Well Friends,Made a little progress with the repairs to Black Betty (that sweet girl) today. Shop was a very pleasant temperature, so pretty much spen...

@mgv8 Thanks, Brian, I was just searching McMaster last night and had no idea what to call those things!

@ned Ned, i think for any sort of normal driving, the thin washers will be just fine. I was standing in front of a rack of bins at the local Ace har...

@ned Yep, shortened the big, new bolt to just about the full threaded length of the mounting point, after accounting for the two washers and tube it p...

@mgv8 Brian, that is exactly my thinking. The end point surface is much narrower, smaller diameter surface than the face or surface of the tube that ...

c't'dView from under the sidecar, bolt, grade 8 thick washer, frame through tube, grade 8 thick washer, mounting point stack. The thick washers are a ...

Well Friends,This post is kind of "bolt nerd" heavy, so be forewarned before diving in.This afternoon, I decided to do a little more work in preparati...

@mgv8 looking for ways to do that. Have not come up with a clean way to do it, yet but still looking. I am thinking about looping the steel subfra...

Ok, so here is how I addressed the top mount... Today's foolishness started out with a trip to the welding supply joint for a fresh tank of Argon ga...

@mgv8 (and @scott-h) Brian and Scott, thanks for the additional insights into that top rear mount. I took another, closer look at it, last night. Th...

@scott-h , yep, that top rear mount has been a bother for a while. If the A arms had not failed, it may have been fine, but I feel a need to make it ...

c't'dWill need to face the tube surface that the bolt goes through to create a flat surface to crank it together and mate with:Bolts through hack top ...

Well Friends,Spent the afternoon cleaning, disassembling and inspecting...She got a bath, to at least knock enough dirt off to see what was going on:G...

I like seeing him have fun with it!

c't'dStarted right up and rode her onto the trailer.Jacked her up in the center, shoved some 4x4 chunks under the A arms to take some load off the rem...