burnt but being the nice guy I am I will come and haul it and equipment off for ya if you will split fuel bill with me.

i think I have one if you need it. It came out of, if I remember right another 312 I got from @ebinmaine in the parts haul I got last year. I’ve got the hour meter for the C-141 project’s engine and everything else has a working one or never had one so I don’t need it.

Thanks Karl. We are doing much better. So many people have been helping out. It's been such a blessing to see just how many good folks there are still out there! We got a huge camper upgrade just because of the generosity of the owner. We're now in a big "bus" as my kids call it, and it is so nice that it almost feels like home. Almost... In addition we will have temporary power on Monday which will be a massive help. Clean up crews will be back beginning tomorrow as well. Then we're just beginning the long process of tearing down and rebuilding. Not all of the house will come down but nearly all of the living space will be torn down or at least to the studs and floor joists in a large portion. And of course everything above the ceiling end to end for the entire house. BUT- we have been blessed and humbled by this and the response of everyone. We will be stronger on the backside of this!

I tidied some of my rubber edges up, and @Lil’ Pullstart helped me snap some lines for the e-track.

Put the hitch on that I got at the Big Show from K&B.

Cut some grass today.Cut better than I thought it would. Deck is a bit noisy but I’m guessing it is just the nature of these old gear driven decks. Hard to believe that the original tires still hold air after all this time

Broncos, Chargers and Raiders I believe it was a option from 70-72