H-Town Mini Wrench Meet 2/13/10 (Saturday)

Will have to check it out soon, won't I.. your going to be gone for a while. Pics?

Next Weekend at Matagorda -

 

I spoke with a couple of you guys about making some sliders, but for the life of me I cant remember the grade of tubing used for those bad boys. It was probably the combination of a long day and even longer night! Anyways, what grade do they need to be made out of, I will hopefully be able to price these out this week and work on a design.

 

This is straight from Silverback who knows a heck of a lot more about it than I do.. If I put it on my truck, it's gotta be SIlverback Approved... LOL


Silverback says "Well I would make the brackets out of 1/4" plate. The arms the connect to the brackets out of 2" square 3/16th's wall. The square support would also be 2" square 3/16ths wall. Then the outer sliders would be 1.75" .120 wall DOM tubing.

I'm looking at building something with the same specs.. I might use 2" 1/4 wall square for my arms and the square support."

 

Btw, the guys who were interested in headache racks, I have a couple sitting around right now. If you guys want them as is, I would be more than happy to hook you up. I'll need bed measurements though so I can see if they fit tacos.

 

That's what i needed to know! I'll work something up

 

Pic?

 

pick your size pipe, I'd say 2" diameter and get Sch.80 or 120. Should be more than enough. SEEMLESS pipe, A106 Grade B

 

Woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooot ! Satoshi is done ... Now i could have done it much faster than this and atleast 10 times better but hey it was the first one and i think i did an acceptable job .... I am planing to buy a grill in near future and do another one just for fun ... i am sure ill do a much better and faster job on that one ....

 

Hey bacon, I liked your slim truck box. I failed to write down the brand. What is it and where did you get it?

 

Gratzy talhas!

Thx for the pipe specs, I'm going to make some calls tomorrow. And I'll post some pics of the racks I have tomorrow unless I can find some on my computer tonight. They're pretty basic, but I can easily cut something out for them to make them more aesthetically pleasing

 

Its a Kobalt "slim compact". I got it from Lowes for $140

 

To be Contiuned ..............

 

Alright ladies, here's my pictures from the meet. Once again thank you to everyone for the help with my botched lift ...





stock UCA vs LR UCA




lift job, botch No.1: retaining cups installed upside down


lift job, botch #2: AAL too long









finally home sweet home...

 

And here is the SATOSHI .....

 

lol

 

bacon how did you get your wheels on so quick???

 

When I left the meet I was livid, the wheels hitting the calipers was the breaking point. I got on the phone with DT and headed up there. Turns out the driver side fwd wheel was rubbing as you seen, however the passenger side fwd didn't.....so they gave me two options.

1. return the wheels for something else
2. grind the calipers.

I really LOVE those wheels and I really didn't want to send them back & since they had air tools with a grinder they offered to do it for me and they only had to shave down like 1/32-1/16" .... took all of 10 min. no more rubbing.

 

Thanks. I think so too!! although I did have to grind down the brake calipers a bit, they were hitting.

 

how about the aal?

 

i confirmed that my PO list said I got a "toyota AAL45"....toyota stock AAL however my thoughts are that I got the TSB replacement last year when I complained one side was lower than the other and they sent the AAL for non-tsp spring pak...either way its going back for credit and I'm ordering a toytec AAL from Toytec tomorrow.