TK's Yellow Krait LJK Buildup by tkfx

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Placed my order with Ruff Stuff on Monday using their Mothers Day sale code of 20% off. All my coilover brackets, steering, and panhard kits come tomorrow!

5-16-2014

Ruff Stuff package came in, 100 LB shipment! Thats a lot of metal! So I got my coilover towers, coilover axle side brackets, GM 1-tonsteering kit with the high angle draglink ends, and the panhard kit for the 3 link. Those TRE's and tubes are BEEF, I dont see much that will bend those! 

5-17-2014

Today, my Dad and I decided to try and straighten the bent long side tube on the D44. We went to our metal warehouse and bought 3"x.25" Steel tubing to retube the long side and create a clamshell for the shortside. Here are some pictures of the results and how straight it looks.

We cut the bent section off and left some tubes on the ends. Here is the bent section.. it was really crazy bent.

Axle tubes cut with around 3" of tube left and grinded down.

My Dad is in the process of grinding down the tube on the inner C.

The DOM tubing we used.

Using some heat and a BMFHammer we pressed the tube into the stub.

Same concept for the other side.

Made sure the inner C on the long side was at the same angle as the inner C on the short side. We only retubed the long side, the short side will get a clamshell.

Visual check and it is straight.