Salvage 10

[ridered3]

Ouch on the finger! What did you do?

 

[baldduck74]

My dumb ass tried to cut it off with a splittin maul, :ROFLMAO1:

 

[ridered3]

My dumb ass tried to cut it off with a splittin maul, :ROFLMAO1:

Ouch!

 

[baldduck74]

Chassis is all welded up until i find something I missed, dropped the belly skid out decided to trim some weight sorry no pic.
Originally i bolted bottom skid/transfercase mount in, until i figured out what was going to be easiest to remove transfer out the bottom or top, out the top won, so belly is solid welded now.
Been changing stuff here an there, boatsides are done, eccept the end tube made some simple fender mounts, hood pins will attach to these also.
Set a door on just to see how far body lines are off

 

[ridered3]

Looking good!

 

[baldduck74]

Not been a whole lot accomplished, been messing with other projects. And toy money dried up.
Made up some random panel tabs for floor pans, used 1/4 20 rive nuts, made tilt steering adjuster, still need to get axle bolt for the top bracket. I like it kinda, but if it ever gets going I will change it out if it gives me issues.

 

[ridered3]

Progress (whether big or small) is still progress. That's a whole lotta rive nuts! and I like the tilt wheel too

 

[baldduck74]

Progress (whether big or small) is still progress. That's a whole lotta rive nuts! and I like the tilt wheel too

I made to many of the c channel ones, forgot I had different plans. I like the rive nuts on stuff like this, manly for easy thread repair.
Played around with dash frame some today nothing fancy, more than likly going run standard gauges and switches, I like the look and function of digital dashes but dont think I can get myself to spend that kind of cash, and dont feel long term reliabilty has been proven yet, just my opinion.
And still have enough room for heater underneath.

 

[ridered3]

Understandable on gauges vs digital dash. I feel like the digital dash survives if it is mounted somewhere semi-protected, but have no first hand experience with them.

 

[baldduck74]

Understandable on gauges vs digital dash. I feel like the digital dash survives if it is mounted somewhere semi-protected, but have no first hand experience with them.

Im more worried about me doing some thing stupid and destroying it, Ive delt with myself before.
Truck will have a windsheild, an doors sometimes.

 

[ridered3]

Im more worried about me doing some thing stupid and destroying it, Ive delt with myself before.
Truck will have a windsheild, a doors sometimes.

Ha I understand that one too.

 

[baldduck74]

Got up this morning and decided I wanted to narrow my rear winch, cut 3.75" out of the drum, and drive shaft. Went to re thread the aluminum tie bars and couldnt get threads to hold. Made some spacer out of 3/4" dom used 3/8" all thread to hold it together. I'll replace with bolts later. Wont know how much rope it will hold till another day.
Needed a little more room to get my trans cooler mount figured out.
Started on my bed floor rack yesterday which started all the winch narrowing, only holes going in it will be for tie down straps.

 

[Zjman]

Was the Budweiser used in mock up or was ya bragging about high dollar brew? :rolf:

 

[baldduck74]

Was the Budweiser used in mock up or was ya bragging about high dollar brew? :rolf:

It was covering the winch parts when cut the winch drum with cut off wheel.

 

[ridered3]

It was covering the winch parts when cut the winch drum with cut off wheel.

Ha I was thinking the box-o-Bud helped encourage the winch shortening in the first place :rolf:

 

[baldduck74]

Ha I was thinking the box-o-Bud helped encourage the winch shortening in the first place :rolf:

Im sure it didnt help anything

 

[ridered3]

Im sure it didnt help anything

Haha.

 

[baldduck74]

Decided to work on hydroboost today turned spool valve down in the drill press, started working on porting the housing. Plan on cleaning it up some more, but a bad hip and this wet weather got to for the rest of the day.

 

[baldduck74]

Still not going but more little stuff out of the way, ditched the tailgate chains and added solid stops for when its down.
Tow points are done and welded. Battery mounts, rear shock mounts are done, bump stops are mostly done going to wait till i can flex the rear with weight on it before i finish lower pad, left ubolts a little long because i think im going to end up adding an add a leaf.
Got some cheap led headlights for Christmas started tinkering with making a way to mount them, this is what I come up with. Wouldve came out cleaner with a plasma table, any more Im better at making saw blades and more grinding for myself.

 

[Zjman]

Light mounts look awesome, a lot of great fab on this build

 

[ridered3]

Always enjoy checking out your updates. Really like the tow points and headlight brackets. :dblthumb:

 

[baldduck74]

Thanks, I think the light mounts turned out good, but alot of this truck is a 50 footer to look at.
Got rear gears and detroit installed, and with the traction bar mounts close to the 14 bolt oil fill plug I decided to take some hydraulic plug and cap and make a oil fill hole on the cover. They are jic 16 I drilled a hole through the male plug and welded it to the cover shouldnt leak and i can see the ring gear.
Also got trans cooler mounted it will push air to the rear 4" gate between it and fuel tank.

 

[ridered3]

Noone is harder on a build or project than the one doing the work.

 

[baldduck74]

Dads 69 years old and owned a Case 580c backhoe for going on 36 years, it came up the other day he been having issues getting up to operators station. Made a set of steps today hopefully it makes it easier for him to climb abored.
Going to do some other things to hopefully help also.

 

[ridered3]

Pretty cool project for your pops.

 

[baldduck74]

It made a big difference in is ability to get up in operators station so i call it. Win, I wanted to cut the factory step off but he said no.

 

[ridered3]

It made a big difference in is ability to get up in operators station so i call it. Win, I wanted to cut the factory step off but he said no.
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Hate to damper the resell value of that machine by cutting off the factory step :rolf:

 

[baldduck74]

Hate to damper the resell value of that machine by cutting off the factory step :rolf:

Its been for sale 50 times in the last 10 years

 

[ridered3]

Its been for sale 50 times in the last 10 years

As per usual with most pieces of equipment.

 

[baldduck74]

Made some mounts for the headlights, looks like a dieing catfish to me.:rolf:
But it looks better than mounted on the hood!