Thread: Project Sebring GT Spyder

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I'm behind again on updates so here are a few more.

Just about the time I was getting along good on the sheet metal work, Louisiana got hit by a couple of arctic cold blasts. While my fellow rodders from the snow belt might not mind those types of temps, I don't enjoy working in my uninsulated metal barn when it gets that cold. I holed up in my little machine shop and worked on some things that I would be needing later.

One of them was an alignment bar and bushings for the Explorer rearend. Mine is still just tacked together and needs to be finished.

The bar is 2" diameter and it did have little bow in it. Hard to believe that size shaft could be bent, but it was. I'm kind of hesitate to show my rigged up "straightener", but sometimes you just have to do what you have to do to get the part made. In spite of how this looks, no lathes were harmed in the making of this part.



Here are the bushings. The odd bushing on the right is to check the alignment of the axle tubes. I've done a lot of welding( and have more to do) on them and they may have been drawn by the heat. If they are, I'll have to try to shrink the metal and bring them back into alignment.


At least I now have the tools I need to get the thing finished.

Disclaimer: My posts are about how I do things. Don't do what I do just because I did it and got away with it. You could get hurt.

Originally Posted by Hotrod46

I'm behind again on updates so here are a few more.
The bar is 2" diameter and it did have little bow in it. Hard to believe that size shaft could be bent, but it was. I'm kind of hesitate to show my rigged up "straightener", but sometimes you just have to do what you have to do to get the part made. In spite of how this looks, no lathes were harmed in the making of this part.



At least I now have the tools I need to get the thing finished.

When I first looked at that top picture, HMmm.. my first thought wasn't pretty.

But after I actually saw what you were doing, well. I calmed down!
Sometimes ya' gotta do with what'cha got right?