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[cknaffle]

[mtubenzie]

Dont ya hate the whole "cleanup, dirty it up, clean it up again"?

Sucks but its the only way to get anything done...

Ole blues looking good and i like #12 on the board

[CrashKnott]

I love you buddy, but you are NEVER aloud in my grawdge.


Lookin good OOB! I need me one of them thare fancy white-boards mahseff

[OOBER]

I definitely did NOT go out and buy a white board. I have wanted one for years and they were going to throw this one away at the office because it "wasn't nice enough".

I took care of it for them.




Went and picked up some 3/16" and 1/4" drops from the local metal shop today. Have the materials, now I just need the motivation.

[OOBER]

Progress!!!!

The start of my home-made B52 kit. I was going to weld them together but wifey was using the dryer, and I wasn't about to stop her progress

Broke the swirl ring on my plasma torch so I got to cut these all out by hand with a grinder/chop saw...

For those that say they don't have the right tools. This goes to show you a drawring, some angle grinders and a small drill press go a long way.


Now I just need to integrate some body mounts then start building the slider boxes.

[OOBER]

Shackle Sliders:

Start with Homebrew expresso stout and some planning


Cut materials (I made the OD of the shackle boxes 9" and the slot 7")


Drill 3/4" holes to show the beginning and end of the slot

When I am trying to make multiple identical plates, I tack weld them together so the holes all line up.


Get friendly with my 7" metabo making the slots


Assemble with some 3" spacers to establish width


Bam, I present you home-made shackle sliders


Still need to cut the UHMW and bolt spacers.

Ran out of motivation, off to make/drink some beer.

[OOBER]

Cut the UHMW bushings today with the FIL's table saw. Came out pretty good.

Just gotta drill them out now.

Made ~10 so I have some spares just in case.

[cknaffle]

Nice job man!

[rennat_2006]

I considered making slider boxes on my blazer when i redid the shackles to lower it. Wish i would have knowing what i know now

[cknaffle]

knowing what i know now

Boy, I've said that once or twice in my life!

[mtubenzie]

Slider boxes look good Oober!

[mtubenzie]

Slider Boxes look good OOBER!

[CrashKnott]

ditto what that guy just said twice!

I have nothing to add, I'll just keep watching to see how it turns out.

[OOBER]

I considered making slider boxes on my blazer when i redid the shackles to lower it. Wish i would have knowing what i know now

Thanks guys.

This is the reason that I post these detailed photos. In hopes that I at least help just one person break out of the box and try a new method, or do something themselves instead of purchasing a premade part.

In the case of these leaf spring sliders though, it would have been waaaay easier to just buy the ones from Liquid Iron Industries.



Progress!!

Drilled out the UHMW pucks


It was snowing outside and I had nothing better to do, so I got a wild hair and switched the machine over to TIG. Probably haven't tried/done TIG for ~2 years or so.

For whatever reason I couldn't figure out/get the footpedal to work so this is just with the trigger on pulse.






Tried to TIG on a couple of spots on the inside of the brackets, but it was a PITA, so I will MIG weld the inside next time I am out working.

[Crusty]

Wow I have never seen them leaf sliders before. So they take the place of the shackles? cant wait to see how you hook em up.