Barn Conversion – Disassembly

In my previous post about the firewood “lean-to”, I mentioned our project to convert several stalls in the barn to a garage for the old truck. It took a while to make the final commitment to do the project, but we’re off and going. I told Inga when I started to disassemble the interior stalls,…

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Starter Improvise Repair

I was having problems with the starter not maintaining engagement with the flywheel. It seemed to be especially bad when the engine was warm. My dad said it’s probably the Bendix spring, so I ordered a new one on my favorite auto parts site, RockAuto.com. When I took the starter apart, I discovered there where…

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Adding a “lean to” for firewood

We’re planning to convert several of the stalls in the barn to a new garage for the old farm truck. One of the first sub-projects in my project plan was to build this lean-to for the firewood, which has been stored in one of those stalls. Over the MLK holiday weekend I built this lean-to…

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Hive Painting New Years 2016

Hive painting is a pain in the butt, especially when it’s below freezing. Modern Molly pine hive was my BFF over New Year’s 2016 weekend. Since the barn was no more than 30-degrees, I had to haul everything into the garage and wait for my little space heater to heat up the garage to a…

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Rusty Gas Tank

One of the first repair projects required on the truck was to clean out the gas tank. There was a lot of rust and debris in the tank interfering with the fuel pump reed valve operation. The truck would keep dying because of the lack of fuel, and finally got so bad I had to…

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