Well, the press came in a couple days ago, and I finally got a chance to get the boxes opened up today:
Doesn't look like much, does it? I had it delivered to me at work, and my supervisor saw the boxes sitting there and asked me if that's all there was to it. He couldn't believe it would fit in two small boxes.
Anyway, it took me over an hour to assemble it, since the assembly instructions they included really weren't much help, so I was pretty much winging it. I had to partially disassemble it three times to redo something that wasn't covered in the instructions.
Here's a shot of the finished product:
I'm going to have to pick up some angle iron to replace the main legs, since this thing is so short that I have to kneel down to use it....but it's too tall to set on a workbench. Oh well...it does to what it's supposed to do, so I guess that's the important part. I spent the rest of the afternoon working on the '67 442, getting started pressing the front suspension bushings into the control arms:
I know it really doesn't mean squat to anyone here, but I'm really gettin' excited about this again. I've had this car for almost 20 years, and it's been completely disassembled for the last 8....but as of today, the reassembly has begun! I actually have all the new components to get a rolling chassis done.
Anyway, just wanted to show this off to anyone who was possibly thinking about picking one of these up....since we all know that sometimes the Harbor Freight equipment is borderline in acceptable quality. Though it's not a high-dollar piece by any means, I think we can file this one under "Adequate".
