The glovebox would be cooler if the wording was right side up :flipoff2:
Seriously, that & the compass are BADASS & that switch panel is over the top.
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The glovebox would be cooler if the wording was right side up :flipoff2:
Seriously, that & the compass are BADASS & that switch panel is over the top.
Better shot of the gauges and angle bezels.
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Originally Posted by agjohn02
I had a thought on this the other day. This is a YJ tub and I'm using the firewall bracket for the steering column from a CJ. Could that be what's causing it to not sit quite straight?
The dash is very cool!
looks good. i wish i had the patience to make my work look like that
Stellar!
very very nice - but too much work. This thing will be pretty sweet when done with all of these nice details!
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Originally Posted by agjohn02
no, firewall is pretty much the same, and the seat brackets and floor pan are the same. I've never heard of this being mentioned in the numerous yj tub swaps I've read and heard about
maybe take a picture of it, I've seen those brackets enough on CJ to remember what they look like and yours looked identical.
mine seemed fine. I used an XJ columnQuote:
Originally Posted by robertf03
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Originally Posted by redcagepatrol
if i just threw this thing together, what would i do with all my spare time... study?
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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
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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.
Built a center console to house the Art Carr shifter. I don't like the Art Carr plastic housing and the shifter needed to sit higher than the mounts they supply sit. I also decided to put a storage box on it. I stuck with the ammo can theme as you can see. It's still lacking a lock. The E-brake mounts to the console between the drivers seat and the console. This way you can get in and out and it will be sticking up, hard to miss, when it's set.
http://www.tamor.org/forums/attachme...2&d=1199602650
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http://www.tamor.org/forums/attachme...4&d=1199602650
you gonna go w/ an od green to repaint the console, or something else?
Nah, something that will match the seats.
Cage tie-ins are done. I went with tube on the A and C pillars and wanted something a little more significant on the B pillar so I made an outrigger out of 3"x2".
http://www.tamor.org/forums/attachme...8&d=1200102855
http://www.tamor.org/forums/attachme...9&d=1200102855
http://www.tamor.org/forums/attachme...0&d=1200102920
did you not want to use bushings between the cage and the frame?
thanks for posting those by the way now i have some ideas to follow when i do mine pretty soon.
That is just super clean work John, kudos all around.
ive never seen one with bushings :confused:Quote:
Originally Posted by 85cj7
Maybe he meant between cage and body???
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Originally Posted by Eckert
alot of people put bushings in like body mount bushings. that way the body doesnt rip when it tries to move around the stationary cage.
The main reason for bushings between the cage and frame are vibration isolation. I thought seriously about putting them in but theres really no sense in a rig like this that wont be a daily driver. Also, you have to consider how you orient bushings as you can lose a lot of beneficial stiffness to the cage depending on which direction you put them.
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Originally Posted by DRAGOONRANCH
thanks Ed
again very nice work john
pretty sure we had this same discussion on our jeep...we don't have vibrations near as I can tell
Built a battery tray. The floor of the stock one was corroded pretty badly, so I scavenged parts off it it and made a new go fast one. I used Flemco dimple dies. They work swell on thin stuff. :gigem:
did you have to straighten the bottom plate any after those flares? I think adding a radius to the outside edge of the concave half of the die might cure some problems on thick stuff.