- Location
- West Haven, UT
General Tech What did you work on Today?
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- West Haven, UT
So here’s where I left off on my latest project, a support or steady rest for TIG welding.
Sorry, kind of picture heavy. I hope you guys don't mind a lot of pictures.lol
I cut two pieces of 3/16” plate to 6” square. I think this is a bit overkill but I didn’t have enough 1/8” for the job.
I then marked out where I needed to cut and drill.
I tackled the two pieces together around the perimeter so when cutting they will both be exactly the same.
Scribed a line in an arc so the arm will be adjustable.
Drilled 1-1/4” hole to be the inner radius.
Also drilled the arc holes for adjustability.
I then moved to the bandsaw to begin cutting.
After deburring and blending I knocked the tack welds off the remaining edges and separated the two pieces.
Next getting ready to weld the two remaining threaded bungs on that I machined the other night.
Bungs welded.
I then proceeded to weld the gussets on the base. Whenever I plan to weld both sides of a bracket or tab I always do a little back-purging.
Then welded the other sides.
Now that the base is completely welded I turned my attention to the upper support and welded the two plates cut earlier to either side of a piece one of the square tubes that I just welded a bung on.
Assembly mocked up and everything test fit. Pieces fell right together almost like they were meant to.
Bead blasted, painted and assembled for the final time.
Arm adjusted in an angled position by merely putting the 1/4” pull pin in a different hole.
The upper support can be inverted to allow the arm to be lower and closer to the table for shorter jobs.
Arm removed and stored closer to the vertical support to achieve a little smaller footprint for storage.
Now to clean up the mess in the shop and my TIG support/steady rest is ready for hopefully many years of use.
Thanks for looking.
Mike
Sorry, kind of picture heavy. I hope you guys don't mind a lot of pictures.lol
I cut two pieces of 3/16” plate to 6” square. I think this is a bit overkill but I didn’t have enough 1/8” for the job.
I then marked out where I needed to cut and drill.
I tackled the two pieces together around the perimeter so when cutting they will both be exactly the same.
Scribed a line in an arc so the arm will be adjustable.
Drilled 1-1/4” hole to be the inner radius.
Also drilled the arc holes for adjustability.
I then moved to the bandsaw to begin cutting.
After deburring and blending I knocked the tack welds off the remaining edges and separated the two pieces.
Next getting ready to weld the two remaining threaded bungs on that I machined the other night.
Bungs welded.
I then proceeded to weld the gussets on the base. Whenever I plan to weld both sides of a bracket or tab I always do a little back-purging.
Then welded the other sides.
Now that the base is completely welded I turned my attention to the upper support and welded the two plates cut earlier to either side of a piece one of the square tubes that I just welded a bung on.
Assembly mocked up and everything test fit. Pieces fell right together almost like they were meant to.
Bead blasted, painted and assembled for the final time.
Arm adjusted in an angled position by merely putting the 1/4” pull pin in a different hole.
The upper support can be inverted to allow the arm to be lower and closer to the table for shorter jobs.
Arm removed and stored closer to the vertical support to achieve a little smaller footprint for storage.
Now to clean up the mess in the shop and my TIG support/steady rest is ready for hopefully many years of use.
Thanks for looking.
Mike
- Location
- Richfield, UT.
I fabricated this roll cage Friday night. Its a brand new Can Am 800 that will be a race car now for a 9 year girl with the coolest dad.
- Location
- West Haven, UT
- Location
- West Haven, UT
Friday afternoon my upholsterer called me informing me that the last piece of my interior was complete. I had been waiting on the streetside couch for a couple of weeks now. Friday night I had my son help me place the components into the coach and I bolted everything together and into position. The interior is finally DONE!!!
Turned out pretty good and my wife and I are very happy with the results. Now to polish up the wheels and she's ready to go for the season.
Between the new paint last year and interior this year I hope the ole' girl will continue to look good for another 6-8 years until we can upgrade.
Thanks for looking.
Mike
Turned out pretty good and my wife and I are very happy with the results. Now to polish up the wheels and she's ready to go for the season.
Between the new paint last year and interior this year I hope the ole' girl will continue to look good for another 6-8 years until we can upgrade.
Thanks for looking.
Mike
- Location
- West Haven, UT
Saturday I finally got around to fixing the leak on my steering gearbox on my 2006 Duramax. It started to weep fall of 2016 and since we were in the middle of moving I figured it could wait until I got the new shop built. Right after we broke ground on the shop a year ago it really started leaking and I didn't want to tear into it outside so I nursed it along until now.
Truck on the lift Saturday morning.
Pulled the left front tire/wheel and inner fender.
Access is easier if you pull the intercooler piping but to save time I opted to pull the gearbox without removing the piping. Here is where you can access the pressure and return lines.
The return line is fairly close to the frame rail and a wrench was on too much of an angle so I used a crow’s foot to get straight onto the fitting.
I have some Cognito steering components on my truck that I installed back in 2009 when I first purchased the truck. These need to be removed prior to removing the gearbox. Here I’m removing the nut off the sector shaft/pitman arm.
Space is limited to remove the drag link from the pitman arm so I used my OTC puller.
Once the gearbox is out and on the bench I used my OTC pitman arm puller to remove the pitman arm from the sector shaft.
I cleaned the oil residue from the inside of the frame rail so I could touch up the paint on the frame rail.
Pitman arm cleaned up, painted, installed on the remanned gearbox and ready for reinstallation.
After purging the air from the system, adjusting my steering wheel on center and a test drive determined another job complete and checked off the white board.
Thanks for looking.
Mike
Truck on the lift Saturday morning.
Pulled the left front tire/wheel and inner fender.
Access is easier if you pull the intercooler piping but to save time I opted to pull the gearbox without removing the piping. Here is where you can access the pressure and return lines.
The return line is fairly close to the frame rail and a wrench was on too much of an angle so I used a crow’s foot to get straight onto the fitting.
I have some Cognito steering components on my truck that I installed back in 2009 when I first purchased the truck. These need to be removed prior to removing the gearbox. Here I’m removing the nut off the sector shaft/pitman arm.
Space is limited to remove the drag link from the pitman arm so I used my OTC puller.
Once the gearbox is out and on the bench I used my OTC pitman arm puller to remove the pitman arm from the sector shaft.
I cleaned the oil residue from the inside of the frame rail so I could touch up the paint on the frame rail.
Pitman arm cleaned up, painted, installed on the remanned gearbox and ready for reinstallation.
After purging the air from the system, adjusting my steering wheel on center and a test drive determined another job complete and checked off the white board.
Thanks for looking.
Mike
cjncustoms
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- Location
- West jordan
Working on building some new exhaust for the buggy. It used to dump right out the side behind the seats. Sounded awesome but way too loud. Hopefully this will still sound good but not be eardrum bursting loud.
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cjncustoms
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- West jordan
Hopefully they work now!
- Location
- Richfield, UT.
Looks awesome! Got a build thread or more pictures of it?
- Location
- West Haven, UT
cjncustoms
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- Location
- West jordan
cjncustoms
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- West jordan
Thanks!
RogueJeepr
Here!
- Location
- Utah
ricsrx
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I have got to get this car done, so back to the rear suspension, tossing the coils and bagging it, it is slamed so far down i had to remount the 3 links the bottom links are now in the car and the top link is up on the roll cage, and had to cut alot of sheet metal to get the axle on the stops
- Location
- Grand Junction, CO
Looks amazing as it sits, Rick!
- Location
- West Haven, UT
Saturday I finished up my shop tour video for my YouTube channel then removed the surge tank from our coach so I can begin fabrication of a new one. My filler neck and sight glass showed up for it on Friday.
No pictures of the progress yet unfortunately as I was filming it for a video.
Mike
No pictures of the progress yet unfortunately as I was filming it for a video.
Mike
BlueWolfFab
Running Behind
- Location
- Eagle Mountain
Had some rounded-off bolt heads in some knuckles that I had to pull apart, TIG welded some big nuts onto the bolt heads.
I thought I was recording the whole process of all 3 and knocking out the hub from the knuckle, but only caught less than half before my memory got full. Oops.
And no wonder why I rounded them off, even with the heat from the TIG breaking the red loctite loose it still took a lot of force from my 3/4" drive ratchet to break them free.
I thought I was recording the whole process of all 3 and knocking out the hub from the knuckle, but only caught less than half before my memory got full. Oops.
And no wonder why I rounded them off, even with the heat from the TIG breaking the red loctite loose it still took a lot of force from my 3/4" drive ratchet to break them free.
