project family wheeler. chop top 1 ton explorer.

[wahlstrom1]

It's an inch longer, and when you can set the steering stops up and shim the cylinder to keep from over steering the joints.

 

[86 slo-vo]

Well I had some time this afternoon to do something that I've wanted to do for a while now.

I converted my bender over to a full hydro ram instead of the manual setup it came with. I'm not quite done yet but it's 80% done. I mounted it on an engine stand so that all you have to do is turn it and it can be ran in vertical or horizontal form.

It's a 12v pump and ram from a lift gate off a truck, someone gave it to me so I pulled the good stuff and scrapped the rest.

Still needs some welding and gusseting plus a battery mount and some hooks to hang die's and templates off of.

 

[Kyle M.]

Pimp

 

[disciplerocks]

Nice post terminals

 

[Snoranger]

They only cost about a buck each.

 

[86 slo-vo]

Nice post terminals

Was just testing :flipoff2:

 

[Kage]

Lazy man is Lazy. Manual bending 4TW!

(Yes I'm a little green with envy)

 

[86 slo-vo]

The manual part didn't bug me at all, the part that sucked was I had to roll the bender out in the driveway and lock it into the trench drain. Rain or cold weather and I couldn't bend tube.

It's super fast, just wish I had a better way to retract the ram to make it alot faster.

 

[railman]

mount a return spring.....pick up a screen door spring, one of the long ones...not the short ones in the safety chain....and mount it to the rear of the cylinder and to the pivot of the ram....

l8r, John

 

[Snoranger]

The manual part didn't bug me at all, the part that sucked was I had to roll the bender out in the driveway and lock it into the trench drain. Rain or cold weather and I couldn't bend tube.

It's super fast, just wish I had a better way to retract the ram to make it alot faster.

Check the fitting going into the cyl. It might have a flow valve in it. Basically its a valve used to slow the liftgate descent if you pop a hose. Its looks similar to a check valve. For your application, you dont need (or want) it in there.

Remove that and add a return spring, you should be good to go.

 

[Robert_1967]

Dang, Pretty good Job on that.




Robert

 

[86 slo-vo]

Check the fitting going into the cyl. It might have a flow valve in it. Basically its a valve used to slow the liftgate descent if you pop a hose. Its looks similar to a check valve. For your application, you dont need (or want) it in there.

Remove that and add a return spring, you should be good to go.

I believe your right, it has some kind of valve on the back, I need to take it off and re bleed the system and see what happens.

 

[86 slo-vo]

Got some drivetrain work done, after about 2.5 hours of sand blasting everything is starting to look pretty good.

It was all coated in a nice thick super hard layer of 30 years of oil and dirt...was not fun.

And I got my new bolt bin painted and ready to be loaded up

 

[disciplerocks]

I need one of those.

 

[86 slo-vo]

It's pretty nice, i wish I had a second one.