OK, just spent 2 hours fitting up the splitter head. It's tight! So after welding up a bracket to attach it to the cylinder, I went about trying to install it. I ended up having to jack the whole thing up on saw horses to get it high enough to slide it in from the bottom. Then it was so tight, I ended up having to jump on the end of the processor to get it to slide in the track. Too tight, that wasn't by design. I was expecting the cylinder to lift the splitter up and just let it slide back down under its own weight. The cylinder is going to have to pull it up and push it down, but if I can do it with my weight (no jokes please), the cylinder should be plenty strong enough until it wears in.
Everything is now fabricated and in place. I've even started to clean it all up for final welding, most of it is still just tacked together. Valves are now in place, the arm is re-enforced and braced against the side, engine and tank have been fully mounted, splitter is in place. I just have to weld it up, paint it and get it out of my parking spot!
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