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Here we go. It is still leaning but I shook the hell out of it and it did not fall. So I guess I can crawl around and rem ove the rest of the parts I need.

The day was mine... Despite only having it a foot or so off the ground. I won a small victory today. Now that I have the front clip out of the way, I will get that ugly ass bumper off and start cutting out the secion of frame I need. As you can see there is some frame damage but noing that will...

I agree that blocks are a bad choice.

The project has renewed my goel of haveinf a pad and lift installed.

I know what you are saying with the paint issue. I do not have the money right now any way to by a new jack. plus, there is no harbour frieght or any other cheap tool place near us. The neighbor behind us just took down a big tree. I will see if he has anything I can use.

I only took the tires off becuase I wanted to get under it and inspect it. I had planned on putting them back on before I dropped the axle out. I like your rail road tie idea. I will see what I can come up with.

I agree. Normally I would not even attempt a task if I am not propperly prepaired for it. But this truck has got to be done and now. Sometimes the situation dictates what should and should not be done.

Progress report: I was able to get the engine hoist to work by putting oil in it. However, the rubber stopper thingy that was supposed to keep it all in was torn and no good. So I threaded the hole and installed a brass plug, now it works fine. I could not get it to raise the truck very far but...

Here we go again. I jacked up the driver side of the truck first because it was on the slop and the other bottle jack was buried underneath the front end. You can see the depression in the ground in the first photograph. The much needed bottle jack I unearthed was damaged. There is a break and...

You are correct. Getting in a hurry when taking on somehting like thi sis never a good idea.

I think I will try that next. It looks stable. :roll:

I am going to try and come up with some wood. If I am unable to I will see if I can get some big tired with the rims still on them. That truck is missing a lot of stuff. Plus, when i pulled the radiator hoses a mixture of oil and collant flowed out.

I am going to see if I can russle up some large tires for a safety catch.

A Chevelle fell on his head? Damn... I agree, I have to come up with something better. I am so far behind on this biuld.

I beleive you are correct. I do not do this sort of thing that much though. Usually I work in my stable and solid drive way. Unfortunatly, there is not enoug room to park two vehicles side by side on it.

That is a good idea, but I need more hight. The tires will stop the truck from falling all the way down but i do not know if they will be enough to prvent serious injury. I wonder if I could double stack and center them on a crossmember.

That is a good idea, but I do not have any laying around. If I could find some on the rims, that truck will not slide any where.

There is always a cookie motivation. ;-) That would be nice, but it would be a pain to run back and fouth while getting measurments. My dually is in the drive way with no front end at all and I still have some fab work to do. However, not getting crushed sounds nice. Melissa thought it was...

The bottle jacks I was using was sinking almost three inches into the ground. Yes I got out a tape meassure. However, they are all I have so bottle jacks it will be. Well, one jack any way. The other is stuck under the truck right now.

My floor jack gave out on me a while back and I cannot afford to replace it. I am stuck using bottle jacks right now.