96 cruise vessel build

[John Doe]

Dam good job! Cant wait to see some shots of it on the rocks.

[Ramrod]

finished the frame notch today today and finish welded and painted the panhard.  After that I went to install one of the heims on the panhard and it wouldnt go in and is now stuck in there a little ways, gonna try freezeing it tomorrow or else I might just run it how it is

[Sluice Box Hero]

bummer dude.  you should make some sheet metal spacers to throw in with the joint when you are welding up the mount, that way there is some play in there so you can get the joint in and out, but not enough that the bolt wont clamp the joint.

[pumkin toy]

got some pics of the frame notch all welded in?

[Ramrod]

bummer dude.  you should make some sheet metal spacers to throw in with the joint when you are welding up the mount, that way there is some play in there so you can get the joint in and out, but not enough that the bolt wont clamp the joint.

no its the treads all fagged off, all the brackets are spot on.  the heim went in a ways and got hard and I gave it another turn.  after that it wouldnt come out with a 5' piece of tube on a cresent wrench.  is super tight

[Ramrod]

got some pics of the frame notch all welded in?

I do but not with me I left the camera in my runner.  I was missing the days of forging shoes so I cut the plate to 17" long with pointed ends and forged it all around with 4 bends so that it is one piece capping the whole hole and extending down the frame on both sides.  It is made of 3/16 diamond plate

[pumkin toy]

I do but not with me I left the camera in my runner.  I was missing the days of forging shoes so I cut the plate to 17" long with pointed ends and forged it all around with 4 bends so that it is one piece capping the whole hole and extending down the frame on both sides.  It is made of 3/16 diamond plate

nice!  sounds like it will be plenty strong enough.  cant wait to check out the pics

[Sluice Box Hero]

very nice. . . . .i used the torch tonight.  welded up my truss fully on the 14b, it started to cool and let out some seriously spine chilling pops as the whole weld along the cast on both sides let loose.  so i ground it all out and heated the flopp out of it and burned it in again. . . .still cooling.  im almost sure the form a gasket didnt fair so well on the cover though.  thinking ill trade it out for a fab one before hammers.

when do you think itll be wheelable?

[Ramrod]

hopefully soon, I need to stop lollygagging around but its gettting really close anyways

[Sluice Box Hero]

just waiting on my next paycheck and ill be done.

[Ramrod]

prime, all I need to buy are bolts and nuts.

[YODAWILL]

Shake down run at cow ?

[Ramrod]

thats what I was thinking, come out and grab those springs

[Sluice Box Hero]

I'd be down for cow mt. Just say when.

[Ramrod]

got inspired by all the snow talk the last few days and then getting denied by a nasty hill climb in my runner yesterday and busted out a ton of work today.   got one more piece to cut out and weld in and I think she should be a driver once I put it all back together. 

[Sluice Box Hero]

how about March 7th run.  that will give me time to make sure nothing is going to let loose and my rear and maybe dial it in.

[Ramrod]

im broke till I sell the runner and I cant sell the runner till my truck is done so once those are complete ill be down to wheel every weekend

[Sluice Box Hero]

haha, thats legit for sure.

[Ramrod]

got a little happy with the grinder, glad I wasnt running a cutoff wheel

[86turboyota]

ouch

[TIMS89CRAWLER]

hate it when that happens! that hurts and the grinder always wins 

[Duffil]

go eat some mickey ds you skinny .

you gonna clearcoat the heman ?

[Hyena]

your shirt get tangled up in it?  hate it when it tangles up in your shirt with your hand on the button and can't turn it off.

[Ramrod]

ya I had just drank a monster and like three glasses of wine and was grinding on a link and went to hit up the top side and the cord got stuck on something and the grinder kinda got pulled out of my hand and fell into my shirt and tore the flopp out of it but it was a millwakee with the paddle grip kinda switch so it shut off pretty fast

[Ramrod]

go eat some mickey ds you skinny .

you gonna clearcoat the heman ?

ya apparently that is he mans sword and then now the bow underneath that and his arrow in under the truck on the upper link mount

[Doof]

your shirt get tangled up in it?  hate it when it tangles up in your shirt with your hand on the button and can't turn it off.

that happened to me at school and it tore a pocket out of my leathers on the inside... sucked

a kid in out class sliced his nipple open with his 4.5" and then a few days later shattered a 9" cut off disk grinding out a root... there have been a few close calls with grinders in that class

[Ramrod]

Just put my 4runner for sale on here, scope it out if you want to see this thing wheel before November

[Ramrod]

cracked down on the truck today and got it pretty much done besides bump stops.  I fucked with the heim stuck in my panhard for  a while and ended up actually snapping it off in the link so I ground down the end and welded on a polyeurothane bushing instead.  doing this made my panhard a little too short though so im going to have to make a whole new setup when I come up with some money

[Ramrod]

made a fresh driveline with some .120 wall from my old rear shaft and a nice 85 cv for the snow and standard wheeling, angle is nice!
link mount on the frame is gusseted pretty heavily, there is also  1" bolt going through the whole frame and that bracket tightend up and welded in

[Ramrod]

the driveline only extends .5" from rideheight to full droop