Where does time go? Things have settled for the time being so......back to business. The "WTF" has been collecting dust for months and I have only walked by IT a few times since. Well yesterday that all changed!
The guy i gave the axle to to straighten out wanted the bearings also. So I gave the to him with a smile and after months of waiting I get just my axle back.:facepalm: He says the bearings were lost or thrown away by accident.
"Thanks pal should I just bend over your grinding bench for you to?". WTF!!!!!
So months pass and I finally have some new bearings in hand and Im out more money. Great....might aswell take another $25.00 and go out back and smoke it. Without further a due.............the progress. The seat. Old one piece foam and cover that was glued to foam was shot so i had to come up with an alternative. So I made a pattern for the bottom of the pan, cut some wood, added some nut-serts and WHA-LA.............3/4 of a seat.
This shot shows that i actually have the wood suspended off the lower pan. Did this for two reasons. The bolt that holds to the seat has a wlded in threaded piece that sits in the pan. Preventing me from getting the wood to sit flat. Spacing it up took care of that. The second reason was so that water cant sit in the seat pan and the wood is less likely to soak up water and rot out quickly.
Next step is to make a cushion out of some foam from an old snowmobile seat and cover it with this waterproof canvas stuff my mom had kicking around. One side is canvas feeling the other has a rubber coating to it making it water proof. See how it works out. Good news is I have plenty of it.
Picture shows two sides. More pics to come. Going to get the engine welded in in the next week or so. Hopefully be able to atleist fire up the engine shortly after that.
