Cars looking good just make sure you get back, we want more pics! Keep your head down and your power dry!
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Cars looking good just make sure you get back, we want more pics! Keep your head down and your power dry!
Thanks! I run a shop that repairs and exchanges weapons, so i have about 300+ functional guns in my posession at all times, and some bullets... I don't ever leave base except to go home either, so i am pretty safe. As for pictures, dad is doing a few things here and there on the car while i am gone, and supposed to be sending pictures, so i may have some soon. When i work on it i take pictures of everything i do, when i get back home i will probably start a website somewhere to document the whole thing, i have like 400 pictures so far, too many to post here!
If you have any requests of what you want to see that is done so far i can post those though. I have body work, stripping it to the frame, boxing the frame, narrowing the frame, engine mount fabrication, rear end housing narrowing, rear suspension mounting, cross memeber and x-member fabrication, and probably a few others. let me know and I will post them!
Heck post 'em all, I want to see 'em.
Yea post them bad boys we want to see them.
check the link, added more pics. http://www.clubhotrod.com/forums/showthread.php?t=44828
How to turn a late model GM tilt column into an early style.
So I was bored today & figured I would try & do something on the bus that wouldn't cost me anything but time.
Sorry I didn't take many pics but I'm sure you'll get the idea.
Being a cheap SOB, Large Marge has been built on such a tight shoe string budget that it even amazes me & I wouldn't believe unless I was there & I was :rolleyes: .
95% of everything used on the truck was salvaged from other cars/trucks I have gotten over the years along w/some free stuff from friends. So today I decided to modify some of that FREE :D stuff I have used on the bus.
I already had mounted the column in Large Marge which is a 1994 Buick Park Ave FWD steering column that uses a cable to shift the transmission. The column was free so I used it BUT I hate that crap that hangs off the side of it inside that little square box.
So off it comes..
http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b3...p/DSC01225.jpg
http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b3...p/DSC01226.jpg
In this picture I have stripped the column of the stock collar along w/the ignition tumblers, turn/bright lite switch & bright lite switch rod.
The only thing I saved was the tension spring, lock plate & lock ring.
http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b3...p/DSC01227.jpg
Basically I did what it shows to take it apart is shown on THIS webpage down to THIS picture.
Since I didn't want to have to buy another column or collar, remember I'm a cheap SOB, I decided to take apart a Caddy tilt/telescoping column I have had for 6-7yrs from a parts car for the collar(you have to use a tilt/telescoping column collar). Save the screws for the replacement collar you are using along w/the ignition tumblers, canceling cam/horn circuit, turn signal/hazzard switch & screws.
Here's the collar marked to be cut(removing 3/4") to the same height of the stock 94 Buick column.
http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b3...p/DSC01228.jpg
After it lost 3/4" of height and before it is cleaned up w/the stock collar. .
Yessss they are about the same size, it's just a crappy picture.
http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b3...p/DSC01230.jpg
Here it is reassembled using the modified Cadillac collar along w/the ignition tumblers, turn signal/hazzard switch & screws from it.
http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b3...p/DSC01232.jpg
Hell even the gap looks good.
http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b3...p/DSC01234.jpg
I might remove the ignition tumblers down the road but for right now I'm done.
So that's what I did on this boring semi-rainy day while trying to kill some time, it was FREE and i got rid of that *%@#?: little square box on the side of the column that I hate..joe
Looks a whole bunch better Joe!! Very good idea!
Thanks Pro.
I don't know if I posted this anywhere. When you get old you forget stuff.
I've been building a corner rounder for the sign shop mostly because I'm tired of cutting them by hand. this is what I came up with.....
I used a porta power ram and bought the die. it took about 6-7 pumps to cut a corner with a porta power foot pump. Then I had to turn the release valve. I had to come with something faster. . First I thought of using a clutch master cylinder. But, when I looked at the capacity it looked like that wasn't gonna' work. Then I found a master cylinder (not sure what it fits. Ol' Chevy truck maybe?. I teed both lines together to get the flow I needed & built a frame & linkage out of some of the scrap in that 5 gal. bucket that I just knew I'd use some day. All that's left is to build a shroud for the pump assembly so I don't damage it throwin' stuff under the bench.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpUO2KGQdGQ
Made a catch can for the chips, so I don't get in trouble when they stick to my shoes and I bring them in the house. :LOL:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2.../catchcan1.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2.../CatchCan2.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...ounderpump.jpg
It's not fast, fast but it works and it's hands free.
Very cool/ Nice video. Looks to work very well. Gotta love it when you can use stuff that's just lying around!:D
Removed statement to maintain thread continuity
Toofast, I'll be using it to round the corners on aluminum signs.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v205/pro70z28/CR7.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...ornerchips.jpg
Kewl deal Pro!! No more using the cutouts from a hole saw to mark out the radius!!!!