IRS in a gmt400

[fancyTBI]

Power steering and brakes in a non running vehicle still seems pretty cool to me.

And I’m the opposite. Truck runs good but no steering or stopping.

 

[Alteca]

And I’m the opposite. Truck runs good but no steering or stopping.

Sounds like you need an ibooster and a mustang rack.

 

[fancyTBI]

Sounds like you need an ibooster and a mustang rack.

I need to get my ass out to the garage and wrench!

 

[Alteca]

Just finished my last final for spring semester yesterday. Have a month off before summer classes start so that gives me plenty off time to work on the truck. I got an early start this morning. Not an hour in and I ran out of mig wire! I was finishing up the front crossmember. I’m not about to try doing tig overhead on something structural so it’s gonna have to wait. I did get some other brackets welded for the steering rack and the front diff.

 

[GrimsterGMC]

Nice welds mate.

 

[Alteca]

Nice welds mate.

Some of the prettiest welds on the truck and they will never be seen once this bracket is installed.

 

[GrimsterGMC]

Some of the prettiest welds on the truck and they will never be seen once this bracket is installed.

Mate, that's what separates the craftsman from the pretender. It doesn't matter if it is seen or not, you do it right because it's the right way to do it.

 

[Erik the Awful]

Not an hour in and I ran out of mig wire!

Buy two. Whenever you run out, you have a spare available, and then you replace the spent reel immediately. I learned this the hard way, and now I practice this with pretty much everything. PB Blaster, heat shrink butt connectors, grinder wheel packs, etc. The downside is that you have to find a way to remind yourself to buy the replacement and you also have more money tied up in spare material.

 

[Alteca]

Buy two. Whenever you run out, you have a spare available, and then you replace the spent reel immediately. I learned this the hard way, and now I practice this with pretty much everything. PB Blaster, heat shrink butt connectors, grinder wheel packs, etc. The downside is that you have to find a way to remind yourself to buy the replacement and you also have more money tied up in spare material.

I told myself a month ago to go ahead and order a spare and had gotten caught up in so much other stuff I completely forgot about it until I went to use it… I do at least keep a nice stockpile of cutoff wheels, grinding disk and so on.