Earlier this year, while I was away from my work, my Square suffered an incredible indignity - while parked, a Kenworth pulling an equipment trailer turned a corner waaaay to tight.
Lucky for the driver, my Square protected the building by using itself as a shield for the business.
The Square was dragged about fifteen feet and pinched into the building BIG TIME.
The driver's side of the box was crushed and the passenger front was pushed in. The brand new rear bumper from LMC was turned into a large chrome pretzel.
Damage report:
Rear bumper - ruined
Front bumper with new air dam - ruined
Box, driver's side - crushed at rear and warped
Frame - rails under the box are both bent
Driver's-side tail lamp - vaporized
That was the first week of June. As I work full time and normally end up working an additional twelve to twenty hours a week overtime, I haven't had much time to perform repairs. As of today, here is what I have completed:
-Stripped down a wrecked short box Square (the box is punky, yet will serve for now)
-Installed four inch drop rear mounts and shackles, transferred the original differential (which I just rebuilt with a new posi case, 4;10s and rear disc brake kit)
-Transferred the entire front cradle (which I literally had just installed three-inch drop spindles, new upper and lower control arm bushings, upper and lower ball joints and all steering linkage)
-Welded up a new transmission crossmember (the one I purchased was not even close to working)
-Transferred the front and rear cab mounts, both fuel tank mounts, everything sandblasted and reinstalled
-Transferred the original wiring harness, as the harness that was on the short box was rife with old repairs
-The cab went on Friday after work; it took three hours to have the body lines set where they should be, and this morning, the rad support and front fenders went on before heading off to a BBQ.
The steering column will need to be rebuilt, as the incident snapped off the column locking provision. Will also need to install the headers and exhaust.
This was what my few available weekends and time before and after hours have been filled with.
Edit: Thrashed from Friday afternoon until ten, then back at it all weekend. Just need to hook up the rear tail lamps, connect the brake lines, bleed, then install some exhaust and the driveshaft.
Interesting how I constantly complain I am too tall to fit in most vehicles and too thick in the chest to fit under a Kenworth without squeezing (no floor creeper either,) yet I will lower a pickup truck and still forget it needs to be on blocks for every job underneath it.
New Avatar in order here.
