I have gotten in the habit of putting a green painters tape flag on any connectors I unplug and sticky dots on the bolt holes when I remove bolts. I'd used to think.... "I'll remember where that goes" but never do.
If you have access to a machinist......... I have made some 2.5" knurled collars that have a hole drilled through the side that allows a piece of round stock to slide in and push the nut pin in, the collar slips over the nut, fastened to the nut with 2 grub screws. No wrench is needed to...
I don't know if you have access to a machine shop, but it would be very easy to machine a plastic/nylon filler piece that would fill the gap between the rubber strips, holes drilled in the filler piece allowing the OEM mounting post to pass through and be level with the bottom of the rack...
I don't know if you've ever heard of these or if it would be an easier way to secure your clamps. I use them on my jigs and are a big time saver. I call them quick nuts and are basically a nut with 1/2 of the thread in the nut and a spring loaded pin with the other half of the threads. You...
My thought I watched a video on processing through one of the port facilities. There are thousands and thousands of vehicles that arrive on every single ship, those are parked in the yard and brought into the facility one at a time and parked into a assembly bay. parts are collected for each...
Most of the alum I had on hand from various other projects, but it was all purchased from Amazon at one point.
I made mine 22" wide as I wanted a larger platform, it could be any width you'd like. The legs that lay on top of the tire were cut to fit. I used a mixture of alum, but you can use...
I have successfully added a direct link to my build page, if you would like to do the same;
Navigate to your build page and copy the "URL"
Edit your profile "signature" and paste the "URL" .......... done deal.