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Ok, time for updates, and progress
Well, I started off at the end of last week building a jig to pull the inner C off...
This didn't work, as I applied force from the 12 ton jack, it ripped the metal apart just above the welds...Ok, time for stronger thicker metal...
Started jacking on the press I built, this happened....
Oooook...Let me think....
Well, decided to make a trip to the metal shop and pic up some more 6" C channel 1/4" thick and added it in...
Starting to press the tube out...
And this happens...
So, I start to head back out to the metal shop for more material when it hit me, why not just go to a place that has a shop press that can do it for the price it would cost me for another 3' piece of channel?? So off my fingers go dialing numbers to find someone who has one. After about 30 minutes I find one that can do it, a Carquest that has a 40 ton shop press. Great, heading there in the AM. I get there, we get it set up in the press and start at it. Well, they have a 40 ton press with a tonage gauge on it, and its at 50 tons of pressure, not budging at all
So I ask him if he knows who has a 100 ton press...5 places later I find a shop that has a 100 ton press (You wouldn't think it would be that hard to find a shop that works on big rigs and heavy equipment and a metal shop that would have one) They get it done, and get this, they said it took about 30 tons of pressure to break it and about 20 tons to drive it off
Oh well, after about 5 minutes...
Now, time to install it and not let it turn in the process. So I measure with an angle finder...
And tap...
And measure...
And tap...
And measure and tap about 8 more times...
And after its on, I measure again....
Great!! Dead on, well, I think its about 1/4 degree off, but it's way better than the 4 degrees it was before
Well, I stopped here for the day, had to go in and celebrate Mom's B-day...Tomorrow I will get it welded, get the knuckles/spindles/shafts in, get my link brackets in place and one side burned on (still waiting on my bushings) and start on my link bars...Stay tuned 
SVT


This didn't work, as I applied force from the 12 ton jack, it ripped the metal apart just above the welds...Ok, time for stronger thicker metal...


Started jacking on the press I built, this happened....


Oooook...Let me think....


Well, decided to make a trip to the metal shop and pic up some more 6" C channel 1/4" thick and added it in...

Starting to press the tube out...

And this happens...


So, I start to head back out to the metal shop for more material when it hit me, why not just go to a place that has a shop press that can do it for the price it would cost me for another 3' piece of channel?? So off my fingers go dialing numbers to find someone who has one. After about 30 minutes I find one that can do it, a Carquest that has a 40 ton shop press. Great, heading there in the AM. I get there, we get it set up in the press and start at it. Well, they have a 40 ton press with a tonage gauge on it, and its at 50 tons of pressure, not budging at all



Now, time to install it and not let it turn in the process. So I measure with an angle finder...


And tap...

And measure...

And tap...

And measure and tap about 8 more times...

And after its on, I measure again....

Great!! Dead on, well, I think its about 1/4 degree off, but it's way better than the 4 degrees it was before


SVT
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