Winch

I recently scored a 12,000 lb mile marker winch for my Humvee build. It came off of a 1995 hummer and includes the mounting bracket and fair-lead. I haven't had a chance to test it yet so I'm hoping it works.

Weld

I know I haven't posted anything for a while. Ive been mad busy with the house, business and my day job. Every shop I work at always requires me to work tons of overtime... well I guess that's what you get when you are good at something. In vehicle fabrication news I recently picked up a new hood (left). My miller has seen 6 years of hard use and countless hours of weld time, it will now be the hood I use at the day job. If you are looking for a new weld hood check out "Inweld" brand, they are basically a high end Lincoln hood. All of the optics are are Lincoln. So you can own the $400.00 top of the line Lincoln hood for $200 because you are not paying for the name. Its been an excellent  hood so far and I highly recommend it. More build updates soon.

 

Lil bro

 The hummer's new owner shot me a pic of the hummer next his "hummbug". I'm glad the hummer is in good hands.

 

Brake calipers

The caliper finally arrived, it also happened to arrive on Thomas's birthday. We literally waited for the ups man and met him in the front yard. We pulled the Chevy caliper and installed the caddy one, bled the brakes, put everything back together and test drove it. Mission accomplished! Thomas got his truck back in action for his birthday and I got my driveway back.   

 

 

The return of ole blue

Thomas noticed he had brake fluid leaking on the rear passenger wheel of ole blue. We pulled the wheel and sure enough the seal on the brake piston had a tear and was dispersing brake fluid when the brakes were applied. Being that its a major p.i.a to get 1976 Cadillac Eldorado calipers we decided to go with the chevy calipers I picked up for my next Humvee build. First I cleaned up the caliper bodies by grinding off all of the rough lines left from the casting process. After that it was the usual primer and paint. We installed one after unfortunately having to grind a bunch of material off surrounding the brake line port. We finally got every thing installed and tested the brakes. We bled them like normal but when pressure was applied via brake pedal the piston would not open!!! (these are brand new ) and to make maters worse it also started leaking brake fluid. We decides to go back to a caddy caliper. After visiting every automotive store in town and the surrounding towns the best answer we got was we could special order one and wait 7 business days for it to ship... I ended up finding one on eBay for $50, it is suppose to be here by the weekend. So Thomas's truck has been in my driveway on jack-stands for a better part of a week now. Hopefully we can resolve this soon.

Roof

I scored a hard top off of a humvee. I found this on craigslist, so me and a buddy drove a couple hours in his shortbed F150 and picked it up. Despite using a dozen straps and 40 feet of rope the wind caught this at 70mph and we almost lost it. It was a little unnerving but we made it back. As we were unloading it (at 1am) one of the ratchet straps fell and hit the glass causing a nice crack to form. I am going to build a slantback style humvee so I wont be using the rear window but it was still a bummer.

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