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Originally Posted by robertf03
best pic i have of it.
http://tamor.org/forums/showpost.php...&postcount=166
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Quote:
Originally Posted by robertf03
best pic i have of it.
http://tamor.org/forums/showpost.php...&postcount=166
time to get cranking! what is the new target date, this thing need to see the trail.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jackasic
x2 biatch
You atleast have to make TCC w/ it.
Grad school. December 11th - January 13th will be a flurry of activity.
Starting the New Year off with an update.
Mounted the orbital and shortened the steering shaft. The Jeep shaft mated right up with the Camaro steering column and splined shaft that came with the orbital.
http://tamor.us/members-rigs/albums/.../P1010002a.jpg
Then built tube fenders. I decided to build full inner fenders due to the fact that this Jeep will be driven quite a bit on the ranch where it is muddy pretty much all winter and we didn't want to have to continually clean up the engine bay. I toyed with the idea of making them removeable or putting louvers in them, but in the end decided that if there are any cooling issues we will deal with them later.
I tied the fenders into the grill hoop rather than the grill itself. The grill is now isolated and this will prevent the grill and radiator from being damaged from a hard hit on the fender. The fenders are still easily removed via the stock four bolts in the firewall and the two on the grill hoop.
Oh yeah, built sliders too, you can see them in the pics. Pretty uneventful though. They're angle iron.
http://tamor.us/members-rigs/albums/.../P5200032a.jpg
http://tamor.us/members-rigs/albums/.../P5200033a.jpg
http://tamor.us/members-rigs/albums/.../P5200043a.jpg
http://tamor.us/members-rigs/albums/.../P5200021a.jpg
looks good, when do you think you will be done with this?
That question has been asked many times by many people, and answered many times to no avail. So the outstanding answer now is "When it's done." With my three month hiatus I dont think I'll beat Scott's build time.
John, where are you getting the hydro setup from, or are you just sourcing parts from whereever?
Psc
i think that you officially have more man-hours in this thing than any rig ever built :flipoff2: Every time that you post pictures - I see hours and hours of work involved. Nice work though, I see you pulled a few cool design ideas from other projects like Kelso's (it too has mucho time in it...)Quote:
Originally Posted by agjohn02
The first few months of my project were spend getting parts, shaving and building a Dodge D60, finding a F250 with a HPD60, parting out that truck, changing the Stak order for driver drop, building the Ford D60, then finding and piecing together two SM465 trannys and rebuilding one with all new bearings etc... It took me forever to geat all of the drivetrain pieces figured out. ;)
What did I pull from Kelso's? I've looked at so many rigs and put so many ideas together I have no idea what you are seeing.
the blended / beveled tube mount for the fender to the front hoop. Also - the tube mount for the orbital
I'm guessing the battery is still going to sit right behind the fender against the firewall? or do you have other plans for it?
Ah, the tube mount for the fender I got off of a King Air when I went to see a A&P guy out at Coulter Field about refilling the compass. He had one torn down and I was looking the turbines over and saw that style on an engine mount.
The orbital mount came cut to be mounted on a tube and instead of cut that off I just cut the little piece of tube and put under it. I never saw how Dave mounted Kelso's. I did that back in September but it very well could have come from seeing other builds. I've seen a lot of stuff on Kelso's rig that I wished I had copied. Dave does really nice work.
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Originally Posted by redcagepatrol
Yeah, I'm just going to beef up the stock tray and use it. The floor of it was corroded so it needs some help.