Well guys some slow progress but progress is progress I guess.
I made my brake adapter plate and finished my firewall shave.
I also needed to change out my tail gate trunnions, I made a set of these for a guy at work so I made my self a set. They are UHMW so they wont rust and they will wear great.
Also non truck related but figured I would share a good idea I had.
So my weekend project was refinishing the wheels on my car. I had some deep scratches from the previous owner. I had always wondered about machining the scratches out.
So I went for it. I clamped them down to the vertical mill and machined .015'' out of the lip of my wheel. It worked out great and I would recommend it to anyone with deep gouges in your wheels.
I then DA'd them with 180 then wet sanded them with 320-400-800-1000-1500-2000 to give me a great finish. I picked up some mothers polish but don't know if I'm going to use it yet. I taped off the lip and here is the finished product.
I know its not a truck but, hey this advice may help to save your nice pickup wheels
Also very non truck related, the machine shop I used to work for went out of business so my work had a killer oppurtunity to buy a bunch of thier stuff for a killer deal. Hell I would have bought it all my self if I had a place to put it.
So I got a shop addition
super stoked on it, I got 2 new lathes 2 New CNC milling machines, programming software, tooling... A ton of stuff, that ol Yukon had a heavy load on it. Anyways heres the shop extension I'll get some pics up of my machines when I get all organized.
Expect alot of cool machined goodies going on this truck soon!
Where I'm standing is in my current shop that is bigger than that area.
Cheers guys.