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hey
i just figured out what this ignore option does!

Sad day....!

Originally Posted by 406Rich

Sad day....!

yes it is.
this is the very first time i have even gotten slightly irritated since i joined this forum.
but sometimes either personalities clash
or someone finds their hidden troll and it gets ugly.
i tried hard to be calm and friendly
but it didnt work this time.

Originally Posted by billy zz

hey
i just figured out what this ignore option does!

Billy, you might step back and listen and look at what Jerry is telling you. He might save your life, or someone else's. I am not going to act like I'm a pro hot rod builder, but Jerry is. I also don't want to be a dick, or hurt your feelings, but the guys that did my 40 Ford were guys whom have been building hot rods for years and knew what they were doing. I hate to tell you, they did shit work and it scared the shit out of me when I saw it. Just because someone has done it and it has worked, doesn't mean it is safe or right. It just means it hasn't broken yet. That pitman arm worries me. The single tab holding your suspension bars, and pan hard bar worry me. No way I'd use a sigle piece of 1/4" and but weld it and call it good. I tend to over build but it's my life and I want to see as close to 100 as I can. I didn't look back in your thread until Jerry's post. I went back to page 4 and came up to current. Again, not trying to be a jerk or pick a part your build, but I can see what Jerry is saying. Just be glad you didn't post this on the HAMB. I wish I had people tell me when I built something wrong before. It would have saved me finding out the hard way.......

I see you have a new pitman arm now, so disregard that in my post. You typed it as I was typing.

Also, I have a friend of mine that is a bad ass welder/fabricator that works in Durango. I bet he could give you some info or ideas, or even fix up your car for you for a decent rate. If you're interested in meeting up with him drop me a PM.

This is a friendly site, and when people chime in, it's worth acknowledging their response. Most people aren't trying to be dicks, just expressing concerns we might miss, god knows I miss a lot of them, then get the gentle reminder that it's not about me, but everyone, including people who I love who might trust me and my building skills more than they should. I think Jerry is well respected here, and listening to what he has to say may spare you from a safety issue. Worth a listen, he's helped me a time or three!

we made a new bed for the weasel
anyway
wah lah!


i am going to put a piano hinge in the front and a latch at the rear so that it can only be opened after unlocking and opening the tailgate
inside the bed are 2 storage compartments and the gas tank.

Hey Billy, I thought I would catch you at the club show in Farmington this weekend. Didn't work out. Was a nice laid back gathering and the club that put it on did a good job.

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Nice job on the bed enclosure, Billy, and thanks for the pic's too, Scooting!!

What RSpears said!! X2, good job there Bill and thanks to Scooting for sharing the pics!

Nice bed and cool pics Scooting! Do you have a thread on your car? I'm missing having a put together 40 right now.

when i replaced the kingpins they were so hard to turn that i think i screwed up the guts in my new steering box trying to break them in.
i will have to open it up and take a peek.
if it does need rebuilding i am considering buying another brand new box instead of rebuilding.
since i dont have a press and some of the other big tools needed it might behoove me to do so.
we shall see.
the symptoms are
i will be going straight and it will want to be pulling left
hit a bump and it jumps to the right a few feet
and then is pulling right.
i think it is skipping on the teeth inside the box.

Its not skipping teeth----your king pins are too tight and need to have the bushings honed for proper clearance AND alignment of the bushings---the right clearance isn't right unless the bushings are honed/reamed with thr proper extra length hone/reamer where both bushings are done at same time---------


Edit---I went back and read some earlier posts and initially decide to delete my response today but decided it might be a help to someone else later on and decided to leave it---after all ZZ decided to ignor me last year----------