i'm thinking a nice drill press woulda been a good thing too

 

yeah, wishigng I had one, almost bought a $60 special from Harbor Freight. Drill bits might have been saved in that case.

This was really meant for the guys without much fab skill or fully stocked shop so I decided to do it with the standard cordless drill.

BTW, I was wondering where my other wire wheel went. hahaha


Now to figure out how I am gonna hold up this 45lb 4 x 2 tube to mark it. hhahaa

 

Hope I'm not telling you something you already know. But about 320 rpm is all you need on the drill. And lot of cutting fluid. You can get it done with a cordless just got to work the trigger a little. Also be careful putting the bit in a bind. Looking good though.

 

yeah the bind deal is what got me, kinda hard to not go off to an angle every once in a while with a cordless drill. I am also working the trigger quite a bit. Got quite a bit of cutting fluid too. Bottle almost gone and I got 2 more holes to drill. lol Almost done wit the build then got to clean it up for paint.

 

ok got it all mocked and mounted up. Note to self measure twice cut once. (I'll see if anyone can point it out.) My guess is it will be 92TOY and his OCD. lol)

Anyway

Got the angle parts of the bracket drilled out for the tube on both sides:



This shows the clearance of the bolts:



To make it easier to put the nuts and stuff on I flipped it over and used som tape for the nuts:







Angle brackets mocked up ready to hang.



Since this thing is rather heavy (about 50lbs) I had my 4 year old hold a washer and bolt for each sid as I layed on my back to lift it into place. When one of the holes lined up on each side she put in the bolts for me. Sorry no photos as it's only me and her at home right now.

This is how it looks mocked up



Other side looks the same:



Time for me to bob the bed now as it overhangs the new bumper. Then I will take the bumper off and paint it up.

 

bed is officially bobbed.

this is the tool I used:



took about 4 1/2" off. Flat be was just about the same length as the original bed:

 

looking good.

no, i didn't catch what you were talking about....i studied the pics too.

 

Same here... ? lol

 

you should have taken it to the trucking station on New Fredrick ST they would have welded it for you for a couple of bucks,then you only needed to bolt it to the frame.Nice bumper by the way

 

hey...good tip...i may have to check into that when i get to mine.

XXXTREME...where did you get your metal from anyway? Bloom?

 

yah I got it from bloom.

Thanks for tip ozzydg55. Might check them out to do a receiver tube and shackle eyelets. Maybe finish weld the joints from the bolt on. But I wanted to do it this way to show people it's possible to do without knowing how to weld and using simple hand tools.

 

more pics to come, just got to recoup from partying at Giant's Despair all weekend. lol.

 

ok bumper build got put on hold for a little bit, almost done with it. all I have to do now is get some recovery points for it and have those welded up.

 

now onto my next problem, after a recent mud bog, a few days after I developed a grinding noise from the front drivers side wheel. Thinking it might be a dry spindle bushing. But you will see how far it goes.

here is the start, lower control arm up on jack spinning wheel by hand hubs unlocked of course. pretty sure you can hear it. it's kinda liight so I am almost thinking its just a bent dust shield rubbing on the rotor, but we will see when I take the wheel off.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlCTjm620GY

 

ok wheel off same conditions as before.
noise still there, but I think I am 99% sure of what the culprit is now. which now leads me to this thread: https://www.yotatech.com/forums/f116...emoval-146581/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIVNWWWmEYA

 

hmmmmm....that looks familiar......hmmmm....is taking that shield off wise??? can you just take the rotor off and clean what ails you??

 

hint wont have to take any part of the truck off. (yet)

 

Dust shield, are those V-6 calipers?

 

nope stock 4cyl.

dust shield (close but wrong answer, try again.)

 

Hint 1 : may or may not be related to the mudbog at all.

Hint 2 : No part of the truck will have to be removed from the truck to fix (yet) except for the obvious wheel that is already off.