Last Indian

I ask because I’m trying figure timing if I can! You know that project I have going, well actually two projects. One for you one for Frosty! Things have gotten; well as they say at least here, balls to the wall! Trying to desperately finish a major staircase renovation. Which I can’t get any help on for parts from the supplier, this COVID excuse is getting ridiculous! And soon I’ll be starting an exterior remodel that will certainly test just how old I really am!!

I’m not sure what you mean by not working most of the time! I’m not picking, we are all just trying to help with something we can’t see or hear! So you have turned the traction control off and that’s what you mean by not working most of the time than ok, but if you mean it’s not coming on than no, that won’t stop intermittent issues that are due to faulty sensors! As faulty sensors often never register in the traction control mode! Likewise, while the fluid may not be burnt that doesn’t mean it’s good! How many miles are on the fluid since the last filter & fluid change? If and when the fluid was change how was it changed? What brand of fluid was used? All of these things play a big role in GM FWD trannys! And this is all only relevant to the transmission! Which may not even be the issue that you are having!

My personal favorite for a V8 was always a pyramid design! To me it gives a structural stability design to the engine. It also has a tendency, if designed right, to aiding in volumetric efficiency? Kiwi, when do you think you’ll be ready to paint?

I agree with Ringo! The front grille, like most nearly all of today, is ridiculous! He lower front ducts, that at least in the GS are nonfunctional, look stupid! And Really! A triple barrel scoop on a GDI! To me only the wheels & tires on the Judge look good!

Well! As the close of winter comes and the tweet tweet of the birds starts and hope springs eternal?! Oh I’m so screwed! The Last Indians Work Shoppe will now become The Last Indians Sweat Shop! 🥵 More work than one Old man can shake a tree at, forget the stick! 😩 To quote my buddy JustA, and so it begins!😔

Turn off your traction control and keep it off until you determine that’s not the problem! Traction control works off the wheel sensors/antilock system! If the sensors are having an issue because of corrosion or poor signal reception they won’t set a code unless they are completely dead, but intermittent won’t set a code. But the engine will respond on acceleration as though the wheels are slipping! Which can seem like the the car is hesitating!

Oh sure! If you want to get real detailed about it! Good job buddy!

If you are referring to the start of Pontiac as the Oakland Motor Company! It was horse drawn carriages!

Not sure what the spray can paint is like or if it’s even the same product, but the Hammerite I have used since the early “70”s is goooood sh%#! Tough as a rock and pretty much impervious to most all chemicals after it’s cured! The Hammerite I use is a brush on that you can spray, but it takes a pretty high psi to do that. Inner fender in Hammerite undercarriage in Hammerite rocker cover bracket in Hammerite you can hardly mare this paint with a hammer!

Good point JustA, but I think I’m coming down with laryngitis or with maybe it COVID! Ya ya that’s it and I think they’re going to have to intubate me! Darn it!

In their day Black & Decker was on top of the heap! Now the whole thing of all the competing greats, like Stanley, Bostitch, DeWalt, Irwin, etc. are just all rolled into one huge conglomerate! With the only directive being, make it cheap and charge what ever you can! Long live the men of ingenuity, ingenuity is dead!

So now that’s what I’ve got to do to impress you? Well I could sing moon river or, wait for it; show you the moon! Either or both might make you woozy & gag!

No! But I think they got all the ants that were running around!

Does this count? This is a Blackfoot Indian dancer! And I am part Blackfoot!

Yup! Handed down tools are as meaningful as JustA bout anything! In my case my dad didn’t have anything to hand down as he really wasn’t a handy guy! It is what it is! Fact is you really wanted to keep him away from things! Once he tried to replace the master cylinder on our 57 chevy! He ended up driving through our garage! Really! Another time he built a stool to stand on,,,, yes it collapsed when he stood on it! But the good news is my grandfather, my moms dad, was that guy and while nobody ever showed me how to do anything when I was young, I do have some of his old tools! The man who was the most influential in my life with respect being able to do things was my father-in-law! He taught me that I could do what ever I wanted to accomplish! He made me realize I had a gift and anything I wanted to do and didn’t know how to do I could learn quickly if I was willing to read about how to do it! My grandfather’s 1920’s square my grandfather’s 1900 foldable ruler grandfather’s 1930’s level my father-in-law’s 1940’s circular saw. This saw I still use to this day! This saw weights more than most bench top table saws you can buy today! You can’t stall this saw! It will literally rip your arm of if you don’t have a hold of it! I have cut stone, brick and block with this saw using a carbide blade!

The Fat Indian refuses to sing! Because I can’t in good conscience do that to the poor dogs in the area! Also I can’t afford to replace that many mirrors!😳

Some day, maybe!? Still have family outside of Belfast! Yes we are of the Ulsters!

My wife might disagree with that! 🙃 She knows me too well, damn it! 😁 Few hours on Saturday to fiddle!

THIS is VERY TEDIOUS! My fingers hurt 😓

Ok! So #3 is a little more 3D, a little bolder? Maybe?! But all have quite away to go!

So there was a quick change to an open assembly with a solid, one piece head! Both of these units I will finish, but again it JustA didn’t grab me so I have gone to a third idea! This one is a little more 3D I think! Of which I will post some pictures of soon!

Well Fitzy that pretty much sums up how most folks feel going into retirement! It’s the great unknown! No matter how much you plan that nagging question, will it be enough is always there! And at least in the US a lot of that is due to the government! Every time we turn around they more often then not change the tax laws, among other things that hurts the little guy in the wallet. So in my case I over planed the best I could! Saved more than I thought I would ever need! Guess what? I’m going into my 6th year of retirement and I’ve yet to touch a dime of my investments! So you should be fine my friend! Some is mill work, but there is a lot of hand work as well! The pictures in the vise were because I was doing hand work at that time!

Thought I would post some of what’s be going on as of late in the old shoppe! I don’t get a lot of time these days, sounds crazy I know, but when you’re retired time just flys away! Right now I just been playin around with some ideas! A 3D Chief Pontiac piece! Long way to go, but I thought some might be interested! This was just a first what if, but soon I changed this concept and plan on removing the center aluminum section of the head!

Careful! Joe may invite you to the White House! You may feel like a woman today, but Joe can get a little handsy!

The simple fact is this! We humans are not that smart! If we were we would have long ago figured out who to do what a single plant has know how to do since the beginning of time. Crack water! A plant takes in water and strips the hydrogen atom from the oxygen atom! Send rich oxygen into the air for us to breath and hydrogen into the atmosphere, without any electricity involved! Imagine fill your tank with water! Hit the key, a pump turns on pushes the water through a nozzle that splits the water into two atoms the same way! The hydrogen goes the engine as well as the oxygen! Combustion takes place in the cylinders and guess what comes out the tail pipe? Water!! And we’re spending time and money making solar panel and burying wind turbine blades! 🤬!