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Acquire Custom-Cut Steel Plates

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Budget Turbo Yukon XL 4L80 Conversion: The Transmission Crossmember Mod! (100k Play Button Unboxing)

What happens here

Visit a metal supplier, such as Metal Supermarkets, to purchase custom-cut steel plates. The plates should be cut to specific dimensions, for example, 7 inches by 3.5 inches by 1/8 inch thick. These dimensions are chosen to fit precisely into the gaps created by the chop saw and extend the crossmember to the desired length. Obtaining clean, mill-scale-free steel is beneficial for easier welding.

Goal: Obtain precisely sized, clean steel plates for extending the crossmember.

Tools and materials

  • Pen or Marker — To write down dimensions
  • Steel Plate — To extend the crossmember sections

What they say

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piece of paper that i would put them on um even though logan thinks i'm stupid for writing things on my hand i got your post-it notes you don't use them i use them for some things but for something where i could potentially lose a piece of paper that i need i'll put it on my hand and i can't lose it but yeah my scratch what i said about home depot unless home depot or lowe's near you has a seven by three and a half inch by eighth inch thick plate steel because that's what we're going in there to get let's go check it out that was freaking great went in and paid told them what i wanted pulled around back here and the guy brought it right up to the window i got three just in case i messed one up but you see these plates are what will slide right into there on the crossmember and that's freaking sweet this is steel it's clean it's not rusty doesn't have all kinds of mill scale on it that i'm gonna have to grind off to weld it man this i've been to a lot of different metal places in different cities mostly pittsburgh uh because i used to get all my stuff from the same place in my little town but this is the easiest best experience i've had getting metal from anything anywhere so yeah even metal supermarkets in your era i would recommend checking it out because uh it's pretty freaking sweet and i'm not getting paid to say this i'm just a fan makes my life easy i like stuff that makes my life easy okay so we're back under here with the crossmember with the steel that we got and i'm just gonna put a couple lines on here just to give me a reference point to line up we'll just tack it and then go from there it's easier than trying to finagle and fit it around in here but those pieces up there those two holes are slotted so even if it's just a little bit off it should be fine because i i put it in the middle

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