Safety Tip

[sherwood]

Thought I'd pass this along FWIW:

I'm doing front knuckles and front air locker.
This idea occurred to me when I was doing the rear axle stuff.

I'm single and have no one near that would notice that I didn't come in for supper if the '40 was to fall on me. I do have 4ea. 6 ton jack stands in place under the front end, and try to have a best escape route/least incapacitating approach in mind when I'm under there. As an added safety measure, now-a-days, I take my cell phone with me every time I get under the truck. Chances are I could be totally incapacitated, but in the event I still had my wits and a free arm, I might just be able to call 911 (which I also have as a voice activation feature implemented.)

If one was really concerned, one could do like the aviation community and file a flight plan. Call a buddy and say, I'm pulling the diff.... If I don't call back in half an hour, something's amiss.

Call me a "wuss", but.....the older I get, the more I think about living a few more years. Wouldn't that be the pits ? Overhauling a cruiser and not living to see it finished ?

.... back to the shop..... Horrible Freight had their 12 ton press on sale today for $99. Gotta see where it will fit in my hobbit house shop. Probably have to throw away the lawn mower and get the neighbor's kid to cut the grass .... yeah....
I love rationalizing

John '79 FJ40 2F, OME 2.5", 8274, homebrew on-board air, PS, ARB's front and almost rear.

Charlotte, NC TLCA, Upstate Cruisers

 

[beanz2]

When working under the cruiser, in addition to jacktands I always put the tires under both frame rails. I put them as close to myself as I can without them getting in the way. Of course if I had stocker rims and tires I'd have to rethink that approach.

Dave

 

[drohweder]

Wuss. Real men can bench press a 40 off of them. (are we talking about a car of a beverage????)

 

[ScottFJ40]

Good points. One time, my brother was replacing a trans in an old s-10 pickup I had a few years back.
I came home, to see him laying in the driveway under my truck. I asked him what he was doing, he said waiting for me to come home and get the transmission off of his chest, it came out quicker than he thought, and pinned him in an awjward position.

He said he was laying there about an hour

 

[beanz2]

Wuss. Real men can bench press a 40 off of them. (are we talking about a car of a beverage????)

40 lb. definitely, 40 kg. yes, an FJ40, no

 

[65swb45]

My buddy was trying to pry the BF swaybar bolts on his Sub when the wrench slipped and hit him on the head. He was in the garage out cold for 3 hrs while the wife and kids were in the backyard swimming. He woke up 3 hours later, wandered out back and found that they hadn't missed him!

 

[woody]

Not a bad tip, but a difficult one to follow...

I've done some pretty major damage in the shop before...record thus far is 60 stitches after a shattered grinder blade butterflied my nose like a tenderloin steak....that one smarted a bit...

My Grampa had a car break him in half when the jacks busted...literally. Ended up having 6 of his vertabrae fused together...that was about 50 years ago, back when surgery for such things just didn't exist. He's 95 now and still gets around just dandy (for 95...lol)

The buddy system sounds great, but I guarantee the injury will occur within 5 minutes of you starting that 1 hour checkup cycle.

Best bet? A stocked fridge of beer and lazy friends who wanna watch TV in your shop and procrastinate on their own projects.

 

[Rice]

Cell phone would be hard to do but a good tip. I'm like Woody ... my shop fridge is always well stocked even for the folks who don't know a crimp dude from a rachet thingy.