No, two. Its a tight squeeze so I couldnt get it in the pic.
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No, two. Its a tight squeeze so I couldnt get it in the pic.
sweet, glad to hear you got it back together
looks good, does this mean you are going to gilmer?
Slick setup! If it's anything like mine, that will make a HUGE difference.
Here's what happens when you wheel for 4 years with crossover and no hydro-assist. This is the sector shaft out of Pigpen's old PS box. Notice the crack that goes about halfway around it and the slightly twisted and deformed splines. I took the box off when I revised the front suspension and didnt look at it too close until today. Clarke had it apart to tap for Marcus's truck and noticed the damage and it was missing 5 out of the 24 ball bearings around the worm gear...
http://i135.photobucket.com/albums/q...8/IMG_0654.jpg
Doh. You were well on your way to having a Kopecki moment and getting towed back to town backwards.
Not very fun when one of those breaks on the trail.
How many times are you going to have to build this before it stays together?
When's your jeep going to be done?
I think it was October 2006.
That was a different jeep.Quote:
Originally Posted by eight
Brady has a good chance of graduating college before Cokcs finishes his misterpiece...Quote:
Originally Posted by Sharpe
A Buster graduating college?!?!Quote:
Originally Posted by DRAGOONRANCH
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He's a Burnes thankyouverymuch... :flipoff2:
(there is still hope for him I think)
Got started painting my wheels tonight. I am about to buy the other two tires so the wheels needed to be prepped. They have been recentered and sandblasted for about two years, so they have developed some rust from sitting. I *could* have paid to have them sandblasted again but didnt really want to drop that much coin, so I just wire brushed em off and wiped down with acetone. I used this primer
http://i135.photobucket.com/albums/q...ff/wheelz2.jpg
because it specifically says it can be applied over light surface rust. I scraped the minimal scale off so it was GTG. The only thing that sucks about the primer is it calls for 16-24 hours of curing time before applying paint over it. Since it is humid as **** down here I am leaning towards the longer end of that, but I dont want to start painting at 9pm tomorrow night. The **** is ****ing radiant in this pic
http://i135.photobucket.com/albums/q...uff/Wheelz.jpg
Here's the compressor I used for the painting with its brand spanking new pressue cutoff switch and popoff valve. Thanks goes to Cook and Flem for esplainin wiring the new switch in. Its rated at like 8 cfm at 90 psi and handled the draw like a champ
http://i135.photobucket.com/albums/q...ff/wheelz3.jpg
I deffinately need to address the air drying situation though. It was probably only 70-80% humidity here tonight but it still seems to be an issue. I have a cheapass Craftsman drier/seperator mounted on the tank and then ran a disposable filter element and then a final desicant drier to my bitchin Harbor Freight gun, seen here
http://i135.photobucket.com/albums/q...ff/wheelz4.jpg
Even as the last filtering element in the system, the desicant drier appeared to be half used up by the time I was done. I am planning on spraying three coats tomorrow so I will need to go buy another one...or two. It is a Kobalt brand from Lowes and the desicant inside turns clear when it is saturated and needs to be replaced. Prety spiffy. TSC had a "fancy" Cambel-Hauswhatever drier/seperator but it was ~$130 so I am going to do some research before I spend that much on something like that. I'm thinking about making a bootyfab cooler using an old truck a/c condensor and a box fan, but didnt have time to **** with it tonigh.
I also need a regulator at the gun. I looked at them today but figured the regulator coming off my tank would be sufficient. It isnt. There is no gauge after the regulator so I dont know exactly how low it goes. The way the gun was spraying indicates it was not low enough though. The pattern was not very dense and no amount of ****ing with the needle could adjust it enough. I dont know if the paint might have been a contributing factor though. The can said not to thin it if spraying and it seemed a little on the thick side. But, I cant say for sure since this is my first time ever painting anything with a gun. I'm going to get a little inline regulator tomorrow before I lay any actual paint and see where that gets me.
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