My mobile base camp build

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Looking good, the concept you have is really sound. I am nervous for your final weight though. Either way, you are gonna gain some serious storage... which next to weight is my highest priority!

Keep it up, its looking great!
 
make some dust shields on the suspension arms to help protect the air-bags just that little bit more.
 
Spent the past couple weekends cleaning up the shop and organizing, and then making room for my new Powermax 1000 plasma cutter and Ingersoll-rand 60 gallon air compressor :grinpimp::grinpimp:

Got a couple hours in on Saturday evening this weekend and cut out some brackets for the trailing arm bushings. I would have made it much further, but Home Depot doesn't carry 9/16" bolts of any variety :mad:

Going wheeling this coming weekend, but hopefully the next weekend I'll be able to get a few more hours in on it. I think once I get the suspension done, it will move much faster because the sub-projects won't be quite so daunting.
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I have the same excuses with my trailer. But main one is paint now as I've already gotten my axle and suspension complete. I was all set up to do it last weekend, and the union workers at my company went on strike... Now it's 12 hours x 7 days until it's resolved. Don't these people (and women) understand we need time to play in the garage? :o)

At least I got 2 days off after working 16 days straight and I'll be taking it camping. Maybe this will help with motivation once the strike is over.

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elmo4vt said:
I have the same excuses with my trailer. But main one is paint now as I've already gotten my axle and suspension complete. I was all set up to do it last weekend, and the union workers at my company went on strike... Now it's 12 hours x 7 days until it's resolved. Don't these people (and women) understand we need time to play in the garage? :o)

At least I got 2 days off after working 16 days straight and I'll be taking it camping. Maybe this will help with motivation once the strike is over.
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Careful there mr Mangler, er Manager.

1) Wimmens are people too. :confused: really??

2) This union worker is on 24 hr shifts now, though I've worked 21 day x 16hr+ shifts at a-non union job previous. Our u-prez just worked a 120hr shift (by choice w/mgmt approval). We may not legally strike, even tho work conditions may warrant it. (no rehab on extended fire scenes, repeatedly).


So get back to work you soft-handed lil crybaby: you can vacation when the U sez u can. :p
 
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Arya,

I'd figure out a way to make the toe adjustable on each axle. Using cam washers from an IFS or IRS equipped vehicle may be the ticket.
 
Cool setup! I hope you're still making progress with it.
 
Spent a couple hours on this on Friday. No pictures though :frown:

Put the new plasma cutter to good use removing the old 1/8" steel diamond plate floor. Got about halfway through it before I had to quit for the day, but progress is being made. In the process of cutting out the floor I got the body bolted down to the frame at 4 of the 8 body mount bolts.

I hope to make a bit more progress this coming weekend as well. I'll try to get some pics up then.
 
alia176 said:
Arya,

I'd figure out a way to make the toe adjustable on each axle. Using cam washers from an IFS or IRS equipped vehicle may be the ticket.
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Well, you got me thinking. As much as I wanted to ignore your input and press onwards to get this thing done, I decided to act on your idea.

A tease :D :
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hee hee hee, I'm here for you brotha!!!
 
So the toe and camber brackets are just about finished. Here are a couple of teaser pics to see what I've been up to.

What you see is one trailing arm's worth of brackets. The horizontal slotted bracket will adjust toe, and the vertically slotted bracket will adjust camber. I'm thinking the camber bracket will go to the outside of the vehicle and the toe bracket will go to the inside, but that's not 100% at this point.

The blank cutouts you see will eventually get drilled with the final location of the bolts in the slotted holes and they will be inserted into the larger slots you see. This will in essence lock the bolt in place. These cutouts will get welded in, but not so permanently that they can't be removed and the arms adjusted in the future.

Alright, lemme have it, is it going to work? or fail miserably? ;p
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very nice. Laser cutters? I'm jealous.

ok, tell me why do you feel a need for camber? I can see the need for toe but if the pivot point of both arms are on a single plane (using a straight rod as a guide between chassis rails), then would you still the camber adj? Just curious.
 
alia176 said:
very nice. Laser cutters? I'm jealous.

ok, tell me why do you feel a need for camber? I can see the need for toe but if the pivot point of both arms are on a single plane (using a straight rod as a guide between chassis rails), then would you still the camber adj? Just curious.
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Thanks, they were actually cut on a CNC plasma table. I used my buddy's, but I actually have my own table on order, just waiting for it to get here :grinpimp:

With regards to the camber question, it was more a question of why not? I did notice that although the axle didn't shift when I made my arms, they did bend near the end of the tubes closest to the spindles. Because of that I figured I will make everything adjustable, dial it in, then make it permanent.
 
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