Sears 50% Tools

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Sears is having 50% off select tools right now.

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King Shocks - Pre-Runner Coil overs delivered!

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Today was an exciting day my King Coil overs (Pre-Runner Shocks) were delivered.

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Tube Bender Stand And Air Over Hydraulic

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I’ve had my JD2 Model 3 tube bender for many years now and had it mounted in the floor in the middle of the garage, this worked great but required me to move EVERYTHING to bend some tube, talk about a major hassle.

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Harbor Freight Bandsaw / Central Machinery Horizontal Metal Cutting Bandsaw

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So the title may be long but I know a bunch of people refer to the Central Machinery Horizontal Metal Cutting Bandsaw as the “HF Bandsaw” (or Harbor Freight). The bandsaw is extremely popular for the “DIY” garage/weekend warriors and even in some small 4×4 shops due to it’s extremely low price.

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4×4 Trip & Testing @ Prairie City SVRA / OHV

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Well after replacing Scott’s King Pre-Runner Coil Over Shock we needed to do a shake down run to make sure everything worked as it should.

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Garage Organization

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Having only a two car garage I am running out of room. And as I mentioned in my previous post about enco fast shipping I was going to be putting a lot of things on casters to make more space quickly.

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The rest of my enco order.

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18.jpgI also got a couple 18″ vise grips and 3 dykem markers.

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New firewall. Day 1 Pictures

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16.jpg We worked on the new firewall on my buggy today. It was not to bad, and the harbor freight sheet metal shears made fast work of the 18ga CR steel cutting it like butter.

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Talk about fast shipping (ENCO)

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17.jpgSo I decided shortly after getting another tool (my press brake + contraption) that I was quickly running out of space in my 2 car garage, and that in order to keep fabricating for my 4×4 in my own garage I was going to have to do something about it.

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New 302 / 5.0 engine harness

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So, after getting my buggy back from AA-Fab it was time to fix the wiring mess, and make it run better. The original plan was to re-do 100% of the auxiliary wiring… basically everything that didn’t have to do with making it run. This plan suddenly changed.

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