Winter project FINALLY started

[DiverRay]

One box arrived today! Two parts, almost $400. My new primary chain and new coils/wires from Dynatek.
The main order is still waiting on parts to arrive. Jan 20 is the date for the last part, so I may cancel that one and have the order ship on the 9th instead. This is from Partzilla, and has most of the seals and smaller parts that I could still get as OEM.

[DiverRay]

Waiting on Partzilla. One part number will not be there until Jan 23, by latest email. I'm off work a few days later this week, so I'll put the rods on the crank and get it ready to install.

[DEEBS11]

[DiverRay]

Thanks DEEBS, I do have new chains on the crank. I've found I missed two "O" rings and a bearing, so another wait. Once here, I can assemble the main case.

[DiverRay]

Well, it looks like another month before I get a bearing I need to assemble the cases. Working on the "snow plow" for now, as I keep breaking it.

[JeffH]

Well, it looks like another month before I get a bearing I need to assemble the cases. Working on the "snow plow" for now, as I keep breaking it.

Yep, those pesky 'Rolling Delays' have become all to commonplace.
Just went through that on some Delta Faucet parts. Delta shipped all the things I needed, on the same day as Ordered on Jan 14th. Post Office lost it.
Replacement 2nd order finally showed up. First Order went POOF in the Post Office system.

We've been anxiously been waiting to see the build. Hopefully all the Parts show up so the build can start.
Be awesome when you are done.

Jeff

[DiverRay]

Bearing is in transit! I should have it ready to install by Thursday. Once that is done, then the two halves go together as a complete lower unit. Pics once i get there.

[cajun31]

Your spring project is progressing quite nicely.

[DiverRay]

Thanks, and yeah, it will probably go into a summer project as well!

[DiverRay]

Well, this is fun. No parts, no clue as to when I'll get them. They were small, so I had them sent to my PO Box. Partzilla used UPS to Colorado, and that's the last update I've seen. From the "tracking page" Wednesday, March 26 by 7:00 P.M. delivery. So it looks like sometime next week I may have the bearing......

[cajun31]

Feel fortunate that UPS has it. If it had been USPS you may never get it. I ordered something off of Ebay in December and the tracking stalled to nothing and my order did eventually show up a month later.

[DiverRay]

I've not had any problem with USPS, so far. Their tracking allows me to let them know itf it stalls, and the local post office will help move it along. The problem is they shipped UPS, AND THEN SWITCHED to USPS! The tracking stopped in Colorado, and I'm in Idaho!!

[jetmechmarty]

USPS delivered a package to me today that I’ve been waiting for. Problem is, I don’t know where they delivered it, because they did not bring it to my address. Their website says they put it in my mailbox. No, they didn’t.

UPS or FedEx would go out of business if they were this incompetent.

[LAB3]

A couple of months back I ordered a couple of pairs of Carhartt dungarees and set up to have them delivered via General Delivery to a post office near where I was camping. They made it to within 50 miles of where I was then didn't move (according to tracking) for a week. Went to the P.O. where I was expecting to pick them up and they looked into it, turns out some Einstein didn't know what General Delivery was and had put them in a bin to be returned. Turned out they never did actually get returned and they where located sitting in that same bin, luckily I got them the next day

[red bandit]

I've had a few delayed issues with USPS the last year or two. I've had stuff sit in Detroit (more than once) for 3-4 days. Or go back and forth across my state. Or come to my state and go to another state and then back again. Sometimes it should take 3 days and it takes 10.