Above 1200 Sq/FT The Salvage Garage

[bowtiguy]

Holy cones Batman! Now all you need is a ********** parking lot on a Sunday AM + a vette cart = instant auto-x!

 

[dr_clyde]

Strouty,

I’d be interested in some swivel hoist rings. PM me when you figure out what ones you want to sell.

 

[Strouty]

I will let you know, should be able to get to them in the next week or so.

This morning I am having someone change light bulbs on one of our towers, kind of glad I don't have to climb, yesterday was brutal for some reason.

Later my Brother and I will be threading the bars that we fabricated the other day, then they can go outside and I can really get my shop space back, nothing like have a 20' divider in the middle of your floor for a week.

 

[Craptain]

I guess that's money well spent. Unlike some of your other dubious purchases. But did you sell anything?

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[Strouty]

I did, but no clue what I got, the auction was dragging on, so I left for a while, when I got back my stuff was already sold. Guess I will find out in a couple weeks when I get a check.

 

[86turbodsl]

Let's hope it isn't a pittance. I watched one of my auction consignments sell pitifully low once. It wasn't a good feeling.

 

[Strouty]

It was all stuff I didn't care about, so if I never got a check, it would be fine.

OMO needs a serious diet, our state only allows 34k for a two axle truck regardless of what the manufacturer rated it for so I need to figure things out, it weighs 30,660 as it sits with the pump and knuckle boom. I spoke to the manufacturer and the pump does not weigh as much as I had hoped, so it won't be a big dent in the overall weight, plus I have plenty of things to add to the truck. In the end it could become a one ton capacity truck if I don't plan everything out, kind of stinks as I had not understood the state rules about a single axle truck.

 

[xtremek]

............. nothing like have a 20' divider in the middle of your floor for a week.

I so hear you on that. I finally got one piece of that 25' stick of 3"x8" cut to size. I still need to cut the other piece. I'll end up with a 5' chunk left over.

........ In the end it could become a one ton capacity truck if I don't plan everything out, kind of stinks as I had not understood the state rules about a single axle truck.

Put a tag axle under it?

 

[rvieceli]

I agree throw another axle underneath it. Shouldn’t need to actually power it.

Ron

 

[Strouty]

I hate tag axles, the places I ago they can lift your drive axle off the ground and then you are screwed. I am going to start a list of what can be removed, then as I remove it, I will weigh it and subtract from my total. If I can get it so I can carry 6000 pounds on the truck, that should do it, the trailer can do the rest.

 

[Strouty]

Also, I sold the duramax engine/trans/transfer case as well as some other miscellaneous pieces and parts, more stuff gone (they just drove away with a loaded truck), and my wallet is taking less of a dent from yesterday's auction.

 

[harley jim]

I hate tag axles, the places I ago they can lift your drive axle off the ground and then you are screwed. I am going to start a list of what can be removed, then as I remove it, I will weigh it and subtract from my total. If I can get it so I can carry 6000 pounds on the truck, that should do it, the trailer can do the rest.

Hi Strouty,
They have double acting tag axles. Power up power down. See them on three axle dump trucks. Would that work.

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[Strouty]

I don't think a tag is going to work, between the outriggers and fuel tanks, I think I have used up all the space already. Until I get things figured out, I won't really know for sure, but I would prefer to avoid a tag at all costs, between the extra tires, tolls, weight, and costs, I would be far better off just having a twin screw. It may end up being that is what needs to happen, then the freightliner can be my "light duty" truck with a single axle.

I know for sure that the knuckle boom is adding close to 4 tons after hydraulic tank, pump, PTO, and hoses, but removing that is a deal breaker on the entire project. I can see that it means there is no chance of making it all wheel drive, it is just too heavy already, so that makes things much simpler, but not as much fun. I should be ready to start pulling stuff off OMO by the beginning of November, right now I have too many more important things to deal with, I just needed to get my weight so I have a starting point. I think in the end there will be a lot of things that can be removed and some of them will make a substantial dent in the weight department. I am also going to try and add only aluminum things to the truck as much as possible, fuel tanks, inner rear rims, possibly use smaller tires on the rear. It is going to be interesting to see what I can come up with in the end. If I do convert to a twin screw, it would be the best situation overall, just wasn't part of my original plans.

 

[jack stand]

Isn't there an "equipment" plate that I see around on some specialized equipment that's more or less for transporting it to and from a work site? Iirc I've seen them on everything from tractors, tow behind cement mixers to actual crane's.
(googling next, should have done that first)

 

[xtremek]

I understand the tag axle hesitation. I saw a truck get hung on it's raised tag once, totally screwed. But I had to make the suggestion

 

[Orionrising]

yeah there is drop axle on my dump truck, raises but not that much. some day I will get around to pulling it off.

 

[Strouty]

The plates like that have special rules not only to get them, but also to use them. The biggest issue is all the **** I have to go through to use the truck, essentially I am using it for personal use, not for commerce, but try explaining that to a DOT officer. I am going to have to join some group to get random drug testing, register it “apportioned”, plus keep track of all fuel consumed and how many miles I travel in each state. Should make for some interesting record keeping. That is why I liked Bev, I registered for 26k and didn’t have to deal with any of that ****, but both my new trucks are too heavy to register like that and still be able to haul any load. Even the Freightliner is going to be over 25k empty, but it will allow me to have almost 4 tons carrying capacity or a really decent size trailer.

 

[Zexx]

Is the RV trick an option?

 

[Strouty]

Hopefully today I will have the stupid 20’ bars done and out of the shop, it took us far too long to thread the ends last night. Worst part is the left hand threads, the dies I bought are weird, they don’t have the ramp like the right hand thread dies do, so they are very hard to get started and they cut harder. I tried to chuck up the shorter pieces in my lathe, but they would slip in the chuck, I am going to try again today, but swap on my larger 4 jaw, the 3 jaws are too wimpy to crank tight.

Then I either need to make a setup to haul the bars on my burb roof or make something to haul them on the Freightliner, then I can pick up the knuckle boom on the way back from the galvanizer. Not sure I want to drive the extra couple hours I. The Freightliner, but it would kill two birds with one stone.

 

[Strouty]

Is the RV trick an option?

In order for it to be an RV, it needs a bathroom, not sure I want to install one, also at some point it has to pass the sniff test and having the knuckle boom would make them think it is not an RV.

 

[Craptain]

That knuckle boom is for loading and unloading your jetski or motorcycle.....

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[Strouty]

Sniff test failure........

 

[legenddc]

So it's not the bathroom that fails the sniff test?

 

[Strouty]

Depends on if it was used or not.

Today is dragging on, basically have gotten almost nothing done, friend stopped by the shop, then my GF dropped by to feed the Monarch butterfly (looks like tomorrow will be mid 60s again, good for release), now I am feeling last night more than ever. I am trying to get my 4 jaw chuck setup on the lathe so I can thread those short bars, but the chuck is missing the pins for the cam lock mount, trying to find some that fit now.

If I can get that on and thread those bars, I will feel like I accomplished something.

 

[Strouty]

Lost power for about an hour, so I decided to investigate my seat position in the Freightliner (GF things I should call it Perk for Perkins Marine, think someone else mentioned that too), anyways, they have a plate mounted to the floor that the seat mounts to and it is in the wrong place. I guess the original owner could have been really short, but it is so ridiculous, the shifter is behind my shoulder and my knee is into the cup holder with the seat all the way back, I am only 6', so not like I am a giant or anything. First issue is they used "huck fasteners" to hold the plate down, they are like a rivet and I need to cut them out, second the plate only technically has one hole or 1" of travel before it would need to be modified to still bolt in the same locations (these bolts hit cross braces, not just the floor), so I need to decide what to do, I need the seat to be back almost 4", just moving the seat back and sitting in it makes everything feel so much better, so it has to be done and the "easy" one inch of rear travel is definitely not enough, it isn't even a happy medium. The passenger seat doesn't even use this adapter plate, the seat is bolted directly to the floor, they just used large washers to reinforce it from pulling out, near as I can tell, the passenger seat is factory based on the info from the original build sheet. I can already see that this could be a day long project, just what I need, right? I guess the alternative is to stay cramped up and beat my knee to death, thought about it, starting the seat project.

 

[Strouty]

Removal is going to be easier than I thought, mag drill popped them right off.

 

[Strouty]

At this point I can extend the baseplate so it grabs one of the original holes, then add a new hole in the baseplate to catch the other set of original holes, the I feel like I should add a new set of holes at the very rear to add stability in case of an accident.

 

[casmurbax]

Progress!!

Did you place cones around the work area? Asking for a friend.

What is that switch on the floor?

 

[xtremek]

Looks like a good start it fixing your knee/seat problem.

 

[Strouty]

I haven’t mounted the seat yet, but I moved it back and drove the truck in the yard, totally better, almost a different truck.

I will have to layout the area tomorrow with cones.

The switch is a battery disconnect.

The lathe, oh the lathe.....

I got the four jaw chuck mounted, the bar did not slip, but the lathe didn’t have enough umph to thread it. I guess I need to learn how to turn threads on the lathe, we ended up threading them all by hand, then am sore.

 

[macgyver37]

I don't recall your lathe right off hand, but does it have a back gear? If so, I'd think it would have threaded it in back gear. Other than that, yes, you should learn to thread on the lathe, one of the better things it can do..

 

[Strouty]

It has high and low, but it is a variable speed reeves drive, it just bogged down and stopped, I have used another lathe to do this on larger rod, but this was left hand thread and the die was awful, it made a very rough cut no matter how well we cleaned it out and backed it off. Regardless, I do need to learn how to cut threads on my lathe, it will be a very handy thing to be capable of.

All the rods are threaded and we loaded them on “Perk”, I am shooting for early next week to take them to the galvanizer, on the way back I will pick up the other knuckle boom, essentially killing two birds with one stone. Probably be Tuesday at the earliest, need to mount the seat and change the engine oil and filters since Perk has been neglected for a while.

 

[86turbodsl]

I haven’t mounted the seat yet, but I moved it back and drove the truck in the yard, totally better, almost a different truck.

I will have to layout the area tomorrow with cones.

The switch is a battery disconnect.

The lathe, oh the lathe.....

I got the four jaw chuck mounted, the bar did not slip, but the lathe didn’t have enough umph to thread it. I guess I need to learn how to turn threads on the lathe, we ended up threading them all by hand, then am sore.

Sounds like you need a new lathe then... [emoji6]

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[Strouty]

I think you may be correct.

 

[Strouty]

I think since I have the seat out, I may swap the steering column out as well, seems like it will be easier now than later. The other thing is the radio doesn't seem to work, I think it is the antenna, will check the CD player portion out.

Of course before the radio, I need to look at the battery disconnect switch, I think something it loose, every so often the truck won't start, wiggle the switch and it starts. It did not feel like a loose connection, I guess the switch could be bad.

 

[Strouty]

Well, steering column is not even close to working, looks like I need another bracket and a section of the dash will need to be cut out or swapped for the correct one. Not happening today, now I have only wasted a couple hours by the time I get things back together, but at least I know what I am up against.

 

[PelicanPines]

Sniff test failure........

Reading all about your seat mods... which sound great. Agree on using all the original bolt holes...

then... I read...

about the failed sniff test... putting two and two at first together... truck seat... sniff test...

I threw up a little... closed the thread... didn't return till now.

 

[Strouty]

Sniff, sniff.......

 

[Strouty]

I have a few more holes to drill, but I need some hardware to finish things, not sure if I am going to put the new floor mat in yet or wait until I get all the new hardware, assuming I can even get the hardware I want.

 

[Strouty]

Got the baseplate mounted, but will have to take everything back out again to fill in the old holes, have a bunch of new hardware that I need to order, most likely it will be a couple weeks before I get to it again.