General Tech What did you work on Today?

DaveB

Long Jeep Fan
Location
Holladay, Utah
Had too much fun on Saturday. I spent the morning on my brother's enclosed trailer that disconnected from his truck out in the desert and took a dive. It bent the stub shaft on the axle, bent the rims, bent up the hitch coupler and damaged the front sheet metal and fiberglass. I cut off the old torsion axle and the hitch coupler. The hitch coupler was a royal pain but I eventually got it off. Then I ran up to my friend's ranch to fix his two Ram trucks they use for feeding cows. One had rubbed a hole into the rear brake feed line when the line rubbed against the O2 sensor. The brake line is the longest brake line in these trucks and you have to drop the gas tank to swap them out. There was already a splice in the same area and the line was rusty so I cut out a longer section and spliced in a new metal line. These trucks get used in the mud and cow pies so you get lots of extra stuff dropped on you when you work on them. The next truck has the worthless Dana 60 disconnect axle and it keeps going through the vacuum actuator. I decided to try a redneck fix so I welded the shift fork in the on position. It was working till the rancher's son did a tight turn on pavement in 4x4 and busted the fix. I need to see if I can find a better solution that doesn't cost a bunch.
 

RockChucker

Well-Known Member
Location
Highland
Want to make some more? I have some rope I bought for exactly this purpose that I've never gotten around to using....
sure. how much rope do you have? these ones are bigger and used about 10' each (i only had 20' no way i could have gotten 3)...

with 3/8 rope i think 6-7' is probably needed to get a decent diameter? i don't know, never done one before.
 

I Lean

Mbryson's hairdresser
Vendor
Location
Utah
sure. how much rope do you have? these ones are bigger and used about 10' each (i only had 20' no way i could have gotten 3)...

with 3/8 rope i think 6-7' is probably needed to get a decent diameter? i don't know, never done one before.
I believe I have 50 feet of 1/2".
 

RockChucker

Well-Known Member
Location
Highland
I believe I have 50 feet of 1/2".
That could get 6 pretty easy that will be smaller than what I tied. The video I watched (different from @UNSTUCK ) used a scosche over 8' for a 1/2" line.
I would like to do the same. Any advice on where you got the great deal on dyneema?
I bought mine here. They had a 1/2" diameter 20' spool end that was a good deal.
 

N-Smooth

Smooth Gang Founding Member
Location
UT
Picked up a razor crazy cart XL for $100 last night. I noticed the tire was flat so I aired it up and rode it around my garage until I was dizzy. Today my boys wanted to see it before leaving for school so I jumped on it to show them and didn’t notice the tire was flat and I ruined the valve stem by riding it. Ugh! So now I get to wait for Amazon to bring me a new one this evening.
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I guess I could mention that I pulled the (3) 12v junk SLA batteries and wired in my 40v mower battery in all of 2 minutes and it’s plenty powerful.
 
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