Disney Calroc writeup

[Graystroke]

Originally posted by aggiemudman
what welding class did u take? ive been lookin for one but dont know if there is one or not.

There's a class in the Ag dept and there also a few in ENTC, at least there use to be. I took ENTC 181, which is the basic stuff, without a whole lot of lab time. Then there was ENTC 405, which was all lecture and was about design, pre- post treatments, pre bending, rod/wire specifications, inspections etc. Also took a destructive and non-destructive testing class that looked at welds, joints, etc. with ultrasound. This was an ENTC class also. I don't know if they offer these anymore, seeing how the dept. has kind of gone to **** since Waugaman and Morgan left.

[spool]

Hey Fred do I get to see some pics soon?

[Fredo]

yeah, i know....i'm sorry...i need to get them resized and loaded up...gimme a little while tonight.

[froader03]

from a link on pirate.

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[BMFScout]

Originally posted by robertf03
I'm pretty sure it was MIG, and Jimmy can tell you why thats better

It's sure as hell better than that ****ass welder you gave away so you could buy a mig...

[Fredo]

here's the pictures....hopefully this link works....if not, just go to www.offroadrepublic.com and go to the calrocks album under jimmy's directory.

http://www.offroadrepublic.com/galle...umName=albuo12

[Graystroke]

Originally posted by BMFScout
It's sure as hell better than that ****ass welder you gave away so you could buy a mig...

Jimmy, don't whine and piss on people's legs just b/c you SUCK at stick welding! Kind of reminds of the same guy that blames the computer...."It's the computer's fault!"

[uglyota]

Sweet on-Mog welder:

are there any more pics of this rig? It's forkin' sweet!

[Graystroke]

That mog is pretty cool...looks like it could float w/ those tires.

On the jeep, what's the spread of the links at the axle (distance from the ends vertically) and on the frame?

The same thing happened about 5-6 years ago w/ a Safari Gard (that's how they spell it) three link system the built for the front of land rovers. They had it on a D90 (supposedly a protoype set-up) and it folded on a road test portion of the D90 twist-off. The braking forces makes the axle want to roll forward and the middle link and cross member have to carry the load- which it couldn't. The truck rolled as a result. Now the cross member is made of 1/4" box and heavily gusseted. ...at least it didn't fail at the welds, jus folded in half b/c the original crossmember is thin!

I would guess though, the forces the D90 saw were even greater than the jeep saw( higher speed...Force=mass x acceleration) Were you using the cutting brakes when this happened Troy? ...Or was the jeep trying to pop over a ledge and were the rear wheels below the center line and hanging?

[stinger7401]

How did the thing run? Any quirks with the new system or just flawlessness?

[Fredo]

I swear I heard one little pop back through the intake during one of the obstacles, but everybody we were with and also Scott and Troy said I must have been the only one to hear it if it did. I'm not going to say it was flawless, but definitely ran badass for 2 minutes of tuning at 4:45 in the morning.