Yep, it was there and actually worked awesome for an axle swap. Way better than a floor jack

 

Yep. My Craftsman M/C jack gets more use with my XJ than it ever did with my motorcycle. Very handy.

 

 

damn son!!!!!

 

XJWonders you sir have an amazing skill. I hope to be able to weld that nice someday.

 

This is the best I can do. Lol. Xjwonders, yours are freakin great

 

Some of what I've been doing at work...(bows down to wonders, you sir are on a different level...)

Replacing the floors in a trash truck...

Old stuff out, metal prepped and ground down


Using a half moon clamp to suck up the skin for the packer floor


Packer floor skin tacked in


Crossmember view...cut some templates to patch it






Marked out on the steel






Inside packer crossmember that needs patching


Patch piece in place


The patch pieces and templates for the opposite side...






Should get them all tacked in tomorrow, and burned in. Then I can finish the floor for the rest of the bed, got the steel for it in today, special order, has a radius, got it in, and cut for width, just need to get the patches burned in before final install.

 

Nice work wonders but lets see that start/stop. I see it hiding out there on the left side, out of view of the camera lol Did you use that lathe to rotate it while you were welding or is it in the chuck for some other purpose?

And wow roninofako that project looks like it stinks literally.

 

Things like this are the very reason I love this site! Ingenious!

 

Old welder's trick, learned from a master fabricator. Very handy and use it all the time! I have several of these in different configs, you'll see another one in a sec...

More pics from the reskin of the truck I've been working this week...

Remember, this is what the cancer looked like before...




Patches in and welded


Some of the inside welds...7018 inside


A couple more shots of the packer/hopper patchwork




The underside patchwork, all done with a Miller 252 MIG, .035 wire, settings for 3/8" with a 75/25 mix of C02/argon


New floorplate in, and a couple of views of the half moon clamps, you'll see one of my other ones in the back (made it out of scrap pieces, LOL)








Used the bar and the clamps to suck the plate down to the floor, then stitch tack the plate underneath with the mig...and repeated on the middle and other side. I'm at the point where I can start burning in the inside with 7018 on Monday. Then I can start on the packer rebuild, and finish off any other small repairs after that.

 

Made a front bumper for my lawn mower.

 

Needs a brush guard for those heavy weeds

 

i knocked down some baby trees with it and I drove up one stubborn one before it finally toppled over.

 

BABY KILLER!!!

haha

 

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