1967 International COE, Small Adventure

Mrs. Deuce called me from work this morning and said to check the weather. It's supposed to start raining Friday and between then and Tuesday we should get somewhere around nine inches of rain.
Instead of cleaning inside like I meant to, I'm only going to smash pistons for a couple of minutes before I go outside and mow and gets stuff done. Well, maybe I'll mess with the spark plug. And maybe wire brush the block for just a second......looks nice. I did get piston #7 out. Some smashing. Some fire. Feeling calm. Also got the spark plug remnant out, though that looks like it's going to require a heli coil. This project is good at giving me firsts. Things are getting messy in the Grosh. They're actually quite a lot worse than this picture because after I took it I transferred all of the tools from the cab of the COE to the floor of the Grosh. Five days of rain. I'll have time to get it picked up. And then I cut out two experimental stickers. First is the small one. About half a dollar bill size. I like this. And then the bigger one, maybe 8x4? I didn't spend time getting in on good because I was in a hurry and chopped off the top of the left cup. I'm not 100% on the words in the wrench. I don't think they're big enough to really read and by the time they are the sticker itself is awfully big. I need to think about it.

I'd consider spreading the "Think" "Twice" across the two mugs, and "Wrench Once" on the wrench

I was considering Think across the each cup and Wrench on the wrench, but that looked too much like two cups of think and one wrench. And the wrench is obviously a wrench. I'll move the words around and try your idea tonight.

Make sure if you put words on the mugs you curve them to make it look like its on a actual cylindrical mug.

In reply to RossD:

I actually figured out how to make curved words when I made the Aristicrats stickers. Now I just have to remember.......

As a story-teller...

Fwiw, my instinct is for the cup words to be inclined in some way (cleaner way to maximize size without chunkiness?). So, if you can't remember how to curve the, you could manually "barber poll" them to get the same effect?

In reply to mazdeuce: Good luck with the rain! I'm wondering how much rain Austin will get. This should be an interesting weekend. Also are you using a Cricut machine for the vinyl? The wife has one and makes all sorts of fun stuff, it's pretty neat.

I have a Silouhette something or another vinyl cutter. It's a little bit limiting from a software standpoint, but the ability to design and cut anything you want is pretty great. The hardest part of owning a vinyl cutter is being responsible about what you cut and stick on your car. It's very easy to be very obnoxious.
A friend on the south side of Houston says they're predicting 15 inches of rain down where he is. We'll just have to see how the storm tracks and hope it keeps moving. As long as it doesn't decide to sit still we should be good.

Does the International HARVESTER COE need a name? Run this by Mrs. Duece and the dueclings ... "Harvey", in honor of the threatening storm.

I would add two of the silhouette "girls" you see on the trucker mudflaps, drop one cup, and at that point the wrench would just be very confusing.

I'm travelling with my boss from Dallas right now and she is worried about the storm heading back there. I hope you don't get flooded with overflow. Corpus is supposed to get 20+ inches, and there is nowhere for it to go there.

How about TTW1.....or an old staple....WWMDD (what would MazDeuce do? Wonderful Weapons of Mass Diesel Destruction) I like the insider joke of it.... guess my wife is right, I'm a dork

I really like it on the wrench though.

ronniejay wrote: Does the International HARVESTER COE need a name? Run this by Mrs. Duece and the dueclings ... "Harvey", in honor of the threatening storm.

We've been playing with names since before we saw the truck in person in South Dakota. Forrest Truck was hanging out for a bit. Look at that face. "I'm not a smart truck......" However, that name also carries with it a certain sense of effortless success, and that is NOT what we are currently experiencing. We're currently playing around with elephant ideas. It's big and slow and terrified of mice.
It's spent about the last two weeks staring at the ground, watching.......

In reply to corybrown50:

Still playing with sticker ideas. I like the small ones as stickers to put anywhere. You have to know what they mean to know what they mean. Mrs. Deuce likes the one with words. We spent about an hour playing with word placements and shapes and we can't come up with anything we like more. Need to drink some coffee and stare at it.
As far as the rain, as long as it's spread over four to five days I think we'll be fine, that's only 2-4 inches a day. If it stops and drops 12-15 inches in 24 hours then we're in trouble. I really don't want to pull up the living room floor again.

mazdeuce wrote: I've looked at this picture about 30 times since you posted it. There's just so much going on. The coveralls and the simple toolbox and your dad pointing to exactly what he needs from 10 feet away and you're trying to figure it out from 10 inches. It also shows me how to do a two tone paint job properly on this truck. Thank you for posting the picture.

That is a good looking paint scheme. If you need color ideas the British were big on multi colored cabovers and pinstriping.

No pictures of fire?

Also, I think you might need one of these.

This is great. How easy is it to flip forward the cab? Once it's running you should drive around, find interesting things on the ground and have the truck "look" at them for pictures. I don't think it'll get old.

Somewhere down the road of time, I think you'll find yourself whispering the words "man, I'm really glad I did that..." through the steam off one of those cups of coffee if you paint the inside of the rails light gray. We paint the rails on our test trucks (day job @ Kenworth) white or light grey for that reason - it's soooo much easier to see what's going on inside the frame when it's not gloss black.

Plus, the rest of us will get to enjoy the pictures of your routing efforts if you go with light grey. I haven't met anyone yet that hasn't given up on taking pictures of our production rails after about the 3rd shot. And we can't let you get away with not sharing photographic evidence of your automotive misadventures.

...or with not sharing pictures of your pyrotechnic piston emancipation. I'm sure the process wasn't nearly as loud as cleaning out a Mk IV TDI intake, but still just as entertaining. Especially if effective.

Note to deuce kid building pc: it's an addiction. I've been doing itcough cough years. When you are down to choosing ram and motherboards to maximize cas timing and south bridge length to reduce data imput latency you might have a problem. Yes, move that project to a table and use the static bags provided as backing. Modern computers need an SSD drive for the OS, spinning disks are too slow anymore and will make for a very subpar gaming experience.

I would have poured some of that new rust dissolver stuff in there, if it pocked marked the piston or bore too bad, it was a goner anyway.

19Mustang70 wrote: ...or with not sharing pictures of your pyrotechnic piston emancipation. I'm sure the process wasn't nearly as loud as cleaning out a Mk IV TDI intake, but still just as entertaining. Especially if effective.

I don't even own a TDI, but now I want one just so I can do that!!

It's super safe AND there's a car on the label. Pretty much guaranteed to work.

In reply to mazdeuce:

Obviously!!! the marketing people would never lie or exaggerate......

In reply to FunkyCricket:

I've passed along the table/static bag info to him and he appreciates it. He already has a list of "E36 M3 I want to upgrade at Christmas" and an SSD is on it along with a monitor that is new enough to have something other than VGA inputs.

I should have pictures. I don't have pictures. Piston #8 is mobile! Not out, but moving. Partial success.
Imagine if you will, a dark Grosh because the power is out in the neighborhood, inside the Grosh is an engine tilted at a rakish angle so that one bank of cylinders is facing up. The frontmost of those cylinders has about 3/4 of an inch of evapo-rust with paper towels holding more to the cylinder walls. That's how things sat for three hours. When the power came back on I cleaned out the cylinder (less rusty) and whacked the piston with a hammer/wood and it moved down 1/2 inch. I stopped. The piston has to come out the top. I spent some time removing stubborn flakes of rust with a pick (gently, like a dentist) and a lot of it just popped off. It's more rust ON the cylinder than rust OF the cylinder. It still needs to soak so I filled things back up and it's resting. I'm hoping that the remaining rust gives up it's grip on the walls and I can remove the piston tomorrow. Maybe hone and rings? I mean, it's already broken, it's not like I can break anything by trying.

mazdeuce wrote: In reply to FunkyCricket: I've passed along the table/static bag info to him and he appreciates it. He already has a list of "E36 M3 I want to upgrade at Christmas" and an SSD is on it along with a monitor that is new enough to have something other than VGA inputs.

What's the current monitor situation?