Making Of The Willy Mammoth

[Lady Di]

So...def looks like you are making progress on the house!

  he was going to start on it but we have to clear everything out of the living room for him to be able to do what he needs to do, and everything that is in the living room had been relocated to the LBC.
Since we are going to WV in another month, rather then load everything in the LBC and have to take it out again in a month, AND because there are mountains to drive up there as well, we decided this on last fab was the way to go first.

[Lady Di]

    wait... did I LAST FAB??       

[Willy Mammoth]

WOW, them 42" Irocks is spensive. Looking at $3100 for 5 tires 5 steel wheels and 5 new Stauns.

[Willy Mammoth]

 

[snowshoebrue]

are you going to run them on your toyota axles or are you gonna switch to 1 tons?

[CTENG in KS]

NOW THATS PIMP!

[Willy Mammoth]

are you going to run them on your toyota axles or are you gonna switch to 1 tons?

Toy axles till I can afford to switch to Unimog or Volvo portals.

[notajeep]

Toy axles till I can afford to switch to Unimog or Volvo portals.

With 42's?

[Willy Mammoth]

With 42's?

What is the question again?

[crawlerdan]

WOW, them 42" Irocks is spensive. Looking at $3100 for 5 tires 5 steel wheels and 5 new Stauns.

thinking about selling the current setup??

[Willy Mammoth]

thinking about selling the current setup??

http://board.marlincrawler.com/index.php?topic=37488.0

[notajeep]

What is the question again?

Sorry......
I was just had a moment of shock there.... The question was: Are you going to run the 42's on the toy axles until you get some sort of portal setup?

[blackdiamond]

Sorry......
I was just had a moment of shock there.... The question was: Are you going to run the 42's on the toy axles until you get some sort of portal setup?

It's a perfect plan.  If nothing breaks then excellent, if it does break if often changes the definition of "afford" and budget considerations.

I met a guy this AM driving a Mog with 46" Goodyears that he said he got from the Army Surplus for about $750 for five including shipping.  It was a sweet rig.   

[El Cheapo]

I wish I had a neighbor that wanted to learn caus I could use a good helper      

yeah, after reading this whole thread, I wish I was your neighbor so I could learn from something other than books. Oh, well. Looks Good.

[red]

a 4 1/2" thick radiator would be more than enough for the willy lol. but better to overkill than not enough.

if you were close i'd help ya out, but thats a long drive from northern utah to florida.

[Willy Mammoth]

a 4 1/2" thick radiator would be more than enough for the willy lol. but better to overkill than not enough.

if you were close i'd help ya out, but thats a long drive from northern utah to florida.

Time to sprout wings my good man cause the fun begins now.

I understand these fit a Mazda something, the core is the exact same size as the Explorer V6 except it is 3" narrower. Which turned on its side means no more clearance issues with the steering.

BBL 

[Willy Mammoth]

Less the tanks and trimmed down to get the cores as close as possible.

[red]

were you overheating alot on the trail?

[Willy Mammoth]

were you overheating alot on the trail?

No, just on the hwy at speed up hills. That is if you call 225* hot.  On the trail has never been a problem. Seems the diesels produce a lot more heat then the gas engines and I have very little space for a proper sized radiator, well that is till now.

[red]

yep, diesels are hotter than gassers when a load is put on them . unloaded they will take forever to get to operating temp though.

[93tonkatoy]

  With the 42's onthe driver's side, and the 38's still on the passenger side,as in the picture, makes me think you are trying to increase the pucker factor for the Mrs.!!!

[93tonkatoy]

  Shut up tonka!

[Willy Mammoth]

Nope, just lucky that I could figure out how to chop them on the driver side.  I would spend another 4 hrs trying to figure out how to do the other side with Photo Shop. 

Anyway I got the two cores welded together.    That was a tight spot to put a weld and the tubes are right there and they are very thin so one slip and they would disappear.

[red]

understatement on the tight fit!

[Fongs]

uhhh Marc

you get freeze behind this cooler
i shout give this pics to Colt...he had also temperatur-problems with his 1KZT

looks good

[Willy Mammoth]

Fongs

Here is one with it hanging in place. 

[93tonkatoy]

so, are you going to make custom tanks for the radiator, or do you have some lined up that fit?

[red]

it looks like the tanks that came with it will fit going by the picture, but i cant see the passanger side.

[Willy Mammoth]

so, are you going to make custom tanks for the radiator, or do you have some lined up that fit?

I have tanks right here, can you see them?

[Duffil]

Are you doing this one as a 2-pass also? I think we talked about it but I don't remember.