Check your junk

[mbalbritton]

So I've been driving my '72 commando 40 miles daily for about 2 years now. Dealing with a bad driveshaft angle and vibration. The PO had done a SOA on it and set the pinion like it was a Double Cardon shaft, but its single joint.

Finally I decided to pull it in the garage and fix that. Also to take out some stupid lift blocks.

The welds looked like bubble gum on the spring perches. Took a plasma torch to the driver side in board weld and saw the perch come loose. A tap from the hammer and the perch fell off! The outboard weld barely penetrated. Looked at the passenger perch and hit it with a hammer 3 times and it came off!

Basically the u bolts were doing more than the welds.

Just because you have a welder doesn't mean you can fuse two pieces of metal togethers people!

CHECK YOUR JUNK for what a PO has done.

 

[Jeff B]

Really like the gladiator sleeve

Glad you fixed it before there was a serious issue.

 

[RatLabGuy]

Enough of this lame stuff, lets hear the "safety" story of almost putting your eye out.

 

[mbalbritton]

Ah, it was nothing... That could have been BAD. But it wasn't soooo it's not.

Trying wrench the old rusted center pin off the spring. the bolt broken and came off like a bullet. Nail me right in the corner of the eye. Of course no safety glasses seeing as the dog just chewed them up the other day; and then chewed up my $70 sunglasses today just before this mishap.

 

[mommucked]

The title had me thinkin this was another thread about the DPG Chiggers or the dreaded Crotchadiles ......................Ouch!! it looks like you got very lucky , could'nt get much closer too to the eyeball. The Pirate eypatch look is very overated IMO and I'd rather loose a finger or 2 than any of my eyesight.............I also like how your beer was placed in a safe location

 

[Jeff B]

If you weren't wearing the gladiator sleeve you wouldn't have had the strength to break the bolt. Hence your eye would have been fine.

With great power comes great responsibility..

 

[mbalbritton]

Beer safety first!

And the gladiator is a buddy. I couldn't claim such an honor.

 

[transman731]

you can never overlook the importance of beer safety. you must learn to keep it out of the way of hoses and cords. i can never stress the importance of it enough especially if you drink bottles, one pull on a hose or cord and you now have a 20 minutes of wasted time cleaning up glass and beer.

 

[GotWood]

Really like the gladiator sleeve

So gay.

 

[RatLabGuy]

Really like the gladiator sleeve

I'm still trying to figure out how he's going to weld that tire

 

[Jeff B]

So gay.

The fact that you see gayness in that is gay in it's self.. dork..

 

[shawn]

I'm still trying to figure out how he's going to weld that tire

Rubber filler rod. Der.

 

[mbalbritton]

I'm still trying to figure out how he's going to weld that tire

Or how he's going weld with his plasma cutter... Oh wait, he must have a reverse switch on it.