BrandonHall10
Solving problems
As some of you may know, I have a nice little side hustle rebuilding 4L60e's. This "hustle" started with me rebuilding on a bucket and a flexplate with just the bare minimum of specialty tools. I barely knew what I was doing. It has slowly grown to a registered LLC with all the dedicated specialty tools, a couple tried and true recipes for different level builds, and a solid reputation. I have a good system for knocking out a build in as little as a week while still working my other job. The biggest time suck being cleaning. I would bet 50% of my build time is spent just cleaning. That gets old fast, but there is a solution. After doing a bunch of research, I had a nice american made automatic parts washing cabinet picked out. I just wanted to wait till I had the $4k in cash saved up before I pulled the trigger. Time progressed, everything was lined up and I was about a week away from placing my order. Then it happened. Corona. Everything shut down. I decided it would be wise to just sit on that cash to see how things played out.
Life and business went on as usual for the next few weeks. Then one day while I was out dropping off torque converter cores, I saw it sitting around back and unloved. My diamond in the rough. A better Engineering automatic parts washing cabinet.
I knew I had to have it. The owner wasn't there that day, so I had one of the guys check with his boss and get back to me. Later that day I get the text "200 and its yours" I could not get back there with the cash fast enough. I paid the full asking price. Called a local towing company to set up transport. Today was the day I took delivery.
To say it's in rough shape would be an understatement. Rode hard and put away wet. The crust on the inside measures time like the rings of a tree.
Bucket for scale:
But it has good bones. All the parts are there. I have a call into an electrician to look it all over. Let's assume it needs a full rewire and both motors rebuilt. I should still be into this thing for less than half of what I was going to spend on a new one. The electrical, a full cleaning and a coat of paint should get this thing right where I want it. I'm thinking battleship grey, but open to suggestions. I just don't want it to stand out. I also need a name. I'm not one for naming vehicles, but machines are fair game. I have one in mind. Probably offensive to liberal progressives, but my machine, my name. Unless someone comes up with something better, I shall call her Hillary. No personality, loud, and good at cleaning things. Also open to name suggestions, but you have to give reasons, and they need to be "safe for work."
I'll keep a running total of the money spent on this thing as the "build" progresses.
Purchase price: $200
Transport: $100
Total: $300
Life and business went on as usual for the next few weeks. Then one day while I was out dropping off torque converter cores, I saw it sitting around back and unloved. My diamond in the rough. A better Engineering automatic parts washing cabinet.
I knew I had to have it. The owner wasn't there that day, so I had one of the guys check with his boss and get back to me. Later that day I get the text "200 and its yours" I could not get back there with the cash fast enough. I paid the full asking price. Called a local towing company to set up transport. Today was the day I took delivery.
To say it's in rough shape would be an understatement. Rode hard and put away wet. The crust on the inside measures time like the rings of a tree.
Bucket for scale:
But it has good bones. All the parts are there. I have a call into an electrician to look it all over. Let's assume it needs a full rewire and both motors rebuilt. I should still be into this thing for less than half of what I was going to spend on a new one. The electrical, a full cleaning and a coat of paint should get this thing right where I want it. I'm thinking battleship grey, but open to suggestions. I just don't want it to stand out. I also need a name. I'm not one for naming vehicles, but machines are fair game. I have one in mind. Probably offensive to liberal progressives, but my machine, my name. Unless someone comes up with something better, I shall call her Hillary. No personality, loud, and good at cleaning things. Also open to name suggestions, but you have to give reasons, and they need to be "safe for work."
I'll keep a running total of the money spent on this thing as the "build" progresses.
Purchase price: $200
Transport: $100
Total: $300
