Topic: Terry Bob's redneck F-ing K2 bitsa project!

[BobbyR]

No sir. They's quality wimmen. 

[RAFster122s]

Bobby you are in NY!  That ain't southern, but southerners don't have exclusive rights to rednecks as they are everywhere...even in NY.  When someone asks you over for Sunday dinner, what time do you usually arrive?

Moon Pie and RC Cola...
or Dr Enuf or a Cheerwine, or maybe a Yoo-Hoo to enjoy with that delicacy...

David

[Terry in Australia]

Well that famous redneck John Denver pretty much summed it up when he sang "Some days are diamonds, some days are stones". That's the way my weekend went, got some wins on the board, along with some fails. As long as the wins happen more often that the fails, I guess I'm still ahead?

Anyway, I got sidetracked yesterday, I've got a POS thing called a "Eurogrill" that I bought in a moment of weakness to attempt smoking meat. It sat in it's box for two years until my son pulled it out and used it a week or so ago. I thought it might be cool to smoke some ribs, so I had the wife go get some while I fired it up. Well "fire it up" is a misnomer, because while the charcoal was smouldering away OK, it wasn't hot enough to cook with, so I chopped up some oily old wood I had laying around, and sprayed some degreaser in there to get that sucker smoking:

Redneck Saturday 2 by Terry Prendergast, on Flickr

But they looked pretty good when I pulled them out:

Redneck Saturday 6 by Terry Prendergast, on Flickr

Only problem was, they tasted just like oily old wood and degreaser.........

Today was better. Not fantastic mind you, no electrical wiring or wheel lacing, but I got a couple of things done. I needed a headlight bucket, so I dragged out a dusty tub of headlight buckets.

Redneck Saturday 4 by Terry Prendergast, on Flickr

My can of Rust-o-leum did it's job, and my headlight bucket is now a glossy black. Next problem is that there were no steel inserts in the mounting holes, so I machined some alloy suckers up in the world's filthiest lathe.

Redneck headlight by Terry Prendergast, on Flickr

Redneck headlight 1 by Terry Prendergast, on Flickr

Redneck headlight 3 by Terry Prendergast, on Flickr   

Of course I needed blinkers so I reached into the box of Yamiya stuff, and found some more un-redneck shiny bling. Still, I figure I can use them for mirrors when I brush my tooth.

Redneck headlight 4 by Terry Prendergast, on Flickr

I also painted an oil tank, sadly I didn't realise until after it was dry that it had a decent sized dent in it, but what they hey, it's gonna have a side cover hiding it, probably.....

Redneck oil tank by Terry Prendergast, on Flickr

I found this fantastic redneck combination oilcap/dipstick/thermometer on my K0 oil tank, born in the USA!

Redneck oil tank 1 by Terry Prendergast, on Flickr

I had another fail though, I wanted to install one of the two sets of Rafi's beautiful braided hoses, and while the front hose was fine, the rear one appears to be slightly too long, and it doesn't matter which way I try to angle it, it kinks. I ended up "redneck recycling" an old hose. Not perfect, but it'll do.

Redneck oil tank 2 by Terry Prendergast, on Flickr

So to quote a long forgotten Aussie singer Ted Hamilton, I'm One step closer and two steps back, or in reality probably the other way around, but not as far along as I would have liked. Oh well, it's all part of the game.......

Redneck headlight 5 by Terry Prendergast, on Flickr

Oh, and as a post script, my son was nice enough to buy me a bottle of whiskey, but somehow he decided I needed Japanese whisky and not good quality American whiskey. Hoping that it would taste better than my ribs, I poured myself a decent amount and took a swig, and was delighted that it didn't taste like sh1t. In fact, it tastes pretty good. But I'm not turning Japanese, no I'm not turning Japanese I really think so...........

Redneck Jap whisky by Terry Prendergast, on Flickr   



 

[SOHC4 Cafe Racer Fan]

Suntory time!! 

[Jerry Rxman Griffin aka MuthaF'er]

Put yer fanC tempatur gage ohn yer smoker. Ifn it hets that thar 220 cool er off uh biet to 200 hunnert. An no mar awlly wud. Smoking requires low temps, good wood, time, beer, bourbon and shine. At the end of the day consider it good if you can still eat  I'm assuming that's a F gauge and not C? Ifn ets a C gage than smokem et a hunnert DEgrees.   

Jerry Joe Jr

[BobbyR]

Bobby you are in NY!  That ain't southern, but southerners don't have exclusive rights to rednecks as they are everywhere...even in NY.  When someone asks you over for Sunday dinner, what time do you usually arrive?

Moon Pie and RC Cola...
or Dr Enuf or a Cheerwine, or maybe a Yoo-Hoo to enjoy with that delicacy...

David

Yeah Dave born and bred NY'er. Lived in the City till I was 12. Moved 10 miles north. Spent a lot of time with Southerners on a Gov't sponsored trip. Worked in California for two years. I now live 40 miles outside the City and if I go 1 hr north or west it gets very gritty quickly. NY is actually a poor rural state. NYC overshadows that fact. Mike Reick and Andy CB750 will attest my NY accent is intact.   

[ofreen]

OK, Saturday morning here, dropped my new(in 2015) truck off for new tyres at 9am,
Redneck Territory by Terry Prendergast, on Flickr

Hey Terry, you accidentally posted a pic of a station wagon, I'd like to see your truck.  Here is my '65 F250, bought by my dad when it was a year old.  I have had it almost 20 years myself.  It has a certain redneck flair about it, fitting for this thread.

[scottly]

Yur truck ain't got no shotgun rack in the back window? 

[Terry in Australia]

That looks fantastic Greg, and you're right, but if I called it a car, SUV or station wagon, I figured most true rednecks wouldn't understand what I was talking about? I take it you're a Northerner with them book learning skills?

[Terry in Australia]

Yur truck ain't got no shotgun rack in the back window? 

I'm guessing he's one of them thar Demmycraps....

[scottly]

Yur truck ain't got no shotgun rack in the back window? 

I'm guessing he's one of them thar Demmycraps....

It sur don't look like he a Republigun redneck?

[RAFster122s]

Praise the Lord and pass the Ammunition...

These days gun racks have gone out of vogue in many areas due to thieves.  Should treat them like cattle rustlers back in the day, hang'em high.

Being a real man in this country used to mean you hunted your food, shot it, cleaned it, cooked it, ate it, and if you had a head left over you hung it on your wall.
(Stealing a bit of that from a comedian)

Greg, really cool vintage iron and nice patina, worth far more with that patina in dry climates than when you aren't  subjected to the ravages of rust like so many parts of the country.
David

[PeWe]

OK, Saturday morning here, dropped my new(in 2015) truck off for new tyres at 9am,
Redneck Territory by Terry Prendergast, on Flickr

Hey Terry, you accidentally posted a pic of a station wagon, I'd like to see your truck.  Here is my '65 F250, bought by my dad when it was a year old.  I have had it almost 20 years myself.  It has a certain redneck flair about it, fitting for this thread.

Look like Farmtruck!

[ofreen]

That looks fantastic Greg, and you're right, but if I called it a car, SUV or station wagon, I figured most true rednecks wouldn't understand what I was talking about? I take it you're a Northerner with them book learning skills?

I seen a book or two in my time.

Yur truck ain't got no shotgun rack in the back window? 

Used to.  Durn thing broke off on a bump in the dark while givin the wardens the slip and the gun clonked me on the top knot.  Decided to keep it behind the seat from then on.

Look like Farmtruck!

Ceptin' them are chevroolays.  Mine's more like the Scuzzmobile.  Scuzz ought to be paying me a royalty -

[Terry in Australia]

Well I don't want to hurt anyone's feelings here, but I'm not a fan of them chevroolays. Henry Ford might have been a Nazi, he might have tried to screw them boys at Harley Davidson back in the 30's and he might have been responsible for the deaths of several of his own workers who were killed by "Strike Breakers" he hired to frighten striking workers back to work, but hell, at least his brand is easy to spell, and contains the magic number of letters.

I've only ever owned one car with a chevroolay engine (327) and yeah, it was quick, but still too hard to spell, so I've been a Ford man my whole life. At the moment we only have 3 Fords littered around my yard, plus my Daddy's Ford Falcon (not as cool as Greg's, and only 33 years old) is still parked where he left it, in his garage a couple of years after he leapt off his mortal coil. I won't mention the Hyundai's, Mitsubishi's and Subaru's as my daddy always told me that the only good thing to come out of Japan was a mushroom cloud, but I know he was wrong, because Suntory Whisky and CB750's are up there with dat.

I did post a pic of my other Ford, my "Born in the USA" 1998 Ford Exploder, a fine example of US truck engineering as you'll ever find, but I think photophucket et it, so here it is again, to prove that I am a redneck thru and thru. It's a great car, it's heavy, it rattles, (especially the collapsed cam chain tensioner at the rear of the engine) and it sucks down 91 RON @ 15 MPG (US gallons) on the highway and 8 or 9 around the city, but what price redneck happiness? Oh, and I've got my son's 2002 model Exploder sitting in my back yard just in case I ever need some spare parts............

Terry's Explorer by Terry Prendergast, on Flickr       

[strynboen]

Danish farmtruck..my 1996 Toyota..but 76 hp make it a real traktor..but i have short distances in denmark..think i can get from border to border in 4-5 auers...exept the
 greenland provins..its nabore to canada and the North pole..so denmark is not so far of the American kontinent as ve think

[ofreen]

Danish farmtruck..my 1996 Toyota.

I think old Toyota pickups have some redneck cred in spite of where they hail from.  Here is our '81 4X4 high centered on a snowdrift.  It has been around awhile now too.  We took it home on Christmas Eve, 1980.

[SOHC4 Cafe Racer Fan]

I've never really "got" the Chevy vs. Ford vs. Mopar rivalry.  I'm sure the dyed in the wool Chevy or Ford guys hate Toyota Tundras, too!

[PeWe]

AUDI is also easy to spell or do you prefer the smell.... of a Ford?

Hill-Terry, while waiting for boxes from Yamiya
https://rednecknationstrong.com/
https://www.hillbillybrand.com/

[Terry in Australia]

AUDI is also easy to spell or do you prefer the smell.... of a Ford?

Hill-Terry, while waiting for boxes from Yamiya
https://rednecknationstrong.com/
https://www.hillbillybrand.com/

Thanks Per, but no thanks, Euro cars are not well loved here in Oz. The only people who buy them are immigrants who can't let go of their culture, and yuppies who think that somehow they're better? They're expensive, they're fragile, and their market value plummets once they've done a few miles. I know some folks here swear by them, but most Euro car owners here swear at them. They don't call VW "Hitlers Revenge" for nothing...........

[Terry in Australia]

Well my new spokes for my 16" "Hog" rear wheel arrived today, and as I finish work precisely at 3pm, I had time to take some pics of the old wheel off the K0 that I needed to liberate the hub from, for the Bitsa bike, and chop out the rusty old chrome spokes. I was surprised when I was looking at the Buchanan site the other week, that chrome plated spokes were more expensive than stainless steel? Looking at these spokes that were chrome once, I think I know what I'd prefer?

Redneck back wheel 1 by Terry Prendergast, on Flickr

Redneck back wheel 6 by Terry Prendergast, on Flickr

As you can see, nothing but the hub was worth saving, and although I know that a half decent redneck would have just painted it black and filled the cracks in the tyres with boot polish, I've got a couple of nicer rims, and will see if I can't steal a new tyre and tube from Jeff at Ace, or at least get them for a steal of a price.

Like just about everything else on the K0, the wheel was fcuked, including the brakes. I don't remember if I've ever seen the brake linings fall off the shoes on genuine Honda brake shoes, but these did, and interestingly, there was only one lining left in the drum? I think I might have to set the hub up in the world's filthiest lathe and skim the drum just to make sure before I lace 'er up..........   

Redneck back wheel 8 by Terry Prendergast, on Flickr

Redneck back wheel 9 by Terry Prendergast, on Flickr

Okay, nothing much else to report, tomorrow if I get home in time I'll start cleaning up the hub.

[PeWe]

Talking about whiskey... and other funny things. I'll go to Nashville Tennessee tomorrow morning... drive an American car to Bowling Green Kentucky for a week... Moonshine district, right?

[Terry in Australia]

That sounds like a great trip Per, you should be able to buy some great whiskey there, not sure why anyone would drink 'shine nowadays, when all my redneck colleagues in the US constantly tease me about the price of whiskey there, so rent a truck, a gun and a Stetson, buy a gallon or two of Wild Turkey, and enjoy!

[SOHC4 Cafe Racer Fan]

Yes, Kentucky is the home of some great bourbon.  Much better drinking than white lightning, and less risk of going blind drinking it.

[seanbarney41]

Yes, Kentucky is the home of some great bourbon.  Much better drinking than white lightning, and less risk of going blind drinking it.

not necessarily...I know an old ex-con Harley mechanic that makes some shine that is awwwreeeaall good