Pigpen

yes robert something like aluminized(sp) exhaust tubing "OR SOMETHING OF THE LIKE" as i previously stated, would be very good. With exhaust tubing you have so many different diameters to choose from, plus you can go to autozone or your parts place of choice and pick from like 10 or 15 different pieces and bends, or even some of the flexible exhaust tube.
So yes thats what i meant robert, sorry if i didint think shedule 40 or huge 11 ft long rubber hoses running from the motor to the damn radiator.

easy there, sand up bunghole. just saying exhaust tube seems like a pain in the ass to bend up to what you'd want. you'd have to weld the connections, and even then i'd bet it'd leak through some small hole eventually. its pretty thin as well.

i didnt say it was the worst idea ever :flipoff2:

Isnt that what Feller is running in his buggy?

i don't know. i've never looked at fellers buggy that close

and i believe thats what keiswetter had on his eb contraption

his was some think wall tube actually... he just used straight sticks and linked them with rubber hose

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easy there, sand up bunghole.

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Funnay :laughing:

yeah, its exhaust tubing, works fine

sweet fullsize oil burner

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/1976-...31458220QQrdZ1

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sweet fullsize oil burner

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/1976-...31458220QQrdZ1

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That's a bad *****.

Hell yeah! Seems like a pretty decent price also. Looks like a psuedo Vincentmobile creation.

Pigpen lives again. After spending 1 month swapping the tranny, I finally got to test drive it today and it works at 100%. The damn thing even shifts into second and third gear and the modulator isnt even hooked up! It shifts late and hard but it still works!

Why does this make me think of the scene with Dr. Frankenstien telling Igor to throw the switch? I bet robbie would make a good Igor for ya. :flipoff2:

He did come out to watch me drive it around and got prety excited with my burnout. My burn wasnt NEARLY as good as the two Robbie did in his truck on saturday night :laughing: but I dont want to kill my tires that bad.

I remember those 2 saturday night, the second one was the best. O and robert forgot to mention when we were putting the tranny back in a few days ago, it fell off the jack and the bellhousing hit robbie in the head, de de de haha. :flipoff2:

Hey don't forget about friday night robert, thats craziest that I've been on the Bronc!Thanx fer eggin me on or was that Jason? :cheers:

It was a group effort. :gigem: That thing rips! I challenge you to a race :flipoff2:

did somebody say race?

I think I ran my motor out of oil this weekend :laughing: . We were on a perfectly level trail and I looked down and noticed I didnt have any pressure so I shut it off and checked the dipstick. It was bone dry but isnt checking the oil level while the engine is running misleading because the oil is circulating throughout the motor? One way or the other I dumped 4 quarts in it cause that was all I had and started it back up. At first it still was reading 0 but then after a minute or so it jumped back up to normal. Oops. It isnt making any more funny noises than usual so I'm not too worried about it but I suppose I will be checking it more often from now on.

wow. check oil while engine is not running. Wait a minute or so after you shut it off as well so that the majority has a chance to drain back down to the pan. Overfilling can be harmful to your rear main if I am not mistaken. I think I did that once at work on one of the ambulances. oops.

you forgot to check the gas and fill the oil didnt you? [cough,cough] :flipoff2:

Robert, can you show me how to increase the pressure on my power steering pump? Also, do you have a bracket for a 350 w/ v-belts that goes on top of the power steering pump, that has the adjuster part in it?

Yah, when do you want to do it? I probably do have a bracket but it'd be back home.

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Robert, can you show me how to increase the pressure on my power steering pump? Also, do you have a bracket for a 350 w/ v-belts that goes on top of the power steering pump, that has the adjuster part in it?

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http://westtexasoffroad.homestead.co...rsteering.html

Thanks John. He's actually done it before though. Maybe tomorrow night?

Aight.

i might have the bracket

You would be my hero Coop. :) How much? Also, I have a Toyota PS reservoir that you gave me that wouldn't work for what I was thinking of. I'll bring it back to you.

Reviewing the tail/market light situation, would I be better off shelling out a little extra for LED's all around right off the bat or should I try normal bulbs first and see how well they last?

the led ones are harder to destroy

I went to TSC today and priced the lights. To go LED would have cost about $60 for two tail lights and two front marker lights, which was 3x more than regular lights. So I got regular lights. I was thinking about mounting them on some kind of spring so if they get whacked by a tree or rock they might have a chance of not breaking, any ideas on a source of a spring that would be "just right"?

CB antenna spring might be just right.

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CB antenna spring might be just right.

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I think he means a spring to absorb the force, which a CB antenna wouldn't work well for at all.

Just mount them. If they get busted, use some of that tail-light tape.

Not an antenna, just the spring mount that is sometimes used with firestik antennas. If he's talking about mounting on the end of a spring, I have seen some cb antenna springs that are pretty sturdy, so that the light is not dangling, but yet they give plenty when pushed on.

Maybe one of these

http://cgi.ebay.com/Black-Spring-for...QQcmdZViewItem
http://www.valcoelectronics.com/Merc...ct_Code=JBC304

Yah I thought about that, in fact I even have one already that is too small for my current antenna so I think I'll give that a try.

I was thinking about a spring mounted behind the lamp, so that when the lamp is pushed on, the spring is compressed (which a CB antenna spring wouldn't work for), not having the spring mounted on the side? so the spring bends, not compresses.

Well as far as the tail lights go I tried the spring idea and it turns out springs dont like being welded. So The tail light mounts are gonna be solid and have a little cage around the lights to protect them. One side is done and looks like **** and I might do the other side tonight if I have enough time. I got the steering almost done. I really f'ing hate reaming, words can hardly describe my hatred of it. I need to ream the steering arm out a little more but otherwise everything's ready to go. The new pitman arm I snagged off a ford van is the wrong vintage so the indexing splines are 45 degrees off, so I will resume the hunt next week. Here's some before and after pics.

I like the diff cover

why don't you take a triangle file and grind an extra spline into the indexing spline?

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One side is done and looks like ****

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at least it fits the overall theme :flipoff2: