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Tub Thumping (Done to Chumbawumba's Iconic Song!)
Next in line, was the pickup tub. Like I mentioned earlier, there were a handful of options for this, viz, nicked from a 45, fabbed from scratch, using the donor 40's rear body, and even NOT building a tub at all and simply bolting on the spare wheel, and cans, and jacks and tools in place atop the frame!
Again, for reasons I'd mentioned earlier, we decided to go with the rear body from the donor 40. These pictures show the "hemming and hawwing" I've spoken of. Our low-tech solution - in the absence of precision tools to provide exact data about balance, position, alignment etcetera - if it LOOKS right, it probably IS right.
Next in line, was the pickup tub. Like I mentioned earlier, there were a handful of options for this, viz, nicked from a 45, fabbed from scratch, using the donor 40's rear body, and even NOT building a tub at all and simply bolting on the spare wheel, and cans, and jacks and tools in place atop the frame!
Again, for reasons I'd mentioned earlier, we decided to go with the rear body from the donor 40. These pictures show the "hemming and hawwing" I've spoken of. Our low-tech solution - in the absence of precision tools to provide exact data about balance, position, alignment etcetera - if it LOOKS right, it probably IS right.







