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Message: [QUOTE="me2, post: 329628, member: 3825"] Thanks for the supportive comments. I started the day cutting and drilling various mounting plates. [ATTACH=full]86090[/ATTACH] I then lengthend the legs. [ATTACH=full]86091[/ATTACH] I cut the new cross member. [ATTACH=full]86092[/ATTACH] BTW, that is the saw that I replaced the gear box bearing in. It works great again. My family bought it in 1988. Its cut a bit of steel since then ! Then I started welding things together. [img] https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-ZXLN0ff3aek/T8AjGB7HmTI/AAAAAAAABBk/LIIK4Dti0As/s800/DSC_6904.JPG[/img] This is what I am welding with these days. For those not familiar, its an Everlast PP256. (TIG, stick, plasma.) It works great. I'll talk about it more another time. Next to it is an Everlast Power Plasma 80. I haven't used it yet because I haven't plumbed in the air tank and dryer. But I did buy all the fittings to do so yesterday. I hope to use it tomorrow [ATTACH=full]86093[/ATTACH] A bit more drilling. I know my mill is disgustingly dirty. [ATTACH=full]86094[/ATTACH] A bit of bolting. And we have an assembled engine stand. [ATTACH=full]86095[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]86096[/ATTACH] The base is now 48 x 48. You can see how big the old base was by where the yellow steel ends. That is where the wheels would have mounted, front and back. The wheels are 4 inch and roll nicely. They are rated for 450 pounds each. I might have to raise the center post yet. I'm also not happy with the angle it sits at. I think its useable for now. The stand still folds up. To do so, one unbolts the front cross member and sets it aside and then pulls the pins on the front legs. They then fold up beside the center post. I have about $200 in this stand now. As far as I know, its more stable than all the other stands out there, except for the $7500 OTC model. I know its going to be a pain stepping (tripping) over the front bar all the time. I might put a bit of a platform on the front to make it better. I'll see how it is when I use it. When I was rebuilding things, I thought about not using the front bar and widening the stance of the legs and making them go straight out. I think it would have taken a lot more fabricating to make that work and be as strong and still fold. I know I said that I would only be using it for my 6.7. But that isn't entirely true. I am probably going to do the rods and head gasket in my 5.9 and I'll probably rebuild my 5R110 too, so this won't be the last project I'll be using it for. Anyway, its done. Tomorrow I'll start on the engine mount for the 6.7. As soon as that is done, I'll start tearing down my 6.7. In other news, I got a bunch of parts from Cummins today. And they are all parts that I want, versus what I got last time I ordered. I'll post that up with prices, pictures and part numbers some day when I am bored and not working in the shop. Edit. It feels great to (finally) be working on something. Its been a long journey to get to this point. I'm a bit peaved that this project isn't done already. I bought the truck and engine in November. I was hoping to do it in April, but it took way longer to figure things out and get various bits and pieces to even start the project. Its only in the last couple weeks that everything started coming together such that I knew it was doable. BTW, I picked the engine up the day after I bought the truck. The swap was planned as part of the purchase. Although I certainly didn't have the transmission selected or figured out. That didn't happen until late January and is a major reason why things are behind schedule. [ATTACH=full]86097[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]