I have started work on the design of my Tear Drop

[davefullmer]

Well,

I had the steel delivered but it has set near the steel rack with my name on all the pieces for the last two weeks.

Earlier this week I took the axle piece out to my friend Richards shop and we welded up the dropped axle. I used a TSC axle, chopped off the ends of the axle and using angle to keep it straight, welded up a good solid dropped axle.

I am using some 90's Buick 14 inch wheels to keep the profile down. I have a little over 7 inches of road clearance under the 2 inch square tubing with the wheels mounted. Since I don't plan on off road camping, I think this will be good. I was really wanting about 8 inches of clearance though. I guess I'll find out if it is enough.

Today, I went into the shop and cut all my steel up into the pieces I need for the frame. Now instead of some 24 foot lengths of 2 X 2, I have a whole pallet of shorter pieces. Next week, I'll start tacking the pieces together and checking out the squareness.

When I got all the steel cut to length, I found out that I miscalculated the total length I needed, and now I have to get about 12 more feet of 2 x 2. I decided not to use my used light I beam material I have out back, just because I want the whole thing to look professional.

Pictures just as soon as I can get the camera and stuff in one spont.

Dave

[davefullmer]

Gus wrote:

By the way, I bought a Chey S10 and the A/C works intermittently. The relay under the hood is good and the clutch is good. Got on All Data and it looks like the the basic deal is that the Control head (with the knobs and thermostat) sends a signal to the trucks main computer which then operates the clutch relay and poof, you have A/
C. I (and others) suspect the control head. Is there any way to test this?

Gus, I really don't know the answer. That stuff under the dash of vehicles always gives me fits because, the methods I use in factory machinery don't work because I never seem to be able to isolate individual components for voltage measurments. You just can't get to stuff..

So I tend to work on the easy stuff on vehicles and take the rest to somebody that thinks they like that stuff.

Dave