Where's Ric?
 

Anyone heard from Ric lately? I haven't seen him on the board.

Car season is about over, probably won't see much of him until next spring. At least that's the way he has been the last few years.

I didnt mean to scare him off.

Shame on you flash !

I know Im an a$$ho*e sometimes(lol) .

Damn, did not know I would be missed so much, I have been very busy at work as we are in the middle of launching at aftermarket line of TRW premium brake pads at SMEA in November and it is a lot of work on my part now as we are adding 850 part numbers. Then right after that we will be launching TRW branded steering and suspension parts to the aftermarket.

Tony, I still working on getting a lift put into my Garage, they called this morning and have just received a shipment of lifts so I need to schedule to get it installed. So after that is installed we can talk more on the Camaro as I'm still not sure if that is the direction I want to go as that car is so original and not sure if I can do it justice.

Flash, not sure what you said that I'm suppose to be mad at, If I would have know I would have stopped by and talked Man to Man about it last week. I was in a town called Flowery Branch Ga for work and then stayed the weekend at my Brothers in Canton Ga which I see is where you live as well.

Hank, Hope you are doing well, maybe sometime in the next couple weeks I can stop by on the way home from work if you are up to company.

Thanks all for caring.....ha

Glad to hear you are OK. Is the new line of TRW stuff going to be made in the USA? I hope so.

I have faith that you will do this Camaro justice. I've seen your work. Come get the damn thing. I need the room.

Good to hear from you Ric, be glad to see you but not sure about next week. See the ortho Dr on Thursday, hopefully can dump the crutches. If so we'll probably take the motorhome out to Kazoo for a few days. My uncle is heading out and we thought maybe we could get one last trip in this year.

Anyway, give me a call, I'd like to see you.

Ric, so glad to hear you are OK. It is nice to be busy at work, a lot of people would love to be in that position.

Hank, sounds like you are ready to be crutches free, just remember you still have some healing to do. I hope that most of the pain has gone away.

I hope to dump the crutches Nancy, they're killing my shoulders. Pain from fractures is pretty much gone. Now it's just my shoulders and hips which I guess is from walking funny with the crutches.

Ric ,as usual I was just joking around to see if you noticed my comment about scaring you off but welcome back.

BTW Ric, a lift sounds great. Fenton is pretty close to my house. :D

Not that far from me either. Ric, did you get the truss situation figured out?

Besides the money, Space is my biggest issue and I'm trying to get that taken care of before winter.....I guess I should have build a 5 car garage instead of the 4.

I knew that...ha

Come on over any time you need it.

Tony, I just fiqured out which one I'm getting and they are putting it in next week. http://aresco.org/lifts/fourpostlifts/efp8.php Now my issue is the garage door, I have to get someone to raise the the door tracks up to the ceiling. It looks like I won't have to modify the trusses if my calulations are correct. Even If I modify the trusses it won't be a big job per one of my friends that is a builder. I will have to get a garage door opener that runs off the jack shaft as the regular one will get it the way.

That looks like a nice lift. Company is pretty local to you too, which is a good thing.

My new lift, now to get the door moved and a different set up for the door opener.

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I want one of those in my next shop which WILL be built tall enough .Congrats on the lift .

Go 12 foot, and make sure when you get the garage door(s) installed let them know you want it high and garage door opener on the side.

How much room is underneath the lift when it is at the highest it will go? Will another car fit under it, with clearance? Did you say your side-walls are 10 footers?

Very nice Ric. Should make a lot jobs a lot easier.

Even comes with a hand woven middle eastern rug, nice touch! :)

Tony, my side walls are 10' and my calulations show I should be able to get a 72 Camaro SS underneath it. I'm going to remove the Garage door opener this weekend and take it all the way up and see what I get. Also, I'm down in Indiana at our warehouse and grabed 5 of those adjustable valves for you.

Hank, The rug is a nice touch, when I was spending all the hours underneath that thing putting in the 5 speed it was nice...

I know what you mean Ric, I have carpeting under my Chevelle. It's pretty dirty now from working on the car but it beats cold hard concrete.

Check out the post in engine and trans forum, give him your thoughts on the 5sp.

OK Ric. I'm supposed to drop off that small block to the guy in Fenton Sat. I'll give you a call if I have time. I'd like to see the new lift. 5 valves will last me til I'm dead!

Hope that's no time soon Tony.

No problem Tony, I will be home all day, I live right off Owen Road behind the High school. Just give me a call if you have time. I have another 200 valves as well. Also, I think your VAN is a Ford if I remember right and I found all kinds of OE brake parts that I won't let my guys throw away till I fiqure out what they fit...so let me know what your van year and model (150, 250, 350)



Hank, Tony will outlast me for sure.

I keep telling you guys that smoking 2 packs a day is keeping me alive!

Ric, the van is a 1995, e250. It would be nice if you found a set of rear drums for it. The ones on it, with only 22000 miles, have rusted so much that the outside ring is falling off.

I'll call if I can get over there. I'm doing a major overhaul on a 99 HD. I'm running around this morning, getting birthday presents for the grand daughter. She's 5 in a week.

Got the Garage door opener off today and got to take the lift all the way up to the ceiling and still have 64" inches left to park another car underneath it. My daily driver 09 Impala LTZ is only 60" so I have room. I still had another 2-3 inches to the ceiling as well. A 72 Camaro is only 50.5" high...

I can walk all the way underneath it without crouching and I'm 5'10".

The bad thing is how bad my car looks on the underside now that I can see it not laying on my back.


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Nice. Just put the Camaro on top...the undercarriage on it is clean!. I took a scotch-brite pad to the fuel tank. It looks new again. I sprayed it down with Bo-Shield. Also, the rust that was starting to show on the exhaust manifolds came rite off.

The guy that I was supposed to drop the engine off at did'nt call till late this afternoon. He was duck hunting, so it will be sometime next week before I get to your end of town.

Tony, just give me a call when you will be in this area, the garage door guy will be here tomorrow to raise the door to the ceiling so I will be working from home. Do you know where in Fenton you have to take the motor?

Hey Ric...I dropped it off this morning. On Thompson Rd. Just west of 75.

Is he putting in an opener too?

Tony, sorry I missed you, you were about 7 miles from me.

I did get the door moved up today for a cost of $300.00 it took 2 guys about 3 hours to do it and they had to replace the jack shaft to a older style as the one I had a internal spring. I did not get the garage door opener installed as they wanted $500.00 and I can get a one for under $300 and it looks like a easy install as it hooks to the jackshaft http://www.amazon.com/LiftMaster-380.../dp/B000MT7WV4. I just have to run a electrical outlet to over by the door.

So far I have $2814 for the lift and garage door being moved and the assembly of the lift so I'm very happy.

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Nice. I want one.

Me too. Now you can finally put those trim rings on your wheels, no bending over to do it.

Tony, sorry you did not get a chance to get out here today, I'm less than a mile from Lasco Ford. Let me know when you are going there and I'll try to be around. Are you looking for parking lift, if I had all the room you do I'd like to have a 2 post as they are better to work on the cars. I did get the jack tray that fits mine so I can lift the front or rear of the car to pull the wheels pretty easy to work on stuff.



Hank, the trim rings I have a pretty beat up so it looks better without them.

Let's talk, I have another set of originals in nice shape, no curb rash.

Ric,

I was just thinking, it happens some times with no warning. How much weight can that lift handle. Was thinking, it happened again, about headers and dual exhaust on the motorhome. It's no more than 16,500lbs, 31' 11" long, 8' wide and little less than 12' high. That shouldn't be problem should it? :D

No problem, the lift is rated for 9000 lbs, the runway is 14 ft long and my garage door is 7 foot high....I think we can get it to work or you could get someting like this http://www.superiorautolifts.com/pro...roducts_id=287 then you would be the talk of neighborhood. All you have to do is hit the ADD TO CART button.

Yea that lift would definitely do it. Don't know where I'd put it but it would do the job.