Lots of garage time this weekend

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Ace finished, maybe Posted by Edera on 12 May 2010 in Members Rides Viewed 957 times 1800w X 1205h 2051509 bytes

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I'd rather kick the Joly Green Giant in the nads with a steel toe boot and ask him what his thoughts were than get near a bee.. -- ZarKilleR

[Jae]

I am really excited about how much I got done this weekend, and just wanted to share some of my project progress.

First up was installing new seats in my Trans Am. I got a pair of Corbeau Forza seats off of a guy who was buying new "real" racing seats, but he didn't have the appropriate adapters and brackets for my car. SO, I decided I would fabricate an adapter so I could use my stock slider rails with these new seats.

First step was to pull the stock seat out and unbolt the slider. Once I measured the mounting points on both seats, I found some suitable steel (2" width, 1/8" thick bar) and drilled some holes. Approximately 1.4" hole offset at 45 deg.


bolted that to the new seat, and lined up the rails



finally, got the passenger seat in


unfortunately i didn't get pictures (too d@mn frustrated to remember to take them), but the driver's side was much more difficult with the power adjusters. however, about 11pm i finally got done with all the grinding i had to do to get the clearance i needed, and both seats were in the car by sunday morning.


I also got my driver's side window motor fixed, which is great since it's already getting into the 90's and my a/c needs major work.

[Jae]

I got my bender parts in Friday afternoon, so I was finally able to finish laying out the "guts" and get metal cut for the support brackets.

Using chalk on the garage floor (and general measurements I had before-hand) with the newly acquired die set and hydraulic jack, I began cutting the side brackets. The frame is made of 4" wide steel bar, 3/8" thick.


With those cut to length, I started fabrication of the bracket support. The "long" pieces are 3" wide steel bar, 3/8" thick, and about 13" long. The cross braces shown in the picture below will double as support for the die follower.


Finally, I got the jack support welded up. This is also made of 3/8" steel bar because that's what I had lying around. The "thru-bar" that provides the connection between the jack base and the die is 1.50" x .250" DOM tube, cut about 1/8" under the inside width of the frame. It will be "guided" by a 1.00" OD CR solid steel bar that will extend through the width of the frame. A similar setup will be used for the adjustable jack top bracket.


I would have gotten more done here, but I was having issues with my drill press and actually killed 2 separate hand-held drills while cutting the few 1.5" od holes that I did get done. I can't remember if I had posted this before, but this is my "artist's rendering" of how the bender will look when finished.

[Jae]

I also did some fabrication on my trailer (can be seen here: http://www.alternativecruisers.com/index.php?topic=17031.msg250254#msg250254), and before starting work on the Venture (http://www.alternativecruisers.com/index.php?topic=19189.msg250256#msg250256) I needed to do some clean up.

Because I was curious just how much metal I was sweeping up off the floor, I broke out the postal scale and an empty bucket.

Empty:


After sweeping:


Yes, that's almost 2.25 lbs of metal dust. It was a good weekend. 

[D.O.A.]

The more mess you make the better.  The previous weekend I made a drill press stand out of a tire and some scrap steel.  Then I made a shop knife out of some more scrap steel and a broken hatchet handle.  Then I made a diddly bow out of the tire bead wire and some more scrap I had laying around.  Then *This* weekend, I spent WAY too much time fabbing some awesome hinges for a trailer, for someone else.  It looked super nice for something that I'll never see again.