Official TLC Spotted Thread

[bikersmurf]

Stalker!

I'd do the same

I bought my 40 in '91. I've knocked on a lot of doors over the years. Long before mud it was the only way to keep my truck on the road.... that and notes on windshields, dashes, and doors.

I even had a random call from a Rover owner who thought a hacksaw was a good tool to use to remove Warn hubs on a 40. They said it was a long story how they got my number, and I didn't bother asking. That was the day I learned the housings of a course spline Warn hub are the same as those from a fine splined hub. Swapped a couple pieces between the two and got $50 for something I had no use for.

If I had a do over, I'd buy the mint and freshly painted 60 series frame I could have bought back in '93. Unfortunately that's not the way things work... I'd build a stretched 40 if I had it. At most, I'd stretch my 40 into a 43 now. I'm not a kid anymore and can't weld and fabricate 14 hours a day every weekend and then go to work Monday and put in a 40 hour week.

 

[bladedog]

I am so on the same wavelength as you. If it wasn't for my door-knocking, we would not have gotten my wife's 60 series. It took a year and a half after I asked for first right to purchase a not for sale vehicle from a full on coldcall knock on the door! If you don't ask, you'll never know.

 

[FLYINGLOW]

I bought my 40 in '91. I've knocked on a lot of doors over the years. Long before mud it was the only way to keep my truck on the road.... that and notes on windshields, dashes, and doors.

I even had a random call from a Rover owner who thought a hacksaw was a good tool to use to remove Warn hubs on a 40. They said it was a long story how they got my number, and I didn't bother asking. That was the day I learned the housings of a course spline Warn hub are the same as those from a fine splined hub. Swapped a couple pieces between the two and got $50 for something I had no use for.

If I had a do over, I'd buy the mint and freshly painted 60 series frame I could have bought back in '93. Unfortunately that's not the way things work... I'd build a stretched 40 if I had it. At most, I'd stretch my 40 into a 43 now. I'm not a kid anymore and can't weld and fabricate 14 hours a day every weekend and then go to work Monday and put in a 40 hour week.

40 hours a week? I remember my first part time job

 

[bikersmurf]

40 hours a week? I remember my first part time job

40 Hours at the office during the week and 25-30 in the driveway on the weekend. When it was 35* out, it was brutal using an Oxy-Acettelene cutting torch to weld and bend 1/8" steel plate into a body tub. 3'-4' wide bends took a ton of heat to bend with only my body weight and a couple lendths of 6" chanel.