Anyone else enjoy this? I've got an old '99 that the only original part left is the body. I recently was cleaning out the tool box and discovered all the original parts that I thought were long gone. Now, for some stupid nostalgic reason, I'm taking the half-disassembled carcass of what was left after I stopped canalizing it and putting back to the way it was when I bought it.
Everything is going back to the original stock part - down to the smallest screw. The only exception is the LPR - I've got an old school long black Palmer with brass fittings that looks identical to the Sledge. I still have the sledge also - but I'm thinking there is even a limit to what I can tolerate to be "historically correct" so I'm considering using the Rock. How much is it crime against the purists to use a no stock part?
Other then that I'm planning on polishing/waxing the pneumatics, and the bolt. The bolt was a hideous old thing that looked like it was hacked out of a block of aluminum by a retarded boy scout going for his whittling badge. I'm figuring that some TLC with the buffing wheel and rouge will "shiny" it up and maybe it'll look and perform a little better.
That whole project leaves me in a bad predicament. I've a lot of pre-2k parts left over (AKA tornado valve, AKA pump rod, AKA lightening bolt, AKA WGP reg cap, '99 cut front block , Shock-Tec low pressure chamber, and AKA back block) and no body to put it on. I'm guessing I could get a right-feed for cheap, which would be accurate for the time that the parts were made, but at the same time I hate RF. Any ideas?
BTW, this thread is more or less to spark a conversation than to obtain real advice - I'm interested if anyone else out there suffers from the same affliction I do...
-Calvin
Everything is going back to the original stock part - down to the smallest screw. The only exception is the LPR - I've got an old school long black Palmer with brass fittings that looks identical to the Sledge. I still have the sledge also - but I'm thinking there is even a limit to what I can tolerate to be "historically correct" so I'm considering using the Rock. How much is it crime against the purists to use a no stock part?
Other then that I'm planning on polishing/waxing the pneumatics, and the bolt. The bolt was a hideous old thing that looked like it was hacked out of a block of aluminum by a retarded boy scout going for his whittling badge. I'm figuring that some TLC with the buffing wheel and rouge will "shiny" it up and maybe it'll look and perform a little better.
That whole project leaves me in a bad predicament. I've a lot of pre-2k parts left over (AKA tornado valve, AKA pump rod, AKA lightening bolt, AKA WGP reg cap, '99 cut front block , Shock-Tec low pressure chamber, and AKA back block) and no body to put it on. I'm guessing I could get a right-feed for cheap, which would be accurate for the time that the parts were made, but at the same time I hate RF. Any ideas?
BTW, this thread is more or less to spark a conversation than to obtain real advice - I'm interested if anyone else out there suffers from the same affliction I do...
-Calvin
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