47-59 Tech Tips and Tricks-Post your favorites!

[daveshilling]

Hey Gang, we've seen some amazing tips, how-to's and tricks buried deep in 90 page build threads, old posts, etc... let's make a home for them all!

You can post yours here directly, or share the link from another post by right clicking the post number in the right-hand corner and paste it here as a link.

Good Tips to Include:

"why didnt I think of that" techniques that someone can do without large expensive tools
Modifying a tool to work better,
Making your own upgrades from junkyard/factory parts, i.e. DIY Disc brake conversion

Tips to leave out:

Safety Advice
Buying the right tool for the job
Highly customized items that require large, expensive machines most people dont own (unless you want to make them for us)


A couple of my own:

DIY Almost-Free Twist-Lok press on fuel line fitting tool
Cheap Billet Aluminum fuel line mounts

Welding Tech Tips:

Extending Butt Welding clamps to level a panel on both sides
How to cleanly plug weld in thin metal to thick metal and trunk panels
How to use Cleco's to butt-weld
Use sockets to measure and template your firewall hole plugs


Suspension Tech Tips:
Separate your ball joints without a pickle fork or extra tools
How to press things in and out without an actual press