After watching eBay every day for almost 2 years, I finally found the most rare of the Snap-on body hammers: the Snap-on BF634 vertical chisel shrinking hammer!

I posted this picture on December 20, 2011:

http://wrinklered.blogspot.com/2011/12/i-bought-another-hammer-today.html

Fast forward to today:

There are still 2-3 more hammers that I need to consider the collection 'complete,' but they are totally useless and still in production today.  I'll be keeping my eye out for cheap ones - BF610B, BF635, and BF631.

A new ride showed up at the shop... an immaculate vintage Honda CT70!

This Saturday, Dave and I went to Millerstown Pic-A-Part to look for some new doors for my Jetta.  The media blasters warped mine quite a bit, I decided I will try to replace them rather than repair the warped doors.

We found this sweet truck.

This Del Sol had a bit of bondo in the side.

I expected to leave empty-handed, but we found this beauty!  After sacrificing my undershirt and wetting it with some washer fluid from a nearby car, I wiped it down to inspect the panels for dents.

I discovered that the car had been resprayed, so I pulled the interior door panels off to make sure there were no major surprises (see the Del Sol above!). 

Looks good from outside, right?

Except for the two ~.45 caliber holes through the handle!  They were filled with seam sealer and painted over.  We found holes in the door panel and front passenger seat too. 

These two doors appeared to be free from bullet wounds and mud pits, so I brought them home.

Back at Dave's house, we found a nice Cherry hammerin' stump for our buddy Chuck.  He had a beautiful stump in his garage, and while waiting for it to season, the termites got it :(  This one will be ready for some metal forming in a few months.

I thought about taking this one to replace the Red Oak that Dave cut for me a few years back.  But we couldn't lift it.  Anybody have a 48" bar attached to a Stihl badass enough to run it?

Woody and I found this thing for sale.  New project? 

Back at the shop, I tackled some more rust repair.   The rear jack points were pretty beat up and rusted, so I plated them with another layer of 16ga steel.  I also ground and re-welded a few crap welds from a few years ago.

New friend!  This is Cocoa.

Woody Sr. has his bike rebuilt and running.  The bodywork is out getting painted, but the motor and airride are done.

I continued on with more rust repair.  I repaired the inner skin on the left rear corner of the car.

Then the outer skin.

Then I repaired the frame rail section with some 16ga sheet.

Then the same thing on the passenger side rear corner.

 

 

New tools!  It has been a while, I have taken a break on my tool purchases, but I made an exception for this 7/16" Snap-on torque adapter.  I'm going to use it to change some gaskets in Papa Fazz's Harley.

 

I didn't take a close-up "before" picture of this area because it was embarassing haha.  I ground away some old welds and replaced the gussets around my exhaust tunnel brace.  I'll leave this blurry picture here since you can't see how awful it was!

 

 

 

I installed the dummy engine/trans setup I cleaned up last week and put the Jetta up on the lift.

Before I build my exhaust, I have to do some more rust repair. 

Rear bumper bracket:

Moving underneath, there are some rust spots and some bent steel around brackets that aren't in use anymore.

The left rear corner had another spot of rust that the media blasting uncovered.  This section is three layers thick, so I had to cut away all three and repair each one individually.

Tonight I installed the rubber bushings and my homemade stainless bushing inserts in the front engine crossmember.

Top side washer and sleeve installed:

Oops!  I fucked this one up.

Back to the lathe to make a new set...

Clamping it together to squish the bushing while allowing access through the center.

I installed a flat-head bolt through the center to swage the lower washer in place.

Installed!