Q:im currious why it wont fit zachs truck?
i had all his specs and layed them out on the floor.
his 1/4s are cut with a 1" body lift.
it was the body lift part that i got wrong
and one corner was over-bent just enough to tell. i can take more pics that show this.
this was not good enough to sell AFAIC.
Q: Do you have a rear shot of it?
i'll get it today
Q:Hey i see your welder under the table in one of the pics. Are you just running flux core wire? From the looks of your welds and the fact that i don't see a cylinder any were around the welder. Just curious.
i've learned to weld pretty well with flux so i stick with it.
Q:i like it by the way simple and effective, just what you need in a trail truck.
that was the whole idea.
Q:2badfj's- do you manually bend your tube or do you have a machine? i just bought a Curvatrici Angle Bender for my work. It's nice but i never realized bending exact radii is harder than you think! I'd say it's more of an art than a process. Looks tough, i like it!
the main bar i bent/pulled by hand which wasn't easy and probably one reason for the over-bent corner.
everything else was bent with a hydro bender i'm buying
when hand bending you are gonna want to let the tube relax in the bender (loosen it up but don't remove the tube yet) check your angle and re-bend if nessasary.
if you over-bend just a bit you can sometimes get it to relax backby a couple different ways (slam the corner on the ground or i even been able to wedge one end of the tube under my axle and pull back on the tube)
i do have a sheet of 3/16 plate in my garage i could use.
