From: Mark Sawyer <mechmark@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reply-To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [tcb] Re: Denis' front end work report
Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2007 07:43:35 -0700 (PDT)
What is straterra?? I only use Seagrams 7.
Brain Denning <i_am_cool_fred@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: yep, considering the
straterra doesn't work on the focusing thing
>From: Mark Sawyer
>Reply-To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: [tcb] Re: Denis' front end work report
>Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2007 07:08:44 -0700 (PDT)
>
>So your saying that Brian needs to start wearing a foil hat to focus all
>this thoughts??
>
>Denis Dodson wrote: Brian is kinda like Einstien.
>Einstien visualized riding a beam of light to figure his Theory of
>Relativity. But, of course, he never actually rode a beam of light. Brian
>visualizes all kinds of stuff ( going to campouts, trading his bus for a
>beetle, fixing his bus, etc.) without actually doing it Brian is not
>fettered by reality.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Mark Sawyer
> To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2007 7:26 AM
> Subject: [tcb] Re: Denis' front end work report
>
>
>Are you going to spend the day actually talking about working on buses or
>are you going to join in on giving "cool fred" a bad time for going to a
>non-bus site for advice??
>
>Denis Dodson wrote: Well, this one particular driver
>side bleeder screw has just kicked my ass
>for a long time and I have bled the friggin' thing at the line for way
too
>long, since changing the cylinder is so simple. I have used vice grips,
>hammers and a torch and I just can't get it off or open. The danger is
>shearing off the #!%^*#! thing without a repair standing by.
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From:
>To:
>Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2007 7:16 AM
>Subject: [tcb] Re: Denis' front end work report
>
>
> > Well on a bleeder screw you want them secure. On the fronts an 11mm
box
> > wrench with a long handle does the trick usually for me.
> >
> >
> > Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: "Denis Dodson"
> > Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2007 08:12:54
> > To:
> > Subject: [tcb] Re: Denis' front end work report
> >
> > Last night I had replaced only the cylinders with the bleeders. The
>other
> > work fine, the problem is with the bleeders being really hard (or
> > impossible) to open.
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From:
> > To:
> > Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2007 7:03 AM
> > Subject: [tcb] Re: Denis' front end work report
> >
> >
> >> 55 through 70 there are two wheel cylinders per side on the fronts.
>From
> >> 54 down only one. 64 up used different wheel cylinders than 63 down
> >> except for 63 1500cc models.
> >>
> >> 53-54 used 22mm bug cylinders with symmetrical brakes as the rear
from
> >> the
> >> Ova bugs.
> >>
> >>
> >> Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile
> >>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: "Brian Denning"
> >> Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2007 07:54:36
> >> To:tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >> Subject: [tcb] Re: Denis' front end work report
> >>
> >> there's only two brake cylinders on the front of a splittie? or did
you
> >> just
> >> replace two?
> >>
> >>
> >>>From: "Denis"
> >>>Reply-To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >>>To:
> >>>Subject: [tcb] Denis' front end work report
> >>>Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2007 22:12:34 -0500
> >>>
> >>>So, I'm sitting here, I can't do anything else until I go to the
parts
> >>>house tomorrow for bleeder screws. Murray is sitting on his own tires
> >>>after
> >>>having both of his front torsion springs replaced, a new metal brake
> >>>line,
> >>>two new front brake cylinders, and I don't know what all.
> >>>
> >>>I did all this because my passenger side was always low and my tire
> >>>rubbed
> >>>with hard left turns or dips, or with anyone in the shotgun seat.
> >>>
> >>>After a sag of almost two inches I can report that now the sag is
only
> >>>3/4". I am pissed that it isn't more level, but it is improved. I
won't
> >>>know the real paractical result until I get the bleeders that were
left
> >>>out
> >>>of the box with the new cylinders.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> ----- Original Message -----
> >>> From: sammie smith
> >>> To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >>> Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2007 8:34 PM
> >>> Subject: [tcb] Re: thinkin' about a shorty
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Speaking of Denis: How's the front end work going?
> >>>
> >>> Eric Woodall wrote:
> >>> Come on Shelby, its all good man.
> >>> Just giving you a hard time, God knows I've been given a hard
> >>> time...
> >>> And just think about Denis. Geez, nobody ever lets that guy live
> >>> anything down!
> >>> :-)
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Shelby Shook wrote:
> >>> > Then I regret asking, and I probably shouldn't have appologized to
> >>>you
> >>> > either. I know I asked for opinions but there's a big difference
> >>> > between giving an honest opinion in a constructive criticising way
> >>>and
> >>> > a just completely rude way.
> >>> >
> >>> > I wont be asking a lot of advice from this forum any more.
> >>> >
> >>> > And for you other more kind people and you should know who you
> >>> are,
> >>> > thanks for everything.
> >>> >
> >>> > -Shelby
> >>> >
> >>> >
> >>> > On 4/3/07, *Eric Woodall* > > wrote:
> >>> >
> >>> > Ya know, asking a group of bus guys if they think you should make
> >>> a
> >>> > shorty is kinda like asking a group of PETA activists if they
> >>> wanna
> >>> > watch while you set a cat on fire...
> >>> >
> >>> > Brian Denning wrote:
> >>> > > i can get you a 69 day camper with a corvair conversion in it
> >>> for
> >>>1k
> >>> > > that would be ideal to shorten...it's already kind of a bastard
> >>>bus
> >>> > > anyway.
> >>> > >
> >>> > >
> >>> > >> From: "Jumpin' Joe Barnett" > >
> >>> > >> Reply-To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >>> > >> To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >>> > >> Subject: [tcb] Re: thinkin' about a shorty
> >>> > >> Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2007 10:07:02 -0500
> >>> > >>
> >>> > >> Shelby, for 7000.00, you can have this..
> >>> > >>
> >>> > >>
> >>> >
>
>>>http://www.hvwc.org/html/index.php?module=photoshare&func=showimages&fid=10
> >>> >
> >>> > >>
> >>> > >>
> >>> > >> :)
> >>> > >>
> >>> > >> On 4/3/07, Andrew Barnes > > wrote:
> >>> > >>>
> >>> > >>> I thought about making my 61 DC into a short bed wouldn't
> >>> > that be
> >>> > >>> different?
> >>> > >>>
> >>> > >>>
> >>> > >>> Just kidding , Shelby I don't know you but , It's your stuff
> >>> > so do
> >>> > >>> what
> >>> > >>> you want with it
> >>> > >>> Drew
> >>> > >>>
> >>> > >>> ----- Original Message -----
> >>> > >>> *From:* Denis >
> >>> > >>> *To:* tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >>> > >>> *Sent:* Monday, April 02, 2007 7:33 PM
> >>> > >>> *Subject:* [tcb] Re: thinkin' about a shorty
> >>> > >>>
> >>> > >>>
> >>> > >>> Don't get set off. I have been intrigued by a shorty. I think
> >>> > that it
> >>> > >>> would be easy. Just cut a slice off of the middle. There is no
> >>> > >>> drivetrain. I
> >>> > >>> guess you would have to use a bus that had no chance for a
> >>> life
> >>> > >>> except as an
> >>> > >>> amputee. The weight would be more like a big Bug.
> >>> > >>>
> >>> > >>> I would look at it like a baja.
> >>> > >>>
> >>> > >>> ----- Original Message -----
> >>> > >>> *From:* Shelby Shook < sloweyefasthand@xxxxxxxxx
> >>> > >
> >>> > >>> *To:* tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >>> > >>> *Sent:* Monday, April 02, 2007 7:06 PM
> >>> > >>> *Subject:* [tcb] Re: thinkin' about a shorty
> >>> > >>>
> >>> > >>>
> >>> > >>> If I wasn't serious I wouldn't have made this post. I've
> >>> > looked for
> >>> > >>> some
> >>> > >>> shortys and have only found one and it was pretty far
> >>> away...I'm
> >>> > >>> sure there
> >>> > >>> have been quite a few made but I can't find them any where. I
> >>> > don't
> >>> > >>> really
> >>> > >>> see her speeding around corners. And wouldn't you rather have
> >>> > a bus
> >>> > >>> made
> >>> > >>> into something rather than just sitting somewhere or being
> >>>crushed
> >>> > >>> so it can
> >>> > >>> sit somewhere else in pieces and not even resemble what it
> >>> > once was?
> >>> > >>> I know
> >>> > >>> I asked for your opinion and thanks for it, but the "are you
> >>> > >>> serious?" thing
> >>> > >>> kinda just set me off.
> >>> > >>>
> >>> > >>> And hell, if she dosn't like it and it turns out impractical
> >>> > then I'll
> >>> > >>> sell it or keep it for fun.
> >>> > >>>
> >>> > >>> peace,
> >>> > >>> Shelby
> >>> > >>>
> >>> > >>>
> >>> > >>>
> >>> > >>>
> >>> > >>> On 4/2/07, Eric Woodall < eric@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >>> > > wrote:
> >>> > >>> >
> >>> > >>> > 1) They would probably make a pretty bad vehicle, cornering
> >>> > wise.
> >>> > >>> > 2) There are plenty of shorty buses that are already made
> >>> > (don't
> >>> > >>> cut up
> >>> > >>> > a
> >>> > >>> > bus to make one.)
> >>> > >>> > 3) Make sure you don't make one out of a split.
> >>> > >>> > 4) Are you serious?
> >>> > >>> >
> >>> > >>> >
> >>> > >>> >
> >>> > >>> > > I was talking to Amanda today about what car should would
> >>>like
> >>> > >>> for he
> >>> > >>> > > first
> >>> > >>> > > car, and we were thinking about VW trucks, and she really
> >>> > likes the
> >>> > >>> > double
> >>> > >>> > > cabs (who dosn't) but they're so pricey. Then we had the
> >>>great
> >>> > >>> idea of
> >>> > >>> > a
> >>> > >>> > > shorty bus. Seems like it would be a really fun project.
> >>> > Me and Dad
> >>> > >>> > could
> >>> > >>> > > save some old beat up bus and turn it into a really fun
> >>>little
> >>> > >>> shorty.
> >>> > >>> > Let
> >>> > >>> > > me know what you guy's think, I'm thinking it's a
> >>> wonderfull
> >>> > >>> idea but
> >>> > >>> > > would
> >>> > >>> > > like to know if it's really difficult to make one. Dad's a
> >>> > good
> >>> > >>> welder
> >>> > >>> > and
> >>> > >>> > > he's got the stuff to do it so I don't see any reason not
> >>> > to. Seems
> >>> > >>> > like
> >>> > >>> > > the
> >>> > >>> > > perfect car for Amanda.
> >>> > >>> > >
> >>> > >>> > > -Shelby
> >>> > >>> > >
> >>> > >>> >
> >>> > >>> >
> >>> > >>> >
> >>> > >>> >
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