Friday 6-12-26

Friday in the CPO shop. Well writing the blog this morning is late. Power went out this morning in a storm. It was off for almost 3 hours. Sucks, looks like I need a backup generator. Anyway, went to the old house/shop yesterday to get the last of the stuff. Had some issues with the truck when I got close. Feels like water in the gas. kept dying and not starting back. Went to get some heat fuel treatment and octane booster. Put that in and it helped. Had to keep it above 2000 rpms or it would idle a bit and die. Then not start back for a while. Died a few times in traffic in bad spots.

At Walmart getting the gas treatment and had my buddy put a small stick in the throttle to hold it open at 2 grand. Let it run a bit and then tried to drive home. Soon as I backed out it died. Got it cranked and put it in gear and hit the gas, anytime I slowed I kicked it in N and gave it gas. Get to a light, coast in N and on the gas, get back to the house and let it roll back down the drive to the trailer. Stick on the throttle holding it at 2000 rpms. Windows down, ac off. Load trailer for 2 hours. Get ready to go and throw it in low and take off, don't let it drop below 1500 in gear. Had to stop and grab a strap that was dragging. It was idling going up and down, didn't die. Get back in and drive, right turn, N, rev it. Light, coast and N rev it. Got all the way back home. It's an hour and a half drive. No overdrive so the rpms stay up. Get home and in the drive way I let it idle. Idles fine, turn it off and re start, starts fine. Un hook trailer and drive around the block. Runs and drives fine. Take it to dinner, ran fine, never missed a beat. So I probably still have a bunch of bad gas. So the gauge doesn't work properly. So I don't know how much I have. So I'll go get a gas can full of good gas and drive that sumbitch until it runs out. So, that chapter is over. I do have to go back and grab a couple crates, my gantry crane and some other small stuff. Then the old place is history.

Here at the new shop, it's lowers every day, first thing every day is at least one set of lowers and then some uppers I'm still doing in a batch. Then crossmember parts. As I get the shop set up the flow will be better. Man I'm loving everything about this shop except the heat. Gotta get the ceiling sprayed and get A/C in there. Then build the shipping room out back. Peace






** CURRENT LEAD TIME 4-6 WEEKS **

I am now building in batches so these times will come down quick for main line items like upper and lower arms and crossmembers and related parts.

How to reach me:

Email: chassispartsonline9900@gmail.com (I read and answer emails before work, during lunch and after work. So replies may be slow. I get lots of emails so if you send one and don't get a reply within 6 hours, email again. I forget to get back to people sometimes)

Phone: 214-498-4840 (I answer calls when I can. Calls about technical questions or what to order. For updates on current orders, please email and put the last 3 digits of the order number in the subject line. Giving an update over the phone requires me to stop what I'm doing, usually welding, remove gloves, helmet etc and answer the phone, then walk over to the house, fire up the monitor and find the order to check the status. It wastes an incredible amount of shop time. With about 60 open orders right now and usually about 50 open that's just nearly impossible to do. So let's use the email system to handle that and save us all the time. Lets also be respectful of my family time and not call me after 7pm central time and not on Sundays. I try to treat this like a regular job and my wife is kind enough to let me go out in the shop in the envenings sometimes and weekends sometimes. So I try to respect her time and not have work impede into our family time. Feel free to text me anytime though. If I have time I will reply. But lets keep texts to 8am to 8pm M-S and 10am-6pm Sundays, thanks)

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