{"id":894,"date":"2012-01-17T14:19:10","date_gmt":"2012-01-17T22:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kurtisfranklin.com\/blog\/?p=894"},"modified":"2012-01-17T14:19:10","modified_gmt":"2012-01-17T22:19:10","slug":"they-grow-up-so-fast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kurtisfranklin.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/17\/they-grow-up-so-fast\/","title":{"rendered":"They Grow Up So Fast"},"content":{"rendered":"

It seems like only yesterday I pulled Ike into the garage under his own power for the last time before the rebuild. Yesterday morning, I reached a major milestone in taking the frame to the sand blasters for cleaning. While my months of working on the rear axle and finishing that was incredibly fulfilling, sending the frame off to get sand blasted is the first major piece that requires something more than what I can do at home.<\/p>\n

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To prepare the frame for sandblasting, I had to get a few things taken off to prepare. Last week I removed the front bumper and the outrigger that had the damaged rivet. After the joy of breaking as many drillbits as I did, it also hit me that the thing that kept slowing me down was the air cut off tool. It just took too long between uses to keep the compressor up to pressure, so I did what I should have done long ago which was to purchase a 4.5″ electric grinder to make removing the rear abominations a bit easier. Boy did it make a difference.<\/p>\n

I had already cut off the “wings” of the rear cross member essentially making it almost flush with the frame. However, at some point in the past a previous owner added a “support” behind the cross member, essentially a large piece of\u00a0rectangular\u00a0tubing. Where it’s located, I can only imagine the goal was to strengthen the frame where the shackles connect the rear end of the springs to the frame, but the tubing didn’t actually fill the full gap between the top and bottom of the rails, so at most it would just minimize the amount of movement if something catastrophic where to happen. Needless to say, that was removed. After a few hours of grinding, cutting, and cussing, the last bits of the\u00a0riveted\u00a0(and tack welded) rear cross member were eventually removed, bit by painstaking bit. Luckily, I only went a little too deep in two small areas, only one of which will need to be filled with weld and ground down.<\/p>\n

Since I had the cross member off, I took the opportunity to test fit the new one that I got for Christmas in 2010. It fit (and looked) perfect, but I’ll have to drill a few holes before it can be mounted properly. Nothing too major. The front bumper was also give a test fit, and it looks exactly perfect. Now I just need to locate the rear tie-in plate in my pile of parts so when I get the frame back and eventually over to a painter, I can have it painted as well.<\/p>\n

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After all the prep work I needed to do to get the frame ready, I didn’t have a whole lot of energy left to continue working on the front axle. I did, however, get the spindle nuts removed, and one hub slid off the spindle. The spindle cleaned up nicely, but has some wear\u00a0patterns\u00a0that I’m\u00a0going\u00a0to check out. They aren’t too deep, so it’s probably fine, but I’ll double check it with the other side before final re-assembly. I also need to figure out how best to remove the bearings and bearing cups from inside the hub. The inner oil seal is keeping the inner bearing in place, and although the outside bearing slid right out after the hub was removed, the outer cup is also stuck. Another adventure for next week I suppose.<\/p>\n

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It seems like only yesterday I pulled Ike into the garage under his own power for the last time before the rebuild. Yesterday morning, I reached a major milestone in taking the frame to the sand blasters for cleaning. While my months of working on the rear axle and finishing that was incredibly fulfilling, sending the frame off to get sand blasted is the first major piece that requires something more than what I can do at home. To prepare the frame for sandblasting, I had to get a few things taken off to prepare. Last week I removed the…<\/p>\n

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