Haven't gotten a lot done on the van until today. Been real busy at work and the early hours and long drive is starting to wear on me. Have been real busy with house stuff, you know spring cleaning, yard work and a lot of honey do's.
Have gotten a few things done though. Last Saturday we spent building a "bender stand". This will hold my Pro-Tools tubing bender and the HF tubing roller all in on stand. Got the plans off ebay and it went together well.
http://images55.fotki.com/v1618/phot...MVC004F-vi.jpg
Built from reclaimed 2 x 2 x 1/8 th wall tube for a total cost of about 14 dollars...
Here it is with roller mocked up on top and a HF furniture dolly for a rolling base.
http://images60.fotki.com/v778/photo...MVC005F-vi.jpg
I am waiting on an air over hydraulic bottle jack I ordered to arrive so I can finish putting it together. The jack will mount to these two ears.
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I don't want to weld them on till I have the jack so I can verify alignment to the bender.
We did get some van stuff done today.
These are all of the brackets for the rear sway bar. The axle brackets. The first one made on the right and the second one (on the left) in all of it's flat plate glory....
http://images50.fotki.com/v1513/phot...MVC003F-vi.jpg
And both of them complete. These will get welded to the housing during fitment.
http://images56.fotki.com/v714/photo...MVC008F-vi.jpg
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These are the frame brackets. The will carry the ES bushings out on the frame. They are being bent along the dashed line on the SWAG bender.
http://images61.fotki.com/v138/photo...MVC011F-vi.jpg
http://images60.fotki.com/v661/photo...MVC013F-vi.jpg
This is a nasty pic with the flash on. I'll get better ones tomorrow. The little brackets in the middle will get welded to the ends of the sway bar and the link will run between those and the L bracket on the axle.
http://images58.fotki.com/v696/photo...MVC016F-vi.jpg
Thats about it. It's hard to believe it's been exactly two years to the day that this started... It's time to get this thing running...
Mark