That is great - they came out fantastic Tim. 

Thank for the kind works Mark and for supporting our efforts here.  It does indeed feel good to share and try to preserve some of these skill sets and hard learned lessons.  Feels like we are all so busy "moving forward" that we love to forget the really important lessons we learned "the last time around". 

On the subject of sharing, I was watching a pretty goofy movie last night about a writer and he was lamenting about "knowing" when what he had to say was "good enough" to share.  His "mentor" told him something to the effect of just "trust your instincts".  Inadvertently, the movie theme tied back into my feedback request this week....I let it rip every week with the hope that everyone gets a little entertainment, picks up some little trick or lesson and hopefully gets a 30 minute respite from the problems of their world watching us deal with the problems of ours. I am very grateful that people get something out of these efforts.

Regards, Patrick

Scot Slovene!  One part lover and one part fighter!  I bet those conversations are something😂 

As always, appreciate your encouragement.  I love the manual comment - "show me" is outstanding!  I intend to borrow that for sure!

Thank you for your comments - appreciate the support and the wit - always puts a smile on my face.

Regards, Patrick

Thank you Steve. 

I love hearing that seeing is believing for you - one of the key reasons I started doing this.  I used to watch tv shows where the often ugly creation process (with all the magic) happened off screen - drove me crazy! I would always wonder, "how did they do that!" 

Before the internet and some of this easy to access technology, it was really difficult to find even text books - now....magic!

Thanks again for supporting our journey.  I love to see the progress you are making on the GPW....keep it up!

Patrick

John, you made my bride's day with the photography comment!  She has taken to the task and her work gives us so much more to work with every week.

You are being awfully generous on my shop! One of the problems and benefits of having a dedicated workspace is being able to just leave the shop as it sits.  I am fortunate because I can work on something right up to a deadline, shut the shop down and not worry about it.  The bad side is I leave some days with the shop in a complete mess and then have to go back out and spend an hour or two cleaning before I can get any real work done.

I think my "problem" is that I have always regarded cleaning the shop as worse than a necessary evil - like a waste of time.  I continue to be schooled by life that having a clean shop makes for better work and is a safety issue too.

I am too casual about the torch and that workbench.  I need to do better on that one!

Thank you again for your support and for the feedback - sincerely appreciated and helpful!

Appreciate your support Carmen. 

I think you are right about patience but I am not exactly sure where it comes from or why we get frustrated with things?  Maybe it is a matter of expectations? 

When you attempt to fix something and expect that it is going to take multiple attempts and confuse you along the way, maybe that makes it easier to accept the inevitable failures? 

I don't tend to get frustrated at this point because I can usually figure stuff out (or I have enough resources to get good help)....but I see folks getting mad at an inanimate object.  When you look at it that way, it is pretty funny - yelling at a jeep fender makes exactly zero sense and is kinda crazy behavior!😂

....every once in a while, I catch myself on camera swearing or talking at that fender and I too have to shake my head!😜

Thanks again for your feedback.  Let's see pictures of that Weasel!

Great music too!  I knew I liked you Dana.  Appreciate the feedback.

We have used Great Stuff and my local tool store carries Permatex in an aerosol can.  We have been using the Permatex mostly because of driving availability.  I am not really particular - I think they are both fine. 

Mostly I think we all have a tendency to overuse the product....so I have to remind myself and anyone else in the shop to just use enough to fill in any tiny imperfections. Otherwise I know of several horror stories including a recent Weasel engine rebuild (not mine) that had ZERO oil pressure at startup because the oil pickup tube was installed with so much sealer that it blocked the pickup!

Thanks for commenting my friend!Not sure I knew that you spent time in the great State of Texas! Central Texas is the heart of REK country.  He released his first album when I was at UT - played around Austin quite a bit.  He was a hard partying dude and threw a hell of a party at every show.  My roommate was a huge REK fan so introduced me - great stuff and his songwriting has just continued to improve.

Carmen - if you have successfully tuned a Weasel engine installed - you deserve a medal!  Every time I remove a Weasel engine, I find all kinds of engine parts - rotors, screws from the distributor and on and on....I tried to change the starter with the engine installed in the vehicle.....yes it is possible, but a horrible idea! 😂  A Weasel is like owning a Porsche - pull the engine to do anything....!