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I wondered how you were going to fit your p-brake. Forgot to ask you about that. Glad it worked out.

Got to see this rig in person Sunday. Wow, what awesome work. Keep it up!
 
thanks, I look forward to wheeling with you... who knows, maybe some of the others on the forum want to go out on the 16th?

for the want of bolts... onto another corner while tomorrow I'll go track down the bolts I need

air filter and water/oil separator mounted


last weld for this side of the exhaust - I honestly haven't decided how elaborate I want to get with the outlets... but this is enough to make it make some noise.


onto the back - braces


now when I push down on the end of the tire carrier, the bumper moves with the suspension - call it the 220# leverage test :)

 
Looks stout. Your spare should stay attached to your carrier :)

That is right where I tied my rear cage to the frame. My rear tire moves back when going up (leaf springs) and hits there. Just barely. Of course.

I was on I5 heading home from your house and going through the scalloped section of pavement near the airport. My spare was moving backwards and forwards quite a lot with each bounce. I wonder how long it will do that before my pivot shears.
 
overbuilt is a good start at my shop - bring it by, we may need to put overloads on your '40 afterwards but the tire will stay put :)

you mentioned curiosity about how much I took off to use the TJ flares.... here's a good picture of when the metal was still there
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Are we shooting for Tonga Ridge or Jacks Pass? I can post up on NW Wheelers and to the Seattle Cruiserheads and maybe line up a few more rigs.
 
Dana 300 transfer case brake for Novak 32 spline.

first some studs to mount to - for those curious, that blue bottle is a vacuum pump that uses an air compressor as the power source. the bolts I replaced aren't blind bolts, so I applied vacuum to the case to keep the oil from draining out.


bottom bracket




upper bracket (round 1)


I like how it's compact, but working on it would be a pain.... still haven't decided, fortunately I can mount it either way




upper bracket round 2


ready for paint




paint is drying... that should hold the vehicle in place to the limit of the pads.... if not, I have other ideas....
I suppose this saved me some money - but the truth is there isn't a Dana 300 transfer-case brake option... some that are close if you use the other 32 spline upgrade (Advance Adapters), but I liked some features on the Novak 32 spline so fabrication was required....
cost was about $100 and most of that was the wilwood go-kart brake (iirc, $68). I used the wilwood brake because it floats on the rails, it's light, and it's dead-simple... one thing I wasn't thrilled about - the holes around the flat-u-joint are both metric and SAE. That means that 1/2 are 1/4" -24 thread bolts, the other .... ummm, whatever it is is just small enough that it will break screws if you try to drive them in. I'm not sure why Novak did it that way (nor am I sure why they used metric bolts for the u-joint adapter).... not a huge deal, but certainly one you should be aware of if you plan on doing what I did.
 
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assembled picture of brake


worked on the tire carrier and battery box. I've been considering tying the batteries together, and I'm certain that is what I'm going to do... if it was an automatic, I'd get concerned about running on battery down so it won't start, I can pull start this since it's a manual transmission so I'm simply not going to worry about it. It will be nothing, later, to divide the systems - but at this point it will be faster to wire it was one system.... so that's what I'm going to do.

I didn't like how the carrier worked - so I think I'll do load-carrying with a bearing, and center using acetel, delrin, or UHMW as the bottom bearing. As you can see, I have all those materials already so it's merely a matter of deciding which to use

delrin

is normally used for suspension points - but it does not flex.... at all, it is a unidirectional material but it will outlast the car once installed..

home depot sells a shop mat that I've yet to actually use as a shop mat


but it makes great padding for dog crates, and batteries...
 
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a bit of recharging today


Buick got to laugh at a friend of ours


and here I was wish my '40 was done - either that or I had 40s on my H3... either would have got us through.... not-typical for the PNW, the snow was really light and powdery - with a ice crust base about a foot below it.... despite some great runs at the bank... there was not getting through and up...
 
Yes, the Pacific Northwet (yep, no S) is dealing with an unusual weather pattern this winter. Here in the mid-Willamette Valley we are dealing with our second bout of below freezing temps at night. This time we are now adding moisture to the cold temps. My wife works Sunday through Thursday at OR State U, starting at 6 AM. Yesterday when she left there was a skiff of snow on the ground, but no ice, YET. By daylight ice pellets were coming down, and temps were very slowly rising up to about the freezing level. Liquid turned to ice, with more liquid on top of that. It froze again over night and we had a mess this morning.

My son also starts at 6 AM. I watched him make his way down the gravel driveway, after he had problems getting up the very slight incline where he parks his car. I got a text from him at 7:13 letting me know he made it to work. I don't think it took him over an hour and a half to go 7 miles, but he did let me know it was icy.

Makes me wish my 40 was operable, but I do have a 4 X 4 pickup if needed.

Don
 
Last year, we had ice and it took me an hour and a half to get from one side of my subdivision to the other...even taking the route with the shallowest inclines.
 
Oregon... Hmm, isn't that south of the border?

handcannon said:
Yes, the Pacific Northwet (yep, no S) is dealing with an unusual weather pattern this winter. Here in the mid-Willamette Valley we are dealing with our second bout of below freezing temps at night. This time we are now adding moisture to the cold temps. My wife works Sunday through Thursday at OR State U, starting at 6 AM. Yesterday when she left there was a skiff of snow on the ground, but no ice, YET. By daylight ice pellets were coming down, and temps were very slowly rising up to about the freezing level. Liquid turned to ice, with more liquid on top of that. It froze again over night and we had a mess this morning.

My son also starts at 6 AM. I watched him make his way down the gravel driveway, after he had problems getting up the very slight incline where he parks his car. I got a text from him at 7:13 letting me know he made it to work. I don't think it took him over an hour and a half to go 7 miles, but he did let me know it was icy.

Makes me wish my 40 was operable, but I do have a 4 X 4 pickup if needed.

Don
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