After drilling (or trying to), and burning my arms with the hot
chips, I went down to Home Depot, and bought a compressor and air chisel.
Now I chisel them off, and then push them through with a punch tool. Some
are easier than others. I recently knocked the tranny crossmember out, and
some of the rivets were not pressed in firmly, so I could only knock them
out partway. I finished by taking off the brake bracket which has one big
bolt through the frame, then knocked the crossmember out with a crow bar,
had to pry it loose to clear the rivets from the frame...sounds easy, but i
was sweating and tired by the time i was done. The crossmember was flung
out the garage door onto the dirt! I felt bad about throwing it out
afterward, then I brushed it off and put it neatly in the back yard off the
ground.
What did I learn from this? Air chisel good. Bad quality chisel bad, had
to sharpen much too much. Taking a water break good. Ear plugs very good.
Flinging x-member out back door bad...(could have killed dog).
next--waiting on m/c brake bracket from pickupsnw...waiting a month now.
They say they are waiting for them...not in stock...bad.... currently
mounting prop. valve on frame between rear shock mount and cab, plumbing all
i can until the m/c mount arrives...when? I dunno, cuz they don't know...
that's all for now..
manuel.
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