Let me give you a little background as to what im thinking about.

I dont have a job right now (wife takes care of me great) so i come up with some pick up change and to fill my free time in a 2 bedroom apartment i try to Buy, Fix, Sell things.



An example is i just finished up fixing a Bissell carpet cleaner i bought from a thrift store. When i purchased it i plugged it it and the motor ran but made a rough grinding noise so i shut it off a bought it for $15. Tore it apart and found the motor had a sealed barring come apart and fail this slop in the shaft causing the grinding noise i heard.

$5.30 for a new barring. $21.42 to install it and i was back in business.

= $45

Put it all back together and she works. So i plan to ether sell if or use it to clean peoples rooms for a few bucks a room.



So what other projects are you or have you recently worked on?

I've started designing aftermarket parts for my cars - stuff for my Aston and a couple things for my T4R. The first project I put together for my Aston is getting picked up by an aftermarket company as well as being sold through at least one dealership. Hoping to replicate the success with a couple other things I'm developing now. I put together something for my 4Runner but it didn't get much interest, so meh whatever - looks good and is functional on my rig

Project 1: Picking up next weekend as my new woods weapon. Getting a flywheel weight, skid plate and bark busters. Going to ride it through the fall then tear it down and powdercoat the frame this winter and reassemble it to look like a 95 Factory Team Replica minus all the blingy hard to find HRC parts since it will get ridden.


The other project: Melba Toast - 3rz "Samurai" on FJ80 Axles
Its currently a growing pile of parts but I am parting/scrapping trucks as I find them with what I need to keep the cost down. Started as two different 88 Samurai's that got some unneeded love from an arborist on a neighbors property.

Started like this about 2 months ago -

and this


The blue tub is now stripped bare.

Stripped the red one down to the bare frame - scrapped some parts, sold some parts etc. It was so mashed up we had to do this to get to any of the drivetrain and body mounts to even get it to the bare frame and remove the axles.


Axles

I'm a house painter this week.

'86 Ford Ranger. I guess if I had to pin down a build style, I'd call it Pro-Touring. Nothing outrageous, just a strong engine in a lightweight pickup. It's a Supercab, which only got short beds from the factory. I found a longbed headed to the scrapper and had a shop cut both frames and graft them together. It's now a Supercab Long Bed. It's also getting a complete drivetrain swap from a 2000 Mercury Mountaineer. (pushrod 5.0...and hell yes it's remaining EFI). I'm trying to track down a specific 5.0 manifold to modify for use with take-off GT500 superchargers. If I don't find a used one soon, I'll just bite the bullet and buy a new manifold. It looks like an EFI tunnel ram. My idea is to cut off the plenum and make a new, larger plenum to hold that supercharger.

Im currently building my second Volvo. I decided to do a pretty unusual swap on it. I started with the basis of its rwd and has 4 cylinders. Im keeping it that way. After searching for possible motors i ended up finding exactly what i was looking for. A855. The turbo pt cruiser motor or as most of you may know it the 2.4 from a dodge srt4. It's gonna be paired up with a ar5 trans from a Pontiac solstice (also in hummer h3, chevy Colorado and a variant of the famed r154 from a supra)

So in roughly a year i will have a Volvo with about 250hp and almost 300 torque... Depending on how the money flow goes im gonna have a nasty sounding torque monster of an auto x/mountain car.