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Are you a blood donor? Mud 4 Blood

Local 4wd club, GBR4WD will be hosting their 5th annual Mud 4 Blood Drive at Bass Pro Shops on Saturday, May 10th.

They have been doing this for several years, and each year’s event has been bigger than the last.  Last year they pulled in over 140 pints of blood for LifeSouth.  For several years, Mud 4 Blood was LifeSouth’s biggest one day draw.  The GBR has been unseated by another group, and wants to regain the title for the Atlanta area off-road community.

In conjunction with the blood collection, GBR, along with other local 4 wheel drive clubs, will be staging a “real world” truck show, a silent auction, scratch and dent sale from a local Jeep parts wholesaler (Omix-Ada/Rugged Ridge), and a giant raffle drawing.

Last year they gave away over $4000 in raffle prizes and door prizes.   Pit Bull tires, 4 Wheel Parts and many other vendors stepped up with incredible prizes and giveaways for the blood donors.

Omix-Ada/Rugged Ridge emptied their warehouse of scratch and dent items, and then donated the proceeds of the sale to the Jennifer Scott Memorial Fund at the March of Dimes and the GBR4WD AED (Automatic External Defibrillator) fund.

The “real world” truck show is unique.  instead of chrome and fancy paint, there will be mud and dents.  Aside from fan favorites, awards may be given for things such as “Best Use of the Color Orange”, or “Most Interesting Use of a Windshield Wiper Arm”.  In addition to real tested trail trucks, there will be rock crawlers and mud boggers.

Of course, there are kids games, food (free for donors) and loads of fun.

For more information, feel free to follow any of the links above.

Sunday’s video recipes…

Real estate agents are supposed to send out recipes. So, for today, I have a couple of good dishes…

The first is Icelandic Insanity.

  • Take 600 hp
  • Add a 300 hp NOS shot
  • Gently place on vertical volcanic sand
  • Apply copious throttle
  • Fly
  • Then fold into deep water
  • Mix in enough throttle to drive on top of the water
  • Roll into a ball if needed.

Enjoy…

For our next recipe: Loeb Monte Carlo

  • Gather up the following ingredients: Snow, fog, cliffs, crowds, tarmac, ice, stone walls, villages
  • In a separate bowl, mix: 400 hp, 2,000 pounds, all wheel drive, fearless drivers with amazing skill
  • Fold the fearless drivers in amazing cars into the poor conditions
  • Watch what rises to the top

I am a Subaru fan, and prefer drivers like Petter Solberg, but there is no denying that Sebastian Loeb might be the best rally driver of this generation.

Time for some cool garage touches…

I haven’t posted much in the way of cool garage stuff lately, and I am sorry I have been remiss.  So, in the spirit of catching up a little, here are some handy garage links to some groovy cool products.

Garage Wall Wraps is for those with high end display garages.   While the product can also be used for other rooms (kid’s room, game room, etc.) what it really does is make a dramatic backdrop for staging vehicles in the garage.  Their website is under development, but there are a few cool images there. Tread pattern G-floor

Floors are a tough spot in garages.  To make the pretty, one usually sacrifices utility.  Of course, a lot of the compromise comes down to ultimate usage.  For some of us, those that weld and plasma cut and do some heavy duty wrenching, there aren’t any real great alternatives.  Personally, I am moving towards the idea of segmenting the garage based on purpose.  When my ugly Jeepster stops taking up the whole thing, I will make one side have a pretty floor, and the other side will be for the heavy work.  A product for the pretty side is G-Floor.   It is a roll-out flooring system.  It won’t stand up to welding spatter and plasma slag, but can stand up to things like jacks stands (with some modifications*).  And it beats the heck out of laying on concrete.

Unique GarageSo, kind of bridging the gap between a display garage and a working garage is cabinetry.  The has to be a place to put the tools…  For someone that is serious, built in cabinetry is the answer.  And, why leave it alone?  We tweak our Hot Rods to be a bit cooler.  So, enter Unique Garage.  They make garage cabinets with graphics.

I had mentioned modifying my jackstands.  What I would do with a floor like this is to weld a flat plat to the bottom of the jackstands.  With the corners slightly bent up, and the edges ground with a slight chamfer, they would be less likely to damage the flooring while bearing weight.  Of course, I keep a few welding blankets around as well.

Sunday is Video day!… let’s have fun…

Normally on Sunday I post up a car video or two, but today will be a little different. Today’s video are about humor… and then there is a little garage humor at the end.

The first video is “The Man Song.” The song has been around a while, but this is the first video I’ve seen of it.

The second video is by Kip Adotta… I might have just slaughtered his last name… It has also been around a little longer than forever. I saw him perform it in a little comedy club in Minneapolis back around 1988 or so. It is PG13… some of the content might e a little advanced for younger kids… or they won’t get the joke.

And so there are the videos. Now for a little garage humor. We all love our tools, but sometimes we need to give them better definitions. These have been around a while, but I found a few new ones…

AIR COMPRESSOR: A machine that takes energy produced in a coal-burning power plant 200 miles away and transforms it into compressed air that travels by hose to a Chicago Pneumatic impact wrench that grips rusty bolts last tightened 50 years ago by someone in Michigan or England and twists them off.

AVIATION METAL SNIPS: See hacksaw.

BATTERY ELECTROLYTE TESTER: A handy tool for transferring sulfuric acid from a car battery to the inside of your toolbox after determining that your battery is dead as a doornail, just as you thought.

BEAM-TYPE TORQUE WRENCH: A long tool used for precisely tightening nuts and bolts. Chief characteristic of using = The handle will ALWAYS contact firewall or fender-well just BEFORE the required torque value is reached.

BREAKER BAR: A long tool for loosening and tightening nuts and bolts. May substitute for TORQUE WRENCH. When used to tighten nuts and bolts, the rule of thumb is “Tighten Until It Strips – Then Back It Off 1/4 Turn”.

CLICK-TYPE TORQUE WRENCH: A long tool used for precisely tightening nuts and bolts. May also be used as a very accurate and expensive BREAKER BAR

CRESCENT WRENCH: See PLIERS

DRILL PRESS: A tall upright machine useful for suddenly snatching flat metal bar stock out of your hands so that it smacks you in the chest and flings your beer across the room, splattering it against that freshly painted part you were drying.

EIGHT FOOT LONG DOUGLAS FIR 2X4: Used as a long lever with crushable ends.

E-Z OUT BOLT AND STUD EXTRACTOR: A tool that snaps off in bolt holes and is ten times harder than any known center punch or drill bit.

FLASHLIGHT: A GREAT holder for dead batteries.

GASKET SCRAPER: Theoretically useful as a sandwich tool for spreading mayonnaise or peanut butter. Used mainly for getting dog-doo off your boot.

HACKSAW: One of a family of cutting tools built on the Ouija board principle. It transforms human energy into a crooked, unpredictable motion, and the more you attempt to influence its course, the more dismal your future becomes.

HAMMER: Originally employed as a weapon of war, the hammer nowadays is used as a divining rod to locate expensive parts not far from the object we are trying to hit.

HAND ELECTRIC DRILL: Normally used for spinning steel Pop rivets in their holes until you die of old age, but it also works great for drilling mounting holes in fenders just above the brake line that goes to the rear wheel.

HYDRAULIC FLOOR JACK: A device used for raising a vehicle off of the ground. When RAISING – The first stopping point will ALWAYS be 1/2 inch below the top of the Jack Stand. When LOWERING – The stopping point of the Jack will ALWAYS be 1/2 inch above the height needed to remove the Jack.

MECHANIC’S KNIFE: Used to open and slice through the contents of cardboard cartons delivered to your front door; works particularly well on boxes containing tonneaus, soft tops, and leather upholstery kits.

OXY-ACETYLENE TORCH: Used almost entirely for lighting various flammable objects in your garage on fire. Also handy for igniting the grease inside a brake drum you’re trying to get the bearing race out of.

PHILLIPS SCREWDRIVER: Normally used as a non-drifting drift to ALMOST align motor mount holes. Can also be used, as the name implies, to round off Phillips screw heads.

PHONE: Tool for calling your neighbor to see if he has another hydraulic floor jack.

PLIERS: An adjustable tool used to round off bolt heads.

PRY BAR: A tool used to crumple the metal surrounding that clip or bracket you needed to remove in order to replace a 50 cent part.

PUTTY KNIFE: A shorter and wider version of a GASKET SCRAPER (above). Who the heck uses putty anymore anyway ?

TIMING LIGHT: A stroboscopic instrument for illuminating the grease that has built up on a harmonic balancer.

TROUBLE LIGHT: The mechanic’s own tanning booth. Accurately called a “drop” light. It is a good source of vitamin D, “the sunshine vitamin,” which is not otherwise found under automobiles at night. Health benefits aside, its main purpose is to consume 60-watt light bulbs at about the same rate that 105-mm howitzer shells might be used during, say, the first few hours of the Battle of the Bulge. More often dark than light, its name is somewhat misleading. Makes a tinkling sound and a whisp of smoke when splashed with radiator coolant.

TUBING CUTTER: A very accurate tool used to cut brake and fuel lines exactly 1/2 inch too short.

TWEEZERS: A tool for removing wood splinters caused by the above.

TWO-TON HYDRAULIC ENGINE HOIST: A handy tool for testing the tensile strength of ground straps and fuel lines you may have forgotten to disconnect.

VISE-GRIPS: Used to round off bolt heads. If nothing else is available, they can also be used to rapidly transfer intense welding heat to the palm of your hand.

WHITWORTH SOCKETS: Once used for working on older British cars and motorcycles, they are now used mainly for impersonating that 9/16 or 1/2 socket you’ve been searching for the last 15 minutes.

WIRE BRUSH WHEEL: Cleans rust off old bolts and then throws them somewhere under the workbench with the speed of light. Also removes fingerprint whorls and hard-earned guitar string callouses in about the time it takes you to say, “Ouch….”

1/2 x 16-INCH SCREWDRIVER: A large motor mount prying tool that inexplicably has an accurately machined screwdriver tip on the end without the handle.

6-FOOT STEEL TAPE: A long slender steel ribbon with inch marks. Steel tapes ALWAYS break-away and bend downwards just before you reach the point to which you are measuring.

I hope you had a great weekend. I’m getting ready to start watching Super Bowl commercials… I might be posting about those tomorrow. I will have to get to real estate soon, too…

It’s Sunday… video day (or not)

Ralph just kicked this up on a forum I administer. It is a lot of fun… especially if you like air time.

I hope you enjoyed it.

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