[DeTomaso] Ramblings

[Bill Lewis]

It seems that, as one gets older, one would not keep making stupid mistakes!  My last "call the neighbor to pull my tractor out" was about 3 months ago!  The first time I called him was in about 1977 - so, is that 35 years making the same mistake.  He was the one who came when, in the '80's, I was out of town and a thunderstorm came through, and lightening hit a tree where 5 cows were standing under it.  Killed the tree and all 5 cows.  My wife didn't know what to do, so called the neighbor, and he came over with his back hoe, dug a trench and buried them all.  As an aside, his name is Berry.  His kids are Berry, Jr., Derry, Terry, and Perry.  Salt of the earth folks.  Love 'em to death.    ---Bill

> Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2012 09:12:55 -0500
> From: gow2 at rc-tech.net
> To: dave4604 at sbcglobal.net
> CC: detomaso at realbig.com
> Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Ramblings
> 
> I don't remember but the ear muffs have a radio in them.
> 
> That particular incident, I busted the hydraulic hoses on the back hoe. I
> was done clearing around the lake for the day and was trying to get
> through the wet ditch/bog. The backhoe dropped in and the tractor was
> stuck. Since the backhoe was DOA, I couldn't use it to get out.
> 
> I got the neighbors tractor but it would not budge it. We had a week of
> torrential rains coming in and I wanted it out. I spent the following day
> moving it out an inch at a time with the tie down bars. I was moving it
> like an 2 inches an hour.
> 
> If you look at the oil can next to the bucket, it was a marker to measure
> progress.
> 
> G
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> > Yeah that is it. But what is the story of the ear muffs hanging on the
> > tree?
> > IndyDave
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: gow2 at rc-tech.net [mailto:gow2 at rc-tech.net]
> > Sent: Monday, June 25, 2012 6:37 PM
> > To: larry at ohiotimecorp.com
> > Cc: detomaso at realbig.com
> > Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Ramblings
> >
> > Yes but it was not a restore that time. I just swapped engines and I am
> > not sure about those who built the engine. It's not that I treat these
> > things that well either.
> >
> > Is this the creek your talking about?
> >
> > http://www.rc-tech.net/cars2/tractor/Stuck%203.jpg
> >
> >
> >
> >> Gary,
> >>
> >> Is this not the 2nd time around tractor restore?  I remember that
> >> project a few years ago...
> >>
> >> Now you see you made it to nice to drive across the creek.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Larry (life long projects) - Cleveland
> >>
> >>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: detomaso-bounces at realbig.com
> >> [mailto:detomaso-bounces at realbig.com]
> >> On
> >> Behalf Of gow2 at rc-tech.net
> >> Sent: Monday, June 25, 2012 2:06 PM
> >> To: detomaso at realbig.com
> >> Subject: [DeTomaso] Ramblings
> >>
> >> As many of you know my Pantera project has been slow. I am progressing
> >> on the things which have been getting in the way and still making
> >> progress.
> >>
> >> Last Fall/winter I worked on rebuilding the MGB engine and re-working
> >> the engine bay after a broken oil line hose:
> >>
> >> http://www.rc-tech.net/cars2/mg2/cleanup/cleanupf1.jpg
> >>
> >> This past spring/summer I have been rebuilding my mowing tractor. It
> >> started after much dirt work locked the oil rings. An engine re-build
> >> turned into a tractor restoration but it is almost finished:
> >>
> >> http://www.rc-tech.net/cars2/tractor/teardown.jpg
> >> http://www.rc-tech.net/cars2/tractor/pcparts1.jpg
> >> http://www.rc-tech.net/cars2/tractor/pcparts2.jpg
> >> http://www.rc-tech.net/cars2/tractor/8Ntog1.jpg
> >> http://www.rc-tech.net/cars2/tractor/8ntog4.jpg
> >> http://www.rc-tech.net/cars2/tractor/8ntog5.jpg
> >>
> >> Webers are done and will be time to fire up the engine again when the
> >> tractor is done:
> >>
> >> http://www.rc-tech.net/cars2/panttransam/1905/web/Webassembled.jpg
> >>
> >> Next will be setting up the distributorless injection as used here:
> >>
> >> http://www.thunderv12.com/yahoo_site_admin/assets/images/DSC02373_crop
> >> _left_
> >> lightening.141202939_large.jpg
> >>
> >> One project I kept putting off is the gas tank which is nearly done now:
> >>
> >> http://www.rc-tech.net/cars2/panttransam/1905/gas/gastank1.jpg
> >> http://www.rc-tech.net/cars2/panttransam/1905/gas/gastank2.jpg
> >> http://www.rc-tech.net/cars2/panttransam/1905/gas/gastank3.jpg
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Gary
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
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