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If you can watch the drive wheels while it's happening and see what is slowing down that would be helpful... If you've never changed the liner I would lean to that, chances are there's some buildup in there that might be binding that is assuming the wheels on the drive are spinning when the wire...

I got the Dawnroad version that's going for $60 now, I've only used my lowish torque 1/2" Bauer impact on it but it's held up fine so far (if you try really hard you can apparently shear the roll pin). Just watch the reviews as per normal on the bamazons... :)

Apparently I bought it just over a year ago when I had a leak in my rear tractor tire, the bead was rusted like heck to the wheel and nothing was working... That said I used it last weekend on some tires for my Explorer with 15" wheels, my bead breaker slide hammer was just sliding off, it...

I would definitely look on the used market but yeah I'd lean toward a dual voltage unit at least, you're going to want 1/8" wall tubing or pipe at least, don't think strut is going to hold up... that's the top of the 125A cheap units, the Titanium unlimited 140 would probably cut it but you'd...

Although I have an assortment of the Titanium line from HFT, the Yeswelder options are a better deal and have quite the following online... Not sure I'd bother with a multi process, I have a couple but it took me years to get to anything else... if you want to do stick get a cheap used Lincoln...

I have an amazon special version of THIS and it's way easier than the one you posted, I've used it and it works most of the time but the jack thing works every time to break a bead... the HFT tire spoons are fine though, they have some with round corners and ones with sharp corners depending on...

My brother had a similar issue, his problem with the check valve on the side plate for the return, he took out the ball and spring and it runs great now.

That would be most likely be the carburetor diaphragm being bent, they can warp to a point they well not seat around the fuel cone. If the lockoff valve wasn't seating then it would possibly empty the tank, I wouldn't rule that out though as it's possible... One of the stages in the...

Yes, that there is the advantage... when I built my shop I bought a kit from a pole barn company, came with everything except concrete for $16k for a 36x48 with 12' eaves, one 10x10 roll up door and one 10x12 roll up door and one man door with bat insulation and clear span across one top edge...

I just get a $5 stack of Harbor Freight electrical tape and use that for the tails, that $5 lasts for YEARS, sure it's junk tape but it works great in this application... just keep a roll or two in the door pockets on my F350 then it's always there on either side...

ok, on that it's likely going to be carbureted and that many hours the mixer diaphragm could have damage from backfiring (happens) or is just sticking closed when it's hot (there's a rubber washer by the fuel cone when it's all the way down) from the oil and goo that separates out of the propane...

Looks fairly new, what year and what engine? I have some experience but not sure how well it'll transfer to different engines... After '03 it will likely have emissions controls which makes the fuel and governing system more complicated, the emissions regulations got more strict in '07 too...

Meh, this is one of the least clapped out old Ford tractors of all between me and my brother... he's got two 4000's (one manual with a blown bearing between the input and output shaft and one select-o-speed that actually works and runs perfect), the 4100 mentioned above, 4600 with weak clutch...

The petcock/outlet screen was plugged and I did blow it out with air, replacing that is on the list after the thing proves itself... The fuel filter has been changed I think, I'll look again... the guy I got it from ran it in the fall but it had a misfire but with the petcock plugged you'd get...

Got a cheap 2000 a couple weeks ago, tried to get it running and no fuel to the injectors so pulled the top off the injector pump (CAV rotary) and the kill valve was gummy and stuck in the off position so that's roughly where it is now other than I freed that up without taking it off. That said...

No pics but on my drive tonight a guy took a corner with a load of hay on a gooseneck trailer that looked to be tied down with rope, needless to say he lost most of it on a corner on a busy road during rush hour of course... in this day and age of cheap straps why in the world would you use...

I haven't heard great things about State Farm when it comes to needing them. I ended up with Progressive for auto and haven't had any regrets in like 16 years...

I have a 10L, go with that or the 15L or whatever, just takes longer to heat up the water... I got the one with knobs instead of buttons and displays but I don't think it matters... I've just been using some dawn in water for solution, works pretty good, hasn't been bad enough for me to get...

Have you even tried it? That one lot that was an issue was like 15 years ago now, I'm pretty sure that's all out of the stores... I've used Lincoln, Forney, two versions of HFT and assuming you have an idea of how the welders work you can work around it... one of the main issues is on the A/C...

I've heard good things about Hobart, if you want to buy local like it sounds like you do I wouldn't be too worried about it, I haven't looked into that model but is it dual voltage and such like most are anymore that are inverter welders? That's very handy... Flux core gets a bad rap since it's...

Might be too late to help anyone but for anyone that's even remotely interested in a "surface conditioning tool" HFT is clearancing out the Bauer version to rebrand to Hercules... the Bauer one is $60 if you can find one and comes with 3 drums... I bought two spares...

meh, you'd be surprised what you can get away with... I've seen a Ford 9000 run for many hours over a few weeks with a non functioning charging system on a standard deep cycle/marine battery instead of the giant semi sized battery it's supposed to have... when it stops starting jump start it and...

Things have changed in the last 15 years... their current wire is fine, I know it's not going to change anyones opinion but I've gone through several spools of their wire over the years, back around 2010 is when the wire was bad and that was mostly what came with the cheap welders and partially...

If you have the welding equipment it would probably be best to take a grinder with cutoff wheel and cut half way through or so at the creases to make it easier to masage back to shape then reweld at those points which would get rid of the stretching effect and should be roughly as strong as new...

You could probably use something like THIS but just that volume of compressed air wouldn't last long

The Bernzomatic turbo torches or whatever their current model is should be pretty reliable, the non adjustable one would be the best for that use... Harbor Freight just started making a copy of that in the last year, haven't looked at the ratings on it...

Since I was welding some dumb thin stuff yesterday (pull start housing for a 10hp Briggs) I looked at the chart and had to play with the settings and there's settings for .025" wire and those speeds should feed fine

Has it ever cut off from thermal overload? I've given zero care about duty cycle on any welder I've ran... sure I've thought about it but haven't acted on it :) It's hard to beat an old transformer unit unless you have to drag it around since they're bigger and heavier... If you don't need to...

It seems to be the wire speed as the issue, I only have .030" wire and the tables on the door only cover .030" and .035" wire but if you went down to .023" or .025" wire that would increase the speed so I think you'd be in better shape. I have monkeyed with the settings from recommended by...

The Vulcan line is considered better than Titanium but nothing wrong with the Titanium line, I have the Titanium MIG 170 and Unlimited 200 and they weld great other than on sheet metal with MIG, anything under 100 inches a minute wire speed is iffy... I've yet to try TIG on the 200 but it's on...

it's rubber cement like the old school paper glue, not sure of it's composition but it does glue rubber...

The 000 engraving is how they mark the open box stuff so you don't try to get a full warranty or try to trick them... I have a bunch of open box stuff from them so I've seen it before...

On the Fords in the 2000 to say 7000 series the changes are very little over the years and gas vs diesel was simply a different cylinder head and pistons I believe, the 3 cylinders were 172 to 201 cubic inch and from there they added a cylinder for the 5000, turbo for a 7000, made it a 6...

That's the type of thing that's been running through my mind lately and would be functionally cleaner than lower mounted cables... even if I put a 2x6 across the angular supports (probably 5' above the crane) to catch the top of a post welded to the top of the pivot it would help a lot... I'm...

I'm with you so far, I only had so big of a piece of steel on hand... it's spanning 3 joists (4x4's so a little sturdier in some ways) and lag bolted at the front and has threaded rod at the rear through the joists and in the center it's through the top plate of the wall at the junction. I'm...

Big changes in the last couple weeks in the shop, first I had to move everything and it's still a disaster but the inlaws came up to visit and father in law helped me frame up the loft so I've been slowly moving stuff up there to keep things moving... still have to go over to my brothers to get...

In my toolbox I have the holders pictured in the post above me with the center divider showing size with room for deep and shallow, I didn't want the type with the long post that sticks through the sockets since some have waisted holes at the drive or other dumb stuff... In 4 years of use I have...

My setup is pretty complex... was new when I moved in in '14 so I got almost 10 years out of the pump... it goes from the pump to a flow restrictor to a centrifugal sand separator with a timed drain valve (that is also sand damaged) to the pressure tank to a long sock type filter to a cartridge...

Just saw this... a couple years ago when my well pump went (impeller worn out from sand) out I went ahead and changed out my water softener setup (since the sand also took out the seals on the purge valve so it leaked constantly). Previously I had a two tank system installed by the company that...

Those are a pretty solid rig, get a brake controller in it and you should be good to go... has almost twice the power of your old 5.7L and will get over 20mpg...

I meant short as in lower to the ground...

goeduck isn't kidding, doug fir has very little ash, pretty nice wood to burn really for around here. My next favorite is maple but I usually just end up with whatever I can get for cheap or for just labor... I have many cords of wood to collect at my brothers with the trees we cut down in the...

Chevy has the shortest trucks I think (as long as you don't care about ground clearance, their frames hang low), I would suggest an early 2000's 2500 as they're cheap and reliable... (this coming from a ford guy but am not brand loyal, they all have their ups and downs...)

I only have one of the small batteries, a bunch of the 3ah and a couple 5's, the brushed grinder can only use a couple bars worth of battery, the brushless with it's controller is probably more efficient if I had to guess (I do have some experience with RC airplanes and cars so I do understand...

Couple weeks ago I picked up a Bauer Brushless angle grinder open box (hey, $31 wasn't bad...) and 5030 isn't kidding, the brushless version is a complete different animal from the brushed version, more rpm and power and just as smooth, the square battery mounting is kinda silly and the switch...

Yep, and one of those old rotary viewfinder things in front of it :)

For starting fires I mostly use kindling, wood scraps, fatwood and hand sanitizer... the sanitizer I use because after the rona thing went out Home Depot by my work had gallons in their clearance area for $1 so I still have like 6 gallons left, in the last 2ish years we have just now used a...

I did the slab for my shop when it was cold like that, I was worried but it turned out just fine...

I agree with most above, if going off concrete the biggest wheels available are very important, I think I know the salvage yard bcp is referring to and they do work real nice. I have one but it has ~4" casters so it is limited to smooth concrete. I would get the casters as far apart as...

Yes but he's talking grade 5 or grade 8 or whatever you're going to get a different recommended torque value which also changes based on thread pitch

My dumb idea worked as good as I'd hoped... I had these magnets sitting around that are basically small magnet fishing magnets and they're the same diameter as the collar, loosened the set screw and put the magnet on and you can pull the magnet/collar off or pull the pinion shaft out but you...

My welding cart is a unit... I don't remember if I've posted pics in this thread yet or not but what the heck... I found it at an auction for $50 and couldn't pass it up... the bones were there, I boxed in the bottom section and added the door on the side that just has a bolt with handle and...

That's interesting, I'll keep it in mind, I have a dumb idea for the stock lock collar involving a magnet... not sure why that guy removed the front plate to pull the rack instead of just pulling out the pinion shaft and lifting it out? whatever :). modifications are for later, I have much...

It's a cheapish compressor, my brother has the older black Chicago Pnuematic compressor that's been drained like 3 times in the last decade and been on for most of that and somehow it still works fine? For myself I have a 30 gallon Ingersoll I think and I drain it once or more a year but it's...

My brother has one of those cheap diesel heaters to heat his greenhouse over the winter and it does a heck of a job and doesn't take all that much fuel... and that's in a greenhouse that's not insulated and single layer plastic on the roof and sides above 3' (plywood under that) and I think 10'x16'

I talked myself into a HFT arbor press the other day and I don't think it's bad for the money. It only took me one use to realize I don't want to use the locking collar on the end of the pinion shaft, it would be way handier to index it for each use instead of having the handle vertical...

When I did the ZF5 for my F350 last year I put it in my expanded metal wagon and took it to a section of yard I don't care much about and sprayed it down with Super Clean or Awesome Clean or both (one's cheap and yellow, one's purple, both worked...)? then let them sit for 15 minutes or so then...

There isn't much to go wrong with that welder, if you want to get into stick welding get that and go grab a 5 pound box of 3/32" or 1/8" 6011 welding rod (6013 is prettier but 6011 will get more penetration) and practice... Anymore I use MIG more but when I'm doing something thick I break out my...

Tapered threads need something, tapered seat fittings (SAE/JIC) do not need sealant, and if there's O rings then those do not need sealant either. On tapered threads tape is fine if used CORRECTLY which most people don't do, the tape should start one thread back so none get into the medium...

Yeah, that's the guy I was talking about, he explains things very well, that is a very good video, watch it a couple times and practice on some 1/8" steel...

I suggest going to youtube university and just wander around, I think it's the weld.com guys that are really nice to watch and give good info. The best way forward is practice, practice, practice... If there's any recommended settings on the unit start there and modify. Being Century I'm...

Honestly I don't know a whole lot about the full size stuff, more into the Rangers but things cross over and over 20 years on Ranger forums you glean things... I could be wrong about the crank sensor thing but even in Rangers the first engine to get a crank sensor was the 2.3L in '89 but it also...

That vintage the pickup in the distributor did it all, no crank sensor, signal converted with the TFI module on the side of the distributor (unless it was one of the somewhat more rare remote mounted units).From there the computer did the rest basing the fueling on the MAP sensor signal and...

The old standard for stick welding was 1/8" and is my go to but for your use I would switch to 3/32" rod for less amps and might be more forgiving as it would take less amps.

I have a friend with a near junk no name brush hog that leaks as fast as you fill it apparently, he'd put in some normal grease and it leaked out too but he said the corn header grease is great, will probably get some, think I have my brother talked into it on some leaky old stuff too... Sure...

Yep, what they said, the DI engines are great aside from the IAFM lifter stuff, tend to have transmission issues around 100-150k. The previous generation with the LS 5.3/6.0L are good too but the 4L60/4L65 trans tend to go out occasionally but you'll get that with anything... my buddies like...

The problem you're likely running into is the roll pin is likely not lined up with the hole for the zerk so you're just pounding at something hard that isn't right...

Truck camper life is a compromise... My first camper was a 11.3' which took a 4' hitch extension to tow with which was stupid and floppy, I copied the "superhitch" design and added a second vertical tube and had sideways chains like the above picture which helped but still dumb... My second and...

Doing this on the tractor wouldn't have been possible, the outer bead was completely rusted to the wheel, that bead breaker deal was completely necessary, took 3 sets to finally get it moving noticeably and I had to walk it all the way around the wheel... Glad I did it the way I did since I took...

I was able to drain and reuse the calcium in my tractor tire the last couple weeks, was a process but successful... I think your video was what I watched, fairly simple...

Oof, haven't looked this close at the tires before... they're pretty cracky... drained like 17 gallons out of the tire so it didn't lose much fluid... the inner bead broke easy, the outer bead broke me, I gave up for the day, I only have a 4 pound duck bill hammer handy and I went around the...

I see what you mean about the two part valve stem now... there is a joint in the middle... I have no doubt I could fix the tube unless the issue is at the stem which at this point it's better to have a spare tube just in case... Last year I put on two new front tires which is nice, those old...

Yeah, what Moss said... Gophers are easy, Cinch traps or the ol shotgun treatment work wonders, moles are way more difficult especially when they aren't very active like the ones I have... I'm about to start attacking them... I've caught/shot like 60 gophers and they are now eliminated from my...

It's just mowing season, I don't really depend on it but it's the only thing I have that will mow the reed canary grass... There isn't much for regular farm auctions over here anymore, the rona killed off most of it. I've been keeping my eyes open for good used tires for a while and anything...

Found a monday delivery tube, ordered some big patches with it, will stop at HFT tomorrow for a fluid extractor and drill pump to use with my liquid fill kit I ordered. I think I'll use these tires for a while, just put back the fluid I extract for now, found out Walmart has the cheapest tires...

One of the rear tires on my old Kubota developed a leak on me today (it's only 50 years old, POS :)), tried airing up but it only lasted 45 minutes... The tires are old Bridgestone with all the weather checks but good tread of course (no lug separation or anything though). I think it's got a...

That's the one, I have one and it's fantastic, I have it on speed 2 and the black wheel has lasted through a very reasonable amount of rust cleaning up metal to weld, I just used the 10% off coupon last weekend to get an extra but not needed yet... haven't dug into it but it seems to vary...

Yesterday used a palm nailer to drive a pin punch pushing a roll pin in a bailer, that is a nifty trick, was on a 7 gallon air tank not even a compressor, used 5psi... The Bauer surface conditioning drum sander thing is great too, most of the steel I have around is rusty, works great...

I wing it, mine has a single clutch but I usually engage everything low rpm and up it afterward... mine isn't synchronized but I have the timing figured out where I can shift in motion anyway... just not reverse but I do go up and down gears occasionally...

On average I get my tractor stuck pretty good at least once a year, I live on the edge of a wetland that I try to mow the reed canary grass but too swampy to get to when it needs attention for real control... In the 9 years I've had my tractor I think I've only skipped one year but have been...

I'm pretty sure it's just for tire clearance, metal is thinner and fine in a small area like that... 2" is 2"...

Yeah, but of all of them Kershaw is the only one that does the factory sales :), above all else I'm a cheap bastage...

I looked harder to get an analog version on Amazon, I think I got the 10L size, no regrets... Depending on what you're doing size matters some, the 6L size like Harbor Freight just started carrying last year is a decent starting point but like said the bigger the better... I like the 10L size I...

Yeah, that... my brother has like 6? of the 3-6 cylinder Ford tractors and there's two heights of injectors, he's only bought 3 replacement injectors though for the 4600 but apparently there's only a few different injectors between the whole range of everything... we put one of those injectors...

If a liner lock fails like that it is not because of the design, it's a fine tuned setup and it was either dirty or shouldn't have passed inspection, Kershaw actually has a pretty good warranty, I work down the street from their Tualatin Oregon facility and they have a factory sale every year...

Yeah, that's water in the trans fluid, probably sat outside and got in from there over the years... would drain and fill with UTF...

If I was retired or something I wouldn't care, but I work for a living and like to do stuff outside in my "me time" so I greatly appreciate my extra time in the evenings! It doesn't really bother me, what's annoying is all the politicians changing when it happens every few years (could have...

Anyone that uses the Bauer 20V tools and uses a Dremel on occasion do yourself a favor and get the Bauer flex shaft rotary tool that takes the 20V batteries, it's fantastic... way more torque than a Dremel and the flex shaft is like 30% more flexible...

I've used the sub $20 soldering iron plastic welder from HFT and it works fine, do NOT press as the copper tip will break at the 6mm threads going into the iron when hot... but I've successfully ran a die down it and it lived again... it comes with some stainless screen material which you can...

sort of, in stick welding the rod size is the size of the steel on the inside, the flux on the outside dictates the other properties. For wire welding the amperage is transferred in the arc like in stick welding but the feed rate of the wire is varied and changes the amount of filler material is...

I don't think the 3 cylinder engines are too picky other than being gas or diesel, not sure if all of the displacement options had the same size valves or not. Likely if you find a 3 cylinder Ford 2000 or 3000 the head will likely work as well

My brother got their 3/4" breaker bar last year to break tractor lugnuts (couldn't find the rest of his kit, but we found the right socket), put a 6' pipe on the thing and it worked fine, I think it was a ratcheting breaker bar or something with course teeth...

I got one a few years ago from Amazon since I have a flexible liner and the cap is clamped to the liner... plus like said above I have a 12/12 roof and until a year ago my overhead power was within arms reach of the only place to put a ladder next to the chimney... when I use it I use the...

Good point, the heat shrink butt connectors designed for that use are pretty serious, a year ago I replaced my well pump after it'd been underwater for around 9 years (lots of silt and a whole bunch of sand when it was first put in so the impeller was shot, took out the valves in the water...

A lot of places use loctite or thread sealant that takes a bit of heat to free, either that or they assemble dry and tighten the snot out of them for no good reason... I looked it up not too long ago, tapered threads aren't about a torque value, it's based on a turns past finger tight like the...

Absolutely nothing in a modern anything is soldered unless it is on a circuit board, everything is crimped or sonic welded... We use those shrink butt connectors at work in marine environments and they work fine. We use the ones from PICO electrical supply which is what NAPA and Summit carry...

I bought the same set you have in the first post and they weren't broken when I got them, been using them with good results for a couple years, if close I would just exchange them... maybe open first before leaving the store... I'm pretty sure I like that style better than their other plastic...

All the welding rods are 6013, I don't think they have the same issue that 7018 has... I agree, the tanks are where the money is but you will have no problems getting your money out of it all if you put it on Ebay or something... might be usable, might not...

Some of the control boards are known to be sketchy, looks like a Seig lathe like the harbor freight and Grizzly units, littlemachineshop.com sells parts for them and are a great place to deal with.

I've bought and used the Husky and Kobalt sets a bunch. For myself I bought both and kept one for a camping and used the other to initially stock the toolbox in the shop since I wanted to start fresh instead of the garbled junk I'd been using... Either's fine, decent stuff in both, the Kobalt...

The one in the pic is an Orchard Rite (red gearhead is a giveaway I'm pretty sure, there's several companies that make them) out of central Washington, been there, my work sold a few engines to them... that box at the base is the engine with a gearhead at the base of the pole and a driveshaft...

The only real thing I pay labor for is tire balancing, some alignments and windshields... I drove 30k or so miles on some tires I got for $60 at an auction that I mounted myself without balancing so I'll skip out on that here and there :) I specifically bought my '97 Ranger because it was...

You're right, many people would take a stab at that themselves, it'd likely cost a bit to take the tractor and that drawing to a fab shop to get made... there's not enough dimensions to make it from just that drawing but it does have some important ones there. It does look like those 3 holes are...

At a local auction I thought it was a great idea to pick up some pallet jacks for cheap... They're both Raymond, one looks like 30 years older than the other... the older one was the one that worked, newer one just needed some tweaking, pump piston was stuck down, release valve was stuck in and...

Since I have a post on this thing, figured I'd update it... In May I worked up part of the front yard next to the shop to help take down the burm from leveling the shop then yesterday I pulled the disc out again and worked up the back area of the property, did two passes perpendicular then took...

Dumb question possibly, but what quality of tap? A good tap bought in a single pack at a hardware store or one of the cheap sets from Harbor Freight or something? I just tried to tap steel to 3/8" fine with one of the taps from the dedicated Standard tap sets from Harbor Freight and it made some...

My brother has a slew of older Ford's but all diesel... I'm not too up on numbers or years of thins but is your 3000 a 3 or 4 cylinder? If 3 cylinder I'm pretty sure you can go up to a 201 no problem as they're pretty much interchangeable from what I've read. He has 3, 4 and 6 cylinder variants...

JB should hold, will likely stick to the shifter harder than the brass but worst case you would still be able to run a die down the threads on the shifter, I don't think it's "that" risky, there's going to be some void where there are threads that don't need to be there on the female side, the...

That was only in February? Seems like forever ago... since then I've rebuilt the transmission in that Ranger, rebuilt the transmission in my F350 then rebuilt the engine in my '00 V8 Explorer... too many projects with deadlines this year! That said having the welding gas has been great, such a...

For that I wouldn't worry about lube, brass is very nice to work with, your plan with JB weld will likely be necessary but should work fine for a shift knob...

Usually I'm more into the fabrication mode or just getting something working mode... I don't go far enough into things to spit shine and paint normally... I got an old Massy Furguson 25 disc at auction for like $200 a few years ago and now that my shop is usable decided to get it working so I...

I laid two identical pallets upside down and used my chain with two slip hooks and hooked the front top board together of both pallets and drag that around with my lawn mower, works great for leveling... as for taking care of the pocket gophers a 20ga shotgun and persistence worked very well...

If you're of the "buy once cry once" mindframe then I'm not the guy you get advise from... Myself I have two of the cheap $10 on sale Harbor Freight drill index sets in my "drill drawer" in the tool box, sure they're not great but it's cheap... as you would expect some of the bits are better...

They hold cans just fine through whatever you want while tractoring, it's the tall 32oz tumblers that are only touching the top ring that are an issue... On the tractor the bottom plate is just above the hydraulic reservoir so if it migrates down it doesn't do anything too dumb... I've still...

I've been using those on the riding mower and tractor for a couple years now, I'm sold... A lot of times I have one of those insulated 32oz tumblers while mowing (make whatever assumption you want, it's not usually water :)) and it works unless I go over just the right bump with a full cup, that...

When I was setting up the tool box for the shop I built I decided I was going to start with better than the random junk I'd acquired that I had in the garage... At christmas time I got one of the $100 Husky sets, they're actually pretty decent and complete other than the wrenches but at the same...

Current standard E10 gasoline "boils" at 135F, even lower at lower than atmospheric pressure like in a suction line while the engine is running. If it runs fine, ignore it and continue on, it's just a thing that happens, if it causes a no start then look deeper into it especially if the filter...

Most people weld iron with nickel rod, for best results degrease, pre heat, weld then post heat and let it cool down slowly

Any break barrel or spring piston (any form, gas ram included) are going to be more hold sensitive and harder to shoot consistently without practice... On the other hand a multi stroke or single stroke pump gun or CO2 is way more consistent shot to shot, CO2 has a downside of not working as well...

Nah, it's not the springs fault, the nut is still on the spindle but the hub is missing, they've neglected to add grease to the wheel bearings for many many miles, the tire exited the situation then they continued to drive for long enough to wear through the backing plate, U bolts and the...

When I built my pole barn (36'x48') I bought a HFT model to put in the nearly 20 pounds of nails that came with the kit... they were plastic collated 28 degree I think, they worked with the harbor freight nailer fine... I ran it on a $20 garage sale compressor that wasn't the most consistent on...

Yeah, there's at least 3 front axle setups on the 4000 tractors... one's like the 3000's, one bigger with shorter spindles, then the high crop setup with tall spindles like a 5000 or bigger...

Oosik, that's the same little guys, they have a huge territory in the north including Oregon and Washington apparently mainly west of the Cascades... I've been in this property for 9 years now and I've seen two... Anymore I leave most things alone with a few exceptions (no need for...

Saturday I mowed the swamp area to get the reed canary grass down for the year (I need something that can mow in water...) and Sunday morning walking around the shop I found something the cat drug in, a little brown and white weasel. I looked it up and apparently it's an Ermine or sometimes...

A friend gave me one of those little Honda 2000 generators too, runs great but I think the stator is bad, I haven't looked at it for a few months ago but apparently it's a thing and about $200 unless anyone has any good deals they know of on the parts... it starts right up but the error light...

I got a Champion 4kw a few years ago, treated it poorly storing outside under a tree in a riding mower trailer... cleaned the carb and put fresh gas in it and it's been a reliable little thing... I need to get some more proper sized pull cord but it starts easy and pretty quiet for a generator I...

I held out on tanks all together until I found a reasonable deal, ended up on an auction and got two big 75/25 tanks (the ones that are 5' tall) and two argon tanks (one tall one and one next size down) for about $125 a piece (bought in two lots). One of the argon bottles was full, one empty...

It's a big old Lincoln (idealarc? guessing '80's vintage) arc welder, don't remember the model off the top of my head but it's a big 3 phase unit with two voltage ranges, fine voltage control and some arc stability settings and a switch to reverse polarity... it's set up with a separate wire...

No, the intercooler project is much less important than the transmission rebuild so I'm working on that :), the intercooler project will likely wait until late July or August timeframe... This giant manual transmission is quite a bit different than the M5OD I rebuilt a few months ago... the...

Now that you mention that, I do have a few pounds of small stainless rods that I forgot about... I really need to get all my rods together and in the shop instead of in a pile in the garage...

Like said above, you're bending it on that bolt in the full lift position, either switch to the slot so it can float on the ground instead of being a fixed angle or move to the further forward hole.

I did think about that just didn't want it rusting but I guess there wouldn't be too much in the air pathway with a straight butt weld... I mean it's an old diesel so there's going to be oil in the air from blowby anyway... trying to expand my options for fabrication anyway... Aluminum would...

I have two of those hitches, they are long but that isn't always a bad thing, used one of the two I have to tow my boat today...

That guy is expensive, looks nice though, being amazon they showed similar items and found THIS GUY, cheap enough I might try it, was just complaining about having to hold the thing on yesterday... I have the harbor freight locking one that doesn't work well...

An update, luckily my back pain was just agonizing for 6 days, it was just dull yesterday so I decided to stack like 1.5 cord of oak firewood then mow for like 4 or so hours... Don't think I even managed to do anything dumb yesterday other than work through pain... well I did bend over a young...

I'm sure no one has done this before, but I was working on something big and awkward for my brother that was taking up room in my shop, finished the project on Sunday and loaded it in the back of my Ranger by myself, this thing is basically a 6' wide 3pt work platform thing that has to weigh...

The early 2.3L's were pretty gutless and in that timeframe they put the dumbest rear end gears in the cars with them... my '90 Ranger came from the factory with 3.08:1 rear gears but 25" tires, at that time they were rated at 90hp, the earlier carbed ones were in the 80hp range I think... the...

See, they forgot to light the road flare in the trunk before they got rear ended, pfft!!! That's what the famous video took to get the outcome they were looking for... My experience is all in Rangers, I've had a '90 since '99 and it's now a turbocharged conglomeration of random stock parts...

Ford's Lima engines (AkA pinto motors) were non interference and they stopped production in the middle of '01...

It's Fourney ER308 so I should be fine

It's been near 90F for most of the last week so projects have been slow... I did have a thought... structure wise and welding wise I think it would probably be a reasonable idea to cut a short sleeve of tubing (say an inch or bit more) to go on the inside of the seams instead of just butt...

Bukit, thanks, that's very interesting and should be helpful, depending on weather and other projects I'll hopefully give it some practice soon. Not an ideal first project but better than aluminum, I don't have the welder for TIG on aluminum anyway, that's why I got the spool gun, that's a whole...

Not really set up for purging, but we'll see what I can do... unfortunately the welder isn't pedal capable either... we'll see about getting some practice in over the next week or two... rebuilding the transmission is way ahead in importance... It's 3" tube so it's not super small diameter...

From what I've heard there's roughly twice what I need in tubing with the kit I got so I have plenty extra... even have some flat plate to practice on first... I wasn't planning on being dumb and jumping in without practice... also not in a hurry, probably jump in around August or in the...

I need to make some intercooler tubing for my F350 so I bought a kit of mandrel bent tubing from Amazon, it's 304 stainless and apparently around 16ga thick... so, which method would you use to weld it? I have a welder (Titanium Unlimited 200) capable of scratch start TIG, MIG and spool gun...

That's set up as a "prerunner", long travel twin beam suspension gets kinda goofy, I agree their camber is a bit off and not how I would have set it up but hey... some of those guys will build custom beams up front to gain a few inches per side so they can get an absurd amount of front...

Whether they are compensating or not there's a lot of people out there with horrible tastes... the guys that take a perfectly good truck and put 8" offset wheels so they stick out near the whole tire width, shorter than stock tires, 8" lift and like 30" wheels with rubber band "mud terrain"...

Yeah, I mix and match, with like 6 welders I have choices... If I'm working on big ugly stuff I jump to the stick welder with 6011 or sometimes 7018, other times flux core and recently since I got a tank solid wire and hopefully soon I'll practice some with scratch start TIG for stainless...

Stopped at the auto parts store tonight and picked up a gallon of Simple Green and Super Clean just to try both... probably try the super clean first... I don't remember if I have anything going on this weekend so maybe I'll work on cleaning it up, might go for a quick drive to get it a little...

I've welded a bunch with my Champion 4kw generator (says 3500 continuous, whatever, I have $100 in it and it works) and Harbor Freight Titanium MIG 170 welder, I've stalled the generator a number of times and blew out a GFI outlet and tripped breakers, hasn't hurt anything so far... although on...

I found a 50' 50A generator lead on Amazon for stupid cheap (was like 50% off for some reason) then put ends on it... The RV idea isn't bad, they're 30A usually which is likely enough.

By pressure washer I mean my harbor freight $80 special electric unit, use it with care and it should be fine, won't be going after things full on with a needle tip (I do have the tip adapter) but yeah, not the average dumb guy just going willy nilly, care will be taken...

My '97 has somewhere around 400k on the chassis(maybe 300k on the engine if I believe the guy I got it from) and it's just a tow rig for me for the most part, I like it but it's gutless on mountain passes towing so I get mad at it sometimes... it needs like $4k of stuff done to it to get where...

My F350 7.3L engine has been leaking diesel worse and worse for a while now (ever since I changed the mechanical lift pump in a rest area a couple years ago) Now it's time to rebuild the transmission that is now also gross, while it's pulled into the shop I will be resealing the pump banjo...

I've run my Harbor Freight Titanium MIG 170 on my Champion 4kw generator with flux core, with what you are running I would imagine you would be fine, I stalled the generator a few times before I found the right setting :)

Haven't added it up yet but: '00 explorer 225hp '98 Explorer 225hp '90 Ranger 220hp '97 Ranger 107hp '97 F350 225hp '03 Camry 170hp Kubota L260 26hp That's 1198hp with just the easy math 4 wheeled stuff... I dyno engines all the time, horsepower is kinda silly to me... personally I don't care...

There were different levels of engines, carbureted and fuel injected although for a new boat carbureted likely wasn't an option in 2012, I don't know what got what but the fuel injection of that time was pretty simple and robust

Do you like your apples red or green? Pretty much the same thing depending on the engine, for the most part they all start as GM bare engines and get the marinizing stuff added, most are about the same and use most of the same parts... Ford marine engines were popular through the mid '90's but...

There's all sorts of stuff around here, are you talking about pole barn style or full metal buildings? My shop was done by Parker Pole Buildings out of Hubbard Oregon, I bought it as a kit but they do have contractors that they work with that will assemble from what I heard. Depending on where...

I have both, and welcome comments :), I have a strong preference to DC with either 6011 or 7018 since I have a good supply of both, along with a couple wire feed welders but they all have uses, thus why I bought another welder in the first place... I have a shop and a garage, both need a stick...

I was using 6011 that I've had for years, decent condition, instant strikes on my DC welder, I only have standard DC 7018 so didn't even try that on the AC welder, it was striking (no matter on what) like it was set at 20A not 110ish, hard to start but after 1/2" of travel on light wall metal...

I ended up with a pet grooming table with electric adjustment, it's like 20" by 40" or something and goes from like 15" on the low side to around 40" on the high side, it's pretty handy when I have it cleared off... Years ago we got a Gorilla cart with 13" tires, it's great for making small...

Oh, I know for sure DC is better, my Century AC/DC hasn't been off of DC in many years, but you see I got this welder at an online auction where the welder was in one lot and the leads were the next lot, I thought for sure no one else would notice but I think I have about $90 or $100 (was sure...

That is very interesting! I will have to give that a try since I'm just using 1/8" 6011 I'm just at around 100A. That would definitely be the easiest fix... I cheaped out on the ground clamp and just used the $7 offering from HFT, they work ok and have a strap going from side to side unlike...

I'll check on the length of the cables, don't think they're any longer than 15', will eventually check on the contacts on the other 3 ends of the cables (since I replaced the ground clamp... :)) That stupid little vise is handy, it's a cheap vise (basically free but was broken when I got it...

last year I picked up a Miller Thunderbolt stick welder: Once it's going it welds fine for an A/C welder, but striking an arc is an exercise in patience... (my other stick welder is a Montgomery Wards branded Century AC/DC unit, I'm not a novice) it was picked up on an online estate auction...

To be more relevant to the thread at hand... Here's my welder cart, it was a $50 auction find, couldn't beat it with a stick so I got it and will modify it to my needs... Obviously the welder is on the top shelf area, the bottom area will get filled in for consumable storage and hopefully I'll...

Vertical is pretty much just for acetylene I believe, since acetylene is dissolved in a substrate... argon and 75/25 are just mixed gasses...

Continuing with things, here's the progress through the rest of the month, got the rest of the sheeting done that I can as well as painted and put together and the new shelf up... won some stuff at a recent local online auction and now have gas tanks for the welder (both argon and 75/25) and...

Lumber prices are down some so I got some OSB to sheet the inside of the walls about a week ago, have two gaps done now, think I'll do 2 more gaps before I paint... lot of rearranging at this point but it'll pay off... I've been working on stuff, some of you have likely seen the thread on my MF...

What I just bought was 7/16, was just over half the price of 15/32" plywood (right around $20 a sheet) which I was going to buy but that's a steep premium just to sheet walls in a shop...

I remember hearing about OSB sheeting being like $65 not long ago, I just bought 36 sheets for $11.10 each, when I got a similar amount around 6 years ago I think it was $9 and change so not bad... need to bite the bullet and get materials to build the shop loft soon...

I'm pretty sure you've never dealt with Flickers or Sap Suckers invading your space on things you actually want to keep nice, and mice are vermin, they need to be controlled, they're looking for a place to call home and destroy for any human use. The mice in my property are not after food, there...

I just use some Dawn in mine, seems to work good enough and I don't feel bad about just dumping it every few uses...

I have a ~3k pound 9.5' camper I use with my '97 F350 crew cab long bed 4x4 diesel and tow my Ranger on a trailer around... I use a ~18" hitch extension with the frame mount hitch modified to be similar to a super hitch with two tubes and a forward support to take the side to side load of the...

Yes the rears are filled, don't remember how much but it's over half, need to keep on the lookout for new to me tires or a good deal on new... If I had a plow I'd plow first but I don't, I think my brother has a 2 bottom I could borrow... my septic drain field is out there so just discing a...

I did get it out of the shop today and tried it, it works but the ground is too wet, just made lines and not enough traction to get anywhere... gotta wait for the ground to get in better shape but it's usable! It'll be a lot nicer to have the 3 point disc instead of the pull type I had before...

Ok, here's the pictures from this weekend... first is one of the cleaner pair of bearing clamshells: Then one of a cleaned bearing on both sides: Then of the last pin I had to make, this one welded in place where they other just pinned in place... The lower spring clamp was the junky...

I forgot to spin the rear gangs before I moved to the front but will do that later... got the pin made for the one missing on the front and got all those bearings cleaned and greased, conveniently I had just enough 45* 1/8" pipe grease zerks since it had 4 straight ones and two of the ones I...

There seems to be a similar amount of play in all the bearings (in the 4 I've had off so far), I'm going to get the things together and try it out before I get too excited, I know I should be able to extend the life and accuracy of the bearings by taking each half to a belt sander (if I had a...

This has metal bearings, at some point I might look into replacement, we'll see what kinda shape the rest are in :)

For the most part using a DC welder (the welding current itself, not what the welder is plugged into) and having the welder ground as close to the weld as possible there is little chance of an issue, If using an AC welder doing similar should be fine but if the tractor engine has a computer it...

Tonight I straightened the adjuster levers so the spring linkages work like they should and cleaned out one more of the bearings, so 5 more bearings to clean and one pin to make... and I might be able to test it next weekend, last I heard was dry the next 10 days so might be about right...

Here's early on in straightening the one arm Here's after I got it as straight as I think it needs to be Here's the one piece I had to make, it was missing the angled piece of 3/8", I'll admit I was kinda winging it at first and the hole ended up needing to be right on the edge so I ground...

I got a cold this week which slowed me down... yesterday I took 30 minutes in the shop to untwist the twisted area on the one ball end, it's a 5/8" by 2.5" bar so wasn't going to do it cold, took the O/A torch and got it hot with the 36" pipe wrench on the link and 2" ratchet straps pulling both...

I see it is set on DC, leave it there, welds much better on pretty much anything unless you get fancy, 6011 and 7018 are my go to's, 1/8" rods at around 100-125A run pretty good, if you were just to have one rod get 6011, 7018 is nicer to run with prettier welds but you have to break the tip...

My little tractor doesn't have a remote or anything but has a couple thousand pounds of 3 point lift ability so 3 point is preferred, I had a drag type disc that was way too big for a while but once I got this I sold the drag disc to a guy that turned it into fountains... lol For good measure...

I got this thing for I think $200 or $250 around 4 years ago at auction but it needed some work, it was missing a couple pins and needed some tinkering, it sat for a while, then I moved it to the driveway hoping it would get me working on it if it was in my way, but nope... then just over a week...

Being fuel rich (as stated above it's sap soaked pine) it lights super easy and is kinda like a candle so it burns for a while with flames so it adds heat and flames to the kindling and firewood. Splitting it up to smaller pieces it lasts me forever, getting I think is a 40 pound box for around...

For light stuff the light duty tie downs at harbor freight are just fine, I think they call them 1/4" or something, they take two 5/16" bolts if I remember right, I put 6 on one of my trailers and they've worked well

When we get frisky we take dryer lint and push it in egg cartons then drip melted wax on the top then cut those up, works GREAT My go to is fat wood, buy it in huge quantity like HERE, they come in big pieces, take a hatchet and split them into pencil size pieces, take say 3 of those and light...

Yeah, some truck campers are just silly, they make some with 3 slide outs (mostly the ones with the door on the side like the one on that Dodge), they get dumb heavy and stupid expensive... my camper is around 2500lb dry I think, I like to stick to the 9' length range so towing works better...

Replacement parts for the Titanium could be an issue but the liner in the whip is "tweeco style" I believe and HFT carries them on the shelf so does every welding store... if it helps here's a link to the coupon. Doesn't look like it comes with any wire (must have been the Unlimited 200 I got...

I just got an email this morning that at Harbor Freight there's a coupon for the Titanium MIG 170 for $520, I have one and have tried to kill it unsuccessfully... I think I mentioned it before but it's 110/220 with included cord, comes with a spool of flux core and solid I believe as well as the...

I've had the harbor freight 1.5 ton folding hoist for like 20 years, it's still going strong, I think it was $125 way back then, not perfect and I don't think it leaks down much, it folds up pretty small, I've used it for all sorts of silly things over the years... In the shop I have an A...

For import stuff look into littlemachineshop.com they spec the best (above the Grizzly spec) for the same machine, most of the Seig lathes are made in the same place with a different color of paint... we have one of their 9x16? lathes at work, it's a pretty nice unit and at $1600 when we got it...

If you are mostly running 1/2" thin wall tubing then yeah, wire feed on 120V is perfectly fine, keep the stick for bigger stuff... if you are used to clean up on stick and don't mind a little bit of spatter then I wouldn't shy away from flux core either, it runs about like 6011, for long beads...

It is kinda handy... have taken a handful of stuff in for warranty, which reminds me, my brother handed me a messed up Leek I need to see if they'll do anything with... it works but has like 2 screws in it total with two different color scales, he put it together with parts from two knives... he...

I try to season what I have 1 to 2 years split and stacked in a shed, right now I have just over 3 cord of wood on hand split and stacked ready, started the season with just under 4 cord which is all I have room for currently, in the coming months I plan to add room for 2 more cord on the end of...

I work down the street from Kershaw, been going to their warehouse sale for like 25 years now so I have MANY Kershaw knives, have my favorites but have stuck to their Misdirect model for the last several years, lost my first one in October, replaced it locally then bought a couple spares at the...