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Motordome

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  1. I am looking at a couple different shops to do the driveshaft work so in the meantime I worked on my spare tire carrier this weekend. The original unit had a broken cable and I really don't like the way the design works with the camper body. I decided to start from scratch and ripped the old one out I found some 5/8" threaded rod to use for the mount so I was looking around for a large metal circle to use as a center retainer. I found an old 10" saw blade that had a broken carbide and as luck would have it it already had a 5/8" arbor hole. The blade was a heavy duty unit so the body was about an 1/8" thick. I broke off all the carbides and ground off the teeth. Once this was done I installed it in a jobsite saw and hit it with a grinder while it was running to shape it back to a decent circle. I welded up a 1/4" bar with a couple stubby handles. The center nut was replaced with a castle nut I covered the edge of the blade up with some fuel line with a center split and mounted it in place I still need to drill the rod for a cotter pin but it works pretty good. The weight of the tire provides enough friction on the retainer so you just spin the tire and it threads itself up and down. I will just need to keep the threads greased and it should work great.
  2. Never a dull moment with these two knuckleheads (The dogs I mean...my daughter isn't a knucklehead)
  3. I started working on the drive shaft situation today. I manage to get the flange off of the Toyota DS which realllllly took an effort. I bolted it on to the pinion and this is what we have It's about 1 1/4" or 32 mm so it looks like a DS cut down is in order I can move the rear end back but not quite enough to make it all work. Besides that I think the tires are pretty well centered and I don't want to move them. One thing I have to figure out is the u joint set up. According to a chart I found the S10 uses a 1330 u joint but I haven't been able to dig up much info on the Toyota u joint, all I know is that it's a bit smaller. I did find this...... If this flange will bolt up then I believe I could use a stock S10 u joint On a positive note I was eyeballing the drive shaft angle and it looked fairly straight to me.....I was worried about the offset a little
  4. The installation went well. The links are not perfectly vertical but much closer than before. Ready for RV autocross
  5. Working on the sway now, I welded some 3/16" plate to the back facing side of each shock mount to support the link bracket. Then I was able to reuse the Toyota mount after cutting off the bolt tabs. Everything then got blasted and painted The sway bar got blasted and a few coats of aluminum paint It should be dry tomorrow morning and I am hoping it will bolt right it. It shouldn't be a problem since I had it in and out about a thousand times during the mock up phase.
  6. I was working on the sway bar yesterday and my sister stopped by the shop and dropped off this book for me (she had no idea what I was working on) If i ever need to mass produce dually S10's this should come in handy
  7. The last couple of days have been busy and the camper is now a little closer to being complete I started by using my wooden jig to locate the second perch Then welded it on I wanted to re-use the S10 shock mounts but this meant redrilling the ubolt holes to accommodate the Toyota ubolts. I plug welded the existing holes and then redrilled them with my drill press Sandblasted then painted the hardware Coated the housing with rust converter And in she went which was kind of a pain working alone but once I got it in place it dropped right on the spring dowels and the ubolts fit like a glove May I present the elusive S10 dually I couldn't resist popping on one of the simulators..sweeet Lots of work to do such as brake lines,sway bar, air bags and drive shaft but I'm feeling pretty inspired
  8. Today started by running around to four different stores to track down a can of primer. Finally Auto Value found me a can and I made it back to the shop around noon I used a contour gauge to get the general shape of the tube and started grinding away on my spindle sander I ended up removing quite a bit of material to get it to fit I leveled the tube and set the pinion angle After a couple coats of primer it was finally ready to weld. I welded each side in two passes from the top down and let it cool down in between beads. It looked a little crappy where the two welds met but as they say, "If you can't be a good welder at least be a good grinder". One down and one to go
  9. I didn't remove the pinion just the nut. I marked it's location and took it off with an impact,replaced the seal,pinion nut and finally recrimped it with a chisel.
  10. I started working on the spring perches this afternoon, The first thing I needed to do was reprimand my security detail for sleeping on the job Next up was to fabricate a jig for the leaf spring dowels. I started out with a straight piece of birch and laid out the holes. Once I got it right I added the offset pieces and finally cut out the center. Surprisingly it is accurate to within .25 mm I cut off the old perch with a recip saw and started grinding away Tomorrow I am going to pick up some weld through primer and see if I cant get one perch welded in place
  11. Jiggling? I was thinking of spraying them down with some penetrating oil but I still need to figure out how to splice them into the S10 e-brake system. I have read that there are crimping tools available for boat rigging that will work but I haven't done a ton of research on it yet
  12. I got the other side buttoned up today as well as the installation of a new pinion seal. Tomorrow I am going to start working on the spring perches
  13. Good news/Bad news Bad news; I had to work all weekend doing a side job for project fundraising which left me very little time for the rear end Good news; The side job is done and the fundraising was enough to secure a set of Vantra's Good news; My replacement spring perch showed up on Friday Good news; I managed to get a little work done on the rear end tonight
  14. The original spring perches are still welded to the axle tube...but not for long As far as setting the preload on the wheel bearings is concerned I followed the Toyota manual to the extent possible,right wrong or in between. I have come to realize that the guys that built whatever I'm working on know more about it than I do. Yes I am sure there are shortcuts (as with most things) but I am also sure I haven't worked on enough Toyota axles to know them.
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