Welding, welding, welding, and wearing a sweatshirt with the garage door closed is a great way to lose weight through water loss. One set of suspension brackets I’ve always wondered about as possibly being undersized were examined today. Turns out that 0.090″ steel was used by accident instead of 0.125″. I wouldn’t have worried about it except that they’re the most highly-loaded brackets on the car – the rear lower inboard pickups. Since about 65% of the car’s weight will be hitting them in a turn they seems – as the Brits like to say – a bit “thin and weedy.” The easiest way to fix it at this point is to weld on 0.125″ backing plates for peace of mind. Summed up, the welding and touch-up grinding should be done next weekend if my being on-call doesn’t get ugly.
I change screen backgrounds on my PC as new and incredible images pop up on the news, and this one certainly qualifies, Felix Baumgartner’s step of faith [Image credit: Jay Nemeth/Red Bull.] Nothing like stepping off the edge of a platform – from ~71,000 ft. He’s eventually going to jump from 120,000 ft to attempt to break the sound barrier with his body. If you want this awesome picture as your screen background, just right-click on the image and select “set as background.” Red Bull must sell a lot of energy drinks…
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