Builds A pig for Father's Day (7 Viewers)

[J Mack]

I would slip the axles and center section back in the housing and wire brush and paint...
Or I would beat the bearings out with a long chunk of pipe and have the housing powder coated and rebuilt with all new parts..

 

[J Mack]

A couple of years of driving gravel fire roads and everything I spent time painting is blasted.
If you plan to drive it much all this stuff takes a beating.

 

[WarDamnEagle]

I would slip the axles and center section back in the housing and wire brush and paint...
Or I would beat the bearings out with a long chunk of pipe and have the housing powder coated and rebuilt with all new parts..

Pretty much decided to keep the bearings installed and will use the collars and gorilla tape to plug the ends. I bought new collars so these are expendable. Going to go with the Mastercoat paint on the axles, springs, and diffs.

 

[WarDamnEagle]

A couple of years of driving gravel fire roads and everything I spent time painting is blasted.
If you plan to drive it much all this stuff takes a beating.

No gravel between here and Publix!

 

[WarDamnEagle]

We are leaving for 3 weeks Monday morning and I'm starting to have separation anxiety. Decided I had to put something on the frame so that I could at least say that "reassembly" has commenced! Feels great to put nice shiny parts together with nice shiny hardware. Long way to go though.....

 

[WarDamnEagle]

Thought I could post how @kelly saad just repaired one of my door hinge mounts given the conversation in the short rib thread. This is on the door side of the hinge but I would think the repair would be similar on the body side.

Edit: Guess I should flag @kbahus

 

[kbahus]

Excellent, thank you for making that post.