Or you could have just done donuts until you ran out of gas.
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Or you could have just done donuts until you ran out of gas.
put it up on blocks and ran it in reverse and killed two birds with one stone.
Yah Robbie with your ability to suck a golfball through a garden hose siphoning gas would be right nup your alley.
On a related note, when I had to replace the fuel pump in my crewcab, the 35 gallon tank was about 3/4 of the way full. I had no jacks or anything so I had to do it with the truck sitting on the ground and as I discovered, later model chevy tanks ahve a check ball in the filler neck. I'm sure its normal purpose is to keep gas from spilling out if the tank is inverted but it also serves to prevent you from being able to stick a hose down into the tank to siphon the gas out. That sucked.
Anyone else remember this past TCC when my fuel pump went out and I had a full tank? That sucked.
I got the rear axle pulled and started working on grinding the rear shackle mounts and pulling the rear crossmember off. I really need a torch or plasma to get this shiznit off...I used a 4 1/2" cutoff wheel and 7 1/2" grinder the first time when I did the full width front and smoothed the frame rails, but this time it's proving to be much more difficult and especially since the Jeep isn't hanging from scaffolding.
Sonovab!tch! I'm almost positive that BlueTorch accidently packaged the wrong stretch kit though the invoice reads CJ....it seems to be way too wide to fit correctly. I'll call them on Monday and find out exactly what the deal is. Damnit...this pretty much stopped forward progress for the weekend.
Dimmit boy, I hate to hear that. I hope you get it figured out/fixed. I guess that leaves more time for beer, so it's not all bad.
Go pawn shop hopping while you have nothing to do. I was able to pickup a victor torch and gauges on the cheap. Well worth it. Also helps to make friends with welders cause then they let you store their bottles for them :gigem:
It's not a big issue, it's just going to be more time consuming having to get another one shipped and send the other one back. I have some beverages on ice, so I'll probably end up just messing around in the shop or on pirate for the night. I should be getting a plasma within the next week or so though... :gigem:
Pics.... I'm sparing the rear crossmember for Sharpe or else it'd already be chopped to pieces... Is it just me or doesn't it look like the housing's bent?
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Originally Posted by TxCruzr
Did you buy them from the pawn shop next to copy corner? They've had a set there for a while.
Has your axle been eating u-joints robbie?
No, but why would it?
No, I got it when I was back home. There are a ton of people that think they can make it big by welding pipeline right out of high school and go out and buy all the equipment. After the first month or so they either get tired of working 90+ hours a week or can't afford the payments on the equipment they just bought and it all ends up in the pawn shop.
or end up with a coke habit that even the 90+ hour salary cant keep up with. :gigem:Quote:
Originally Posted by TxCruzr
They had that before they started the job :rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by DRAGOONRANCH
Being in hour away from the border right off a major hwy and interstate, you tend to have some "trafficing." The town is run by the rich so as long as you know someone you can walk the streets handing out alcohol and roofies to the kids without a problem.
Back on topic....Robbie, sell the thing and get rid of that headache :flipoff2:
Glad to see this build is without everything hanging from the roof by chains :gigem:
Measure the distance between the tires at the top of them, and then at the bottom of them. Works best to go by the tread as sometimes sidewalls aren't real straight. When my axle was bent the difference was 2".