BPB Posted June 17, 2009 Author Posted June 17, 2009 Well I have the frame side trackbar in. and here are some pics. First of all Willy, here is your fish plate. Here are some of the under side and the trackbar mount. I had to put a little bit of an angle on the trackbar mount so that I can have it centered over the axle and still have it clear the coil.
MJSlaya Posted June 17, 2009 Posted June 17, 2009 may need to add a few more rosette welds for strength and dexterity.
reson46 Posted June 17, 2009 Posted June 17, 2009 First of all Willy, here is your fish plate. Fish plates usually have more of a fish shape. :yes: Something like this - <>. It helps to spread the vertical load. Are these cell phone pics? Willy
BPB Posted June 17, 2009 Author Posted June 17, 2009 Yes it is all that I have. To be honest I had to google fish plate to see what you were talking about. And slayta, I think that I am ok on rosette welds I have over 100 per side, how are your welding projects coming???
reson46 Posted June 17, 2009 Posted June 17, 2009 Yes it is all that I have. Maybe you should hire Darren as your photographer. I bet he would work for beer. Willy
BPB Posted June 17, 2009 Author Posted June 17, 2009 his wife won't let him borrow her camera for me because I am fat, lazy and ugly...... I like the cell camera, it is like beer goggles for my welds. :D
MJSlaya Posted June 17, 2009 Posted June 17, 2009 But if you give him a beer then I have to come over and drink and then we get to drunk and black out and puke on ben.
Darren Posted June 18, 2009 Posted June 18, 2009 Who's getting blackout drunk?! I'll be there in 20 minutes.
BPB Posted June 18, 2009 Author Posted June 18, 2009 Here are my steering angles the high end of the draglink will actually be lower due to a misalignment spacer, I think that will make them almost identical. Oh and welcome to comancheclub mjslaya, Where is your build thread?
MJSlaya Posted June 18, 2009 Posted June 18, 2009 rig has already built so not much fun now. Plus I am to busy crawlin over mall speed bumps and breakin shafts on expectant mother parking curbs.
BPB Posted June 18, 2009 Author Posted June 18, 2009 ok well I made some more progress, I decided to take a break from the frame plating for a night and work on the axle end of the trackbar. I spent about an hour and five cut off wheels to remove and grind down the trackbar mount and steering stabilizer mounts. I accidentally ordered the wrong size axle tube diameter of trackbar mount. So rather then paying the $24 for shipping it back and forth I got about a foot of 3.5" od .375 wall tubing and am sleeving the section of my axle that the trackbar mounts to. So to keep in the spirit of my frame plating I have 18 rosette welds on the top half of the tube. Then I welded the entire perimeter. Then I welded all the seems on the trackbar mount, jacked the truck up to proper ride height, got it at a perfect 90 degrees and tacked it in place. I am noticing that the trackbar mount is going to collect water, dirt and what ever lands in the center of the mount, Should I be drilling a couple holes in the mount?
reson46 Posted June 18, 2009 Posted June 18, 2009 I am noticing that the trackbar mount is going to collect water, dirt and what ever lands in the center of the mount, Should I be drilling a couple holes in the mount? Maybe close in the hole in the top and weld up every seam? I'm about to use a similar bracket to move the track bar over the axle and was considering doing this. Willy
BPB Posted June 19, 2009 Author Posted June 19, 2009 I think that I will just drill a couple drain holes in the bottom of the mount.
BPB Posted September 14, 2009 Author Posted September 14, 2009 Well I finally had some time to work on the mj yesterday. I built my track bar. I'll post up a pic tomorrow. I also got a new front clip from a jeep that I am parting out.
BPB Posted September 28, 2009 Author Posted September 28, 2009 Ok so I spent the weekend at u pull it... the clunkers are in!!!!! My mj has a new nose!!! Here is a picture of my trackbar The 3/4x4 grade 8's for the trackbar Here is my design for my crossmember. Me andDarren are building it tomorrow.
BPB Posted September 28, 2009 Author Posted September 28, 2009 I didn't get the fenders togo with the nose because I am building tube fenders.
BPB Posted September 29, 2009 Author Posted September 29, 2009 I saw this on my way home from the steel yard today it is a f/s bronco with a narrowed body sitting on rockwells with coilovers. Well I got started on my crossmember today. I started by making a frame out of .120 wall 1x1 square tube The I tacked on pieces of 1/8" plate on the bottom side. I need it to be 3/4" thick on the parts where it mounts to the frame so I used 1/2" angle iron and made box's with plate. Then I welded up all the seams and ground them smooth so it will slide over the rocks better I got a start on plating the top side. it is getting pretty heavy.
Oizarod115 Posted October 1, 2009 Posted October 1, 2009 shouldn't fold up on the rocks like my stock one has :cheers: looking beefy!
BPB Posted October 4, 2009 Author Posted October 4, 2009 So I wound up going to a couple u pull its with a buddy looking for 97+ front clip parts. I was looking inside of an xj and decided that I wanted the wood grain trim on my door panel. So I grabbed them I didn't want the all pleather door panels so I cut my panells off with a razor blade and then popped on the woodgrain piece. now it matches my dash.
BPB Posted January 17, 2011 Author Posted January 17, 2011 Well I took some time and went back to the drawing board, and Ive been busy as of late. I moved into a place with a big heated garage. I'm finally back to work on my jeep. Here's a brief rundown of what I've done since I last posted on here. First of all I got late model fenders to match the clip because It's gonna be a while before I do the tube work up front. Then I cut the ford radius arm mounts off my crossmember Then i cut about a foot off my radius arms and notched it to fit some dom fitted with tube adapters and ballistic style joints on the ends. I made up mounts for the joints to mount on the crossmember, welded them up and have the tacked in place, welding them up tomorrow. pushed my front axle 1.6" forward to 114.5 for clearance between my track bar and oil pan.
peteco Posted January 18, 2011 Posted January 18, 2011 i thought road noise was part of the jeep experience :waving:
BPB Posted February 23, 2011 Author Posted February 23, 2011 Just picked up a JD^2 model 3 bender and all the fixings for air/hydraulic now I just need some steel
BPB Posted June 25, 2012 Author Posted June 25, 2012 So I haven't been around in a while thought i'd give you an update. I now have the thing light up like a christmas tree. Lightforces, hid's rock lights and reverse lights. It has new shoes New 39.5 Irocks. After spending a lot of time tinkering with the radius arms I am doing away with them in the next month or two I will be installing the Clayton 3 link kit that is sitting in my garage. The front now has a spartan. I have 5.38 gears for the front, just waiting on funding for the rear gears.... 4.10's and 40's sucks..... Oh and I just dropped in a new motor too. 4.0 with 2k on a rebuild.
BPB Posted October 17, 2012 Author Posted October 17, 2012 Some more updates. New bracketry Truss and gussets Claytons Rock rings Poser shot
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