wish i was busy... lol trying to figure out what to do today...

 

hi everyone!!

just stopping in after a week long disappearing act to say the welder is apparently working fine. . .there's gas, there's wire, and it runs. . .just me that hasn't welded in a bit

You can swing by here on a weekend or if you have power I could possibly run out there

Ok, back to movie time

 

welcome back steve... what type of mig welder is it you have?

 

well hello again! nice to see ya the weekend is looky crappy though...gravel driveways and rain = yuck. i seem to have fixed my leak, though! fuel economy is heading back where it should be- need fix the gauge on the front tank now. lol

OH! so who's got a white truck and might have been on charity neck last night? i SWEAR there was an fte sticker on the back of the truck that passed me around 7:30 yesterday, but i was riding one horse bareback and leading the other one, so it was hard to tell

 

Good Morning , and happy Friday Virginia! Looks like we're finally going to warm up after 3 days of very cold temps.

 

Morning, gotta go get coffee at the store, drinking some tea..... blech.... wake up to go drive... be...back... and the cat says meow...eow food also

 

Hey all, nice 10 degrees here in NY. Just think Shawn, if you went on a road trip with me you'd probably still be here....

 

37 and drizzley here, but they changed that gasket yesterday and that leak is gone this morning.

 

i just woke up here

 

hello again to all.. i have a question and am not sure if this is the right post.. here goes, if this is the wrong place please advise,,,,,, I have a 79 shortbed that the current bed is rusted out.. i got a really good bed to replace it with..... I have a four post lift in my garage....(see where this is headed??) anyone ever used the lift to take one off and then put one on?.

thanks for any and all advice....

rick

 

ive heard of guys doing that.. but never done it myself... if you can try to lift it where the bed support cross braces are at...

 

shawn,
thanks.... how exactly? like remove bolts, add straps,put the bolts back but not attach em to the frame just put nuts and big washers?
i can get enough guys here and with enough beer and pizza we could do it, but since i have the lift i was just trying 'work smarter(?) not harder'

 

i was thinking you had like a 2 post car lift with swing arms that could come up under the bed...

but yeah if its an over head lift for like lifting engine blocks outta the engine compartments.. you could attach the straps to the 4 tie down points in the bed and lift it that way too...

either way you do it youll still have to undo the bolts holding the bed to the frame.. but figure you knew that already...

ive personally never lifted a bed off a truck but had to lift the cab off a truck once... was an ole 23 ford pickup.. that cab was heavy as heck.. even with 20 guys from my class lifting it... (truck we had in our shop to work on)... im still surprised how heavy that thing was... but i need to pull the bed on my truck too when i get around to wanting to paint it.. but i need to flip mine over so i can fix its support braces and then do some metal work on it...

 

thanks shawn,

yep its a four post lift like for storing cars or doing underneath work....
we(myself and four others) moved the newer bed I have from a box truck onto my homemade 'wheeled' cart so i could clean it up and undercoat it before I put it on my truck.. it doesnt seem that heavy, i dont think its a heavy as the cab....

right now the newer bed is standing on 2x4's on the front end and then strapped to the rolling dollies so i can easily work on the underneath and push it around my garage so it out of the way....

thanks again,'
rick

 

sweet.... ur so lucky to have a shop like that... wish i did...