Turbo's had a rough go at it since the surgery, keeps throwing up and hadn't want to drink or eat anything. She is hopefully turning the corner and was doing good yesterday when she was with me and the wifey running a legion booth at a town shindig.
I do have to say today has been the coldest I've ever mowed my yard... temp said 51 but the wind was blowing out of the north about 30 miles an hour it felt like and supposed to get down to 29 tonight. Did oil change on the bad boy, sharpened the blades and aired up the tires on it today as well.
Friday I picked up a bunch of lumber and some steel for a couple of projects. I'm building a pole and frame to house digital signs for the legion post, one of the guys that runs a cnc place is cutting out signs to go on top of it. Also making 2 8' x 3' x 1.5' tall flower beds for the front of the building. Also building a frame for 2 4x8 lattices to go on the south side of my wife's gazebo so she can plant some climbing stuff.
On the truck, made a little progress. The hood framework is fully welded inside and out with all the welds ground down flat.
I did have a brain fart when I was putting the fender bolt bars on, I welded them on the outside like an idiot and so they would have played hell with running a smooth sheet of aluminum down the side. Had to cut the welds off, and move them inside the framework. I then prepped and painted the inside and outside over the weekend.
Tonight I made a rough template out of poster board for the upper and lower pieces on one side and they will work for the other side as well. Now I just need to get the pieces cut out of the sheet of .050 5052 aluminum I bought.
I added a piece of pipe into my steering sector today, hope it's going to work. Wish I'd had my motor to make sure it clears everything. Guess I'll eventually find out if it fits and clears everything.
Worked on the grill, it had a few places where there were defects on the rounded upper part so I worked them over a little and got them filled in with epoxy. Before leaving the shop tonight, I shot a very heavy coat of high build clear coat on it to fill in pin holes and give me a good thick coat of clear to start wet sanding and filling any little voids.