just dont kludge or ghetto-fy the arm to make it work, you must remember this is the steering which is important to you and other motorists on a daily driven vehicle.
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just dont kludge or ghetto-fy the arm to make it work, you must remember this is the steering which is important to you and other motorists on a daily driven vehicle.
No, it was just stupidity on my part. I set the arm up to weld on the king pin cap, then got called away to help my dad for a few minutes. While I was away, one of his employees knocked it over, but set it back on the table in a similar position to what it was but upside down (something else that was on the table was on the ground, so I know stuff was knocked off). I came back, and welded it up without noticing it was now flipped. So now I have to cut the cap back off, grind it smooth, and do it all over again, but correctly this time (which means I also need a new cap)
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Originally Posted by CRaSHnBuRN
I think I have an old cap you can have if I can find it. I'm cleaning my garage tonight!
cool, let me know if you do. The pitman arm puller worked great by the way
i call B.S. that'll take more than one night. if you cant find it ive got one.Quote:
Originally Posted by Doug Krebs
Depends if he takes an aderall or not :DQuote:
Originally Posted by agjohn02
this what you're going for?
He has those cool air cooled diffs http://www.pirate4x4.com/forum/image...ies/smokin.gif
good lord that thing is scary. I sure hope mine doesn't turn out that tall. Does he at least have a V8 kludged together in there?
If thats the one at cardoc, it's the same guy that wanted to swap me transmissions. I think he said it has a 350 in it.
Is that Scotti's??! ;)
Yeah that was a nice four runner that someone totally fecked up and slapped some big tires on, its a totally different scenario then yours :flipoff2:Quote:
Originally Posted by CRaSHnBuRN
for one thing, I don't think mine quite falls into the nice category. Hopefully mine will be a little shorter than that as well.
I was at the mall today and decided to grab the airsoft pellets for balancing my tires at rugged outdoors. The guy looked at me like I was nuts when I told him how much I needed. He really acted confused when I told him what they were for. But he cut me a deal and gave me them for 50% of the listed cost
why air soft? why not led shot?
or raisins
There have been people that have had problems with lead shot falling apart and turning into powder after awhile. Just let someone else air your tires and inhale that lead and it may be alright :D
I would actually use cheeze puffs :gigem:
marshmellows have more mass, could be interesting when the tire heats up
those iroks are gonna take about 3000 pellets each
thats what I got. He looked at me funny when I asked for 12000 pellets.
okay, I guess I'm throwing in the towel on finishing this thing before school starts. Over the entire break I've been getting screwed on getting time off from work. In return, I was told I would get more time at the end of the break. Not a big deal, until now. Our old manager left, the assistant manager took over his job, and promptly went on vacation skiing (he has worked less than 5 days in the last month as it is). The new assistant manager pissed off the other night audit guy, so he quit. So I get to pick up the slack. I just brought the new assistant manager to tears yelling at her about needing the time off. I don't understand why its so hard for someone else to do a night shift for once. And my rear springs still are not here. Things keep getting better all the time.
i think they will be getting a piggy back ride to cs with my roommate tomorrow.
i have lots of f150 springs if you need some sooner
he should have them here friday, but if not, I may be forced to take you up on that
better pic of the front hanger. 1 inch drop, 2 inch forward
http://tamor.us/members-rigs/albums/...0055.sized.jpg
tap and ported the steering box for hydro assist
http://tamor.us/members-rigs/albums/...0065.sized.jpg
outboarded shackle mounts. I'm gonna build cleaner ones down the road when I have more time and I'm sure this is the length I want to stick with
http://tamor.us/members-rigs/albums/...0052.sized.jpg
I need to do something about my brakelines. I'm having the stock front D60 softlines extended by bryan hoes, and will use adapter to connect it to my stock toy hardlines.
But the rear is something different. I'm using rotors and calipers from a late 70s model 3/4 ton chevy. I was going to use the soft lines from the same application, but good lord they want 20 bucks a piece for these things. Surely there is a cheaper solution? Anyone know what size fittings these thing use? Looks like some kinda banjo fitting is stock. I'm using a stainless line left over from a earlier build to go from the frame to the t-fitting
are you ever going to come over and get your spacers
you know what, I forgot you called about them. Either way I have to wait until I get paid to get the cash, so I'll come grab them on friday if thats good for you
i will be gone on friday, i will let you know if another one of my roomates comes back into town early enough
when will you be back?
Clean fab on the front hangers. Me likum.
sunday night, my brother is getting married on saturday
chris that gear setup tool you showed sucks to use the one with the bearing disc is a lot easyer to use but is more expensive if your going to try and do it your self buy or make a set of setup bearings by honeing them out so that they slip on and off i can help sence i cant work after breaking my leg at x-mas i'm just sitten around house so just give me a call 979 820 2252 J&P do a good job and are fair on price also
I'm having J&P do the rear end at least, though I'm a little worried. I dropped it off three days ago, and explained to everyone there at the time that I just wanted the gears swapped out. They said they would be done friday morning at the latest. Called back this afternoon, and they hadn't touched it, and the guy on the phone said he had no idea what was supposed to be done with it :rolleyes: I mean, if you have a stripped down axle housing, and a new set of gears, bearing, shims, and other assorted crap, wouldn't it make sense to put them together?
Junior, thanks for the info. I may call you when I get the time to redo the front.
Bryan hoes is also 2 days behind the latest possible time they quoted me to have a set of rubber brake lines extended.
I'll grab them from you monday afternoonQuote:
Originally Posted by colman
One other thing that has surprised me while collecting parts. I've always heard "run domestic stuff, cause you can't get parts for that foreign POS at any old parts store on a saturday afternoon". Well thats a load of ****. I stopped at 3 stores trying to pick up my TREs. Ended up having to order them. Out of curiosity, I checked with 2 of the stores to see if they had the FJ-80 ends I always ran on my toyotas. Both had them in stock. I've also had problems getting my new master cylinder (79 chevy K20), and the lug nuts and studs for my D70.
i think i have a master chlinder that would work for you, its new, i never used it. you can check it out when you come to get those spacers
its because all of the domestic **** you wanted to use is old and outdated, get with it, either that or you are going to crappy part stores
napa and advance are the places I go, and the parts are standard stuff.
need a good source for stainless steel brakelines? speedwaymotors.com has them cheap. I'm using a set of 36" ones to run from the T-fitting (stock one stolen from my toy axle), to my calipers in the back. Even with the conversion fittings, it worked out being alot less than using rubber lines from the parts store. If I had known bryan hoes would have taken so long to rebuild and extend the stock front hoses for my D60, I may have just went with the speedway ones up there as well