you must like extra work! Where do you find the time :eek:
Looks great though :gigem:
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you must like extra work! Where do you find the time :eek:
Looks great though :gigem:
nice!
Yeah looks cool from the front side. Lets see the weld on the back side. :gigem:Quote:
Originally Posted by AggieTJ2007
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Originally Posted by fbronco86
Jealousy is a dish best served warm. With cookies.
It's no Scout tailgate, but it's alright. :flipoff2:
Please its just a jeep.Quote:
Originally Posted by agjohn02
So I'm guessing this will probably be at Katemcy this weekend?
it will be lucky to be done by Clayton in December.
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OH, THE IRONY.....!!!
maybe, but someone else isn't paying to do the work and asking for a schedule ;)
Roomate problems again John?! ;)
No, other than him being his usual jackass self, everything is fine as far as I know.
but your such an easy target, so soft and easily riled ;)
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Connected? I just put a screwdriver through the hole in the disk if I want to hold it in place. :) You need to keep the hand brake for drifting. :gigem:
The rig looks awesome John. Lots of hours on the business end of a grinder. It's neat to see the evolution of the rigs just in our own little club. Really cool rig!
I mounted the grill using a piece of tube and the old YJ mount. The winch is mounted on a piece of plate welded between the grill crossmember and the bumper. I still need a fairlead, this one is mine. Scott pointed me toward a good deal on the winch. I was originally planning on running a 8274. This is a 9.5ti (bling). This and the sunken fairlead are the reasons I put the seam on the outside of the bumper. I needed the smooth inside wall on the back so I wouldn't have to grind it down to get the fairlead to sit flat and I didnt want to mount the 8274 to the "weak" side of the tube. The seam is gone. Happy now Scott?
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you have WAY too much time! Nice winch... I don't think I could spend that much time on a winch mount...
....and you know I couldn't.
I have a roller fairlead for you John. It's at my house.
very nice :cool: I like the recessed fairlead a lot
I can still see the seam.
You spend all that time on the winch mount maybe you should cut off those u-bolts on the front axle they look like crap. :flipoff2:
I finally got those pics of the parking brake but just remembered that you are using a stak so it's probably a disc brake and the cruiser one is a drum. Anywho, if you think they might help you at all, let me know and I'll email them to you.
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No you cant. You just think you can.
My dad came down this weekend and helped me work on the Jeep. We finished up the wheels.
They are H1 double beadlocks, recentered with USA6X6 centers, Copperhead Fab rock rings, and kustom inner rock rings. I had the centers turned down to a 14 1/16" diameter so that they would press further down into the wheel to give more backspacing. The centers, as delivered, give 3 5/8" backspacing. This would make the outside width too wide for a standard utility trailer. With the modification, they net 5 1/8" backspacing. I notched the centers so that the studs can be removed in case they ever need replacing. The inner rings are 3/8" bar stock. I clamped it to the rim and bent them around the O.D., then trimmed them down to fit in the wheel. They set right into the bead on the rim like a big snap ring.
As for the actual beadlocks inside the tires, I'm not sure what I'm going to do yet. I'm in the process of cutting the runflat off of a stock one to see how it turns out.
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looking good
I had planned to build my own comp corners but in the interest of saving some time I ordered a set from BTF. I like the line they follow around the corner and had I built my own they would have turned out very similar. After Fed Ex lost them and took two weeks to get them here, I test fit them and was not too happy with the way the "CNC" bent radius fit the corner of the tub. There was about a 3/16" gap due to the radius being to tight. No big deal, but I'm anal like that. In fairness to BTF they were more than willing to exchange them for another set, but rather than wait for the turn around, I decided to weld them on rather then bolt them on like I had planned. I am very happy with how that turned out. They look much less "bolted on" this way and once painted will be mostly invisible. One thing I didnt like about the design is how far it was cut in the back. They come in past the outside of the framerail. I wanted some of my bumper left and didn't want it sticking out past the fender. Purely for aesthetics, I added some to them. This will also give me room to add another light. I had to trim the bumper down and relocate the body mount inside the framerail. When I built the bumper, I wasn't planning on stretching the wheelbase quite so much, but in retrospect I am glad I did it. Anyhow, enough jibberjabber, here's the pics.
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Awesome work John, looks really clean welded on and having the bottom cut match the bumper. How about some better pics of the cage??? :D
Those are just paper towel rolls I painted silver and duct taped together to mock it up.
I ordered teh usa6x6 pressed centers today along with new hardware and o-rings. As for the runflat, how are you cutting that part off? And is it necessary. I saw the inserts that they offer, but didn't want to spend any more money.Quote:
Originally Posted by agjohn02
I cut one down with a saws all, it was a pain but do-able. I plan to cut the rest off with a band saw. A port-a-band would probably be fairly easy too. The point of cutting the runflat off is to keep the tire from getting pinched and cut between it and a rock. While I obviously have no experience with them, it seems like a valid point.
It took a month to get the centers and the hardware he sells is not new, its used. Hacked me off b/c the only reason I bought new nuts from him is because they are mechanical, single use, lock nuts. The ones that came on my wheels were in as good of shape as the ones he shipped me. There might have been a few in there that I couldnt tell if they were used or not but majority of them had been installed before. I got a big bottle of red Loctite.
I won't be doing anymore business with him, but I like his centers better than any others out there.
You can get those nuts new from a hardware supply house...
You're kidding?
Are you talking about the stover lock nuts that bolt the two pieces of a hummer wheel together, or am I not reading things correctly?
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Your reading it correctly. What I meant was, MSC, McMaster Carr nor Grainger carry a fine thread (1/2-20 i think it was) flanged stover nut. Ace bolt doesnt believe they exist. Rather than keep hunting, I bought a big bottle of red Loctite and picked out the best 40 out of the 80 nuts I have. If you know where to get them I would like to know too. I wasn't trying to be derisive, I just didnt have time to type this out then.
I got them from the nut/bolt/tool supplier that came by Collins Bros once a week. He drove a truck for Ram Products... Their website sucks, but I'll try to find the part number. I do agree that finding them was a total pain, though...
It may not help too much since you probably put the wheels together a few months ago, but for future tech reference here are the Ram Products part numbers for flanged stover lock nuts for use with Hummer wheels.
(See, I contribute! Look at all those search words!)
Are they stover nuts? They dont look crimped. You sure they're not just flange lockers with the teeth on the bottom.
Yes.
i Googled Ram Products and came up with a bunch of stuff thats not them. Do you have a link?
Third one on the search results... That url address is pretty tricky.
http://www.ramproducts.com/
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