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plans are only suggestions, adapt and overcome! Known as empirical engineering! l bought a unaffordable pro tools bender 25 years ago when i had a job. l'm glad l have it but to buy it today would be difficult at best!

You dont sound like your need advice, yer a man with a plan. Discussing alternate materials and methods benefits the youngn's and the less experienced among us, so an occasional re hash of the basics is a good thing.

Only the builder/operator can decide on what to use, obviously. We use whats we can afford, fits our needs and can be massaged into what we want with the tools/processes available to us. I use DOM all the time, but i scored a bunch for scrap price. We are mostly backyard fabricators, without...

HREW tubing is plenty strong as well. While DOM is mo bedder, HREW is significantly le$$ mooola. I have built a few roll cages from HREW on some heavy pigs. They held up well to unintended field testing. The end use of the vehicle is a big factor in material choice. A weld failure is far more...

I know ya'll know that tubing and pipe have different OD sizes, so this is a free public service announcement to remind ya'll to buy the right tool for the material ya wanna bend. Pipe and rigid conduit are the same OD and EMT (thin wall) conduit is another size. Yer Welcome!

Don't let anyone discourage you from using HF or other chinese wheels/tires. They are of the finest quality and will last a few minutes, lf you don't push en too hard. Here is a video of their best tires in action. https://youtube.com/shorts/nDJzSnKC89w?si=g_vaMWPvqkf9y6TU

His chick magnet? Do old chick magnets attract old chicks? l'll try one of these: https://www.circuitbasics.com/voltage-regulators/

. To the charging coil under the fly wheel. Denny has a girlfriend?

Yeah, thats completely beyond the budget. I shoud have given sum mo info. Le$$ than l expected but there is no harness to plug in to. I have one wire. What about the other 5? Maybe an old school regulator? 3 wire in-out-reference? Come awn! You might earn a Jr. Hack merit badge!

I'm hijacking this thread to a new subject. question for you electro geeks. WTR you proby got a hack for dis. That 420 Kawasaki from a few posts ago.... He got transplanted into the Nag cuz she was bad. When the parts were harvested from the donor the voltage reg went missing. So now l'm...

Apparently he doesn't really care enough to check back....

12 or 16?

just being a lazy old geezer, with some disagreeable old f*** thrown in for fun! actually i end up at the auto parts or hardware store at least once a weel. furtunately the two are nextdoor to each other!

This project is full hack dont ya think? I can't think of anything on this project that isn't hack. So much that i’ll splurge sum coin, cuz l’m done with this. My attention span has been on overtime since about step 3.

That sounds like work! No way could i find the tools and materials to complete a complex task such as that in less time than a trip down to the village hardware store for plugs. The whole mess will be lost in a maze of tubing, suspension and other car stuff.

Interestingly enough, those are sumkinda metricated flared pipe fitting thingy. A 1/4 NPT plug fits nicely. I had one, needed four. The plugs are just to keep dirt out. That is the valve thingy that sends hydraulic fluid to the "power steering" AKA hydraulic cylinder, with steering input. That...

Who said anything about a good fix? screwing with inches on a metric part makes it metricated.

Dang i cant get anything by you guys! yeah,yeah, l know i need to pick up some plugs. Those are just temporary.

This Subaru rack looks like it will work out nicely. so it looks like this when done. The plan is to use it single ended offset to the right. The angle if the input shaft will need a u-joint wiggley thing to fix the angle. Sure the 90° input shaftwould be nice, but they cost real money, this...

Late 80' Subaru legacy. part number? seriously? the japs are no dummies i'd bet they are all the same. ( not the japs, the racks) it takes a lot of modding, i cut about 16 inches off of it. the hydraulic assist part is gone. It takes some lathe work, so the conversion is not for everyone. that...