Recent content by RandyG

Definitely when it’s quiet 💯 3D printing has a solid place in the shop and on the truck. I’ve made a ton of parts to fix stuff around the house, in the garage, on the truck. I even 3d printed some dies for my tubing bender to bend up some 1” DOM for side mirrors. I think there should be a 3d...

Best advice with an Ender 3 is to watch a ton of videos on YouTube. This was my first printer and there is definitely a ton of tinkering that had to happen to make it work well. Get good at tramming the bed and setting your Z height. I started with the paper trick, then moved to feeler gauges...

Lmao 3 out of 4; that’s me welding 😂😂

I put a hydro boost in my F100. I did use an early 2000’s f450-ish unit I got from EBay. Picked up a dual return Saginaw p/s pump (I read some posts about modifying a single return, but this was easier). Hoses are mostly straight forward. One of the things I did have to do, was make a spacer...

Thanks, dude! That’s the last time she has been in the dirt haha Front steer would be so nice

Wow, this thing is so rad! Beautiful!

Yessir, so are the beams. All stock from autofab. Eventually it would be great to have better Pivots and maybe even go to front steer.

Honestly, I was so stoked on it. Especially for like 25$ in plastic, 20 minutes in cad, and like 20 hours of print time. I am curious how big I could go without failure. I’ve seen a lot of dudes on the YouTube’s that have made form dies. Can make some really trick stuff with plastic and metal...

Ctd I’ll grab some pics of the finished mirrors. Some reason I don’t have them. Next up, is new rear suspension. Grabbed a used Giant 64” leaf spring kit from a dude out in menifee. Shocks are on their way. Maybe one day it will be back out in the dirt. Have some plans to...

And that’s just about where I am at. The truck has been tuned, and is running okay. Wanted to make some side mirrors, but didn’t have .75 die for my Rogue Bender. Decided to try and 3d print them out of some PLA on the cheap. Took about a spool of filament, but it was absolutely a success...

Did the manual valve body in the 4l80. Had to make some stuff to do the TCC mod. Including the broke man’s lathe to take one of the flats down.

Got the new motor installed with some auto fab mounts. Ran new fuel lines and tried to keep it clean. 3D printed some fuel line spacers to keep the rail clean. Printed up a E2000 fuel pump mount, too. All ASA

Put the 390 on a dolly and tried to get it to the backyard to clean up to sell. Proceeds to dump the motor onto the side yard when the dolly broke. Tried my best to get it back onto the walkway, but had to go grab my work truck and break out the hoist.

Out comes the 390, she a heavy girl

Before pulling out the motor, I had to figure out a way to lower my truck down the driveway. My driveway is way steep, and my garage is a bit small. Enter the Harbor Freight 110v winch. Anchored it into the ground out the back door, and was able to pull the truck in and out of the garage...