Tinkertoy #2

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Looking sweet , not to Sure about the hat LoL , so whens the big day ?

Would be nice if it's done this coming fall, so I can take it for some shakedown runs at the Hammers

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mooi projecktje aw12345

Ben mooi zoet met dit ding, dre grootste reden voor de buggy is zodat ok me Jeep met rust laat als ik me verveel. Heb nu een project waar ik een hoop tijd

mee doorbrengen kan

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Passenger side knuckle and steering arm taking shape

Weld it up tonight and tomorrow the wheel can go back on and time to make 2 tierods, spacer tubes and some misalignment spacers and then that part of the steering is done

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Lil more massaging with a grinder, make a spacer for the driverside and some misalignment spacers and it's done to my liking

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Worked on stuffing 5 pounds of crap in a 2 pound bag

Working on finding the final placement of the lower radiator hose/pipe and the E fan so I can start routing the hydraulic hoses for the steering. Oh yeah welded a bracket in yesterday for the orbital so that has a home also.

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Started looking at my lil buggy project again, got around to checking steering clearance at full flex and full bump, all A okay

Got droop?

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After a trip to Los Angeles to pickup a big screen TV for a friend from work I wandered by accident in the garage and saw this rust bucket that wanted some attention, so what the heck, plugged in the welder and did a lil bit of work

Steering arms need to grow a bit from version one. If you ever setup a full hydro ram make sure the link between the ram and the steering arm is straight at full turn

Not so

But so

Oh well live and learn

Some more work on this today, I like how this came out

[just-a-jeeper]

what will you do with your time when everything is finished? ;-)

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Start another project, Tinkertoy #1 is aching for another 4 cylinders.

That ought to keep me occupied for some time to come after this one is finished to my liking.

Also have to spend some serious time to tame the jungle in my backyard garden, that has gotten out of hand in the last few years. Never a boring moment yeah buddy

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Anyway lil more progress

Once this one is all gussied up, I can start boxing in all the front axle mounts.

then on to the next chore, finish steering and do some sheetmetal work or build a metal brake of sorts first

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Welding when it's a 100 degrees out just isn't all that much fun. Nevertheless there is progress

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Did a lil bit of tinkering in the heat this afternoon. Darn piece was a pain in the neck to make. Astonished that my jig saw cut the curves in 1/4" plate.

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In between shooting the bull and resting up from a long hot work week, I managed to sneak a lil tinker time in

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did you made it possible for water to come out ?

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No, not a real concern in sunny So Cali

 

Me and my best bud spending some quality time in the man cave

 

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Who ever claimed that full hydro steering is as easy as pie is full of crap

 

Anyway got the steering arm business on one side resolved. tierod doesn't bind, tierod is straight at full turn.

Had to machine a few new spacers and what not. With some luck on to the other side tomorrow.

Then see if I can make a reservoir out of a chunk of old driveshaft, is a nice big thin wall tube. cap both ends weld in some fittings and tubes and maybe even snag a powersteering filter from work and it will be all spiffy, damned thing will hold a couple of quarts of fluid if I can help it. Just not impressed with the PSC reservoirs

 

The good

 

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The bad

 

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Difference between a 39.5 Pitbull and a 40" MTR

 

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Afgelopen week knap zoet geweest, radiateur leeft nu acter in de buggy, nieuwe keolings pijpen naare achteren aangelegd. Rem systeem gefabriceerd.

Hydraulische besturing gemaakt, uitlaat gefabriceerd. Aandrijf assen gemaakt. Motor weer aan de praat gemaakt,. Zo na een week werk, Scrappy moves under it's own power

 

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Afgelopen week knap zoet geweest, radiateur leeft nu acter in de buggy, nieuwe keolings pijpen naare achteren aangelegd. Rem systeem gefabriceerd.

Hydraulische besturing gemaakt, uitlaat gefabriceerd. Aandrijf assen gemaakt. Motor weer aan de praat gemaakt,. Zo na een week werk, Scrappy moves under it's own power.

 

 

 

 

Fabrimacted me a Y pipe, lil fuggly, but it will do the trick. Time for lunch and then of to the store to round up some brake hose and a ton of brake line fittings.

 

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Curious about several things, want to see how the air shocks behave, how it craws with the 4.56 gears, how well the stock powersteering pump works and if the darn thing shifts with the manual contraption. The anticipation is just about killing me

 

 

 

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After getting my truck smogged today, I found some time to tinker

First wired two 70 amp relays, for the low and high speeds of the cooling fan.

 

 

Anyway ran it through a Maxi fuse holder, powers both relays.

 

 

Made a switch panel and secured it.

 

 

Also build a floor for the driverside.

 

 

[just-a-jeeper]

mooi man

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Gonna be fun to tool around in

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Guess I should updat this a bit

 

Floor done

 

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Steering pump swapped to a Jeep TJ pump with a minor modification for more volume, steering works good now, swapped a 4" pulley on the pump and made some bracketry for it.

 

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Welded rear carrier up and replaced gears front and rear, changed them to 5.38

 

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Cheap way to pull differtial bearings without damaging them for reuse

 

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Both axles assembled and Scrappy looking Suave

 

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Drove it out of the garage and around the cul de sac for the first time in 2 years

 

 

Made my day

 

 

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Got some machining to do

 

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Do not want to run a 1210 U joint at the transfercase side of the front driveshaft. This will fix that 1330 for the win

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Other than having to source 4 different 10 mm bolts my drivshaft yoke project is concluded. Made the adapter on my old lathe using a 4 jaw independent chuck that's probably close to 50 years old, had to flip the big chunk to machine the other side and it still has only 0.005" run out now that it's installed, pretty pleased with that. Front driveshaft should clear the frame and lower control arm now at full droop

 

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Steering on Tinkertoy was a wash, but playing with scrappy was fun.

Welded a few thing in the heat put some oil in the front diff. Tightened and added jam nuts to the control arms and then it was flexy time.

Also figured out that the TCC works in all gears, couldn't figure out for a bit why the darn thing kept stalling, guess a idiot light would be a good addition.

Anyway on to the good stuff at 4 feet of flex front and rear things are stable and it's easy to get there. I bet I am gonna love auto wheeling.

 

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After wallpapering had a bit of  time to play

 

 

 

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