This weekend started with some maintenance of Grandads trusty 'Acme' Compressor.
Firstly the Air filters needed replacing, the foam looked 50 years old! The oil was black, so changed that, not to hard to do either!! All up, foam and oil cost $9.50! Bargain.
50 years of greasy oily grime were covering everything. I couldn't tell if it was leaking oil or air, so decided to clean it with degreaser, give her a sand/wire-brush treatment, and a coat of paint.
Here you can see the finished product in 3 layers of metallic blue hammer finish!! Sweet!
Time to remove the fuel tank so it doesn't explode when we start welding. Was easy to get out, as it only went in 2 weeks ago so we could turn the engine over.
( Don't worry about the wiring spaghetti above, a mate tells me it will be an easy job to figure out where it all goes.... shouldn't be too hard after a few beers! *hic* )
Removing the tank exposed more rust! Joy! Luckily its in a flat panel, so shouldn't be too hard to fix.
Last job of the day, try out the new axle stands. As you can see, 5000kg stands are quite a bit bigger than the cruddy Ausy Auto ones under the axle.... I needed the height (not the load capacity) so that the chassis can be supported when I cut out the rust in the front.... don't want the whole thing to fall on me scone!! =P
***NERD-ALERT***
If you see me on MSN on the weekend, chances are you can start a web cam chat session and see what I'm up to in the garage!! Chances are I'll be scratchin my head with a beer!! =)
Firstly the Air filters needed replacing, the foam looked 50 years old! The oil was black, so changed that, not to hard to do either!! All up, foam and oil cost $9.50! Bargain.
50 years of greasy oily grime were covering everything. I couldn't tell if it was leaking oil or air, so decided to clean it with degreaser, give her a sand/wire-brush treatment, and a coat of paint.
Here you can see the finished product in 3 layers of metallic blue hammer finish!! Sweet!
Time to remove the fuel tank so it doesn't explode when we start welding. Was easy to get out, as it only went in 2 weeks ago so we could turn the engine over.
( Don't worry about the wiring spaghetti above, a mate tells me it will be an easy job to figure out where it all goes.... shouldn't be too hard after a few beers! *hic* )
Removing the tank exposed more rust! Joy! Luckily its in a flat panel, so shouldn't be too hard to fix.
Last job of the day, try out the new axle stands. As you can see, 5000kg stands are quite a bit bigger than the cruddy Ausy Auto ones under the axle.... I needed the height (not the load capacity) so that the chassis can be supported when I cut out the rust in the front.... don't want the whole thing to fall on me scone!! =P
***NERD-ALERT***
If you see me on MSN on the weekend, chances are you can start a web cam chat session and see what I'm up to in the garage!! Chances are I'll be scratchin my head with a beer!! =)
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