Woody.....glad you enjoyed it....sorry about the 40K!!
Jack......thanks for the help on saving me from the Abyss, had a good time, always great to wheel with you!!
Jimbro
I was surprised at how little needed to be changed.
The rear outer (inner frame stayed as original) frame tubes on each side had to be cut and redesigned to allow for the new shock location. New shock attachment points were installed along with some cross bracing.
The lower link frame...
Knuckles and outers are fabbed.
Got another, different FJ 40 project, I have/need to finish before the rear steer starts.
Rear steer 1610 project should start about the end of October.
Will see if we can get Lance and Woody to do some blow by blow.
Later, Jimbro
Poser asked;
State/Local law going to give me hell if I run my junk on the road down there?
Stay close to me.........the law will be to busy giving me grief to notice you!
Loaded and ready,
Jimbro
Count down...................12 days..................awesome trails!!!!
Clayton........Green Acres on Saturday.........all day to Git R Done, a chance to run some trails that few have seen.
Clayton..........Sunday am...........the old trails (what a history) that are talked about, but are...
OK.....Got some more to recap......
From Jimbro;
Fact - Walker Evans 17/9, 5"BS, 5 on 5.5 single Beadlock - 37#
add 6# for another Beadlock or 43# Double Beadlock.
From fj40charles;
I've got MRT's 15x12" 6 hole 36 bolt beadlock and it weighs 45 lbs.
Woody says;
Current 15x10 Allied...
Bruce,
Sweet build job, looking forward to seeing it work.
An Atlas has a safety that won't let you shift it into front wheel drive, in high range if the rear wheel high is not engaged (I spent four hours, 5 calls to AA to get someone to splain that to me). This is a their safety feature...
They promised to send the pic of the buggy-- | -- verticle.........thru the last gate, busting the plane of the finish cones with the roof.
Should be sweeeeeeet!!
Later, Jimbro
Coming soon..............to a location near you!!!
Columbus, Ohio...............W.E.ROCK USA.
July 29th to 31st................The ROC.
Looking forward to meeting Spaceghost and other east coast rockers.
Hope to see Woody, Lance is making plans to come.
Later, Jimbro
There sure are allota handles and buttons in there. Jim, do you know what all those things do? Lance said,
OK, lets start with the dash...........
Upper left switch is the main power
1st button down is the starter button
2nd item down is headlights...
Let me see, how did this all start?
I think it was, December 2004...................
All I was going to do was help with cutting trails at Clayton..............
Met Nolen on that trip, and the rest...........is history.
Saturday 4/23/05..............
It is now on it's feet............
Took it for a short spin........
Some severe offcamber..............
Some hard articulation.
Caution.................
The skinny pedal can be hazardous to...