Saturday 2-14-26

Saturday in the CPO shop. Valentines day. Have to give a shout out to mine as she is a big supporter of the shop. Holli has the greatest understanding and support of a custom truck shop and selling parts and going to shows that I've ever seen. She goes to all the shows whether we are setting up a booth or just looking. Now she has been instrumental in the new CPO shop location and future new building. Can't ask for any more than that. Now it's up to me to live up to that and keep it going successfully. That's harder to do that it looks.

So this morning I'm trying to beat the rain but it don't look like I will. I'll have to stay in the shop and ride it out as it passes. I need to make a set of uppers and lowers today to stay with my quota this week. Then make some other smaller parts. I have a couple random sets of shock mounts to make and then it's frame boxes and rear arm mounts. This time however once I start making each item I'm making all of them I need to finish every open order. Even if I have to revert to making one or two a day and then switching to another part and starting a batch of them at the same time.

It's been working well all week and we have pushed lots of boxes out the door...... in fact I need to order some boxes and cardboard today as well. Anyway same old day as a weekday since it's going to rain. If it wasn't I'd pull a truck from the back yard and load it on the trailer for a trip to the new shop. I don't like pulling a loaded trailer in the rain. I do have trailer brakes on the new trailer but the highway up there is one lane each direction for half the hour and 20 minute trip and then one lane back roads most of the rest of the way. So we roll those trips over into next week after work.

Mean time today i'll cut and bend some more tubes. Just made an order with the laser cutter. Oh and that's one thing I wanted to mention. Last Sunday during the Superbowl I was redesigning the upper bag mount for my narrow crossmember. Well more of making a new higher sitting mount for those with large wheels and a frame Z of 3" on a 65-79 chassis. Anyway I drew the parts in CAD, uploaded them to Sendcutsend and I got the email they were in production that night. I don't know if they work nights or weekends or both but I had the parts delivered (UPS ground) on Tuesday. So they have a warehouse in Arlington Tx (40 minutes from me) and UPS ground shipping is just one day inside the state. So they had to have shipped at the latest Monday afternoon. That's fast and my ever so patient customer got his parts that much faster. Now they were delivered Tuesday late so I didn't get to weld them together until Wednesday but they shipped that day. If they had been on the early UPS delivery Tuesday I would have had them on the UPS truck that same Tuesday. Can't complain at all can I?

Anyway, another item is the S550 rear narrow arms. I worked on them again yesterday, I chiseled out an hour to work on them and made some cad drawings and ordered some tabs for the jig. My buddy Johnny here in town also let me take his two rear arms to my shop for mockup. I have a full S550 rearend here with one side taken apart. But I wanted to leave the other side to be able to look at it and how it all works. It's very complicated geometry and angles. Not like anything a simple engineer would design. So making a replacement arm will be tough. But the good thing is that an inch will be doable without having to shorten the axles.

So I'll start updating you guys on that progress. I'll be able to test fit the first ones on the rear I have and then I have two people that can test them right away. Should not need much testing other than making sure it all clears. It's just some un answered questions at the moment..... Peace

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