Dec 18 2022

Making work easier

This is off topic maybe, but some of you may relate.  At my age, and after 23 years of jumping out of aircraft and packing heavy ruck sacks in rough terrain, my knees are shot.  It is not fun getting up and down off the floor and under a vehicle, many time a day as invariably I’ve got the wrong wrench when I’m under the car.  Getting up is not as simple as standing up anymore, it involves rolling to kneeling and then a hand hold on something to get up. Bending over is also hard to do for long. A day of that will wear me out fast.

So on this build I’m bringing every job I can up to waist height.  I’ve built a couple of rolling tables, so instead of working on brakes and swivels while sitting on the floor or a stool I will remove the entire axle and spring assembly and put it on a table, where I will do all work required to those components before putting the assembly back under the truck to be bolted up to the frame. I’ll show a pic later with the axles up on the table.  I’ll use this to rebuild the spring packs, replace bushing, R&R the hubs, swivels and brakes.