Or a cowl?

I think a cowl is usually reserved for the engine cover? Maybe? The other three I've seen used with wheels.

I was thinking about Motorcycles more, I guess. I just picked up a used cowl for one of my bikes and it's the front that houses the windscreen, headlight, mirrors, and then also the two turn signals on the sides.

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This is an aftermarket version I picked up on FBMP last year:

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They've been called spats as well as fairings... predominantly pants from my experience though.

Had an interesting day today. I got two runs in then took the bride to work....
Saturdays are wings days at the local market... they have a wings bar, my favorite are the salt and vinegar wings. While we waited we found local full briskets on sale for $4.99 a pound. We got a big one, winning!

Where i really hit it out of the park is the headliner, I finally got the sewing completed. I also figured out how to use my new to me pfaff machine.. soft pulses on the treadle to keep my stitching straight... awesome!http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1740278819.jpg
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Very nice, Guy.....livin' the dream! ;)

PS - killer mountain pics!

Started fabricating my big truck tire mounting device, that Toby built and posted here

I will tack weld it, check if everything clears/works, then weld it up. My Jack is a little different than his, so I’ll have to work on a mount.

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We have a very large dining room table that seats 10. The chairs are solid wood, very heavy, and in great condition, but the juke webbing under each seat cushion has stretched. When someone sits in one of the chairs, it sinks a little. After going to the YouTube University, I found a couple videos that use various techniques to repair this issue.

This is the type of table we have, but there are 10 chairs and a sheet of glass over the table top.
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This is the underside of one of the chairs and you can see that the juke webbing has stretched. I don't have the upholstery skills to take the chair apart and reattach the material because material wraps around the seat base and onto the sides of the frames. I would tear the cushion material.
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I used dense 1" foam wrapped in Dacron, sprayed with adhesive to fill the juke cavity of each seat base. http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1740491166.jpg

I stuffed the cushion into the cavity and used the adhesive spray to hold the new cushion in place.
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I made a template of the space I wanted to fill and cut 1/2" plywood to cover it. I installed 4 metal "L brackets" to hold the wood in place and applied pressure toward the seat cushion to ensure that each had a little more solid cushion in place. I used 2"x2" wood to frame around the edges and across from front to back and against the grain to provide support.
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The last part is cutting and stapling a material dust cover for the bottom of each chair. Total cost was about $200 and 3 days of my retirement!

Rock on, David

A little more work on the heavy tire lift device. I’ve got it tacked up but I need to close the gap between the tire and the jack mount. I wasn’t sure how much clearance I needed. The ends of the rollers are spring loaded, so I can drill new holes and bring them closer together as needed.

Also, I need to figure a way out to mount it to the jack, so that it’s stable. Maybe a couple of bolts through the mount to the jack pad and I can finger tighten them, to remove it quickly.?

Next time I take off a tire, I can fine tune it.

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A swing and a miss.... Sorta.:D
Started on a custom frame bag today. Not a lot of space, final unfolding was a little plump. Very plump. Will nip/tuck it in a bit with some more sewing and it should go.
The whole process of making something inside out fascinates me. The bag gets assembled in reverse and unfolded, like an everted stomach on some starfish or something.
Time to step away from the project and come back tomorrow with fresh energy.;)

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I wish I could sew. The fact that you're sewing leather makes it even better. Is that just a home Singer? I always thought you needed a rugged industrial machine for leather....maybe it's an industrial Singer?

Here's a tip, you can buy side-mount water bottle cages. I think your bidon is going to be trapped without one.

LOL- You beat me to it! (and wish I could sew also!) :) Just after I posted this, I changed out the front cage. These actually pull out sideways pretty good. The singer is a "heavy duty singer', which is code for "not so heavy duty", but it does pretty good on light leather. This is all waxed cotton and it does fine. I was going to go out and buy an industrial machine, but researched this one- it works better than my beginner skills. All the industrial machines I looked at were all over 50 years old, well used and potentially needed timing and spare parts, -above my time and interest level.

Eventually, I will drill the frame and mount rivnuts, which should pull the bag tight with some CF struts I'll make for support. Ths supports should flare the sag out. Now I need a 90 degree drill that can fit into the frame triangle. My current 90 is way to big. I might freehand with a dental drill :) http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1740535099.JPG

That looks like a tricky project... one to avoid with the zipper and all.
Good on ya!

A little more work on the heavy tire rig. I reduced the height by 1 inch and now have about 3/8 inch clearance to the tire.

Still trying to figure out how to mount it to the jack. I’m thinking a couple of 3 inch bolts threaded into the round jack plate. Not super quick to mount and dismount, but not too bad.

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Posted in the Motorcycle thread the front wheel chock I installed on my trailer today. Everything went great and didn't even need to do any brazing. Didn't want to cut down the lip on the deck so used a few pieces of artificial wood to support the chock on both sides of the lip. The chock can be removed by unscrewing 2 nuts and I have a 4' piece of 1 1/2" x 1/8" aluminum angle stock to attach with a couple bolts on that railing to make it all one piece again.

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And something that is near and dear to every guy's heart....adding more illumination to my work area! Bought this 4' LED shop light for my motorcycle service bay. Super bright and has a motion sensor and chain pull.

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I've just been piddling and gluing the top of this cigar box back together. It's just an old box that my late step-dad Charlie gave me many years ago, so it means something to me. My son has been storing guitar picks in it, and I saw that the top had come apart, so fixing it!!! Dolce Far Niente!!!https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...66d3f04248.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...1002695e3a.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...8f1b5eed44.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...b8fe4ee82c.jpg

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Nice, Marty. I have a few of the old wood cigar boxes. They do carry some sentimental value!
I also have some of the conventional ones made of cardboard and they are very cool, as well.

It was windy here on Friday, really windy. The wind blew a piece of aluminum trim off the eave over the garage. When they built the house, they only used maybe 1.25" nails to attach the trim to the wood underneath. Never mind the trim has a u-shape at the bottom, and the soffit is sort of corrugated so there's really maybe 0.5" of nail holding in the wood. I happen to have some other aluminum nails that are a little longer, slightly thicker, and best of all ring shanked. It's a easy job to put it back, other than the distance from the ground. The older I get, the less I like heights. The double door section of the garage sticks out 2 feet from the overall roof, so I can stand on that to replace it. Who decided on a 8-12 roof pitch? Oh yeah, me. The garage faces west so I went up shortly after 12:00 to fix it. Bad move, the sun was right in my face. I climbed down, ran some errands with the wife, and came back to it around 3:30. Much better.

The neighbor across the street stopped over, asking if I needed help holding the ladder. I thanked him for the help, and we got to talking. I hadn't realized the neighbor next to him had passed away at the end of January. I hadn't seen him much, but didn't think too much about it. It's been cold out a lot of February. 75 is young these days. His wife has dementia and she's been in a nursing home for the last 3-4 years. They don't have any kids, but they have nieces and nephews to handle things.

New battery for the Prancing Moose.......

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Also picked up a couple more tool sets from Amazon......

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In my ongoing battle to improve attic ventilation to reduce temps and improve A/C performance I decided to install dual powered attic fans. I let the roofer who installed our last roof talk me into ditching our attic fan and go with ridge vents. Bad idea - they're terrible. Will be sealing up the gable vent to the right of the fans and much of the ridge vents with spray foam. I anticipate much cooler attic temps this summer!

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Just got back from morning errands. One of which was to pick up a new 6v battery for the tub. I looked up online last night and my local Advanced Auto showed one in stock. $99 + core. I brought the old one with me for the core.

I walk in with my core, set it on their battery cart and tell the clerk I'd like the 6v battery (I give brand and model #). He says "We don't have any 6v batteries in stock." I reply - according to the website for your store, yes you do." He asks for the part #. "Take out your phone and show me." I reply I don't use my phone for the Internet....I have a desktop at home for that. Do you want me to run home and get the info for you?" He takes out his phone and looks it up by asking through the microphone. Says "I'll be darned...they are showing 1 in stock. Let me go look."

Goes and looks and comes back with the battery. I pay and he gets mixed up with the change....guess he punched in the wrong cash amount I gave him (?) Total was $108.09. I gave him $110.10. Change should have been $2.01. He finally gives me $2. I say "What about the penny?" He says "I actually gave you more back than your change was." I reply "No you didn't but keep the penny anyway...someone may need it." Which is what I would have done anyway if he'd have handed it to me.

Battery is home and on charge now.

Happy Friday! :)

Your roofer should’ve known better than to install those power vents. All they’re doing is pulling air from the gable vent and the ridge vent.

Ridge vent works by convection. Air is pulled through the soffit vents up through the ridge vent.

It would’ve been better to install a power vent on the gable vent, with it sealed, like a radiator fan. But then you would need to seal the ridge vent. He would either pull air from the soffit vents or another gable vent.

You’ve got a hodgepodge of venting going on.

What type roof do you have? Hip or gable or combination?

From Mark's post:

I'm no expert...but seems like they would work OK to pull hot air out if everything else is sealed up.

I have a gable roof with ridge vents on both ends and got a new metal (aluminum) roof a few years ago and my attic temps dropped considerably - just from going from asphalt shingles to the metal.

Man, was that ever a pia! First fab bows, then sew and fit the mockup liner, next build and fit the headliner from Pendleton wool. Today I finished fitting the finished headliner into the fuselage.
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That looks fantastic in the pictures. I'll bet it's even better IRL.

I've installed exactly 1 headliner in my life, and I sure as heck didn't sew it from a that pattern I made from scratch; it turned out OK. Not great. Yours looks better.

Haha... thanks

I'm a good son-in-law. My mother-in-law's car was making a horrible noise, and she thought it needed an alignment. I asked why she thought that, and she said that she had "googled it." I told her to bring the car to the house and let me see about it. I had her ride with me when I drove the car, and I instantly knew it was a wheel bearing. Man, that thing was roaring, and she had been driving it like that on the interstate for a few weeks, going back and forth from Opelika to Montgomery to see a family member that has been in the hospital. When we got back from the drive, I jacked the car up, did the shake test, and the thing had a lot of play from side to side, and I showed her what I had found. I then put the transmission into neutral, and in spinning the wheel, you could hear it making a lot of noise. I did the same for the other side and showed her that there was no shake and no noise. That was last Sunday, and I told her not to drive the car, and we let her use my daughter's car until I had the time to replace the wheel bearing, and today was the day.
So, that what I did today on a day off. The car is a 2006 Chevrolet Malibu, and thank goodness it uses a hub/bearing assembly and not "press in" bearings. Everything went super smooth and easy, as the car is in really good condition with no rusted parts and no grime build up anywhere. When I was removing the brake caliper, one of the pads actually came apart. I have never seen a brake pad do this, but the material actually fell off the metal backing plate, and the pads were not worn much at all. So, yep, I replaced the front brake pads also. When I got everything all back together I took the car for a test drive and it is nice and quiet again. My mother-in-law will pick the car up later tonight, and I know she will immediately notice the difference. Yep, today, I am THE man!!! https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...51c7ddf524.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...f3deb434c7.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...c6b18327c3.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...f14e155e56.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...2efc5b243e.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...27cbf8966d.jpg

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Put seats into this thing and test drove it.http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1741489020.jpg

That's awesome Marty, good job.;)

Thanks!!! It is supposed to rain Sunday, so I'm hoping to do nothing that day. [emoji38]

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Wow, that's so cool, we need more pics of that!!!

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Wrap your A$$ in fiberglass!

I wanted to dune buggy so bad when I was growing up.

Today, I replaced a HVAC blend door actuator on the 2014 F150. It took about a half hour.

The one behind the radio, supposedly takes eight hours and you have to pull the dash out. At least that’s what they say. I found a video where the guy was able to remove the glove box and some of the parts to the right of the radio, to access it and pull it out. Thankfully, I didn’t have to do that one.

Unbolt the gas pedal.
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R and R the actuator.
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Reassemble, and it’s good to go!

I just took my Tundra to a driveline specialist for a suspected wheel bearing. I had concerns of it coming apart and he told me has had them coming in sounding like a bucket of marbles and has never seen one come apart.

But yes, you are a good son-in law.

Got the gable vent sealed up and much of the ridge vents along the highest ridge just above the powered fans.

This roof is a combination of hip and one single vented gable. My plan is to evaluate the performance of the fans before sealing up the ridge rents along the hips.



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Thanks. Yeah, that wheel bearing was very loud, and she had been driving the car on the interstate with it like that.

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You seem to have it under control, but just in case, make sure that you have the attic completely sealed from your living space or you will definitely cool the attic, but with the AC from your house.

I am constantly loading and unloading my tools for various handyman jobs and it has become a disorganized mess and an inefficient use of my time. Today I installed a new cargo shelf in the back of the Jeep providing much need space to load up in a more organized manner. I also cleaned out and reorganized all of my tool bags and boxes. I think I'm going to like this new configuration! I've got a new tailgate cargo rack on order that is much larger than my old one that just sold on Faceplant Marketplace.

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I like it