Builds Marshmallow's build thread (1 Viewer)

[BlueCruiser84]

Damn that fat pig is sexy!!

I drove to moab with hubs locked on accident Chevy 60 and ford 70u...6.17s and old model MTR 40s. I think that’s about 900 miles?

I think 9 degrees? 13-4 for caster is 9 if I use my fingers to count and 3 toes. Dual cases and r150 on the taco longer than 80 a442 and axle location might be different as the landcruiser, despite the i6 seems better designed for this as the front forward of the radiator and the whole solid axle from factory tightens up the distance?? I dunno. Aftermarket diff cover with the fill hole up probably is the real difference. But your rig looks like a well fed polar bear in the one ton/40 morph!!

Good to see you back, booger!

I've read it four times now. I'm still not getting it.

 

[Ronny Grady]

Nice rig & fab work! I like the function first additive.

 

[dr_dobro]

how much further were you able to push the front axle from stock ? Also, where exactly did you re positioned the battery ? I am trying to fit 42’s as well and studying clearances for up travel....
Want to cut the inner fender guard right before comes down, also cut the outer part of the fender all the way to top of blinker which I will be ditching. You think this will give me more clearance ?

D.

 

[nukegoat]

how much further were you able to push the front axle from stock ? Also, where exactly did you re positioned the battery ? I am trying to fit 42’s as well and studying clearances for up travel....
Want to cut the inner fender guard right before comes down, also cut the outer part of the fender all the way to top of blinker which I will be ditching. You think this will give me more clearance ?

D.

Are you running a dana 60 up front? Depends on a lot of things

 

[bwakeling]

what WMS did you go with? Maybe it is tucked away in this somewhere but didnt see it.

 

[Broski]

So I then proceeded to get the link mounts on the axle tacked on (except panhard)

Panhard was a bit trickier. Because of differing lengths between drag link and panhard, it's not actually as simple as just making them parallel. That might be basically right if they were flat, but if they're not flat (even like 10-20 degrees of static misalignment) you need to look at their swept displacement curves in order to eliminate bump steer. So, I started on cardboard but eventually wrote a program and then just decided it would be easy to do it all in Excel (for visualization) so that's what I did. As you can see on my rudimentary method, though, the "parallel" approach I initially started with was actually substantially incorrect (needed to move it up 1.75"):

OK, but that sucks because it's interfering with the pumpkin. The stock cruiser track bar is all bendy so I decided to follow suit. Too much bend but I don't have a tube bender, I only have a borrowed "tube pincher" from harbor freight that received a pretty hot supper during this process.

I loved my pitbulls but they were really always in the way. They also liked to try to roll out of the garage when I wasn't looking. Each tire is over 100 lbs - like 118 or something (according to Pitbull, anyway) so once they got moving, they would destroy things (like my safety goggles, etc)

Starting to check articulation. I guess the truss is on now - which I also had to "customize" to fit my slightly-different-than-a-stock-front-dana-60 axle. Thinking I should have gone part-tiem and just let the driveshaft vibrate a little. But, well, you soldier on.

Dam it, I have been following this thread but for some reason not getting the notifications
I have catching up to do !

 

[GW Nugget]

@nukegoat do you still have Marshmallow?

 

[nukegoat]

@nukegoat do you still have Marshmallow?

Yeah, I do. I keep him in a garage and trailer him to the hammers from time to time

 

[BucketEighty]

@nukegoat I saw your smashed doors photo on Broski's build thread and it seems like that was Marshmallow? Can you post some photos of your cage? especially details of the roof pass-through and roof exo halo design.

 

[baldilocks]

Yeah, I do. I keep him in a garage and trailer him to the hammers from time to time

Him?

 

[nukegoat]

Him?

Him

 

[nukegoat]

@nukegoat I saw your smashed doors photo on Broski's build thread and it seems like that was Marshmallow? Can you post some photos of your cage? especially details of the roof pass-through and roof exo halo design.

It's a lot like joez. I think there's some more photos in this thread. Any questions about anything lmk