[bakerboy]

heres the JT's we picked up, only 3 days till we pick it up and start gettin down to buisness

[matty87]

picked up james today, tray is off, dash, steering, seats all interior, engine is out and tomorrow it will be stripped down to a chassis and the suspension will be started on, cheers to Dave at coastals for the set of leafs mate, will be coming back for more gear later down the track for sure

[matty87]

[matty87]

thats the fuel line plug

[Joe]

Cool im looking forward too watching this build up come along

[steak_knife]

joseph wrote:

Cool im looking forward too watching this build up come along

Hell yes. Weight reduction, Wash it!!


Start up a rig's thread

[matty87]

just a few pics of todays work. been a while since anything has happened

The rear 3/4 eliptical setup. fabbed up and taked on i hope its right.


another one of the 3/4



the front suspension mounts welded on and the beefed up front cross member.



w/t diff marked out so the spring perches can be moved to suip the n/t. the rear diff was also dont today.


so it starting to coma along quite nicely now.

few more bits and pieces on the suspension and it should be back on the wheels.

MODERATORS could you please posibly move this thread to the rigs section.

[Joe]

Im a dick when i looked at the first pic i thought to myself why would you have a spring on top of the chassis
On a differant note

[matty87]

So guys i have a baleno motor to go into this build and have all the power steering gear from the car that it came out of, infact iv still got the car in the front yard. anyway what are your thoughts on being able to use the power steering from the baleno in the sierra?

and here is the progress for this morning.

the front w/t diff spring perches moved 57 mm in to match the n/t



new rear mounts for the front springs as we have gone RUF of sorts.



the front springs in place waiting on bushes to make it all a bit more solid, and there are a set of more solid shackles in manufacture.


also got the front mounts welded up and the rear 3/4 welded on fully and am waiting on bushes to mount up the suspension. then we can mount up some shockies.

[BlueSuzy]

Putting helium in those tyres to drive the sky? skys the limit eh?

She's gonna be heavy to turn over!

Is this going to be on the road?

[just_cruizin]

Another first layer of gravity thing??

Given the "trailer queen" title I don't think it's going on road.

[BlueSuzy]

just_cruizin wrote:

Another first layer of gravity thing??

Given the "trailer queen" title I don't think it's going on road.

Looks like its going to be scary offroad let alone onroad!

[bakerboy]

ahhh how so? you realise the chassis is sitting upside down right?

[Taff]

what are you doing for driveshafts?

this is going to be crazy high.

hope you dont have side angles in perth.

[Taff]

also curious as to how your going to set up the steering?

[matty87]

it will be alrigth those springs will sit virtually flat with a body and an engine in there. its also going to be a good deal wider than when it started. be we,ll see how we go.

[Red89]

Taff wrote:

what are you doing for driveshafts?

this is going to be crazy high.

hope you dont have side angles in perth.

You do realise they are used springs dont you ?
Other then the overly large front chassis mounts which I assume is because of the shackle reversal it shouldnt be too bad.

[matty87]

Red89 wrote:

Taff wrote:

what are you doing for driveshafts?

this is going to be crazy high.

hope you dont have side angles in perth.

You do realise they are used springs dont you ?
Other then the overly large front chassis mounts which I assume is because of the shackle reversal it shouldnt be too bad.

got it in one red and the rear 3/4 sits flat when on the flat and can be pinned in place. so it will only open up when its un pinned and we drop a wheel in a big hole.


also i was thinking of fabing up some square drive shafts and if need be taking them to a drive shaft place to balance them but im not sure they will need to be balanced for what we want.

[bakerboy]

another pic for u all

[atari4x4]

what is holding the front mount on the rear spring?

[Fatzook]

Where is the front flex?

[bakerboy]

100x100 welded to the chassis, its because the chassis bends in it needed to be steeped out, ghetto speck mothfukle engineering style

i come from ifs lol thats good front flex lol

[31zook]

you might want to limit the rear as she will flop all over the place with that rear end... JMHO

[Fatzook]

31zook wrote:

you might want to limit the rear as she will flop all over the place with that rear end... JMHO

True.

But You would be better off limiting the rear flex and then modding the front end so that it flexes the same as the rear. This way you will have a far more predictable vehicle.

[MrRocky]

my 3/4 doesnt flop all over the place ???
after doing RUF i found the extra flex in the front made the rear work
even better, hardly lifts a wheel at all now. My front shackles are quite angled now and hit a fair bit on vertical rocks but bigger tyres should fix that.

[matty87]

im unsure about alot of things but the 3/4 when its done flopping about is not one of them. it is a simple up down flex setup when finished with a panhard rod on the rear diff and a set of guides for the 3/4 spring. it is simply the same as those extendable shackles. it cant unload unless you take weight off it by dropping a wheel in a rut etc so its not something that is unpredictable at all in my oppinion.

ps it may look ag spec but it is over engineered big time the suspension mounts on this thing would be right at home on a patrol.

here are some more flexual pics for you all.

[Fatzook]

mate nobody said that 3/4 was unpredictable.

What I said was that having massive flex at one end, and none at the other makes a vehicle unpredictable. You just need to sort out the front end. Then it will be a weapon!!

[matty87]

no worries fat zook. i got ya now. we actually getting really good flex out of the front too the limiting factor on both the front and rear flex is the front tyres coming back into the firewall. i also think that with a panhard on the rear and maybe the front it will sure things up nicely. the major problem at the moment as can be seen from one or two of the pics is how the rear is slewing sideways wen the front is lifted but hopefully that will be fixed by the end of the weekend with the addition of a home grown panhard from the panhardius tallus tree

[Joe]

This thing looks mad i cant wait too get my own trayback

[MrRocky]

just redrill the perch and move the diff forward a bit, you will be suprised how much difference it makes in relation to the scrub issue