NW WA Meet / BS Thread

I'm in Tacoma. If you need a part picked up and dropped off I am happy to help.

 

Just got a shipping notice from Northern Tool - they got the battery shipped out today, about a month sooner than expected. Happy Friday!

 

@busmup808 this or take a cut off wheel and cut diagonally through the race. Watch your depth so you don’t hit the spindle, Wanna be 95% of the way through. Once you’ve cut through as much as possible take a chisel and place it in the groove of the cut you just made and pound on it. The races are hardened and will split. Sometimes cutting one side works, you might have to make two cuts 180° opposite of each other though

And wear safety glasses, hardened metal will do some gnarly things

 

I like that idea. Where does one get a left hand drill bit?
I got a broken bolt removed from an aluminum cylinder head with an EDM (electronic discharge machine) once, some machine shops have them. Worth it for a high value part.

 

I get mine at Ace hardware.

 

Amazon

Irwin makes a good set of LH drill bits.

i think Lowe’s stocks the RH bits, dunno about the lefties though

 

I’ve broken my fair share of bolts off in dirt bikes, particularly when installing clutches. If I have a little bur to work with I usually can back them out with a jewelers screwdriver if I can’t get it then I move to left hand drill bits and extractors. Bigger broke off, stripped or seized shit like exhaust manifold bolts usually tack weld a cheapo wrench on it and beat it with a hammer.

 

Can confirm lowes doesn't carry shit

At least the ones I've been to

 

Story of my life

Minus welding and I'm just now accumulating tools like this that I took advantage of when I was younger

 

Incorrect.

https://www.lowes.com/pd/Gardeners-1-cu-ft-Compost-Chicken-Manure/3240886

 

I stand corrected. I've gone to lowes in person looking for specific tools like a torx 27 for example. Oh yeah you can buy it. As part of a $157 package but not individually.

Guess it's good if you need a set and ya know....not just 1 piece.

 

Shhhhhh!

 

@JimSnell are you going to be around tomorrow?

 

Yup.

 

And why so much space between leaves? Mine never did that

 

ok that is the coolest photo effect at the center of the shot. As I can tell, from left to right
The front of a Chevy pu, the back of same, a really short big rig,, front of a Dodge Ram, droid, storm trooper, space pod, and Darth Vader. How far off am I?

 

Want to send over your address? You’re near puyallup right? Dropping off the kid at the exes place in summer, might as well kill two birds with one stone

 

Mahaloz Brotha! My cuz’n called me after I posted and picked me up to go to the junkyard to get another L spindle. Long story short is I got the parts and it is all pressed in. Taking a dinner break to feed my son and then back in the garage to assemble. Heat didn’t work for me as I only had Ace propane fuel cylinder. Did the dremal thing and it worked.

 

So I just remembered a good fix to re-arch your dakars... Go flex them out and let one side of the axle completely become weightless, then slammit into reverse. That should cantilever and invert the shackle the wrong way forcing a positive arch to be formed. You'll have to flex it out again but continue In a forward motion to bring the shackle back to normal location. Repeat with other side, and boom no more saggy flat ass.

It also helps if you get stuck in a muddy ass lake bed, such as lake Roosevelt and have a Chevy take running starts and jerk your truck backwards inches at a time. It really gets that shackle inverted in a hurry.

FYI, this is not a recommended way to re-arch leaf springs. I cannot be held responsible if anyone chooses to try this....


Damn was looking closer at these pics, my frame looks way worse than I remember. Big difference now.





Notice the gap between the main leaf and the next leaf below it with the shackle inverted? It's a bit of an eye fuck with the mud and rusty frame all blending in. You can really notice it in the last pic inside the wheel well. There's a good amount of daylight shown through that gap.