Rebirth of Monster Mudder

Well, I actually got the truck into the shop sunday, but haven't touched it yet. Been busy playing catch-up with a bunch of things around the house and farm I'd been neglecting or putting off while trying to get the truck ready for a race.

The shop is pretty clean now, still need to clean off and reorganize a couple of areas still but it looks so much better and all the tools are put up again.

In the last 2 weeks, I've picked over 20 gallons of tomatos from the garden and gotten them frozen. Freezers are filling up fast with them and other food stuff from the garden. Need to start making sauces and salsas soon out of them or I won't have room for anything else. Also made 27 pints of bread and butter pickles, 36 pints of spicy pickles and 9 pints of kosher dill pickles so far. Did 36 pints tonight. Finished up my wifes new flowerbed with mulch and some more perennials. Picked up some cactus's for a truck planter I bought my wife that we couldn't get flowers to grow in cause it wouldn't hold enough moisture, cactus's are doing good.

Built 2 digital picture frames for my wife and installed a Nas with 7.2 TB of storage that I can expand up to 20 TB with Raid 5. Wanted to get her a couple of large digital picture frames, but the size I was looking at were almost 500.00 each. I built these for a little over 200 each using 24" dell infinity edge monitors and raspberry pi 3's single board computers. Unlike most digital picture frames, these are connected to my network with the built in wifi and I mapped a directory on the nas to each pi. My wife can now just copy pictures out to the designated folder on the Nas that corresponds to the digital picture frame and the pi code will pick up new pictures every hour. Today I added the crontab settings to turn the monitors off at 11pm and turn them back on at 6am.

After getting tools put away tonight, I finally got around to fixing a set of outlets on my workbench that had a cell charger melt down in them. Had to replace the hot wire to and from that outlet box, but it's all working great now.

Mater's
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some pickles
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cactus truck
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just a little charred
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shop cleaned up
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digital picture frames, one horizontal, one vertical
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Sorry to see and hear you had more problems with the truck. That air shut off is sweet. Who makes them? It definitely sounded like you had a stuck plunger at the end of the vid. Maybe some NO2 would help get the charger lit? But I'm guessing that isn't allowed in the class.
 
I know Arch (Bodacious) designed it and is working with a company to produce them. Get in contact with him. It worked great shutting the engine down when it tried to run away. I mounted it directly to my joker fab intake. It's 3 1/2" in and out.

Nope, no NO2. Think I will move up a class and going to talk to the different orgs about going to twin turbo's
 
Haven't done a lot with the truck, but I did spend a little bit of time out in the shop and took the front end off of it and determined the run away cause. The rack stuck on the injection pump. So add that to the list of stuff that needs attention on the truck.

Been trying to get some things done around the place so I can get back to messing with the truck, but things just keep stacking up. Mom got out of the hospital and we put her back in 9 days later, and she's been in the heart hospital in ICU for the last 11 days and been intubated and sedated for almost all that time, they pulled the tube out friday, and put it back in yesterday after I was up seeing her. She still wouldn't talk or nod or anything yesterday, 2 days after they took her off the pain meds to get her to wake up.
I don't think she's getting better, but everyone else in my family things she is, I think they have their heads in best wishes land and aren't facing reality.

Almost have the 2nd hand rail done for the front steps, and finished up one front ledge for the shorter flower bed on the front of the house and been moving right along on the other one. I finished pouring the footing on Friday. The trans went out on my son's 91 w250 diesel last week too, so it's in the shop being taken apart and waiting on the trans parts I ordered for it so he's driving my dually and I'm in the 99 2500 till we get his back on the road.

I did find that the pistons are made and should hopefully have them in this week for the new engine and the machine work should be done by the end of this week on the new block.

Probably going to end up sending my trans off to Muldoon to take a look at it and see if he can figure out why I keep toasting direct. Pressures looked good on my gauge, I checked the lip seals last time I had it out and they looked great as well. Also have had another issue with the converter locked, I kill the ground and it doesn't unlock, kills engine and then it unlocks. So may have issue with solenoid as well.

Also designed a wall of shelves that will encase the digital picture frames I made on the wall they are going onto. Need to pick up a few wood working tools before I start this project.

Last night I planted 4 1/2 boxes full of potatoes for a fall crop and then added some more onions into them as well.

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Sorry to hear about your mom's condition with no improvement. That surely is rough. That sucks to hear the rack stuck. Didn't the pump shop just have that thing apart? Man, that is a massive shelf. Do you have stuff to fill it or are you planning to fill it later? :)
 
Well, been a rough past week. Turns out mom had a stroke sometime while intubated and on the vent and basically there was no recovery from it, it was on the back bottom of her brain and she was non responsive for days. We turned off the heart meds and vent friday and she passed away. We buried her yesterday.

On a happier note, look what I got delivered yesterday....

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Rods should be here in a few more days.

Had the carrier bearing go out on my dually today while my son was using it to get to work because his transmission went out last week. I finished putting his trans back together tonight, just need to get it back into his truck so I can have my truck back.
 
Sorry to hear about your Mom. Terrible stuff. We're here if you need anything.


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Nothing easy about saying goodbye to your mom. Wish you and your family the best during these hard times.

Prayers will be sent. Keep on keeping on.
 
Thanks everyone, definitely been a hard time for us all, but she's not hurting anymore.

Got my son's 727 rebuilt and back in the truck, he's test driving it right now after the initial driver around the farm. Didn't really find anything extremely wrong, but a lot of silver paste just clogging everything. We cleaned the crap out of it and put new seals, clutches and a new converter in it and it's moving much better than it had been before it went out.

Had the carrier bearing go out on my dually last weds, got it replaced but there is still a shudder in the truck, was really noticeable Saturday when I hauled 50 round bales I bought from my brother for the cows this winter. Pulling the drive shafts out tonight and taking them to have them balanced to see if a weight fell off.

Started sanding on my grill mold as well. Just finished putting another coat of putty on it to fill in some rough areas.

Yes those pistons are sexy as hell.

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Long weekend clearing fence line and working on putting in a new 1/4 mile section. This is the next to last one I need to replace on the outer perimeter. Clearing the scrub brush with the weed eater and bow saw sucked, but the whole half mile is cleared now. The first 1/4 is almost complete. I got the top wire stretched and about 1/2 attached tonight before it got dark. Almost have the front wall of the new flower bed complete all the way to the end of the house. Need to mix up another bag of mortar and get it finished this week or weekend sometime.

Had to trouble shoot and order parts for my son's 91, he lost reverse. Wasn't something simple, the lip on the inner part of the lever broke off... 6.00 part and have to pull the transfer case and rear section of the trans off to get it fixed. Parts should be in Tulsa tomorrow at Wit trans, need to figure out a time to go get them picked up Friday.

Worked a little more on the grill mold. Had it all sanded down and applied more filler to it tonight.

My rods came in today, and getting ready to order the rest of the parts needed to get the long block complete. Was hoping I'd win that Steed burnout contest and get a new T6 comp manifold for the truck. Made it to the finals but didn't win it today.

Rock wall
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25' long x 6' deep scrub brush section on the fence, took me an hour and a half to clear it out.
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The wonderful leaning old fence... next to the new steel tpost fence
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Almost done fence
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Grill mold
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New CP Carrillo piston compared to old marine bowl style stock piston
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Rods and pistons
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Lol, the pictures really do make those pistons look tiny don't they. We should start going together with the long block soon. Need to order the cam and a few other items for the new block.
 
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