8.8 swap
Well everybody knows what a ***** it is to square up the end of a piece of tubing. Especially a damn axle tube that needs dead on accurate. Here is my solution on the axle issue. Use a sharpie, or spray machinests dye, but a sharpie is cheap, and everybody has them. Color in the end cut flange with it, reinsert into the jig with your lay line lined up. Push it against the other tube in the jig. And rotate it 1/4" left and right as you push it against the other tube in the jig. About 8-10 times back and forth will leave a bare mark as it wears the ink where the pipes are touching, and leaves ink on the tube where they arent touching. Remove the axle stub, grind it down a little more and repeat the process with the marker until you get good close contact on the pipe all the way around.
Well everybody knows what a ***** it is to square up the end of a piece of tubing. Especially a damn axle tube that needs dead on accurate. Here is my solution on the axle issue. Use a sharpie, or spray machinests dye, but a sharpie is cheap, and everybody has them. Color in the end cut flange with it, reinsert into the jig with your lay line lined up. Push it against the other tube in the jig. And rotate it 1/4" left and right as you push it against the other tube in the jig. About 8-10 times back and forth will leave a bare mark as it wears the ink where the pipes are touching, and leaves ink on the tube where they arent touching. Remove the axle stub, grind it down a little more and repeat the process with the marker until you get good close contact on the pipe all the way around.
