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Im going to cut the bolt off the arms and drill through the plates (1 1/2 X 1/2 mind you ) and add an additional 1/4 plate too whats already there then drill that aswell to let the 3/4 Grade 8 bolt through. After im happy with everything im going to drill all the jam nuts and pin them. So like i said the truck has only made its maiden voyage around the block, its still not fully road worthy.
I have some washers large enough laying around should do the trick. Id like to also add that the rod running from the box to the front is a adjuster for the back of a tractor. ill post some more pics soon thats more updated.
Sounds like a good plan!!!! on your bolts, another consideration is to make sure the attached parts are riding on the "shoulder" of the bolt, and not the threads!!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by jeffrey leonard
If you really wanna get fancy on your rod ends, drill a hole in the edges of the nut and safety wire them!!!! Looks neat, plus is a very secure way of keeping hardware tight!!!!! Make yourself up a little jig to drill bolt heads and nuts, then use some .032 steel safety wire!!!!! Old aircraft methods that work great on Hot Rods...... and everybody will think you have waaaaaaaaay to much spare time!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:LOL::LOL::LOL:
I do appologize for yesterday had a rough day and everything that seemed to be coming from you was complete negativity.
So today after feeling less grumpy i took some time to look things over.
Safty wire sounds grand but i have plenty of 1/8th cotter keys and the bolts are plenty big enough to allow that hole.
Safety wire is kewl!!!! Takes a lot of extra time, but really other then the kewliousity, probably not much better then a cotter key.... No problem on yesterday.... I learned a long time ago on this forum that it's ok to say what you want about a car, as long as you can offer a solution to the problem and aren't just bad mouthing it.... Heck, lots of us here have been doing the Hot Rod stuff for 3 or 4 decades!!!! If a day goes by that I don't learn something new it's probably because I wasn't paying attention!!!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by jeffrey leonard
I havent been working on this project alone and since the accident in the early parts of the build with my hand my dad has been doing all of the welding. We drill water wells for a living he built our current and past 3 well rigs he has built drag vehicles and holds 3 national records mud racing. So normally anything he does is usually safe but i have made a few decision changes that gets hon his nerves, like he wanted me to put rack and pinion on it but thats not what i wanted.
Many people online havent seen my hand since its mostly healed, there are a couple parts of the skin graph that has been stubborn on healing up completely
So heres a couple for your ogling
heres some more pics
and yet more pics
paint does a body good