F*** it, we're going live.
Not that I'm in a time crunch or anything, but I've got a paycheck that still needs cashing, groceries that need to be bought and I'm damn near out of beer and Grizzly wintergreen. If you're familiar with how the Ford SD trucks mount their driver side leaf packs to the axle, you'll know all too well the conglomeration of bolt on wargarhble that hangs 97 miles south of the axle housing with bullshitty yield-to-tourque long ass U-bolts. It's ghetto, stupid, and ugly.
I've got to somehow build a solid clamping system to adjoin the driver side leaf pack to the driver side axle housing that won't fail. How I had it before was makeshift. Now that I have the entire axle housing in front of me and can take the time to design and fabricate something that'll work, I'm all over it. Rather than spending all afternoon boons deep in preheat/reheat/repeat procedure on cast to mild steel welding, only to inevitably cook the bearings and seals, I've opted for a slightly different approach.
Weld where applicable, drill and tap where I can't. This'll keep me busy til it's time to drive to work Monday.
[ATTACH=full]330272[/ATTACH]
[ATTACH=full]330273[/ATTACH]
[ATTACH=full]330274[/ATTACH]
The rest will be plating, more drilling and tapping and making it up as I go. And it looks like I'll be walking my happy ass to the store for more beer with a bar stop or three. Woosah.
