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Repurposed rear axle out of a 2500 Dodge I parted out from my twin turbo 24V superduty project. Built it for rebuilding 14L Cummins engines, however I just hung a 16x16 powershift trans on it from a NH tractor I have to rebuild.

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made adjustable oil oil catcher for lift use from couple stainless tanks. upper half is from old water pump reservoir, lower pot is some old 20 litre drink keg

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top adjustable tube is removable. leaves big drain hole

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wire mesh to catch stuff like drain plugs

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just simple legs

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I’d like to build something like this soon

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I made a magnetic grinding plate/chuck for the side of my welding table. Uses plate lifting magnets I already had. Jam screws on the bottom keep the magnets wedged against the top when tuned off. The top is 16ga just tacked on so it can be changed out easily as needed

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tac1 said:
I made a magnetic grinding plate/chuck for the side of my welding table. Uses plate lifting magnets I already had. Jam screws on the bottom keep the magnets wedged against the top when tuned off. The top is 16ga just tacked on so it can be changed out easily as needed
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Doesn't that much magnet affect the welding?
 
Muckin_Slusher said:
Doesn't that much magnet affect the welding?
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The magnets are only used to hold the parts during clean up/grinding. We spend a lot of time cleaning plasma cut parts. It does magnetize them a bit but it is unnoticeable once they are removed. I've been doing it this way for a long time just never had a dedicated holder for the magnets.
 
tac1 said:
The magnets are only used to hold the parts during clean up/grinding. We spend a lot of time cleaning plasma cut parts. It does magnetize them a bit but it is unnoticeable once they are removed. I've been doing it this way for a long time just never had a dedicated holder for the magnets.
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I forgot to say, nice job, that's awesome!
 
tac1 said:
The magnets are only used to hold the parts during clean up/grinding. We spend a lot of time cleaning plasma cut parts. It does magnetize them a bit but it is unnoticeable once they are removed. I've been doing it this way for a long time just never had a dedicated holder for the magnets.
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I used to put those same type of yellow lifting magnets upside down in the vice to deburr batches of parts off the shear and iron worker. Worked great, but I switched to the mag drill because it was much quicker. I even started collecting parts and experimenting to make an electro magnetic vice that operated on a foot control, but I lost interest during the trial and error stage.

Cool to see someone else also investing time in similar ideas!
 
TTMotorsports said:
That large magnetic table attachment looks awesome. I personally use my Ameribrade 2x72 grinder to grind the edges of the plasma cut parts then I use a small magnetic chuck that sits on top of my welding table so I can use my resin backed sanding disc or DA sander to finish them off.

Magnetic Chuck Fine Pole Permanent Magnetic Chuck Powerful Rectangular Chuck for Grinding Machine Lathe Magnets (6X12 Inch)
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My next welding table will get those built into them
 
My friend also got an old surface grinder for free that uses electromagnet to hold stuff down. He took it all apart and put that electromagnet into his table with a vfd to turn it on and off. Was awesome and much bigger and strong but definitely not something you can move around if needed.
 
Sluggy was asking for pics of a yota driveshaft jig I had made years ago. Hard part was measuring 1000 times to make sure they were as close to the same centerline height as possible. Used the unneeded output parts from a tcase that was used for a doubler.


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Stubbs made a much better looking version of the same idea too, stole this from the old site:

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SKULLYOTA said:
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What year/model is that centering yoke from?


I have a calmini driveshaft in my nissan and we recently figured out they used that yota double cardan yoke. Haven't had a chance to scour through some of the driveshaft sites to figure out exactly what it came out of.
 
They're Toyota specific sizes but yeah, the minitruck stuff is about 1310 and the land cruiser stuff is generally about 1350.
 
bgaidan said:
1310 joints?


Fuckers get $800 for this. Yota centering yoke and spicer pinion yoke welded to a nissan pinion flange. :shaking:
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They're Toyota specific sizes but yeah, the minitruck stuff is about 1310 and the land cruiser stuff is generally about 1350.
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What he said ^^^^

They're 1310 -ish in size, but they're stronger and the yokes can be ground to travel more than the 1310s.
 
Tech Tim said:
What he said ^^^^

They're 1310 -ish in size, but they're stronger and the yokes can be ground to travel more than the 1310s.
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I swear these are 1310's so they may not be toyota at all if that's the case. But now I'm second guessing because it's possible that I've never replaced one of the joints and I'm thinking of the backup shaft that I hacked out of an XJ front. :confused: Guess I need to pull it out and take some better measurements. That particular one is currently retired because the slip joint isreally worn out and was making a bunch of noise.
 
Slvr98svt said:
Repurposed rear axle out of a 2500 Dodge I parted out from my twin turbo 24V superduty project. Built it for rebuilding 14L Cummins engines, however I just hung a 16x16 powershift trans on it from a NH tractor I have to rebuild.

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that is epic! ...... ive been wanting a beafy easy to spin stand.!
 
I replaced some bushings in my CTL arms this weekend. I didn't feel like removing the cylinders to just replace the lower bushings (someone had done the uppers but not the lowers, weirdly enough) so I machined a scrap piece of 41L40 I had on the shelf to be a close undersize diameter, have a shoulder in it, and tapped it for the knockout puller threads.

Pulled the old bushings out and pulled the new ones back in easy peasy.

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Jesus. You guys are better at this than me. I've just done the usual mutilation of cheap end-wrenches.

I definitely need to step up my game of spending hours making a tool to save seconds of time. :flipoff2:
 
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