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drivers floor is getting closer to being done now to grinde and tuch up and do the rear seat area and then jack it up and door the welds from the botem side and beef the frame up

hmm yea haven't done much more since we welded thouse peaces of metal in due to rain anyhow a pic of the beast

sorry forogt to take a shot yesterday but heres what we did

beefed up the sub frame today by welding in some new peaces man the metal they used sure is thiner to what we used lol b ut then you look a new cars and they use thiner sheet metal then whats on the poor old 145 lol its amazing how cars are built so cheaply and yet we spend so much on them......

pulled out my seat and folded back the carpeting and put on some anti rust stuff crycled areas are where theres holes in the frame

still have the car still runs like a cherry guna fix it up enuff for the summer and see about finding another body for her so what have i been doing since my last entry lets see started an aprentership for industrial electrician and went to mexico/belize for 3 months and drove around in the 240 benz that my mother has with my guts in it lol all thats left of my benz the guts live in the one above lol

makes me sad to see how bad the rust is :S i think my best option is to find another 145 and build 1 out of 2 and store all the spare parts i can get in a storeage locker for it. down the street is an old warehouse thats rented out for storeing boats and working on cars ect should give the number on the building a call and find out how much they want for rent

well i moved it out from the back yard to the front car port also drove it around the block first time actualy driving the beast my self its a tank but ones its moving its happy

painted the center rad suports.....

Another Quest Done. Found new brake pads who woulda thought i would have such a hard time finding pads for my car. if i had girling calipers i would of found a set real esay. But i have the ATE So today i was out runing around looking for pads agian and was sent to a shop by another shop and get there and ask and the guy looks on his computer then shook his head and then said wait here while i see what i have in the back back for old stock and vala he came back with a set of premium pads witch was not what i was looking for. but i got them marked down from 47.95 cause they were old stock and got them for 30$ couldn't say no to that cheaper then have ordering the cheapest set localy or online after shiping and taxs can't complain so my next quest is a set of dust boots for my caliper pistons already gone out looking around for them today gues i gota get them online or go for a 6 hour bike ride to the only volvo dealer in town to get told to buy a new volvo or get lost lol or suck up to my dad and go for a drive out there

well being we have the parts car almost striped and have the doner motor for the acord sitting waiting to be tossed in the accord we decided to move the volvo but..... if you recall my brake lines are all rusty while trying to move the tank it stalled and moved forward and niped the brake lines on the flower box infront for the volvo doh so we get the volvo outa the way anyhow i move the car slowly and we put nail in to plug the line so we get it outa the yard and push the parts accord back into the yard were the volvo used to sit and take the volvo out for a spin around the block with barly working rear brakes lol sure got lota pick up still anyhow we get it back in the yard and pop the hood and to see were the leek is and notice its monkeyed..... so we went down to a automotive parts store and bought 25' of hose for 27$ and get back and get the aproparit tools out of the tool chest in the basement. in order to replace the lines the rad had to come out when we got it out we took the pressure washer and proceeded to wash the engin bay once we were finished that we decided to replace this part (the replacment one) being we had this part sitting in the back portch for 10 years and we had the rad out we replaced it maybe this will fix part of the oil leak anyhow we put the fan back on and the fan belt...... and proceed to start working on the brake lines replace all the main lines and then decide to call it a day after mucking around with it for 8 hrs and call it a day the next day we get back to finishing it and bleeding the lines and wind up riping the pasinger side bracke caliper after relizing it was seazed puting the caliper back together we get it back together and put it back on and relize while we were bleeding the lines for that side that driver side one is seazed so we take it off and are having a hell of a time trying to get it apart when we relize its about 4:30 so we stop for the day and clean up and relax o well the tank has almost all new bracke lines in the front now and soon cleaned calipers and new pads what a weekend next on the list befor we put the rad back in do some rust treatment work and some patching but soon i shall get my mother to fax me some documents so i can legaly take tittle and throw plates on it... don't need to get it saftied since its staying in the family

well its just sat all summer till today we fired it up first turn with out the choke in it purred was like holy stuff lol but then the back carb started acting up so we pulled it and cleaned omg it was full of some weird grey mudy substance....... put it back on and fired it up with the chocke on this time and it pured then the main fuel line starts squrting now i need a new one of those.... gues over the years the bracket that mounts it to the motor wore a hole in it lol...... just gota fix that and then move the parts car honda we have for the accord...... and park it in the front drive so we can swap parts onto the accord and fix up the volvo a bit more maybe finaly get off my jerk and go do the drivers test........ so other than that the other half of that tree fall over so now theres a stump and its got shoots coming up gues its got a will to live lol i miss the shade of that tree out front o well.

what a beatifull winter we have had so far. its been hovering around zero since befro christmas and its a rather nice change from are normal -50 in jan we get here witch puts a smile on my face. the holidays were fun got to see my grandma who flew out this year instead me going to see her lol. as usual i don't get much boot but its stuff i need so i am happy lol. all i realy did on my holiday was play simcity4 and take my grandma to the bay in downtown winnipeg witch was kinda nice brought back some meories of the old eatons store were the new arena is now witch i mis like many cdn's miss eatons. then new years i played sc4 and listend to coast to caost am with my grandma to the predictions show was intresting then on the 9th school was back on so now i am back in the grind but one of the teachers aids has grabed me and is giving me help with my english cause i am on the verg of failing the year. witch hopefuly i will graduat this year lol. this coming spring break i am heading to mexico for 2 weeks to work. was offerd a job on a archylogical site that the feild museam of chicago is working on to do survaying they guna give me crash coures on it and get me seting up a grid for them so see how that goes as for my 145S it just sits under the tree under the snow with are accord to keep it company lol.

been a while since i was last here sorta forgot about this place anyhow this week we had a foot of snow fall in 12 hours. the temp was only like -3°C during this storm then after it ended the temp droped down to -20°C then yesterday friday it whent back up to +3°C and today same thing supost to go up to 3°C. this was are first major storm and snow fall for this winter season all and all we have had wores storms that shut the city down completly just this one caught us off gard lol pics i took while i was playing hookie that day front steps flower box out the back window looking down my street at the end of my street looking to your left side walk on grove looking towards euclid on grove what i saw out my window when i woke last nite the street was plowed now its like a sheet of ice proceeding this pic i whent out for a walk along the dyke witch has a road on it and this is what i have been basicaly been doing with my spare time latly my jurnal for my sc4 city

went out to bucks with my dad to get parts for the hond grabed these 2 radios see if i can get one of them to work and put it in the volvo to replace the pos thats in it. the curent one is a pos tapeplayer that eats tapes trany died on accord so the volvo got moved back under the lylock tree for now .... also got one of thoughs inflatible hot tubs works great just gota move it into the basement befor it snows. hmm not mutch els to report other than the accord has taught me somthings that i can use to work on the volvo

sweet lucked out today whent out to get parts for are 87 accord LX luced out it on axes that were new sweet eh. anyhow there was a 245 out there that looks like some one was in the proces of fixing or somthing. they hadd the roof rack all apart so i grabed all the peaces that were sitting there, and grabed the visors cause well my driver side one is busted won't stay up lol. grabed both and put them on today put my head light back together just need thoughs little plastic thingies to hold the bulb in place. i put the batery back in and ran it for about 40 minuts ran good, but i think i ran out of gas lol. o well just gota go for a walk to the esso on main & burrows and fill a jerry can lol. kool txs for reading PyROZen ya can't wait to finish her do it up so i have some sorta speaker system that i can take out when i wana go camping lol or haul stuff

well been a while did some finish work on the rear wheel well hole and along the botem if its warm tomarow will do some sanding put my driver side headlight back in aswell well since last post we had a tree split in half out fron cleaned the mess up and drank beer with the niebors had a party in oner of the tree that died was a great big old amarican balsom 30' high musta been 100 years old sad to loose the tree stupid storm school started so i got busy but i gues i should get major work done on the volvo befor it snows so i can at least drive it once befor winter comes cuple of my friends are offering me 100$ if i pass my road test in this baby lol B)