Find the trike builder plans and build your own. May take a little bit longer, but you can come out cheaper with a product you know is well built.
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Find the trike builder plans and build your own. May take a little bit longer, but you can come out cheaper with a product you know is well built.
from the design i think multiple plane bends on a single piece of tube would be a *****
That one is a little bulky, but is there any time multiple plane bends on a single piece of tube aren't a *****?
I found the plans at gottrike.com but they want to sell them. Are they posted anywhere for free? I kinda like the looks of that because it looks like tighter and 180 bends can be preformed. From the looks it uses a dye from a jd2 and that would cost about the same as the one I posted up.
The bad about the one I posted is that there is a max bend of 90 and it bends on a 7 inch radius.
I don't know if anyone is sharing the got trike plans, but I'd bet there are a few people on here who might chip in on the plans.
shortened the rear about 18 ish inches to make the current wheel base 114.5. Still planning on lenthing the front 5-6 inches and maybe shorten even more. I did the shackle flip in the rear but not sure if completely happy, seems to me the the factory confirgeration would allow alot of down travel and to make up for this I put the shackle at a pretty good angle backward. hopefully get more done tomorrow and take some better pictures.
Also does any one have any u bolts for a 60? I need some that arn't set up for 8 inches of blocks.
Yeah!!!
awesome man, looks like you've been bokkin it with the project
done for the day, still alot that needs to be done.
current plans:
strip inside cab
weld up floors
motor and trans swap
tires
cage
put cab back to gether
and a bunch of other ****
I am confused about the gears I have. If I jack up a tire and spin it one complete revelution the pinion only spins about 1.8 times aroung. I dont think can have 1.8 to one gears. is there another way to tell what gears I have?
The real way to do it is take the diff cover off and look at the numbers and divide them.
Sure you're not including backlash?
thats next but I would have figured that you could just count the number of time the pinion spun to make the tire spin once.Quote:
Originally Posted by Doug Krebs
I edited my post... Sure you're not including backlash?Quote:
Originally Posted by BroncoJo
I saw your first post and yes the backlash is not much. It has an open rear end I dont know if that makes a difference
On my bronco which has a detroit, I can spin through the backlash (locking the diff) then as the tires start to move I can spin the pinion 4.1 times to make the tires spin a complete revelution.
take the cover off and count, it is a good idea anyway since you will need to replace the fluids and make sure nothing is wrong witht he new truck anyway
If you took the cover off, why would you count? Just look on the ring gear and divide 2 numbers.Quote:
Originally Posted by colman
If you are only spinning one tire and have an open diff the pinion will only rotate half of what you are expecting. You have 3.55 gears, or maybe 3.73.
I was wondering about that.
i meant find the 2 #'s and divide them, its been a long day. my bad
yeah that makes sence. spin both tires and count
cents, since, or sense? :flipoff2:
i believe these trucks only came with 3.55's or 4.10's but i could be wrong
Fixed passenger side floor to hopefully prevent anyone from falling through. and removed glass.
i don't know if somebody has said this yet, but the ratio is stamped on the ring gear.Quote:
Originally Posted by BroncoJo
way to get after it. the clock is ticking for both of us
Got the other side patched up, looks just like pictures above so I didn't bother with new ones. Also got my shop rearranged to get ready for the motor swap tomorrow.
plans for the weekend.
finish rear suspension (rear hangers are rusted through)
trans swap
motor swap
fab exhaust from bronco to fit
wire it up
still need the houst, just call me tomorrow and there should be someone home so you can get into the garage
Everything that could have gone wrong did. Got all the drive train out and ready to be swaped. Will start again tomorrow afternoon.
will not alow upload of picture will mess with it tomorrow
Got the motor, trans, and t-case in. wire start to wire it up tomorrow and work on suspension.
your name needs to be broncotrav
good deal with the progress
Got the rear drive shaft shortened, power steering hooked up, swaped a 1 ton steering colum in and all the linkage, got the headers on, fixed rear shackle issue. wont be able to do much until next weekend.
nice now the truck is part 1991
hell ya, the only parts i have had to buy so far are 2 exhaust manifold gaskets.Quote:
Originally Posted by william_ace
Are these picture turning out un really big?
i put a limit on the picture size. 800x600
those headers are slightly ridiculous, but nice progress
I'll get them sized better from now on. they were ****ing huge at the schoolQuote:
Originally Posted by RCook527
Those were the only full lenth headers I could keap protected on the bronco, they dont hang below the t case like all the others did. I will probably make a slider for them on this truck and keap the exhaust run right under the body.
Ordered a gate style shifter and new (lower) rpm controll module today. I know (and dreading) that this is the start of a new money pit.
Does anybody have a couple feet of square tubing? doesnt have to be 1 piece, maybe 2x2 or close. I'm just going to put the hood on pins since the latch is ****ed, and they make such great sleds.
Will be wrenching later if anyone wants to come help.
there is a sh*t load of 2x2x1/4" tubing at my house that tommy brought over yesterday, i bet he would let you use some. Talk to hima about it, its in the garage.
Lookin' good, it's coming together quick. :gigem:
got my ass up at sunrise and worked all day but it seems like nothing got done. Got it wired up and alot of little **** also numerous unsuccessful runs to the parts store, I think I like autozone the best for all the part stores at texas and 2818. Looks like I will only have one more solid day before clayton and I'm still a long way off.
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Originally Posted by BroncoJo
you wouldnt happen to be hispanic would you?
Ya but nobody knows, they gave me 2 batteries for a powerstroke in exchange for mine which were 2 years past waranty and tested good. The only reason I went there is because that where the batteries came from.Quote:
Originally Posted by agjohn02
Napa is way the hell to high and doesnt have ****
Oriellys (sp?) had some dumb goth working there and also high
yea but we have quality parts, i would rather pay a few extra bucks and not worry about **** falling apart. (i work at oriley in Bryan)