and it's that time trucks out of the building i get the two tandems out bringing these for
spring planting so i got some work to do to him so we're going to wake him up
first time in a while let's do it
so
first up onto this truck these joints
these are the hinge pins for the the bed and they are worn really bad
so who knows how many thousands of cycles this thing's
dumped but it's been enough so i've got pins i've got some iron i might need some pipe but i'm gonna
start the process of taking this apart put some new hinges in there and that way this truck won't
flex quite as bad when it's tipping back because it's a little sketchy when it's up in the air
we'd like to take that care of another thing too i've noticed there's a nice oiled spot
under this thing and coolant right down there so find out what that's about
so old pin new pin old pin new pin this one's got grease joints in it this is a military surplus
found on the internet they had a few of these they weren't cheap but they're made out of the right
kind of steel they're already tapped and drilled for grease circus and everything so i think this
will be a good fit i got a lot of their iron too but got to lift it up so basically it's just rests
on the back of this jack if anything falls it's just gonna go into the bed of the frame of the
truck so it's not like there's anything hazard there but at least i got it up now got the pins
out so i can start evaluating what to do where to cut and where to start fabbing up new brackets
power went out oh i must have been drawing too much current
i cranked that plasma cutter up to the max and that thing draws a lot of power
i suppose 60 amps isn't enough for this shot is it ever since we got that plasma cutter
a breaker pops once in a while
so
she
so
so so
a few hours later and uh i made something it's almost leg arms worthy but we'll know when we get
it on there so there's no way uh in this shop to cut a two inch hole we don't have two inch bits so
i had the plasma cut and thankfully we've got this amazing hyper therm that just blasts through just
about anything so half inch iron was able to cut through getting away from this little dinky thing
do this look at that that's some serious iron right there so fun part put it all together
i think i'm gonna need a hammer
uh
so
so what i've done so far is i put the brackets in everything is just kind of mocked up it's loose
nothing's welded yet um we put a two inch pipe through the whole thing just temporarily just
to align it because you want this pin to line up that hinge so there's no binding
when you go up and down so i'll start tacking these in place and then when i get them where
i think they'll stay and look good i'll pound that pipe out put the new pins in
and start welding her up and i hope it works but i took all day to do this all right
done done kids are in bed i'm not home yet but i finished it and some welds are beautiful some
welds are let's not talk about it but as you can see there's grease coming out so the greaser works
great everything is solid i went through and i double welded everything on every side possible
so there's a lot of weld back here that's a lot more iron than this thing had before
pretty confident we're never gonna have a problem with this again
uh
done and done a little rattle can that soon to be covered up with dirt but i'll never see paint
again more likely so this truck is serviced and finished and ready for some fertilizer the
expensive stuff see now i got to make this truck ready for that gold we're gonna be hauling around
all right let's move to the truck so if you look in here you can see cracks all around there
there's cracks right there this pin is pretty war this one's all cracked out right there and
there's cracks starting opening around that part so yeah definitely some welding needs to be done
so
done that was quick wasn't it so after evaluating the situation realized that the pins were just
shot the actual pipe bracket that attaches to the box itself was not wore out was not egged out
it was just the end brackets so i cut new half inch pieces welded them saw to the sides
with the two inch hole found an old hydraulic cylinder that was an inch and a half that's a
nice hardened on the outside steel so that's great for the wear on this put that in there
got the grease works working again and bam she's together and tight so shouldn't have an
issue with this box flexing really bad that's just nice another thing off the bucket list
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