Cab floor / rocker panel rust repair Q's

[diesel4me]

It depends on how big you two are,and how much of a rolling start you can get first before you hit the incline and "bump"...have a wheel chock handy to drop in back of a tire in case you cant get it in all the way,so you wont have to start over again,or risk having it roll backwards over you,or into something!..

We pushed a lot of trucks and cars around at the garage,but some require 3 people or more,if its uphill for long,with a full sized rig!..

Maybe you could rig something like a push bar on the jeep bumper so the bumpers align better...I put a tire on my plow frame when I need to shove another "dead" truck around,if I have the room too...

I've used my riding mower to tow or push my 3 ton pickup around,and it didn't seem to strain it much,but its an old heavy beast from the 60's with a low range...if you try that just remember lawn tractor brakes suck,it wont hold the truck from rolling!...I got dragged down my driveway once when my tractor failed to pull my truck all the way up to where the driveway is level from an incline towards my garage...

I locked the tires up on the tractor,it skidded and was pulled like a toy by my truck just from gravity,it started to tip over backwards, ,so I was forced to let off the brakes and pray my truck didn't crash into the garage!..luckliy it drifted off to one side and one front tire dragged against a retaining wall and "saved" it...

 

[SafetyHelmet]

I have a solution lined up for moving the rig.. but I also had a thought this morning- what do exhaust / muffler shops do for safety? The ones I've seen appear to have no troubles at all with grinding, torching, and welding under a vehicle on a lift, and they definitely aren't dropping the fuel tank.

 

[diesel4me]

Most have large liability insurance policies,and take a big risk using torches or plasma cutters on customers cars--most places I've been in only have a fire extinguisher and maybe a garden hose handy to use if a fire started...most of them would probably RUN and call the fire department instead of using their own fire supression equipment...mostly they just use a fire blanket or sheet metal "sheild" and pray nothing catches fire...some places might have fire supression devices like those at gas station pumps too,probably some towns require them by code..


On newer cars and trucks with plastic gas tanks and nylon fuel lines under high pressures only adds to the risks of having a fire, compared to old steel tanks and lines...they didn't melt when slag landed on them..


I find it remarkable more vehicles dont burn up at repair shops,or even at salvage yards--after awhile the guys get complacent and dont take the precautions they should after getting away with being careless a long time...--despite using torches to cut nearly "everything" on junkers with gas tanks still intact,we only had maybe 2 or 3 actually catch fire and burn,only once did we have to call for the fire department to come..that was the day we cut a old caddilac seville FWD up to get the rear axle out of ,to sell to a customer who wanted to use it for a home built trailer...

We were rather dumb not to just drag the car out from where it was--nothing parked in front of it,and it was only about 30 feet from the gravel parking lot...but it was a hot summer day and muggy,and the car was in the shade..

The leaves and pine needles under the car lit up like napalm,a cup full of gas had spilled when we took the gas tank out and the sparks ignited them,despite us having dumped some water on them...

The hose would not reach the car,and we were lucky it started and ran long enough to drive it out closer to the dirt parking lot where the hose could reach it--(The car had only been there about a week,and still ran and drove,luckily we hadn't removed the battery!).....

We had to use a rake and shovels to try and put the pine needles and leaves out,but gusts of wind spread it,and we soon realized we were not going to be able to put it out before other cars nearby would catch fire..we called the fire department...boss was livid,they ended up fining him a large amount for several "violations" and we had to move a lot of cars around,to widen the access road enough so the fire engines could fit down them..