A whole bunch of lazer cut parts came!
There's going to be a lot of progress this weekend! A little mockup going on so far
A whole bunch of lazer cut parts came!
There's going to be a lot of progress this weekend! A little mockup going on so far
MMM Beefy.
Looking really good.
Torque boxes are in and everything else fully welded.
Are you going to keep that 3rd link upper mount with all of the holes on the axle side as-is or is the plan to figure out where you want the 3rd link to mount and cut off the extra? Really interested in what you come up with for the rear suspension, and always a cool project to catch up on.
In reply to pres589 (djronnebaum) :
As is for now. Will probably trim off the excess later after figuring the rest out.
Not sure if this is brilliant or stupid...but it works.
Finished out the weekend cleaning up the shop. Being able to just tilt the chassis up out of the way is great!
Finished getting the front suspension mounts welded on and got the transmission adapter plate sorted.
The other week with the rear suspension parts was a struggle. Mistakes were made and had to be fixed, ran out of argon mid project, real struggle bus of a day
Parts pile! Hopefully a lot of progress this weekend
Today's progress.
Transmission cross member 2.0
Several pounds lighter, more room, easier to work on.
Then I welded up the holes in the rear axle housing, disassembled and cleaned the hubs, new and bigger rotors, as well as fabricating the caliper mounts.
This is gonna be good !!
More progress this holiday weekend. Yesterday I was able to get a cradle made for the fuel cell. It still needs some straps to go underneath as extra support/safety but I'm pretty happy with it so far. Bolts in from the bottom like a subframe. Sorry, didn't take a pic yet.
Today I just went ahead and got started on the front lower control arms. Instead of making a mess of tacked together random metal I made a mock-up with the watts link tubes. Then sacrificed a rear swedge tube i wasn't going to need to make a template arm. Plus it has some adjustability to really dial in the position I wanted.
Like most things this didn't go exactly to plan but will work out. I had wanted to have a straight out tube from the forward mount but that go overlooked when I moved the mount back to incorporate the engine mount plate. I don't have dies for bending 1-1/4 yet so I really wanted to use straight tube sections. Switching to the rear tube being the straight one all the way to the ball joint cup worked out and had enough clearance for turning the wheel. The upper arm hits just before the lower now so it's about all I'm going to get. Which if my math is right should be around 28 degrees of steering angle.
Checked everything at full compression to verify no additional issues and then built a jig with the top of the welding desk to start fabrication of the arms.
Now I'm at the point i need to weld a few areas solid then get the coil over mount and gussets on there. Learning from my previous a arm fabrication, the pivots will be welded on last, after everything else is fully welded.
First wheel is officially on the chassis!
Then there were two...
Today: All 4 wheels
After learning a new lathe setup. To modify the cheap wheel adapters
And the fuel cell mounting is finished up.
Looks at lathe setup...why not. Must not have a mill.
Anyway just following along, and planning my next chassis upgrade.
I really enjoy reading your updates Cody!
Nice! That thing is coming together quick!
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