Your worst nightmare.
Your worst nightmare.
Fleeing family's car breaks down between two armies
She's always paying attention to what I do... unless I'm doing something noisy like running the grinder. Maybe I'll start paying attention to my photos, and wait till she's in the frame. It'll be like where's Waldo, but "Where's Brandy?"@Daddyusmaximus With your posts in this thread it's always fun playing Find the Dog in the Background. The dog isn't always there but often enough that it is fun to play.
Not too hip on working outside when it's ninety-eleven degrees, but had to get something done this week on her. decided to fab up the exhaust stack shrouds. Yes, you read that right... Stacks. That's the red-neck in me coming through a bit sure, but more important, any veteran who's ever driven a Deuce-and-a-half, at some point in the last 50 years can surely identify these things... Difference is this thing has a bit of a hot rod Mopar 360, so it's getting one on each side. They bolt right through the tub at the bottom, then I made a little bracket to hold them at the top.
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Toyota diesel.In the process of building a cj2a with a kubota diesel.
Never heard that where’s the connection? Not arguing just asking. Toyota doesn’t list it as a subsidiary.Toyota diesel.
Kubota is Toyota.
How to deal with the whole full size axles sticking out thing.
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Sure they're stronger, and they even kinda look cool if your into that sort of thing. However, first trip through the mud, and you get covered. Can't see out your mirrors, got it all over the vehicle, the windshield. If it's nice weather, and you have the doors off... Sweet Lord, what a mess! Same for snow & slush. Well, except you most likely won't have the doors off.
Sorry boys & girls, I'm too old for that crap.
Enter, the trailer fender.
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Not 100% on the fronts yet, but I'm thinking just have two sets (yes, I have them) put together for one wider version. This, however will have to be done by somebody at a body shop, or with much better welding skills than mine. Funny how I keep putting off practicing to get better when I need it to be right... lol.
They're bolted with 1/4" bolts.I wouldn't weld those to the tub because the first thing you hut will fold them and your tub up into a wad.
Consider them consumables
I've been considering that. I have to make some up anyhow because using the YJ tub got me power brakes, and these axles aren't an exact fit to the standard Jeep ones. I'm hoping to be able to reuse some of this line.Those brake lines on the front axle.....put them on the rearward side of the axle housing.
If not, they will be the first thing to get tweaked when going offroad.
I circled the clamp you should be using, ignore the one on the diff cover, and make a metal strap one that bolts to the upper diff cover bolts.
Don't want to saunter down a road, get into some rocks, and end up with a smashed brake line.
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I don't see why not.I'm hoping to be able to reuse some of this line.
You have a problem, finish the damn jeepI still have a lot of work to do on the jeep, and here I go getting sidetracked with yet another new project...
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Yes, that's a new Predator 420. It all started when I saw a video on youtube. (Yeah, 'cause that always ends well.) I subscribe to Jay Leno's Garage, and he recently did a video on a 1916 Autocar coal truck.
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I absolutely love the vehicles from that era. They're so simple, yet so rugged. Kinda like the Jeep... This one looks sorta like a big Kawasaki Mule, something I've always wanted to tool around in, and to carry stuff in. Well, I do have a old riding lawnmower sitting around with a blown motor. Good wheels, tires, steering gear, battery... I have some scrap steel... Just need a few things like a new engine... I can build the bed with lumber I have... I got on Powerpoint, and did some cutting, and pasting. (no photoshop)
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So far, just one evening in, this is what I got. My ancient yard sale Milwaukee hand held ban saw needs a blade real bad, and it is really starting to wander. Also you can feel the weld bump it's way through the material with every rotation. That, in combination with my horrible welding skills have me thinking I'll probably be dropping the frame off at the machine shop to be finished. Everything that goes on it will be bolted, so I can handle the easy stuff.
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You related to my wife?You have a problem, finish the damn jeep![]()
Bigger version of this?I get wild hair ideas too...
Swapped out electric motor on buddies huntin buggy, when done we looked at each other and said well what are we gonna do with the old motor?
Looked at a tweaked out '48 Indian frame sitting in a corner and said 3 wheeler!
horse shoes are for foot boards.
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Bigger version of this?
Yay! Dog pics.Work continues, slowly as usual. I've been working on several parts of the Jeep at once, but that's just because I think I have some form of AFHD, and I always seem to (Oh look, a squirrel) jump on a different thing each time I go out to the garage...
A week or so back, I started in on Brandy's seat.
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