The Long Overdue RastaRig Buildup

[Rastaforte]

Oh when ma pipe is made of meetal - Rail to Txfr Case Shot

Fit-Up Views...





Until next time...

 

[StevoJonesFJ60]

Exhaust system is looking really nice.
I like how you used the pvc to route it and then worked the metal pipe to match.

Keep it up, get some footage of that motor running too.

 

[longbow]

Rasta,

Lots uv da good work goin on mon! Luv da pics.

That pipe be lookin good out of da metal!

Have fun,

Don

 

[LQ9 4D]

Ey briddah, makin a pipe neva look so eazy.

 

[Rastaforte]

A Diversion...

Thanks for the comments guys & I should be posting some updates this week for ya.

In meantime, you might have seen this guy's buildup, if not----amzing!
I was out exploring for some ideas & inspiration and stumbled upon his.

And...
Ya aint a Real man oontil you've used a Crane ...
to putt Ya Frame oon





Cheers....

Nice Turbo.
LOL, makes me laugh how hard I work just to put the engine in....much less go to this level.... I mean, I am just trying to get down the street and this guy...
he's going to Pluto


My BJ60 Landcruiser Build

 

[Dirtgypsy]

This is really looking great! I hated the exhaust portion of my build. I still have bugs to work out. I like the idea of the PVC pipe though! Very creative.

Clint

 

[cumminscruiser]

I did not believe the Mayan Calendar that said it would start yesterday, wow those guys are good. Then again pigs are flying.

 

[Rastaforte]

Good News....

Ma Brotha's ...
I have much good news to speak of.....
but ya noo me.

First,
A Story....

....And reminds me if you haven't seen a Friend's recent Victory of Effort.... please do check it out. He be ridin' high in his 40

https://forum.ih8mud.com/40-55-series-tech/499238-madn-voyage-fj40s-story-begins.html

Cumminscruiser: Aah toold ya. Mayan Calendar... Good

Keep the embers on .. glowing.....
... & tack a good sail for smooth...

 

[Rastaforte]

I had a Dream....

Though first..... een honor of our Brotha, I must admit I've not been too good at Boots4in' it on the rig....or, alas, on the Forum.
Updates are thin.... and I am just as....
well.

As the pressure of findin' work are mountin' & too often the month is too long fa the money left....
many little projects goin' into just makin this rig move...
Oond honestly I'm tired of luggin' tools out in a Beemer that is on it's last leg....
MOVE......
MOVIN'

I Dreamin' more of things...
That fly, or swim,
or dig....

yet it is I....
who must dig ma Way out ....
with Rasta....
Too Hot in this place down here by where Gold flowed in Rivers.....
long ago....

Am too still humbled at all the things my kinfolk are doin' to
THEIR tubs.....
well, humbled by rigs that DRIVE....
MOVE.....
as like
Men who where Boots...
Oond guys who Break Parts....
& Munch & Chow on tacos made a Metal...
Who fight Chucks in Combat...
... & Run Rum in while Moon Shines...
ova Guys who Cruise Rocks...
Who Like Orange...
55's...
Niek Niek Niek all Night
& oo always Keepin' It Weird...with Bonzo's Gonzo
Men who Laugh at Godly Gold Dust, Cruize witha Cummins...aan go Ova Land with their Werks...
Men who Still Wrench & stay Curiouso with Stevo
Cruisin Diehards to keep to the Kiefer Reefer Reefs...
who swing East of the Bay & grow Ivy on Da Sea
....Hunt Elk & Kiss Q's of 9's....
... who Roll Big holding Long Bows...
Who throw Dirt @ Gypsies.....

I dream too much now of being
Drowned as I just get my Tub to Move...
The Fish swim deep and I in my bowl grasp them like
tasks that keep comin'....



....

Let the Record show that this Tub be movin' by the 15th...
& registered with Kindly Folks from Dept of Motor Vehicles by Sept 1st....
or I'm not worth the Reefs I jump or the ones I
Roll....

To Roll these loops....
must close over several rig pieces that have been movin'
toward their invevitable conclusion....
though the Clock they go by
laughs at Me....
in my Silly Efforts to bend....

1. Intake/Exhaust: secure final supports for the muffler and rear tailpiece
2. Shifter for Transfer Case: complete modification of adapter plate, assemble and secure; make any floor mods that this requires
3. Clutch: complete adaptor plate to bell housin', secure slave, plumb
4. Cooling System: complete fan installation on AC condenser, mount, coolant/water added
5. Driveline: figure out how eets possible the splined end of the rear prop shaft no longer fits the sleeved yoke after just cutting the shaft to length & reassembling. Ya know some things a Man just cannot do----like take 8 steps forward to only go back 11
6. Fuel & *throttle* System: Verify idling good for 15 minutes with no issues - solid oil pressure, good temps, no muffler noises, no issues with IP or its timing/too much smoke/yadayadayada; fab and install the bell crank attaching stock *gas* pedal to IP
7. Steering: COMPLETED - swapped in grey one - wouldn't mate correctly to shaft from PS-pump - gave up and put back the original brown one. Again, 3 steps forward....
8. Electrical - Complete charging circuit, connect fan to manual switch in cab
9. Driving Issues: Bolts there/in, good & tight, grounds to chassis/body good, lights working, axles aligned and perch/springs hardware tight, fluids in, etc, etc, etc
10. B.A.R / D.M.V: issues resolved and rig REGISTERED. Bye, bye smoggin.......

And there... this Lantern lights upon ma Path to Go....

The next Phase for RastaRig must be more inspired than
*jooost*
movin' it.
HAHAHAHAHAHA....
What's havin' Power if I can't crawl ova Rocks with
no Locks...
no Air....
no Guards...
no sliders.....
carryin a sad answer to a front bumper,
no Winch.....

So. The Road must still Begin Again....
even as this one takes its Last Turn.
To still be inspired to reach
and continue



So. Now, where we've been...since last posts....
Well with hardly an update how woodja know?
So I Tack our Sails 'round to look and see behind.....

 

[Rastaforte]

Well but let's put a Face....

... to this Fool....
But more important....

A Sweet,
Deep,
Sultry.....
Rumble.....
to this

Rig.

Why a Fool?
I can't shut-up so
All ya Hear...
is the Sound.....
in the Video

It's the S-O-U-N-D,
that's the best, no?

Aaah, to be Diesel...
& only imagine the first Thoughts that went through
R. Diesel when his
first contraptions
shook & shuddered......
& gave Wings to
Carnot's Dreams....

I poured over on 4BT for ideas on bleeding the air and getting fuel flowing before trying to start Her.....
Took about 2 hours to get it all freed of air and
this is within minutes after the last bit of fuel spewing out of Cylinder 3 & 4 for bleeding @ Injectors. This is first short run:

First Light

Shortly after, not sure if the Injection Pump even could rev:

Some, er, throttle

 

[longbow]

Keep up the great work Rasta!!

Can't wait to see her roll under power!!

Longbow

 

[GLTHFJ60]

... to this Fool....
But more important....

A Sweet,
Deep,
Sultry.....
Rumble.....
to this

Rig.

Why a Fool?
I can't shut-up so
All ya Hear...
is the Sound.....
in the Video

It's the S-O-U-N-D,
that's the best, no?

Aaah, to be Diesel...
& only imagine the first Thoughts that went through
R. Diesel when his
first contraptions
shook & shuddered......
& gave Wings to
Carnot's Dreams....

I poured over on 4BT for ideas on bleeding the air and getting fuel flowing before trying to start Her.....
Took about 2 hours to get it all freed of air and
this is within minutes after the last bit of fuel spewing out of Cylinder 3 & 4 for bleeding @ Injectors. This is first short run:

First Light

Shortly after, not sure if the Injection Pump even could rev:

Some, er, throttle

You are one trippy dude

Good work.

 

[StevoJonesFJ60]

Its nice to hear that beast running. You're almost finished keep at it.

 

[Rastaforte]

GLTH...
that is an understatement.....
LOL

 

[Rastaforte]

Momma always said I was ... different......

Appreciate the encouragement gents.....really do.

So bringin' us current from the last 6-7 weeks... we turn to the intake and exhaust portion of Rehab for Rasta.... I've got so many things going right now that I'll be out, er, *character*.... I'm trying to nail some updates here to bring the thread up-to-date... so things will be brief

Had picked up off of Craiglist for $60 a muffler and exhaust pieces back to tailpipe. No luck on the downpipe but at that point & really no matter as I ended up doing that by hand too. The Pipe....

Last piece on I posted about was at this stage:


...which when welded and the last piece added to mate with muffler became this:


And so we start by having to make these pieces I'm calling P1 and P2A on this drawing:

 

[Rastaforte]

Exhaust & Intake Updates

Exhaust has got to be the most interesting----and frustrating----pieces to do... If you get into it you can kind of enjoy making things work, makin' it snake around obstacles---taking what you have and making it just work. But as I looked at the pieces I got from the seller for the exhaust, I realized this stuff wasn't going to allow me to cut with a tube cutter which was ( my preference at this point for the clean cut, exact location and QUIET)

So I ended up just throwing up the muffler---not the prettiest thing but I thought that with it being so large, I should nail it's location down first and then bring all the pipes up to it. The rest of the squished/box sort of exhaust pipe off of the Dodge truck would just become scrap.....





Now just needed to connect the piece I had already made last update (P2A) that connected with the downtube and swept along the rail and jogging around the first half of transfer case rear. From there needed a really bizarre "S" shaped piece (P2B in drawing) that would land to inlet of muffler. Then the tailpiece could be done... also as the weekend ended the last time exhaust work was done, I ran out of mandrel bends. I had originally bought only (2) 180 U-bends and realized I would need more. I suppose I got carried away with the bending and twisting thing.

 

[Rastaforte]

Exhaust & Intake Updates

Now the muffler that I mocked up there with coat hangers to just hold up before discovering string..... had to be switched around 180. My research found me concluding that the baffles in side should be oriented "swept back" rather than "scooping up" incoming exhaust gases from engine. The WRONG way:



What I learned is that both ways seem to OK, but typically you install with the baffles swept back----less back pressure (I'm conjecturing) and less noise in cab. Switched around to *correct* orientation (looking to rear):



Few weeks later the mandrel bends came in----found these online guys to be have some great pricing for aluminized steel 180's----$12.95. I knew I needed some hanging hardware so ordering that too... I wasn't worried about a little bit on shipping (Results for Mandrel Bends:Aluminized Steel:U-Bend)

 

[Rastaforte]

Exhaust & Intake Updates

That same week the mandrel bent U-pipe came in, I was able to snag a pair of electric fans out of a Mercedes at a local PickNPull....you can also see in the pic the hydraulic braided line I'm going to use to connect the clutch master to the, um, F-----ro slave cylinder. And the dreaded threaded rod with ends from McMaster. I'll be using it to make the *throttle*/Pedal linkage to IP:



The hanger hardware came in as well----the prices were great (MandrelBendingSolutions again). I can't believe the car parts stores sell this stuff for $6-8 a piece..... I paid $2.50 on avg for rubber insulators and hangers weren't that much more.



The PVC pipes/bends really made the the "S" shaped section of exhaust really easy----I also discovered that matching the cuts to metal became humorously simple once I marked the PVC pieces so I could rotate the sections to "flat" and then bring them back to the desired shape..... turns out once I modeled it with the plastic, marked the plastic I could flatten it and then use that flattened version to lay the metal up against. Even so, that last piece I could not make the tight bends necessary to nail my destination align perfectly with muffler inlet. At this point I was about 1/2 in off and just figured now that I knew the muffler pretty much fit and was up and snug as high as I was comfortable with----I could move the muffler front up and over slightly to match.

With exhaust piece P2A up and hung with string and muffler waiting.....I cut up stock for the "S" piece (P2B) and got it where I wanted its sections to be ...

 

[Rastaforte]

Exhaust & Intake Updates

 

[Rastaforte]

Exhaust & Intake Updates

At this point I have all exhaust loosely in and fitted up so that all that needs doing is the tailpiece. With PVC in hand I model a couple of trys and end up with this:


Piece is cut in metal and welded... fit-up for this stage of rig buildup looks OK: