Thanks. The car came with the exhaust. It's an Ansa box, with the standard toilet bowl and single Downpipe. I have an Allison's header and Magnaflow exhaust, that I acquired on my trip to see Hussein, that I may use instead.Mike,
Harbor freight dollies?How hard is it to move the car around? Nice exhaust!!
We were talking about these HF dollys recently in another thread. I have a whole bunch of them for various uses. One of the best uses for me is to stack large storage boxes on top, making them easy to move about my very limited storage space (I just leave the stacks of boxes on them). However I'm surprised they are holding up with the entire car on them. I have found these dollys don't like to be heavily loaded. The wheels do not have bearings, only a skinny metal shaft (pin) that the solid rubber wheel spins directly on. So with too much weight on them the centers of the wheels get 'wallowed out', and/or the axles bend, and/or the bearings for the pivoting (turning) action fall out, etc, making them very difficult to roll. Especially when trying to change directions; one wheel won't follow the others. Also the nuts/screws that mount the wheels and hold the frames together tend to be loose when new, and get even looser with use. So before putting them into action it is worth a minute to add some loctite and tighten them down (but be careful, they strip easily). I've disassembled a couple of them to modify for other uses (turned a couple into fitted engine/trans dollys). The wood frames are low quality as you'd expect, hince the cracking and creaking. But for the money (like under $8 with a coupon) they are great.The small dollies from HF
Exactly my concern, and why I haven't tried it.Even if you use flat dollies and attach the jackstands to the dollies be cautious as the stands aren't properly "attached" to the car and will wander.
Now you've got my attention! So is there a story attached to that car?
Sorry, you'd have to ask whomever posted the pic on the internet. I just copied it as an example of the wheeled cart it is sitting on.So is there a story attached to that car?
Several years ago I bought a set of four of those from Harbour Freight. I did not need them at that particular time but they were on sale so I just left them in the box and stored it for later. A few months after I decided to use them. Dug out the box to discover the cardboard was saturated in oil. Opening it I found all the hydraulic seals had gone bad just sitting and all the fluid seeped out. Pushed the box back in the corner and have never looked at it since. I've had very poor luck with any hydraulic operated equipment from HF, the seals always go bad after the warranty is up. Now I see they sell them with mechanical jacking mechanisms rather than hydraulic, so I guess I wasn't the only one to get screwed. Someday I'll take them to a hydraulic repair shop and see if they can be rebuilt. But I have a feeling that will cost more than the jacks did (which were not cheap by the way).I am a big fan of the type that ratchets up/down to lift the wheels off the floor.
Lets see - off the top of my head, I've had all of the following HF equipment experience failed hydraulics; at least four of the aluminum floor jacks, one large steel floor jack (a second is semi failed, it doesn't hold pressure for long and the car starts sinking), a bottle jack, a motorcycle lift, a engine hoist (cherry picker), those rolling wheel jacks we are discussing, a "jaws of life" type ram thing, and a truck bed hoist. I'm sure there have been others that I'm forgetting (I've tried to forget all of them). In a couple of cases they were still under the basic warranty and the store replaced them. Some of those replacements have also failed (so the total of actual failures is greater than the list of components). I managed to replace the hydraulic portion of a couple others by modifying them to accept better parts from other sources, so the equipment was salvaged. But most of them went into the trash.I have three HF jacks, two aluminum and one very heavy steel with a two foot lift and have never had any issues with any of them.
Because I was making a tack-weld.why welder has helmet on the head but welding without it?
Gotta talk to the guy on the grinder about that.And why does the grinder has the power cord in the path of the wheel?