Custom (Homemade) Accessories
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Custom (Homemade) Accessories
Hey Guys
Well, it was the fusable links causing me grief on the ignition. I have ditched them all and wired direct. I might cut in some more later but for now I have a good solid connection and it runs sweet as ever. Thanks.
I have had the truck over 15 years, btw. 3rd owner but the second owner only had it a week.
So anyhoo, here are my homemade bumpers and sidesteps in case it gives any of you idears.
The front and rear are mostly 2" standard pipe. The sidesteps are 1 1/4" standard pipe and 1/8" steel plate. For me the easiet way to cope pipes for welding is using a holesaw and a drill press to drill for the joints first. Easy to fill that way.
I am not real worried about somebody bumping me from in front or behind . he heh.
I got this crazy Captain Kidd idea in my head for the rear bumper. I got a pretty heavy insert carrier and started with that. Those are merely 3/4" solid steel square bar stock for the fillers/connectors.
Nothing like a little time a pipe bender and an old arc welder.
Yeah, no mig for me yet. I'd kill for one but whataya gonna do?
I'm a rich yuppie?? More like toothless hillbilly.
OK, the hills are kind of pretty where I live. Show you sometime.
![](http://users.snowcrest.net/kitty/sgrandstaff/images/house/toj1.jpg)
![](http://users.snowcrest.net/kitty/sgrandstaff/images/house/toj2.jpg)
![](http://users.snowcrest.net/kitty/sgrandstaff/images/house/toj3.jpg)
Oh, here is also the garbage truck owwwie. I was parked beyond the parking lot, across the road and up the hill into the brush. Hell n gone from the action scene (this was not my first dance at emergency scenes).
Like it did me any good.![flush](https://www.yotatech.com/forums/images/smilies/flush.gif)
![](http://users.snowcrest.net/kitty/sgrandstaff/images/house/toj4.jpg)
yours Scott
Well, it was the fusable links causing me grief on the ignition. I have ditched them all and wired direct. I might cut in some more later but for now I have a good solid connection and it runs sweet as ever. Thanks.
I have had the truck over 15 years, btw. 3rd owner but the second owner only had it a week.
So anyhoo, here are my homemade bumpers and sidesteps in case it gives any of you idears.
The front and rear are mostly 2" standard pipe. The sidesteps are 1 1/4" standard pipe and 1/8" steel plate. For me the easiet way to cope pipes for welding is using a holesaw and a drill press to drill for the joints first. Easy to fill that way.
I am not real worried about somebody bumping me from in front or behind . he heh.
I got this crazy Captain Kidd idea in my head for the rear bumper. I got a pretty heavy insert carrier and started with that. Those are merely 3/4" solid steel square bar stock for the fillers/connectors.
Nothing like a little time a pipe bender and an old arc welder.
Yeah, no mig for me yet. I'd kill for one but whataya gonna do?
I'm a rich yuppie?? More like toothless hillbilly.
OK, the hills are kind of pretty where I live. Show you sometime.
![](http://users.snowcrest.net/kitty/sgrandstaff/images/house/toj1.jpg)
![](http://users.snowcrest.net/kitty/sgrandstaff/images/house/toj2.jpg)
![](http://users.snowcrest.net/kitty/sgrandstaff/images/house/toj3.jpg)
Oh, here is also the garbage truck owwwie. I was parked beyond the parking lot, across the road and up the hill into the brush. Hell n gone from the action scene (this was not my first dance at emergency scenes).
Like it did me any good.
![flush](https://www.yotatech.com/forums/images/smilies/flush.gif)
![](http://users.snowcrest.net/kitty/sgrandstaff/images/house/toj4.jpg)
yours Scott
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It gets confusing when you start another thread in which you post the outcome of a question you asked in a different thread...and when people are searching for answers when they have a similar problem and come across your first thread, they aren't going to see what the solution ended up being. If you asked a question, got a response, and it fixed the problem (or didn't), post about it in the same thread! ![bigok](https://www.yotatech.com/forums/images/smilies/bigok.gif)
Anyways, looks like a nice truck. Since I don't weld or fab really, I don't have any room to talk about the bumpers.![grin](https://www.yotatech.com/forums/images/smilies/grin.gif)
Glad you got your problem fixed! Always nice to get stuff figured out.
Show some more photos of the truck!
![bigok](https://www.yotatech.com/forums/images/smilies/bigok.gif)
Anyways, looks like a nice truck. Since I don't weld or fab really, I don't have any room to talk about the bumpers.
![grin](https://www.yotatech.com/forums/images/smilies/grin.gif)
Glad you got your problem fixed! Always nice to get stuff figured out.
Show some more photos of the truck!
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