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CRaSHnBuRN
09-09-2005, 03:26 AM
Since I'm bored here at work, and don't feel like doing anymore homework, I decided I should finally get around to documenting some of the work I've done on my buggy. I guess I should start with a pic of where everything started.

http://www.tamor.org/members-rigs/albums/album10/roll13.jpg

This was my first buildup, a SAS'ed 92 toyota pickup. This truck had belonged to my dad and was the first truck I ever drove. I bought it from him and began the SAS less than 3 weeks later. When I rolled it at TCC 1, I had had it for about 2 years

CRaSHnBuRN
09-09-2005, 03:31 AM
So after that, I decided to try to rebuild it. I swapped on a new cab, but then decided I didn't want to return it to the daily driver status, so I started cutting it up, and adding tube with the help of fellow tamor members. this was the result

http://www.tamor.org/members-rigs/albums/album44/bye3.sized.jpg

but electrical gremlins and life kept me from finishing it

CRaSHnBuRN
09-09-2005, 03:38 AM
one day I saw a buggy come up for sale, so I contacted the owner with the intention of trying to get some parts if he decided to part it out. Well we ended up trading, so he could build a new daily driver 4runner with the remains of my truck. I ended up with this

http://www.tamor.org/members-rigs/albums/buggy/buggy2.sized.jpg

The drivetrain is all toyota. 22r on propane, 5 speed, dual cases, FJ-80 hi-pinion front diff, with detriot, rear spool, 4.88s, square tube driveshafts, rear radiator, electric fans, jaz seats, 5 point harnesses, etc.

Overall it was in good shape, but needed some finishing touches.

CRaSHnBuRN
09-09-2005, 03:45 AM
I began by adding my old longfields to replace the stock birfs. I then built a winch mount, and added my old warn M8000. I built a new battery mount (the old battery was just strapped to the frame with a ratchet strap), and replaced the battery with a Exide Orbital deep cycle battery. Then I added a u-bolt flip to the front, and three d-ring mounts for recovery and to mount my tow bar to.

CRaSHnBuRN
09-09-2005, 03:57 AM
Next came some diff armor for the front, a new heavy duty tie rod with FJ-80 tie rod ends to replace the badly bent stock one, and new steering stops cut from 1 inch plate. I also bent the rear links back straight and sleeved them. This was pretty much what I had done up till I took it to TCC 3 this last spring. The buggy pretty much walked everything, including Baby Hueys Crack. Any regrets I may have had about the trade are completely gone.

http://www.tamor.org/members-rigs/albums/album36/DSC01739.jpg

CRaSHnBuRN
09-09-2005, 04:36 AM
After TCC I didn't have much time to do anything on the buggy until the very end of the summer. But I guess between work, school, getting engaged, buying a house, moving, being held up at gunpoint, changing jobs and all the other stuff going on, thats to be expected. What wasn't expected was the buggy catching fire only days after I brought it up here and put it in my new garage. One of the electric fans shorted out and caught fire one night, filling our house with this horrible smelling black smoke. Since the buggy is all metal, there wasn't to much damage. I lost both electric fans, the rear SS brakeline, some radiator hoses, and a couple of breather hoses. So 2 weeks before the fall semester started, I went to work on the repairs and began my summer projects

CRaSHnBuRN
09-09-2005, 04:38 AM
new electric fan

http://www.tamor.org/members-rigs/albums/album163/100_0026.jpg

CRaSHnBuRN
09-09-2005, 04:39 AM
On board air (CO2)

http://www.tamor.org/members-rigs/albums/album163/100_0025.jpg

CRaSHnBuRN
09-09-2005, 04:41 AM
steering wheel disconnect (I really needed this)

http://www.tamor.org/members-rigs/albums/album163/100_0023.jpg

CRaSHnBuRN
09-09-2005, 04:43 AM
switch panel and fuse block

http://www.tamor.org/members-rigs/albums/album163/100_0024.jpg

CRaSHnBuRN
09-09-2005, 04:46 AM
armrest/storage as well as protection from the spinning driveshaft

http://www.tamor.org/members-rigs/albums/album163/100_0028.jpg

CRaSHnBuRN
09-09-2005, 04:56 AM
hydro assist. I put this together for around 100 bucks using all new stuff. The ram was from surplus center. I tapped the box myself. Also, because of space limitations, I have to run a normal style crossover, which leaves the tie rod more vunerable than full hysteer, so I went ahead and sleeved the tie rod with some .120 dom, giving me about a 3/8ths wall thickness. I also used a sky pitman arm so that I can tuck everything up closer to the frame, and hopefully get another 2 or so inches of uptravel. I also have a filter mounted behind the winch that I will later plumb in to give me more fluid capacity, as well as more cooling capability

http://www.tamor.org/members-rigs/albums/album163/100_0030.jpg

http://www.tamor.org/members-rigs/albums/album163/100_0032.jpg

CRaSHnBuRN
09-09-2005, 04:59 AM
I also added some lights, as well as a little bling

http://www.tamor.org/members-rigs/albums/album163/100_0020.jpg

CRaSHnBuRN
09-09-2005, 05:05 AM
I also added a removable bar over the top of the engine for protection, as well as some additional A-pillar bars for extra strength. I'll most likely finish out the front with a stinger.

And finally, I repainted the thing

http://www.tamor.org/members-rigs/albums/album163/100_0019.jpg

CRaSHnBuRN
09-09-2005, 05:37 AM
Oh yeah, I also added a set of longfield 30 spline axle shafts

www.toyotasuperaxles.com

CRaSHnBuRN
09-09-2005, 05:39 AM
and before anyone comments on the paint, I know I missed some spots, and will be going back over it and trying to get those. Tubing is a ***** to paint

BTW, Eric thinks I should give it a name, something about calling it the buggy being to impersonal or something like that. So does anyone have any decent ideas for a name?

BMFScout
09-09-2005, 08:06 AM
lil' bastard

Jackasic
09-09-2005, 08:17 AM
the thing

Cajun
09-09-2005, 09:02 AM
No suggestion for a name, but that's a sweet buggy. I dug it the first time I saw it at TPP II, I didn't know you bought it. Very cool.

BMFScout
09-09-2005, 09:03 AM
I like it but I think it needs a taller shifter, like rat fink out the top of the cage style!

CRaSHnBuRN
09-09-2005, 10:35 AM
jimmy making vroom vroom noises

http://www.tamor.org/members-rigs/albums/album36/DSC01710.jpg

tell you what, find me the shifter, and we'll discuss it

Jackasic
09-09-2005, 01:31 PM
And finally, I repainted .. the thing

..

uglyota
09-09-2005, 02:45 PM
roto-rooter :flipoff2:

CRaSHnBuRN
09-10-2005, 12:31 AM
No suggestion for a name, but that's a sweet buggy. I dug it the first time I saw it at TPP II, I didn't know you bought it. Very cool.

Thanks. Perhaps you can tell me something if you were at TPP. I've heard a few comments about the buggy doing a crazy climb or something else during the comp. Do you know anything about that?

CRaSHnBuRN
09-13-2005, 09:36 PM
getting ready for some night wheeling


http://www.tamor.org/members-rigs/albums/album163/100_0062.jpg

CRaSHnBuRN
09-13-2005, 09:37 PM
eric deciding he wants one

http://www.tamor.org/members-rigs/albums/album163/100_0051.jpg

CRaSHnBuRN
09-13-2005, 09:40 PM
sexy flat belly

http://www.tamor.org/members-rigs/albums/album163/100_0059.jpg

Graystroke
09-13-2005, 10:22 PM
that shelf in the garage looks like it needs some extra bracing! ..or is it just smiling for the camera! :flipoff2:

8Runner
09-13-2005, 11:22 PM
Focus, damnit, FOCUS!

CRaSHnBuRN
09-14-2005, 08:52 AM
yeah, the lights were really messing with the focus. Plus this is a new camera, so I'm still getting used to it. As for the shelves, yeah, they bow pretty bad, but were like that when I moved in. I'm gonna replace them, but for now ther're good enough. I really don't put much weight on them anyway

Sharpe
09-14-2005, 12:37 PM
A square tube front shaft on a tube buggy...thats a new one.

uglyota
09-14-2005, 12:40 PM
seriously?
I think his are interchangeable, and since it's still leaf sprung and shackle at the correct end in front, it needs long slip

agjohn02
09-14-2005, 12:44 PM
i think he means that most tube buggies are pretty high end.

TxCruzr
09-14-2005, 01:32 PM
which is why this one is so cool. It can do practically any trail in katemcy, where as there have been $30+ grand buggies that have been denied on simpler stuff.
I'd roll it :D

CRaSHnBuRN
09-14-2005, 01:58 PM
A square tube front shaft on a tube buggy...thats a new one.

hell, it gets better than that, because it has square driveshafts front and rear. There is alot of stuff on the buggy that goes against conventional thinking. For example, square driveshafts, leaf springs all around, the dual track bar setup in the rear that supposedly will not work because it causes binding, yet works beautifully and flexes like crazy

CRaSHnBuRN
09-14-2005, 01:59 PM
speaking of drivehsafts, do you still want that dual cv I had. Its up here at the house. Make me an offer

Sharpe
09-14-2005, 03:33 PM
Depending on a potential axle sale this afternoon, $50 for the dual CV one? What size square tube did you make your shafts out of?

CRaSHnBuRN
09-14-2005, 03:34 PM
its just standard receiver hitch tubing. How about $75 for the dual cv one?

Sharpe
09-14-2005, 04:15 PM
I'm already living off of cup-o-noodles and tuna salad this month after gettin reamed out for books. $50 is all I can swing.

eight
09-28-2005, 09:43 PM
Would you like your stuff back?
(http://www.lonestar4x4.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=5499)

CRaSHnBuRN
09-29-2005, 01:10 PM
huh, I wonder what he is doing now?

AggieTJ2007
09-29-2005, 05:41 PM
did you get another fan?

CRaSHnBuRN
09-29-2005, 05:54 PM
I'm gonna try building a shroud first, and see if thats enough. I checked, and the fan is rated for around 1000cfm, so I think its enough.

AggieTJ2007
09-30-2005, 05:53 AM
the shroud will help alot. you might be able to get away with using the stock shroud for the mechanical fans out of a Jeep cherokee. I know they will be easy to find in a junkyard too. I think the hole is the same diameter as your fan,

you would just have to figure out a way to mount the fan to the shroud, instead of the radiator

Also I think the radiator shroud is about the same size as your radiator.

CRaSHnBuRN
12-07-2005, 06:17 PM
well in the interest of staying somewhat dry and warm at clayton, I went and picked up some aluminum sheet today and went to work. So far all I've accomplished is getting the hood mounted, but this was the hardest job as it required multiple notches and holes. Right now I just have some bolts to hold it on, but may go to some hood pins when time allows.

http://tamor.us/members-rigs/albums/album163/100_0200.jpg

uglyota
12-08-2005, 12:16 PM
looks good! Make sure the aluminum's not too tight to those fuel lines, if they start to touch, the vibrations will rub holes in them (don't forget that your motor is soft mounted to the chassis)

CRaSHnBuRN
12-08-2005, 01:10 PM
yeah, I know. I still need to open them up some more. Same with the MC. I also need to get some form of insulating tape to put between the aluminum and the tubes to help with vibrations. Damn these fiansl, I should be out there working on it right now instead of studying.

BTW, I would have killed for a good dremel to use on this. I cut all the holes using a sawzall, grinder and drill.

uglyota
12-08-2005, 01:12 PM
BTW, I would have killed for a good dremel to use on this. I cut all the holes using a sawzall, grinder and drill.
all you had to do was ask...I even have the perfect bit :D

CRaSHnBuRN
12-08-2005, 01:14 PM
****, I thought you didn't have one? Weren't we discussing this a few weeks ago? I still have some work to do on the hood, and I want to clean it up a little more, could I borrow it for a few days?

CRaSHnBuRN
12-08-2005, 01:15 PM
BTW, how do people do the brushed look? I want to do that to help hide some of the scratches and help keep the glare down

uglyota
12-08-2005, 01:22 PM
I didn't have one there
with me
at the moment
:D
yeah you can borrow it, gimme a call and drop by on your way to work tonight or something
I bet some rough 3m roloc pads would give you a brushed finish

AggieTJ2007
12-08-2005, 02:38 PM
you can also do a "brushed finish" or Swirrled finishish using a grinder, or orbital sander, you just have to experiment on a piece of scrap

BMFScout
12-08-2005, 03:13 PM
wire cup brush

RCcola55
12-08-2005, 03:28 PM
im sure i could get my roommate to do the brushed flames on it, IMO that would look sweet

CRaSHnBuRN
12-08-2005, 06:26 PM
explain more? Flames brushed into the metal, or painted on over it? Any one have pics of this?

RCcola55
12-08-2005, 07:58 PM
brushed into it using a wire wheel, but the circle method is pretty easy using a wire cup like jimmy said

CRaSHnBuRN
12-08-2005, 08:10 PM
now you have me wanting flames of some sort, whether they're brushed in or painted on

RCcola55
12-08-2005, 10:09 PM
:gigem: good, now i wont be the only idiot with flames once i paint the bronco

Shaggy
12-08-2005, 10:11 PM
flames are gay

eight
12-08-2005, 10:15 PM
I had some flames one time. Then I sprayed them with a water hose and they left.

RCcola55
12-08-2005, 10:16 PM
flames are gay


and this comes from the guy with the glittery frame :flipoff2:

CRaSHnBuRN
12-08-2005, 10:21 PM
I had some flames one time. Then I sprayed them with a water hose and they left.

been there done that, but mine required a little more than a fire hose, like a fire truck

CRaSHnBuRN
12-08-2005, 10:25 PM
flames are gay

aww, come on, it'll fit right in with your glittery frame, lissa's grabber green, eric's paint by number toyota, and jordan's gay pride towel/soft top

8Runner
12-09-2005, 11:22 AM
I had some flames one time. Then I sprayed them with a water hose and they left.

I learned a year or so ago that you should consider your wheeling day over after an under hood fire (rather than strand yourself even further up a trail after jerry-rigging a fix).

uglyota
12-09-2005, 01:07 PM
check out the dash on JR bronco buildup thread on pirate for brushed flames.
Looks hard to do though, especially on that big a piece...paint it

stx4wheeler
12-12-2005, 02:47 AM
yeah, mine was a heavy duty long travel for the front of my truck, and he told me because of the size and weight that is was very hard to balance and shouldn't be used other than when in four wheel drive. So what do I do? Because of problems getting my rear driveshaft shortened (done at a local place), I threw the high angle in the back of my truck and drove around on it for 2 months. It vibrated some, but not anymore than the rest of my truck.

Now on the buggy I run those square drivehafts front and rear, and they work well. I've had the buggy up to 40-50 mph down some county roads back home, and they worked fine. wish I say the same about my steering. I've got mad death wobble

Posted from kopecki's thread

you have mad death wobble, with a hydro assist setup? mine eliminated just about all or all of my death wobble that i had previous to the hydro assist setup. maybe you really dont have enough fluid capacity for the system to work correctly.

CRaSHnBuRN
12-12-2005, 03:15 AM
well, the hydro assist came after that cross country trip (20+ miles each way), so I can't say if it cured it or not. Since I installed my hydro assist, I haven't had it on any roads besides the side steets near my house in bryan, and most of the time that was under 30mph. Up to those speeds, it seemed fine though. At the time of that trip, I also had a bent tie rod, and if you look at the buggy, you can see that the caster isn't the best either, so those were also contributing factors