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I thought about posting some pics for the tool junkies in the group. This past year was a bumper crop of odd, old and different tools and tool boxes.
The steering wheel is the same as the one installed on the G85 bomb truck.
The spring center bolts are not your run of the mill bolt. They are a fine thread, and the top head is round not hex. I bought a couple NOS and didn't need them. Let me figure out where I bought them.
Many thanks! My spring bolts are all slightly bent. Not too sure if I’d trust them on a cross country.
A little heat, a 3 ft long pipe wrench and a cheater pipe will straighten that cross-member right out!
How hot do you think it needs to go? I’ve got a propane torch and a oxy fuel welder. Not sure which I should use.
Its a lot of steel to heat up. My choice would be the oxy-acetylene with a rosebud tip, but the propane will work if you're patient. I've also heard of using a bottle jack instead of the pipe wrench. The challenge is to straighten the top flange without bending the bottom flange.
Sounds good, thank you for the info. My son is the welder, I’ll ask him to handle the heating up part. Definitely do not want to bend more metal than I am trying to fix.
How does that work? Pain sucks. You probably missed out on the bionic man series where your wrists are platinum fused wrench twisting machines eh?
I spent a few years feeling sorry for myself. Retired from the AF with a total of 26 years. I was in and out of the hospital for 3 or 4 years. No combat time, just a lot of hard work wore me out. And I FUBAR’ed both wrists. They’re both fused now. Got a real good job, after many of the surgeries finally seemed to be subsiding. 22 glorious months of great pay, full benefits and doing what I loved to do. After 22 months though, I had to resign. Just couldn’t keep up. Then went for a couple-three more surgeries. All the while, the mean green machines gave me a focus and something to do. Some of the stuff is a royal pain but I get inventive. How can I fix this doohickey if I can’t reach it? Adapt, improvise and overcome. Make a plan, implement the plan, then throw it away cause it don’t work. A lot of times, it’s just do it.
