My Shop

[Will L.]

His lift is going for the Packers, thats all. Shiny paint is always nice in the shop, and easier to keep clean. Wish I had a lift in my shop, regardless of color. Of coarse, my roof would have to be twice as high...

Better the chain description is rusty and stiff vs rusted apart.

 

[FellowTraveler]

as long as it will lift my truck is all I really care about. spent all day cleaning up one of the chains. was worse than I thought about 5' of it was rusty and stiff

Did you tank the chain & use electrolysis to get the rust off, or?

 

[ak diesel driver]

No I did it the hard way. Wire wheeled it to get the big stuff off and then soaked it in acetone/ATF. Then stuck it in my vice and worked each individual link loose.

 

[FellowTraveler]

No I did it the hard way. Wire wheeled it to get the big stuff off and then soaked it in acetone/ATF. Then stuck it in my vice and worked each individual link loose.

That is the hard way for sure, nice work too.

 

[ak diesel driver]

Got the chains installed. So either need to pull a link or get/make a deeper socket.

 

[ak diesel driver]

So I'm looking at filling the hydraulic system,it had ATF init. I'm leaning towards hydraulic oil. Any opinions?

 

[btfarm]

Do you know what type of pump? If it's a gear pump (likely) I'd say AW32 hydraulic oil would be best.

 

[ak diesel driver]

I would assume gear as well as it's only 1-1 1/2" thick

 

[Will L.]

Get ahold of mrf. see what they recommend. Many mechanic shops use atf cuz they get have it on hand.

Some pumps are tighter tolerances and spec 10 wt (atf is 10) instead of hydro.

What kind of safety stops do you have on that?

 

[btfarm]

Will, I was assuming a well worn gear pump running in a relatively warm environment would live pretty good with AW32 which is fairly common universal hydraulic oil

 

[Will L.]

Yeah, if the chains are that rusted up, i guess some wear and tear on the pump gears would make sense.

 

[ak diesel driver]

Well it goes up and down.

 

[ak diesel driver]

All done. Just need to clean up the shop now. I also ordered a switch that I can use as a disconnect , just in case

 

[ak diesel driver]

At least a good start on getting it mucked out.
And my first project using the hoist.

 

[snarl95]

I think it's going to take more than that fan to thaw the truck out.

 

[BIGR]

I think it's going to take more than that fan to thaw the truck out.

Yelp, he is going to have to build a Cod roaster in that wood stove to help.....

 

[ak diesel driver]

You'd be surprised how much faster it'll thaw out with a fan. It'll probably only take 2-3 hours to deice it. And that's coming in from -10

 

[BIGR]

-10 is not too bad unless the wind is blowing 25 mph.

 

[ak diesel driver]

So far

 

[3500GMC]

Gonna peel apart a 5.3, eh? Can't remember, did you end up finding a complete engine to swap?