rusty_tlc
Dain Bramaged Member
The weld held up fine. Thanks again for the fix on such short notice.
The back story on this is I was worried about a glitch in my steering and discovered that one of my front shock mounts was broken. The way it was hanging you couldn't really tell until you were up close that there was a problem. I left a message for Keith Thursday and he called m Friday morning. He had it welded up and ready to go in no time.
My other discovery on Thursday was a leaky clutch master cylinder. I know it was fine when earlier that week so it could have only started that day. After I left Keith's house I found a new MC at NAPPA which I picked up before the run. I took a chance and didn't swap it out Friday but had it in the rig for the trip. The only fall out from that was the driver side floor will need some new paint.
The spring pin fix went pretty well, thanks to some great help from Shawn and Andy. Lucky for me Shawn had a spare pin. We winched my rig up onto flat ground then strapped the spring to the frame. Then we undid the u-bolts and jacked the body up. The axle was rolled back and out came the old spring pin. Lining things up for the new pin took a while but Shawn got it in eventually. The it was just putting everything back together.
Realize that the whole while there is a group of drunken rednecks making observations and suggestions as they walk by on their way to the peanut gallery. In addition the rest of their group is busy getting their rigs over the obstacle. Some with excess use of the skinny pedal.
