Or load the cargo area with bricks and sandbags.
Can you supply a picture, especially the rear portion of leafs where they meet the sliders?

 

You need to do your tranny mount as well. Sweet drill press, where'd you get it? I need my own garage so I can get things like that. No room for things like that atm.

 

It's just one from harbor freight. Same with our bandsaw. Pipe/tube bender will be next.

 

Cleaned out the tb

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After

 

What do you think about the Harbor freight stuff? I've been contemplating a welder, drill press, and a lathe to start. I'm very tentative about large spinning objects made by harbor freight. Do they have a lifetime warranty?

 

It's great for moderate use around the garage. Not exactly shop quality though obviously. And as with all things harbor freight, spend a lil more for a nicer version. You can purchase a warranty with it.

 

Got tired of seeing my replacement Autozone temp gauge sender (the one at the rear of the block next to the valve cover) giving me a ridiculously high reading. Like the normal operating temperature being just below the red zone and the electric fan not kicking in until well within the red. An laser temp gauge confirmed the cooling system is operating normally, so the dashboard gauge is wrong.

Ordered an OEM sender (about 50 freaking dollars) from the stealership and we'll see if that fixes things. I may get a new oil pressure sender when I pick up the temp sender, as I'm getting sick of seeing my oil pressure topping out past 80 psi when accelerating. Thinking about picking up a downstream O2 sensor, too, just because I haven't spent enough money yet.

 

Don't buy the tube kinker (bender)
Don't buy a HF welder... I have and it was just a waste of money. Buy a miller or Lincoln

 

Tube bender dose suck,
I have an arc and a mig from there love the mig

 

How many different mig welders have you used?
I ask because the HF welder I had is NOTHING compared to my Miller 212!

 

I've heard pack the pipe with sand and it will bend perfectly fine. There's tons of write ups and YouTube videos with people having great success with it.

 

I used a miller from the 80's in my shop class. Loved that thing, couldn't tell you much about it though. I did use a little flux core hf welder once and it was garbage. It had a really small duty cycle, and it never really seemed to get enough juice into what I was welding. Which was 16-20 guage sheet steel mostly.

Unfortunately I've got a long list of things that needs to happen before I pull the trigger (get it?) on a welder.

 

Just buy a JD2 tube bender and save yourself alot of hassle. Not much more expensive. And a good name brand at that.

 

Return that. Go to rockauto.com, I bought a temp sender there for maybe $8 shipped. Works just fine in my Jeep and my buddies jeep.

 

Right, when they say pack it with sand that means weld a cap on both ends with the sand packed inside.

The time it would take to do that for every bend would be worth the extra couple hundred bucks for an actual tube bender instead of a pipe bender.