Dad's project truck

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schmitty

schmitty

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I thought i would show everyone dad's new project truck that he bought from Eric a while back. Below is the original tread from Eric.

https://forum.ih8mud.com/ga-georgia-cruisers/267727-ham-nga-fjcs-minitruck.html

Just finished putting the second transfer case and front locker in last weekend. Cage work was done by Patrick awhile back but the truck was never finished. Still needs a new master cylinder, front drive shaft, and some tinkering with the carb to make it run better but its slowly getting there. Enough with the boring stuff heres some pictures.

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Worked on the floor today too bad we will have to take it all apart again because we forgot to modify the shifter so you can shift into 2 wheel drive low range.
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That's all I will update once Dave gets his truck out of dad's garage and we can work on this one again :flipoff2:
 
Cool photos. Nice cupholders. :)

Gas tank still take on water?
 
I'm curious, why the big front "stinger"? Can anyone explain? does it help get over rocks or something?
 
StockRunner said:
Cool photos. Nice cupholders. :)

Gas tank still take on water?
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Dad cleaned out the gas tank and removed all the water. Then we left it outside in the rain last week and I would assume its full of water again :meh:.

pillguy said:
I'm curious, why the big front "stinger"? Can anyone explain? does it help get over rocks or something?
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Patrick is going to have to jump in about the size of the stinger because he built it. It's there so if you roll over forward it should kick your truck to its side and not directly on your top hopefully.
 
schmitty said:
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Patrick is going to have to jump in about the size of the stinger because he built it. It's there so if you roll over forward it should kick your truck to its side and not directly on your top hopefully.
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I would recommend that you don't run a rigid body analysis to get the loads and stresses through the stinger for such scenario. The vision is better than reality ... sort of what we see from the news.
 
actually the stinger was never finished, the original idea was to run two stringers through the grill and down to the frame and eventually tie into the exo cage for more support and also to be used as a shock mount. as for function the stinger design was originally made on the Iceland trucks to prevent falling off into cravases on the glaciers. as for the southeast use I can attest that they work very well to drop the truck over to the side duriong a roll over and to keep the hood line from getting damaged in the case of a endover roll, both of which I have done in my FJ-40. No, larry it would be stupid to tie the stinger into the body, the sheet metal would never be structurally strong enough to hold the weight of the vehicle. John, It's good to see that you are working on it, can't wait to see how the rear suspension works out, I spent a long time designing and fabing it up.
 
huston53 said:
actually the stinger was never finished, the original idea was to run two stringers through the grill and down to the frame and eventually tie into the exo cage for more support and also to be used as a shock mount. as for function the stinger design was originally made on the Iceland trucks to prevent falling off into cravases on the glaciers. as for the southeast use I can attest that they work very well to drop the truck over to the side duriong a roll over and to keep the hood line from getting damaged in the case of a endover roll, both of which I have done in my FJ-40. No, larry it would be stupid to tie the stinger into the body, the sheet metal would never be structurally strong enough to hold the weight of the vehicle. John, It's good to see that you are working on it, can't wait to see how the rear suspension works out, I spent a long time designing and fabing it up.
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Patrick,
You just provided the key information ... the stinger is an incomplete project; it has not been braced for full loading.

Also, my reference to rigid body analysis had no implication to loading the sheet metal. In a rigid body analysis, you would assume the the truck did not bend (deflect) as you calculated the loads and strsses at the attachment of the stinger. This would yeild higher predictions for loads and stresses of the stinger attachment then a flexibile body analysis. In a flexible body analysis, the calculations would incorporate deflections of the truck inconjunction with the stinger. There would be a lot more calculations required with this approach for a slightly more accurate analysis, so a rigid body analysis typically the most efficient method to size and design the attachment.
(more words and hot air than the topic merits, but it is lunch time ...)
 
sounds like stinger envy to me Larry.
 
Patrick,
I can't say that it works for me, but my household is unified in saying that I am obtuse so my credibility is not a strongly held stock.

Before returning focus on the truck, isn't the anatomy wrong? Stingers are usually associated with insects like Yellowjackets and the stinger is on the rear. However, here the stinger is on the front of the truck rather than the rear. Is there better name in keeping with parallels to anatomy?
 
Have we forgotten our friend marty the Mosquito, he has a stinger up front rather than in the rear.....:)
LDowney said:
Patrick,
I can't say that it works for me, but my household is unified in saying that I am obtuse so my credibility is not a strongly held stock.

Before returning focus on the truck, isn't the anatomy wrong? Stingers are usually associated with insects like Yellowjackets and the stinger is on the rear. However, here the stinger is on the front of the truck rather than the rear. Is there better name in keeping with parallels to anatomy?
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pillguy said:
Have we forgotten our friend marty the Mosquito, he has a stinger up front rather than in the rear.....:)
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I completely forgot about mosquitos and I have never met your bud Marty (never heard of the book before your reference). However, the blood draw apendage on a mosquito is called a proboscis and was described as being somewhat fragile in the mosquito anatomy info that I pulled up. Good comparison or is there better?
 
larry, last time I looked it is a truck and not an insect, however if you go back and look at the pics than you will notice that there is a stinger on the rear also.
 
A hendog sighting??????

Hey Josh and John... In one of the pics I think there is a sighting of the Hendogs junk...go ahead and rob parts if needed, I think the stone castle, lazy boy and tivo have gotten the best of him..

Later :grinpimp:
 
taterhead said:
Hey Josh and John... In one of the pics I think there is a sighting of the Hendogs junk...go ahead and rob parts if needed, I think the stone castle, lazy boy and tivo have gotten the best of him..

Later :grinpimp:
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:cheers: You see how high the grass is getting around it. Hendog, we're gonna start putting flowers in there! :flipoff2:
 
Looks like a great crawler project truck :cool: Do you have a winch for it? That'll be geared stupid low :smokin: Prolly gonna hafta run a CV at the rear tcase (?) 1st time I've seen Bronco radius arms used in the rear w/ stock bushings. Good for a low buck linked rear :meh: I assume it has on board air or just a large airtank (?) Keeping the leafs :rolleyes: for the front?
 
LC_Hamma said:
Looks like a great crawler project truck :cool: Do you have a winch for it? That'll be geared stupid low :smokin: Prolly gonna hafta run a CV at the rear tcase (?) 1st time I've seen Bronco radius arms used in the rear w/ stock bushings. Good for a low buck linked rear :meh: I assume it has on board air or just a large airtank (?) Keeping the leafs :rolleyes: for the front?
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No winch yet but I'm sure it will get one once it is up and running. No CV on the rear case yet and hopefully we won't have to use one. We will see how the rear works so far it doesn't seem to flex much but we haven't given it much of a test. Yes the front will stay on leaves for now, nothing wrong with running leaf springs and I bet it gets on a trail ride before yours is finished :flipoff2: Air tank might go away we will see.
 
You may need to get some more weight on that rear. Those coils are probably too stiff for the light weight of the frame. That's the issue mine has, but it still works (when I have the time to take it out).

Looks like now if I ever get any funds for upgrades/repairs I have the new experts close by!
 
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