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02-07-2009, 07:47 AM
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Can-O-Worms
My grandpa says im good with fixin anything with 4 wheels and a motor.. but he thinks im best at opening cans of worms...
Wel the weather today allowed me to crack open my first can for '09. I wasnt going to work on the truck until next weekend when i have a really really big pile of parts to put in, but my truck ask crying for attention... or atleast the frame was.... Oh and the pictures arent the greatest since I forgot to grab the camera and had to use my phones camera. This is after unbolted the steering box from the frame and just truning the wheels to swing the steering box out of the way.  Crack is bad for you health...  Cleaned up and welding started  It was a dirty job and I forgot to take more pictures or even a final picture... NOW the truck has nice and tight steering with no binding or lack of turning radius due to the frame being completly broken thru. For the "can of worms" I opened fixing the frame... upon disconnecting my already leaky power steering lines, I wasnt paying too much attention to the fact that I twisted and broke the steel part of the line... also I managed to slip with a pry bar cutting the power steering belt... SO now I have nice tight steering but you have to be Hulk Hogan to turn the wheel since the lines are capped off on the steering box and the pump isnt running off the motor currently. i get to drive it like this til Friday the 13th thanks to me bringing home a new toy and blowing most of my pay check lol  its a '99 Yamaha R-1 if anyone is wondering. Thanks for reading!
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02-07-2009, 08:03 AM
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Re: Can-O-Worms
Sorry, couldn't help myself. LOL.
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02-07-2009, 05:40 PM
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Re: Can-O-Worms
lol nice i figured someone would post a picture like that
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02-07-2009, 05:50 PM
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Re: Can-O-Worms
Yep Power steering courtesy of ARMSTRONG STEERING INCORPORATED!!!
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02-07-2009, 05:57 PM
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Re: Can-O-Worms
I hope that bike has studded tires.
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02-07-2009, 08:42 PM
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Re: Can-O-Worms
There are a few companies making reinforcement plates for that frame area. Since it has already broken once you might want to get one on there.
PS, I have never seen one that bad!
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02-07-2009, 08:45 PM
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Re: Can-O-Worms
I totally thought the broken frame was the can of worms.
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02-08-2009, 02:29 AM
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It'd be alot cooler if you did
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02-08-2009, 09:02 AM
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just can't cover up my redneck
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Re: Can-O-Worms
Common as dirt.....but that is an exceptionally bad case.
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02-08-2009, 09:08 AM
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Re: Can-O-Worms
I dont have pictures to show it but it is reinforced with some pretty thick steel plates. the crack was really bad but i also had it pulled a part some to get my air grinder in there to clean it up. imo all the plates out there to "fix" the cracking problem are over priced and wont stop the cracking unless its welded in solid...
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02-08-2009, 01:41 PM
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Re: Can-O-Worms
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I have parted a few trucks, owned quite a few trucks too. But in all the parted trucks I have never removed the steering box so maybe they were cracked and I just never saw it?
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