Salvage 10

ridered3 · Dec 28, 2023

baldduck74 said:
Im more worried about me doing some thing stupid and destroying it, Ive delt with myself before.
Truck will have a windsheild, a doors sometimes.

Ha I understand that one too.

baldduck74 · Dec 31, 2023

Got up this morning and decided I wanted to narrow my rear winch, cut 3.75" out of the drum, and drive shaft. Went to re thread the aluminum tie bars and couldnt get threads to hold. Made some spacer out of 3/4" dom used 3/8" all thread to hold it together. I'll replace with bolts later. Wont know how much rope it will hold till another day.
Needed a little more room to get my trans cooler mount figured out.
Started on my bed floor rack yesterday which started all the winch narrowing, only holes going in it will be for tie down straps.

Zjman · Jan 1, 2024

Was the Budweiser used in mock up or was ya bragging about high dollar brew? :rolf:

baldduck74 · Jan 1, 2024

Zjman said:
Was the Budweiser used in mock up or was ya bragging about high dollar brew?

It was covering the winch parts when cut the winch drum with cut off wheel.

ridered3 · Jan 1, 2024

baldduck74 said:
It was covering the winch parts when cut the winch drum with cut off wheel.

Ha I was thinking the box-o-Bud helped encourage the winch shortening in the first place :rolf:

baldduck74 · Jan 1, 2024

ridered3 said:
Ha I was thinking the box-o-Bud helped encourage the winch shortening in the first place

Im sure it didnt help anything

ridered3 · Jan 1, 2024

baldduck74 said:
Im sure it didnt help anything

Haha.

baldduck74 · Jan 12, 2024

Decided to work on hydroboost today turned spool valve down in the drill press, started working on porting the housing. Plan on cleaning it up some more, but a bad hip and this wet weather got to for the rest of the day.

baldduck74 · Mar 20, 2024

Still not going but more little stuff out of the way, ditched the tailgate chains and added solid stops for when its down.
Tow points are done and welded. Battery mounts, rear shock mounts are done, bump stops are mostly done going to wait till i can flex the rear with weight on it before i finish lower pad, left ubolts a little long because i think im going to end up adding an add a leaf.
Got some cheap led headlights for Christmas started tinkering with making a way to mount them, this is what I come up with. Wouldve came out cleaner with a plasma table, any more Im better at making saw blades and more grinding for myself.

Zjman · Mar 20, 2024

Light mounts look awesome, a lot of great fab on this build

ridered3 · Mar 21, 2024

Always enjoy checking out your updates. Really like the tow points and headlight brackets. :dblthumb:

baldduck74 · Mar 21, 2024

Thanks, I think the light mounts turned out good, but alot of this truck is a 50 footer to look at.
Got rear gears and detroit installed, and with the traction bar mounts close to the 14 bolt oil fill plug I decided to take some hydraulic plug and cap and make a oil fill hole on the cover. They are jic 16 I drilled a hole through the male plug and welded it to the cover shouldnt leak and i can see the ring gear.
Also got trans cooler mounted it will push air to the rear 4" gate between it and fuel tank.

ridered3 · Mar 21, 2024

Noone is harder on a build or project than the one doing the work.

baldduck74 · Mar 23, 2024

Dads 69 years old and owned a Case 580c backhoe for going on 36 years, it came up the other day he been having issues getting up to operators station. Made a set of steps today hopefully it makes it easier for him to climb abored.
Going to do some other things to hopefully help also.

ridered3 · Mar 23, 2024

Pretty cool project for your pops.

baldduck74 · Mar 24, 2024

It made a big difference in is ability to get up in operators station so i call it. Win, I wanted to cut the factory step off but he said no.

ridered3 · Mar 24, 2024

baldduck74 said:
It made a big difference in is ability to get up in operators station so i call it. Win, I wanted to cut the factory step off but he said no.
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Hate to damper the resell value of that machine by cutting off the factory step :rolf: