I cant help myself.
If i try to save myself money, I just end up spending more anyway.
I cut 10-1/8” off the housing on each end. I get in the car, and now knowing what I wanted, go to metal supermarket and instead of buying two 15” pieces, I get 2 9” pieces of 3” .250 wall dom tubing. Instead of it costing 75, like i
I was originally quoted, it ends up only. costing 50 bucks instead.
Woooo look at me! Saving all of that Monnaaay!
The rest of the steel only costs me another 50 bucks, so instead of the 150.0” I was expecting, I get out of there for 100.
so far, so good.
I need supplies, saw blades for the band saw, cut off wheels, and several cans of brake clean.
Another 50 bucks.
The Housing ends cost half what the ends from Moser cost, so again, instead of paying 100.00 bucks, I payed 50 there too. They had been ordered for some time now, and I was just gonna build up what I needed in anticipation of the day I’d do this. The ends came in two separate boxes for whatever reason, one was smaller than the other. And I only opened the small box just to see what they looked like.
Once home, i took the open end to see how it would fit on the new tubing. I decided to go ahead and tack it onto the new tubing so that lining the whole thing up would be easier. I opened the other box to get the other end out, and was rewarded by finding a mechanical stock replacement fuel pump for who knows what engine instead.
Fck me all to hell.
Now what? I’ve got the rear end cut apart, and only one housing end that is now tacked on the new tubing.
I did what you’d expect me to do.
First I threw sht around while having a full on conniption fit…..all while yelling out obscenities like someone with full blown Turrets syndrome.
Then I took the old housing end that was so tight…and using the new alignment bushing as a test fit piece,..I clearance that thing a little at a time with a die grinder until it fit.
And then welded the sht back on that I had cut off two hours before.
That freakin alignment shaft that runs through the rear end turns by hand. It’s tight, but the bushings are a little tight anyway. Initially you couldnt even get the end bushing into the driver side housing end, but after about 39 minutes with the die grinder, I changed all that. I lost a little over 1/16 in total length, but I couldn’t put anymore of a gap than what was already there, so,…it is what it is.
So, in the end, I completely wasted this day. And I’ve got a whole additional day that i’ll have to spend putting everything back together. At the same time I threw away 100 bucks on steel that i don’t need, 50 bucks on a housing end I can’t return, and can’t even remember where I got it from, so I can return the freakin fuel pump and get the other housing end instead.
Woooo! Look at me! throwin away all that monaay!