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BillaVista
06-14-2004, 06:01 PM
Show us your worst, go on - amuse us all with your potentially bone crushing, finger mangling, eye-loosing contraptions!

Here's my redneck tranny jack!

http://www.pirate4x4.com/tech/billavista/misc/DCP_9679.JPG








Actually, it' just to clock the thing for bolt-hole allignment (loacting dowels only serve to get my fingers smashed between adapters and gear boxes when the wife gives an enthusiastic shove on the T-cases!)

I ended up using straps and chains and a big hole in the floor to sling it into place.

http://www.pirate4x4.com/tech/billavista/misc/DCP_9674.JPG

Brandon
06-14-2004, 11:31 PM
any picture with a hi-lift will do.. bout killed myself with one of those once! Slipped and flew by my face ripping my HAT off, an inch closer and it woulda been my skull!

I used an engine hoist to do that like you got pictured - since the hole in the floor was there why not ;)

SR5Dave
06-15-2004, 12:45 AM
any picture with a hi-lift will do.. bout killed myself with one of those once! Slipped and flew by my face ripping my HAT off, an inch closer and it woulda been my skull!

I used an engine hoist to do that like you got pictured - since the hole in the floor was there why not ;)

lol! I was thinking as I read the title.. "Im going to post a picture of a hi-lift!"

http://images.orgill.com/200x200/6228522.jpg

BlaznJon
06-15-2004, 03:05 PM
I don`t have eny pictures for you.picture this in your mind .205 transfer case jack adapter. 2 twelve bolt spring plates welded to gether turned upside down,apiece of pipe in the center the size of the hole for the floor jack pad.apiece 11/2" angle iron in the front a piece of 2''pipe on one side,apiece of1/4" plate6"x8" on the other side with slots to hold bolts to go into the two holes for the brace on the 205.I got real proud.Ran some beads that said 205 on it.Worked great to get the transfercase out without the adapter.I finished changeing out the bearings,seals.Found gskts for the adapter.bolted the adapter on to trasfercase while on floor jack.Jacked the whole thing up.Learned about balanceing things when all the wieght on one side was enough to flip the floor jack and everything over on my arm! I got to see a grown man piss his pants.My buddy that was watching that is!He still can`t stop laughing every time he see`s me .That was three years ago.P.S I redesigned it.Just waiting for one of my Buddys to borrow it to see if that balance problems fixed.Jon :shaking:

tsm1mt
06-15-2004, 05:14 PM
Firewood is useful for a great many things..

http://tigger.tmcom.com/~tsm1/scout/jpg/bens75/bodyoff/image6.jpg
http://tigger.tmcom.com/~tsm1/scout/jpg/bens75/bodyoff/image8.jpg

So are sawhorses..

http://tigger.tmcom.com/~tsm1/scout/jpg/bens75/bodyoff/image12.jpg

Old Scout
06-16-2004, 08:46 AM
I needed to pop in a rear coil back into it's bucket.

BigWoodyWag
06-16-2004, 02:57 PM
Until my cousin got his 2 post lift, we were using these huge tree stumps that took 2 of us to roll around the shop. We chainsawed them flat as possible and then would stack a jackstand on top to finally reach the bottom of the frame. So many trucks got lifted in that shop that way, its comical looking back, but we didn't have anything else.

tacomamike
06-16-2004, 08:22 PM
[QUOTE=BillaVista]Show us your worst, go on - amuse us all with your potentially bone crushing, finger mangling, eye-loosing contraptions!
[QUOTE]

I fondly refer to this contraption as the 'triangle of death'. I have since chopped it up and scrapped it. I still use my hi-lift on a regular basis though. :)

Later,
....Mike
http://www.toy4x4.net/

http://www.toy4x4.net/sas/DSC00126.JPG

chandall
06-16-2004, 11:05 PM
LOL Thats great!!! Triangle of death

D60
06-17-2004, 09:19 AM
Billa, buddy of mine did something similar for a tranny, bar thru the wing windows on both sides:

http://www.superford.org/getfile.php?id=106366&toggle=fullsize&f=.jpg

Ratchet strapped it into place:
http://www.superford.org/getfile.php?id=106368&toggle=fullsize&f=.jpg

DarkEternal
06-17-2004, 10:05 AM
Not dangerous but very redneck. My lockout was stuck in my d60 because teh splines were all fawked up. I couldnt pry it out using BillaVistas pry tool recomendation for the lift of me so I made this thing. Just tighten the screws that hold the outer lockout on and use a socket between teh wood and the shaft and you have a home made lockout puller!

http://homepage.mac.com/darketernal/.Pictures/SASPics/DSCN6507.jpg

Scott@Rockstomper
06-18-2004, 03:24 PM
Do I even have to post pics? Haven't I already incriminated myself enough? :p

braxton357
06-18-2004, 06:29 PM
[QUOTE=BillaVista]Show us your worst, go on - amuse us all with your potentially bone crushing, finger mangling, eye-loosing contraptions!
[QUOTE]

I fondly refer to this contraption as the 'triangle of death'. I have since chopped it up and scrapped it. I still use my hi-lift on a regular basis though. :)

Later,
....Mike
http://www.toy4x4.net/

http://www.toy4x4.net/sas/DSC00126.JPG


Damn, now thats pretty ingenious...


Knowing a few rednecks and ranchers, I've seen some booty-assed stuff. The only thing that I can think of lately doing myself though is welding a piece of pipe to the rear output nut of a D20 with a long assed pipe wrench on the case, and a piece of bar stock welded to the pipe, it still took heat and teh pb blaster to get that bastid off....I'll think of some good ones I've seen when I'm not so tired.

Rockcrusher
06-18-2004, 08:56 PM
I try to make it a point not to take pictures of myself showing my stupid gene . . .

However, I did run across these a couple of years ago whilst surfing the web and expanding my horizons. I was impressed!

Davethorik
06-19-2004, 12:46 AM
I try to make it a point not to take pictures of myself showing my stupid gene . . .

However, I did run across these a couple of years ago whilst surfing the web and expanding my horizons. I was impressed!

Hey, that's how I got my dana 60 out of the bed of my dad's truck! No pics, but we chained one of the knuckles to a tree branch, took the tailgate off the truck, and he floored it outta there. Wow! Kinda scary to have 500 lbs of rusty iron swingin at ya. :D

Shizuka
06-19-2004, 10:59 AM
I try to make it a point not to take pictures of myself showing my stupid gene . . .

However, I did run across these a couple of years ago whilst surfing the web and expanding my horizons. I was impressed!

Is it just me or does it look like that jeep just got lynched?

masonmachines
06-19-2004, 02:55 PM
how does the triangle of death work?
:)

MCgiver4x4
06-20-2004, 02:23 AM
http://www.jeeperos.com/photopost/data/500/3100-0058_img.jpg

MCgiver4x4
06-20-2004, 02:51 AM
i know you would have one of these sofisticated CNC-Laser True Flat Table :D :D

http://www.jeeperos.com/photopost/data/3003/3118-1845_img.jpg

http://www.jeeperos.com/foros/attachment.php?s=&postid=64806

http://www.jeeperos.com/foros/attachment.php?s=&postid=64804

the almost finished product
http://www.jeeperos.com/foros/attachment.php?s=&postid=95458

DVanVorous
06-20-2004, 08:59 AM
No pics but 2 deep wall sockets, a piece of 1/2-20 all thread and a couple nuts used to push out the spring bushes in the frame. It works but there are faster ways...

D.

74F250Custom
06-20-2004, 09:03 PM
Lookin for

Good redneck idea to jack up an f250 cause the front axle has been giving me trouble and am swappin it with a 78 hp d60.
The donor vehicle is sittin front end high enough so the donor axle rolled right out without lettin any air out of the tires. Its sitten on about 3 feet of 4x12 under the cross brace. (pretty redneck) Need to do my truck too but ran out of 4x12 the triangle of death looks lilke it would work but need to jack a fullsize with a big block.

All my contraptions are never that safe by the time the truck gets that high.......

a2b
06-21-2004, 01:40 AM
i dont have one of me, but this pic is of "paulr" who is grinding or something in the garage full of flammables everywhere and not to mention that the rig is on a big peice of carpet that was recently soaked with nice red tranny fluid and some oil :eek:

MCgiver4x4
06-21-2004, 01:32 PM
Super gloves and mask (idiot torching method) also super confortable chair mid of diessel

http://www.jeeperos.com/foros/attachment.php?s=&postid=95459

detailed pic of the homemade attatchement for circular torch cut
http://www.jeeperos.com/foros/attachment.php?s=&postid=95460

TheRipper
06-21-2004, 02:05 PM
I was changing the front axle in the jeep one day on really unlevel surface in the back yard.When I got the engine hiost up high enough to pull the axle out it kept falling over but just needed a little weight on that side.So we told my friends 4 year old to stand on that side and do not move while I was under the jeep cuting some stuff off with the torch.The only thing I was worried about was that the kid mined about like to telling a wild animal to mind..lol..he tried to move but I bribed him from under the truck and he stayed there...

JohnnyJ
06-21-2004, 02:43 PM
The shirt makes the pic.. :laughing:

http://www.jeeperos.com/foros/attachment.php?s=&postid=64806

I'll have to post pics of us straightening my front D60 this weekend while it was in the truck. We used a 10-ton porta pak, some chain, and a torch. We only broke the chain once. :D

PTSchram
06-27-2004, 04:53 AM
Back whenI was a stupid drag racer (before I was a stupid four-wheeler), I once bent an axle housing and couldn't get the axles out (in hindsight, I didn't know the housing was bent, nor can I remember why the axles were so precious to go this route to remove them). At the time, my mother owned a diesel garage...

My best friend and I toted the axle to the shop, chained the housing to the bullpen fence and chained the axle shaft to the back of my Dad's pick-up truck. Can you tell where this is going?

It took several attempts at dumping the clutch hard before the axle came shooting out from underneat the pick-up and shot through the pen gate and then about a block down the road. After we recovered from the laughing, I realized just how funny I would have looked with that axle sticking out the back of my skull.

Then there was the time I brought a 20' stick of 2" square tubing fromt he steel shop to the truck shop and wiped out the stop sign down the road as the tube slid around off the truck cab. At the time, I was just barely strong enough to put it back and get it to the shop before anyone saw me do it.

And folks wonder why I'm so worried about shop insurance:flipoff2:

MossMan
06-27-2004, 07:40 AM
Super gloves and mask (idiot torching method) also super confortable chair mid of diessel

http://www.jeeperos.com/foros/attachment.php?s=&postid=95459




I guess by "super" you mean "invisible" :flipoff2:

Good lookin' bumper btw

82yotacrawler
06-27-2004, 07:53 PM
i know at least 100 people on this board use cinder blocks as Jack stands. I was one of em......

MCgiver4x4
06-28-2004, 07:14 AM
I guess by "super" you mean "invisible" :flipoff2:

Good lookin' bumper btw

yes i have bad time spelling out so i change invisible for Super TKS :flipoff2: :flipoff2: