Stories written by manuel Good.
On Thu, 16 Aug 2001, Armijo, Manuel L wrote:
> After drilling (or trying to), and burning my arms with the hot
> chips, I went down to Home Depot, and bought a compressor and air chisel.
> Now I chisel them off, and then push them through with a punch tool. Some
> are easier than others. I recently knocked the tranny crossmember out, and
> some of the rivets were not pressed in firmly, so I could only knock them
> out partway. I finished by taking off the brake bracket which has one big
> bolt through the frame, then knocked the crossmember out with a crow bar,
> had to pry it loose to clear the rivets from the frame...sounds easy, but i
> was sweating and tired by the time i was done. The crossmember was flung
> out the garage door onto the dirt! I felt bad about throwing it out
> afterward, then I brushed it off and put it neatly in the back yard off the
> ground.
>
> What did I learn from this? Air chisel good. Bad quality chisel bad, had
> to sharpen much too much. Taking a water break good. Ear plugs very good.
> Flinging x-member out back door bad...(could have killed dog).
>
> next--waiting on m/c brake bracket from pickupsnw...waiting a month now.
> They say they are waiting for them...not in stock...bad.... currently
> mounting prop. valve on frame between rear shock mount and cab, plumbing all
> i can until the m/c mount arrives...when? I dunno, cuz they don't know...
>
> that's all for now..
> manuel.
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>
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-JLS
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