GMC visitors and weld repair of a Case skidloader

The Weidners stopped by on the way back home. Larry has a 500 Cadillac engine with port fuel injection in his GMC motorhome.

Buddy Dave's skid steer loader has a broken final drive case. See the wheel leaning in at the top? He bought it this way and got a deal on it.

The loader's case cracked so the oil leaked out of the case and the wheel is out of alignment. This view is from the bottom looking up.

This is what we came up with to push the case back in place.  Held like this we tack welded it back in place then took the apparatus off to get a repair weld done.

Welding in process....

Repaired

The case had started to crack vertically in a four places. Grooved the cracks and welded these up too.

Repair complete wheel back in alignment.

Dave's other job..on the mighty Thinkorswim platform.

Touch-Plate wiring system

 Swapped out a relay in this Touch-plate wiring system. Advantage of these is all switches are at 28 volts DC and the 120 volt AC circuits are dead unless the load is switched on. Parts are available here
http://www.kyledesigns.com/category/11_home_decor.2_low-voltage-lighting-systems.touchplate-wiring/

 Here is a switch out of the wall.. low voltage switching circuit only needs small wires

 This is a touchplate relay. Was able to get it working again by cleaning and putting in graphite powder lube. Zero cost fix.

                                                                       

This is the power supply for the switching circuit at 28.5 volts DC. Touch-Plate calls it a transverter. Changed the capacitor out in this one a few years back rather than buy a complete new unit. Symptom of the weak cap was sometimes the relays would switch and sometimes not. These are designed to be safe for the relay coils even if a switch sticks on and no chance of fire.

Ford nine inch detroit locker with Strange engineering case and daytona pinion support

 OEM Ford nine inch case and Strange Engineering case. Strange case has more ribs and thicker casting. Roger wanted a case that took the bigger carrier bearings for use with 35 spline axles.

                                                       Ford inner bearing support

Strange case is thicker on the inner bearing support area

 For use with a Detroit Locker a little trimming is needed for clearance. This case was really made for use with a spool and not a differential.

                                        Ground enough away so the locker clears

The lower pinion support is a Daytona from Ford racing parts. We did not use a crush sleeve and instead a shim pack to set bearing preload. Did not get a picture of the shim pack setup.

                                                   Setting bearing preload.....

                                                                       Ready to go.....

range timer delete

       Mid 50's GE range timer quit and growled all the time. No replacement available.

 It is held in place by spring clips. Pop out the bottom first and it will come out of the wall

 Insulating cover is held on with screws.

 Set the timer contact block to always on so everything will work. Used a mirror cut like the original glass front of the timer to  blank it off. Cut the knob shafts off and reinstalled the timer module to hold the mirror and timer block in place.

No more timer and clock to remind you it doesn't work

                                   This one was blanked off with black glass.

Fixing cast iron plumbing

            Cast iron stack was leaking in the wall somewhere above the basement. I've been patching this for years with epoxy and partial replacements with PVC. Time to go farther darn it. Cast iron will fail when enough time goes by.

 

Made a access port inside the lower kitchen cabinet too see. Leak was higher than this...

    Opened up the wall on the other side hoping to save the tile. Leak was below here.

     Sawing off the pipe after supporting it with strap iron. Buddy Dave hard at work!

     Sawed out the wye. Not much room in side the darn cabinet. Buddy Dave said  this  was my job. haha

                           Stack was split behind the toilet inside the wall.

                      Going back with PVC.  Strap iron support added under toilet flange.

                                                              PVC wye in place

                                                                       Patched back up.

Starting patch water resistant green board

                         
Almost done patching, used 20 minute Durabond at first then 20 minute easy sand setting mud.

                             Fernco neoprene flex coupling cast iron to PVC

                                                    Fernco with shear band installed

                                                    Fernco with shear band installed

Custom PVC coupling...took out the stop so it can go past the end of the pipe and then back for no clearance use. Kind of a slip and slide deal.

A little snow and homemade laundry soap

                                                                A little snow

                                                           A little snow plowing

             Home made laundry soap, Fels soap grated before putting in the blender.

 Weaponized in a blender. 1 bar Fels soap, 1 1/2 cup washing soda. 1  1/2   cup  TSP, 1 1/2 cup Borax.

                                  We use in our top loader 1 table spoon per load
Later on I substituted sodium tripolyphosphate for the trisodium phosphate using the same ratios...much better. Also if you nuke the Fels bar in a microwave it becomes much easier to grind up in the blender. The heck with that grater.

Nine inch Ford gearset setup and Detroit Locker

                   Buddy Roger installing pinion crush sleeve and new bearings

           Setting preload, with new bearings spec is 20-25 inch pounds to rotate.

    Fixing to torque ring gear on a Detroit Locker carrier. Work rally in here!

                                       Torquing ring gear bolts 80-85 ft lbs

              Back lash set at gearset spec .010 +.004 max. it was within .002 all around

Pattern check

                                                                    Monster meat tires

                                                      Susie takes a sidecar ride with Al