Another project gift

Mine should say, "Refill with oil every time you use it." I suppose I should get new seals for it, but as often as I use it I'd probably need new seals gain and a quart of gear oil is available right down the street. I'd have to order seals.

I fully understand, you beat the "system" in a way few others could. You own it now instead of it owning you.

Resoldering the windshield wiper module and drilling out the frozen distributor bolt to keep the old truck and car going are similar. Neither is a job a shop would/could do as they required circuit board troubleshooting and a milling machine. A couple have told me that my suggested fix was impossible (for them) and tried to sell me a poor alternative they could handle. I've been asking around at shops and hot rod / antique gatherings to learn who specializes in what.

I acquired my free garden tractor and rock drill by being able to fix them. I bought a used wood bandsaw that lacked oiling and instead of buying a new shaft it was my first project in machine shop night school. An in-person instructor was helpful to learn lathe thread cutting.

Richard, being able to accurately turn and bore bushings and bearings and cut threads are perhaps the main enablers of being able to make what you can't buy, and fitting mismatched surplus parts together when on too tight a budget to buy new. I made good use of lathe-cut 22mm internal threads today on an adapter that attaches a spreader bar to a lower profile floor jack of a different brand, that gave clearance to lift the rear axle by both shock mounts, leaving plenty of space for jack stands under the axle next to the wheels.

I see inexpensive RV screw jack stands with 6000 lb ratings. If the top had a suitable non-sliding axle or lift point adapter pad would they support a car? Has anyone tried?

Somebody is about to now that you put the idea in my I mean His mind ...

Somebody is about to now that you put the idea in my I mean His mind ...

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---------------------------------- I plan to use one or two screw jack stands with two or three ratchet ones to equally support the body lift points, with ratchet stands or timbers as backup just below. The spreader bar lets me lift one end while the other is on ramps, or with the higher Badlands offroad jack raise the ramp end enough to remove the ramps if both wheels need to hang, as when adjusting steering free play. Lifting all four wheels like a professional lift isn't as simple as I'd hoped, neither floor jack goes both low and high enough.

I have a yellow Toyota Land Cruiser telescoping screw jack with plenty of height capacity but too small a baseplate to trust if the other side's tires are off the ground. It's nice as a horizontal bandsaw stock support.