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Re: Project Family Chummins
Well I wrestled the front axle out tonight. It was tougher than it should have been cause the upper control arms were bound up a little and the bolts didn't want to come out. Nothing a big hammer and a impact gun couldn't take care of, but it didn't just slide out. Time: 1 hour 15 min
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Re: Project Family Chummins
The only thing I'd do to the trans is make sure it has some sort of upgraded 5th gear nut now. Other than that, run it.
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Re: Project Family Chummins
well the good news is the rear axle is removed
the bad news, the project is on hold again. As i was pulling the axle out from under the frame, i caught the shock (I think) and knocked the frame off the jackstand, sandwiching my hand between the leaf spring and the axle. i was pinned there, and started yelling for help. luckily the neighbor came over and was able to left the frame off my hand. So we went the the ER. no broken bones, but two places that "popped" open with the insides sticking out. they're about 3/8" deep. 11 stitches to sow me back up. the doc said it might be 2 or 3 months to regain the full strength of those muscles. So we will see how it goes before I get back out to the shop. The big concern now is infection. Grease and dirt from the axle got pushed down into the wound (even though I had plastic gloves on). He washed it out, but didnt sound real confident it wouldn't get infected. in the mean time i'll come up with a design for the motor mounts and front suspensiom |
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That sounds like it sucks. hopefully you heal quick but a little time to think out your design is always good.
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Re: Project Family Chummins
Glad someone was close enough to hear you hollar. Hope you heal fast. The truck will wait for you.
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"Popped" has GOT to hurt worse than cut!!!!
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Dang, my hand hurts just reading that. Take care of yourself; infections are no fun.
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so far with the pain meds it isn't too bad I missed the Midwest Truck nationals in KC I was going to go to, but managed to make it to a local cruise night |
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Re: Project Family Chummins
Man, that does sound like a really bad situation! Glad to hear you got some help, and I hope it heals alright without any infection.
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Re: Project Family Chummins
Hate to hear that.
I recently had a run in with a gas powered tool myself. Finally starting to be able to get life back to normal.
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An update on my hand. Its doing suprisingly well, I'm able to move it, type and do most everything. I stopped taking the prescription pain pills last Tuesday and took Tylenol and Ibuprofen a few more days, but haven't taken anything since Friday. I should get the sticthes out tomorrow.
The strength is down a little....it starts to hurt if I do too much, but that could be the stitches too. I did manage to get my 454 loaded up into my 69 and haul it and the engine stand to KC to sell the engine to a guy. Then I made it to the Ottawa car show too. This next week I'll be out of town, so I think when I get back I should be able to start on some light work. The good news is the heavy lifting is done for a little while. |
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Re: Project Family Chummins
Sorry to hear about the injury but glad to find out you are healing well and still have use of the hand.
I hope you don't end up with any bone bruising or nerve damage. Bone bruising takes forever to heal.
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Re: Project Family Chummins
Glad your hand is healing quickly, they are one of those things you tend to take for granted until you can't use them.
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Dang. That could have been real bad son. I often think about that sort of thing happening to me. I don't dwell on it but I am fully aware that if I'm out there alone and get pinned under one or get blinded or something how would I get help. I'm sure my wife couldn't hear me yell. I do tend to keep my cell phone out there in case I'm needed or if I need someone. Now I do leave it on the work bench but if I couldn't reach it it wouldn't be of any help.
I sometimes think about going out to the shop in the early morning hours on nights when I don't sleep. Not really wise though. One of the lessons my dad used to give me was safety when under a vehicle. He's seen a few of them come down off of jacks and jack stands. He's seen a front coil spring come out from under a car and bounce the length of the shop when a mechanic didn't support the control arm properly. Lucky he wasn't killed. Hate that you got injured and glad it wasnt' any worse.
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I've thought about this one a lot. I HATE having my phone in my pocket when I'm under a car -- I'm always scared I'm gonna roll over on it and break it -- but I know I should. It would be awful to lose an arm, a leg, or worse, all because my phone was three feet away and I couldn't call for help.
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Re: Project Family Chummins
Back at it!!!!
Well over the last two weeks I managed to sell 2 engines (454 from the crew cab and 350 from my '69) so I have a little money to get some parts with...just in time cause the tear down is just about complete. While I was out of town for work I came up with a design for the front suspension. Basically its going to be very similar to what I had on my jeep using long radius arms. The mounts will be incorporated into the transmission crossmember. I'm going to make the lower link out of 2" 1/4" wall DOM tubing and the uppers will be slightly smaller. The panhard bar will be 1.5" .120" wall DOM. I'm also going to be ordering a cross over steering kit. All of it should be super strong and pretty easy. I'm also going to make some spring mounts and have a design for them as well, but its hard to describe. I need to take a few measurements before I start ordering stuff. Tonight I continued the tear down on the dodge frame. First I cut it in half ![]() That's about it for tonight, but at least I was back out there! |
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Re: Project Family Chummins
looking forward to your fab. i love that stuff
glad the hand is better Ryan |
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I am glad to see you are doing it right, I think you are going to be much happier with this suspension than you would have if you had stuck to the Dodge frame.
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Re: Project Family Chummins
Glad to hear your hand is getting better so quickly. Your suspension plans sound great too! You parting No Buck now?
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Re: Project Family Chummins
No selling it. I have 2 guys lined up to come look at it, one guy on Sat and one on Sun. Both sound real interested in it. One guy is coming from Denver.
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Re: Project Family Chummins
just got done ordering a BUNCH of fab parts for the suspension and steering from Ballistic Fab and Barnes4wd. Ballistic is having a 15% off sale right now so that just happened to work to my advantage....basically saved shipping costs.
It will be a little bit before I'm ready to start on the fab work, but doesn't hurt to start getting the parts coming this way. |
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