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My family has a rental cabin in Island Park (https://islandparkidaho.com/Blue-Creek-Lodge.html). One thing to watch carefully is seasonality of the location. It rents pretty consistently in the summer and it is always a struggle to use it because we aren't very good planners and used to use it...

I absolutely love this build! Who did you use for paint?I need to get going on choosing a paint shop for my cruiser.

Not too many updates. I did get the frame back from being galvanized and finished up the axles minus steering and brake lines. Had some great help cataloging a bunch more brackets and hardware to take to get cadmium plated.

Its a bit further away, but trailers can park at my office on 500 west and 700 south if needed. Let me know. If there is enough interest I can open up our parking lot.

Thanks for the thoughts. It seems the consensus from others is that it could run for two weeks or 2 years but hard to rest easy. I can easily find precups, but it is going to cost ~$1500 to have the cracks hot welded and machined which seems high for remanufacturing it. I have heard mixed...

Need some advice on the head. I thought I was good to go until I cleaned the carbon build up and saw the cracks between the valves. It is over at Crankshaft Grinders right now. I am going to have it magna-fluxed to see if the cracks are into the valve seat journals yet. Has anyone had luck with...

Depending on what you need transported, we have trucks between Magic Valley and SLC fairly regularly. But Portland is pretty far from Eastern Oregon too.

Still a few hours left to head over to Bewilder and spot some killer cars and the BEST $6 Brat you'll ever have! Thanks @Cody!

I ended up pulling the head off and definitely already have cracked precups and head that I will need to address which is a bummer. I also pulled the injectors to get tested and rebuilt. On a positive note, frame is blasted and ready for a few mods before getting galvanized. I am also about...

Probably more bullshit happening tonight downtown. While I was leaving work the DPS heli was circling with something on the loud speakers and other choppers were up higher. Sick of this crap.

I'm looking forward to seeing what it comes out as. I currently have Toyo MTs in this size on our 200 and love the size but hate the tire. I am confident that the KM3s will be smaller but hopefully not too much...

Just saw this KSL article as well. https://www.ksl.com/article/46769412/remembering-the-utahns-weve-lost-carol-moody Positive vibes your way Roger!

The steam bay definitely did magic on that frame! It is almost as good as the giant parts washer that cleans about anything in 15 minutes! Luckily, I have been able to work on it after hours at work. We fix large electric motors and generators so there are a lot of resources that have been nice...

Getting ready to mount it to the engine stand Cleaned up the transmission and tcase Knocked out gallons of dirt out of the frame rails. Then spent over an hour steam cleaning every nook and cranny of it. Frame all cleaned up now needs to get blasted Then I started putting the rear...

My guess is most never bother to measure and it has more to do with what they can get away with. Smaller tire = less material. I bet it adds up. Either that or French men must be used to measuring small things things and then exaggerating! :rofl:

Thanks Greg. Doing it right and making it last is definitely the goal. I have jonesed for a 70 series for a long time. I have had too many things I half assed in the past and regretted it. Wow that was a long time ago! I never painted tires white... I painted them back to black to get rid of...

It has been a lot slower progress lately, but today was a big jump. After I spent a bit of time wire wheel prepping the frame, I realized that I was not going to be happy with the results and decided to split the frame off and get it professionally blasted and coated. Took it off the lift and...

I think I am almost to the point where everything I touch doesn't go five levels further. Since the front axle housing already had some dings in it that I straightened out. I got some plate armor to weld on to protect the ring gears and drain plugs on the axles. Milled in some centering holes...

The last little while has seen me with a lot less time available to work on this, but I have a few updates. Got the radiator out and began cleaning up the front cover Started cleaning up the front axle housing by blasting it with walnut shell first and then clean up with a wire wheel after...

Everything torn out of the inside before chipping out the sound deadener. Need to weld up and shore up the seat mounting. Engine bay before tearing into it. Turbo kit sitting on my desk at work. Mostly installed. How she sits right now. How to totally cheat when it comes to cleaning...