Wally&Sue

Lifting a head out. Made a fixture that holds the head at the correct angle. Measuring a lifter all the way collapsed to see what the trave...

K line positive seal with protector sleeve on stem and install driver. Basically you just tap it down on the guide. Guide tops had been mach...

I had these seal types to select from. On the exhaust seals the stock type Felpro umbrella are the way to go. The intakes were a different d...

I made a poor man's stem height gage for Oldsmobile heads. The spec is 1.220 + - .005 for the top of the stem above the valve cover rail...

Ground the valve seats in my open sky shop. Intake width .060 exhaust .080. Tried to get the intake pattern towards the outside of the valve...

Got some carbide sizing balls that come in .0005 increments from Goodson's. The ball broaches on a stick came in .001 increments an I wa...

Bought a valve seat grinder on Ebay and one of the stone holders wasn't for the Sioux driver in the kit. It was for a Thor/Black & D...

Grinding valves at my Open Sky Shop

Driving sizing ball broach thru new guide. Making bushings to fit in the valve seats Cousin's Ted and Bill stopped by to see what was go...

Last weekend we ran up to the north shore of lake Superior. Omaha forecast was for 4 to 6 inches of snow and school was already announced cl...

Took this with Olympus in TIFF format then run through Gimp editor. The "raw" file out of the camera was 9MB. Click on the image t...

Finally we bolted the dinette seats back in place.

Sue fabricated a trellis for a friends birthday. It is made of 3/8 round steel except for the whiskers made of 1/4. The supplier had no hot ...

Side panels installed. Had both of them off and back on a couple of times to adjust the fabric tension for wrinkles and the top of the bigge...

Wall panel for the side of the dinette and the lower part of the door recovered to match. Used the grinder to bevel the foam glued on the or...

Seats are done. The backs were a bugger. Reused the tack strips and they weren't in the best of shape. Still need to recover he wall pan...

5 Minute epoxy for a quick glue job. Magnets and clamps until set (really takes about 20 minutes)

Dinette storage door in place and it fits. Still need to make the flaps for the back that cover the mechanism. It snowed some more today. Pu...

Snowing tonight good time to be messing around inside

Part of the original upholstery was glued on to the metal frame of the dinette base. I didn't know how much luck I would have using that...

The trowel was just the right size to tie a loop of cord through the button eye. The wood washers are the same size as the original press bo...

Melted the holes for the button cord so maybe the fabric won't unravel. The fabric is all synthetic poly and rayon.