4 Ton Walker Long Frame Rebuild

[scoutkid]

A few months back I picked up this bad boy for $50. I am going to try and document this as best I can.

http://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=50527

Last night was the initial tear down (until 2:30 am, it helped distract me from homework )

Here are a few pics from before pressure washing and a few after. From the other thread, Hiball needed a few bits of information which will hopefully be covered by the pictures and name tags. Please PM me a rebuild kit price

The old boy cleaned up really well!

One decision I am trying to make is sandblast/powdercoat or flapdisc/paint? What are your thoughts?

 

[Hiball]

Looks like you've got a great start, Whats the first 3 numbers on that serial tag? Is it 657?

 

[scoutkid]

Looks like you've got a great start, Whats the first 3 numbers on that serial tag? Is it 657?

Yup!

657 BO1113

 

[scoutkid]

So I have my rebuild kit ordered (thanks Hiball!) it should be here this week. In the meantime, I took most everything non-cylinder related to the sandblaster on Friday morning. $40 and a few hours later I had all my parts back nice and clean!

I decided to go with the original 'theme' of the jack, but didn't want to mess with original exact match colors. So, blue and white it is!


Here are some after paint pics!

 

[ksfarmboy]

Looks good! I recently bought one of those jacks off CL as well. I wasn't planning on repainting mine though, so I'm interested in seeing yours put together.

 

[Drew_flux]

Scoutkid, whats the green stuff your cleaning the parts in?

 

[scoutkid]

Looks good! I recently bought one of those jacks off CL as well. I wasn't planning on repainting mine though, so I'm interested in seeing yours put together.

I will try and do a better job with pics on reassembly!

Scoutkid, whats the green stuff your cleaning the parts in?

That there would be concentrated Simple Green. It works OK - not the best, but OK. It at least breaks up all the gunk so the parts can be wiped clean.

 

[Hiball]

Looks Good, That Color is as close as your gonna get to those jacks, Make sure you paint the lift saddle White also. The White handle along with the White Saddle will make it "Pop" in the words of Amy Matthews. Really Looks Good though...

 

[Drew_flux]

That there would be concentrated Simple Green. It works OK - not the best, but OK. It at least breaks up all the gunk so the parts can be wiped clean.

scoutkid, thanks for your reply, i had to google it as they don't sell simple green over here in Australia.

 

[scoutkid]

So, to play catch up a bit, here is what I found inside my ram. Also, there is a pic of the nice little box I got from Hiball, and a pic of the contents.

 

[scoutkid]

Here is another pic of the broken seal on the main shaft - and how it is SUPPOSED to look with the new seal.

 

[scoutkid]

And all back together in all her glory. I am sure you will see this jack around in many other threads to come! Sorry for not having the saddle painted white, yet!

 

[GeorgiaHybrid]

Great job...Wish I could find one in this area but we have a major jack rebuild company based here and they must have spies out looking in every garage within 200 miles of here buying them up. Yours looks great and should last you for many years.

 

[Mickey O]

Rather than doing all that work you could have just went to Harbor Freight and got a new one for $49.00.







Just kidding, the jack looks fantastic, beautiful job on the restoration.

 

[CRTDI]

Wow, excellent job!!

It's great to see I nice jack like that being rebuilt to be used again. You probably just added at least another 50 years of service life to it.

If you had to do it again, would you have done anything in your rebuild process differently?

 

[scoutkid]

Wow, excellent job!!

It's great to see I nice jack like that being rebuilt to be used again. You probably just added at least another 50 years of service life to it.

If you had to do it again, would you have done anything in your rebuild process differently?

To tell you the truth, I probably would have had the parts powder coated. I debated that for a long time. I had them sandblasted, but just couldn't pull the trigger on the PC. :/

I need to grease it up good, but I certainly expect it to last a good long while! Let's see, I just turned 28, so 50 years would only get me to 78. Is that long enough? Will we still HAVE cars by then? Lol

 

[Hiball]

Looks Good!!! Glad i could be of some assistance.. Cya in 30 years....

 

[scoutkid]

Looks Good!!! Glad i could be of some assistance.. Cya in 30 years....

Lol. Yeah, I guess your industry isn't all about repeat customers

 

[Hiball]

Lol. Yeah, I guess your industry isn't all about repeat customers

Sadly its not, This is why i ventured into supplying rebuild kits to the DYI'ers. It was either that or i needed to experiment with damaging seals when reinstalling to shorten there life span.

 

[nolatoolguy]

That looks pretty good. Not bad for 50 bucks either. I have a feeling it will outlast me and you.

 

[Lookin4'67Galaxieconv]

Great job...Wish I could find one in this area but we have a major jack rebuild company based here and they must have spies out looking in every garage within 200 miles of here buying them up. Yours looks great and should last you for many years.

No kidding!

That's a beautiful job, scoutkid!

 

[tango-charlie]

Nice job on your floor jack. I posted a few pics of mine on my thread. I looked at your pictures and mine appears to be slightly different. What color did you use to paint yours? It looks really nice.