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Last week took mine into Les Schwab for an alignment.
I started getting nervous when they broke out the oxy acetylene torch.
Then the 6 foot cheater bar.
They told me they couldn't get it loose, and didn't charge me for the work.
Today I crawled under it.
5 minutes with a torch and penetrating oil, and it was loose.
I've had the steel to make some rock sliders in the back of a pickup for a few weeks now. Starting to get some rust on it.
Cut some notches for the front bend in the 3/8" x 4" angle iron. Then it got dark.
Tomorrow will get it heated up and bent. Then figure out exactly how long I need it.
Slightly more difficult to figure out the angles because I've kind of beat the crap out of the panels there, but hopefully it ends up looking okay.
Have some flat head bolts to install it with, and a countersink bit. I'm just hoping it drills okay, since I don't have a mag drill to use, and the drill press isn't accessible to this large of a piece of steel (it's in the upstairs wood shop)
Screws are 140k psi rated, so somewhere around grade 7 on that scale (grade 5 is 120k, and grade 8 is 150k psi tensile strength)
I know a lot of the jack rails you can buy online come with carriage bolts, but I just don't really like how they look, or the fact that they stick out.
I'll probably start a thread later on about making the rock sliders.jack rails, but not tonight as I kind of just started.
I started getting nervous when they broke out the oxy acetylene torch.
Then the 6 foot cheater bar.
They told me they couldn't get it loose, and didn't charge me for the work.
Today I crawled under it.
5 minutes with a torch and penetrating oil, and it was loose.
I've had the steel to make some rock sliders in the back of a pickup for a few weeks now. Starting to get some rust on it.
Cut some notches for the front bend in the 3/8" x 4" angle iron. Then it got dark.
Tomorrow will get it heated up and bent. Then figure out exactly how long I need it.
Slightly more difficult to figure out the angles because I've kind of beat the crap out of the panels there, but hopefully it ends up looking okay.
Have some flat head bolts to install it with, and a countersink bit. I'm just hoping it drills okay, since I don't have a mag drill to use, and the drill press isn't accessible to this large of a piece of steel (it's in the upstairs wood shop)
Screws are 140k psi rated, so somewhere around grade 7 on that scale (grade 5 is 120k, and grade 8 is 150k psi tensile strength)
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I know a lot of the jack rails you can buy online come with carriage bolts, but I just don't really like how they look, or the fact that they stick out.
I'll probably start a thread later on about making the rock sliders.jack rails, but not tonight as I kind of just started.