1970 Dart Swinger FINALLY UNDERWAY

Ok so, just a little update. I got the axle back from the shop again. I was right they measured off the yoke and not the casting so it ended up with the wrong offset, they fixed it free of charge with another inch of tube and a slug and it's dead on now.

Continuing my rear end swap which is once again plagued by my own minor oversights. Cleaned up the tubes and decided to try my hand at welding them up. Borrowed a friend's MIG and set up with it to get to work. Wasn't expecting too much difficultly since I did OK laying beads all over random scrap metal when I had a flux core welder over here. What I ended up doing was laying some spattery chicken poop with the MIG and no amount of fiddling with the voltage or wire speed could correct this. I only found out what the problem most likely was when my fuse box was buzzing very noticeably and I figured out that I was running a 20a welder through a 15a circuit and somehow didn't trip the breaker. I only have one 20a circuit and it's for the washing machine, sadly I can find no extension cord rated for higher than 15a. Progress halted again.

I built the engine in less time than I've put into this rear end.

Picked up one of those horror freight compressors so I'd have enough juice to spray some paint under the hood and run air tools every once in a while. I must say I'm actually pretty impressed with it. I got the 21 gallon 2.5hp oiled compressor. Ran it for 30 minutes today to break it in and change the oil and it still built up 30psi in the tank with both valves opened up. Tank got a little warm to the touch but it didn't heat up too much really. I've come to the conclusion that this is actually a rebranded campbell-hausfeld, I noticed it used the same regulator as the larget CH compressors so I started looking a little closer and they even have the same motor and compressor on them. Different sticker, different color. Not bad for $149.99 if I say so myself.