What Did You Do With Your Rig Today?

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Gabriel Bozeman

Gabriel Bozeman

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Today I pushed my normal rig to the side (I know I know, such a horrible thing to do) and focused on my other car. A 1974 VW Bug. I had taken the engine out and then put it back in. After taking it out it wouldn't crank over. Found out that I had the choke on without trying to turn it over. ‍♂ Replaced a good number of parts and fixed the light issues and now I'm ready to get tags! This will be the first time it's been road worthy in 5+ years. Fingers crossed! View attachment 92496View attachment 92497
 
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JCWages

JCWages

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After mounting a 3rd Maxsa traction board to my rack I noticed I was getting a lot of flex from the thin steel side bar they were mounted to. I noticed this before with full RotoPax mounted on the other side. I had my farmer friend weld on a couple of strips of steel to the top of the side bars to stiffen them up. If I were to do it over again I would have had him weld straight across instead of in spots for aesthetics but whatever, it was free. :)

I had to grind off the rust and shoot the new sections as well as some areas that had large scratches on the rest of the rack. Some self etching primer and then a few coats of bedliner spray did the trick.


It's not perfect but for an $80 work in progress I am happy. It's sturdy as hell.


I chose not to do a bottom bar because it really wasn't needed for strength and it would just collect mud.


While I was at it I decided to clean up my trusty shovel! Some grinding, rust converter paint and red farm implement paint and she's as good as new!


 
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Gabriel Bozeman

Gabriel Bozeman

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JCWages said:
After mounting a 3rd Maxsa traction board to my rack I noticed I was getting a lot of flex from the thin steel side bar they were mounted to. I noticed this before with full RotoPax mounted on the other side. I had my farmer friend weld on a couple of strips of steel to the top of the side bars to stiffen them up. If I were to do it over again I would have had him weld straight across instead of in spots for aesthetics but whatever, it was free. :)

I had to grind off the rust and shoot the new sections as well as some areas that had large scratches on the rest of the rack. Some self etching primer and then a few coats of bedliner spray did the trick.


It's not perfect but for an $80 work in progress I am happy. It's sturdy as hell.


I chose not to do a bottom bar because it really wasn't needed for strength and it would just collect mud.


While I was at it I decided to clean up my trusty shovel! Some grinding, rust converter paint and red farm implement paint and she's as good as new!


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Love what you did with the shovel!
 
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Magic Mike

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JCWages said:
After mounting a 3rd Maxsa traction board to my rack I noticed I was getting a lot of flex from the thin steel side bar they were mounted to. I noticed this before with full RotoPax mounted on the other side. I had my farmer friend weld on a couple of strips of steel to the top of the side bars to stiffen them up. If I were to do it over again I would have had him weld straight across instead of in spots for aesthetics but whatever, it was free. :)

I had to grind off the rust and shoot the new sections as well as some areas that had large scratches on the rest of the rack. Some self etching primer and then a few coats of bedliner spray did the trick.


It's not perfect but for an $80 work in progress I am happy. It's sturdy as hell.


I chose not to do a bottom bar because it really wasn't needed for strength and it would just collect mud.


While I was at it I decided to clean up my trusty shovel! Some grinding, rust converter paint and red farm implement paint and she's as good as new!


Click to expand...
Dude, some solid work! Looks great!
 
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Magic Mike

Magic Mike

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