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04-09-2009, 03:02 PM
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| Rock Crawler Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Pasadena
Posts: 968
|  Mean Old Rat Rod Truck: MORRT So anyways, other than coming up with overly simplistic anagrams, i also like to build things...not thing other people have built, new things. Why fall to the labors of others and not get anywhere new? I don't want to go to the moon, I want to go to Mars. I don't want to buy a pair of shoes with a design on em, i want to buy a pair of plain shoes, and draw on them. Anyways, point being, I build...differently. I build things with things...and some people don't understand. So if you are a "normal person", look away now. If you have a few screws loose, tune in, this should be a good'n. On to the actual description of the project. I had this...bruiser. it was...stock. the chassis was swiss cheese and filled with this weird...epoxy i want to say. Someone had tried to weld the rear crossmembers to the chassis. They failed. I ground away what i think was safety silv rendering a clean frame and crossmembers. Pried away the epoxy. Cleaned it up all over. The front arch of the chassis is bent to Hell. So...being the sacreligous fool I am, I take out the original trans, replace it with a gd-600 mated to an axial trans and call it good. Not quite good for me. I hated how wide and weird it was. The hub system is RETARDED. Dremel came out and i started smiling. Cut the rear axle narrower and crossdrilled the stock axle shaft to fit a 12mm hex. That was the easy part. Not so much easy as made me happy. I then started work on the front axle. I figured out the exact specs of parts that would allow me to double bearing the front knuckles. After that, it needed way more steering...so dremel came back out and ground away the inside of the pivot ball area. There indeed was a lot more steering to be had. Still waiting on the parts to be cut. In the mean time, I started hacking...err...modifying the chassis to suit my needs. I lobbed off the rear 3" and the front 2" of chassis. Much better. I like approach and departure angles. (breath) So, Now to find a body to put on it. I looked at 1:1 trucks that I liked. I found a few that were perfect. One was a Ford Ranger. Pics below. The other is a F-350 cab with an extreme dovenose and overall hardcore everything. Then I decided those were too...Modern. So I turn to something I really like...Rat Rods. Search around and decided I would just make a generic Rat Rod because replicating things isn't my style. Anyways, I guess here are some pics. The ranger i wanted to build.  A few Rat Rods I'm taking some inspiration from.       So after that spew of pics, I should include my own, right? WRONG. JK, Here they are.    Please leave any comments you might have. I can take it. :whip: |
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04-09-2009, 07:35 PM
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| Rock Crawler Join Date: May 2007 Location: pasadena, tx
Posts: 847
| SWEET! is it done yet? post some pics of the mods. |
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04-09-2009, 07:42 PM
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| Rock Crawler Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Pasadena
Posts: 968
| Not just yet young grasshopper. I will post em when i get the parts. |
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04-09-2009, 10:38 PM
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| Quarry Creeper Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: location:location:
Posts: 215
| great project daniel. i have been rolling around a similar idea for a while now in my head, but was going more with a rwd road version. this looks pretty cool though, i like the idea of a rat rod/crawler. really interested to see what you come up with. |
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04-10-2009, 03:41 AM
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| Newbie Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Toronto
Posts: 48
| cool, look forward to seeing some progress shots |
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04-29-2009, 05:06 PM
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| Rock Crawler Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: gilbert
Posts: 601
| updates? |
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04-29-2009, 07:17 PM
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| Gold Star Baby!   Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: I was raised on the dairy, biotch
Posts: 2,749
| Ive seen this thing drive around town so many times in the past. Havent seen it in a while, but i think its the ratiest of the rods:  |
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04-29-2009, 08:43 PM
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| Newbie Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: tulsa
Posts: 41
| this will be a sweet build |
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04-30-2009, 07:12 AM
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| Rock Crawler Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Oxford, MA
Posts: 807
| Very cool. I'm looking forward to following this one. I love rat rods. |
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05-07-2009, 11:18 AM
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| Introvert   Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Do I look like a freaking people person?
Posts: 887
| Any updates? This looks like it could be interesting. |
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05-07-2009, 11:35 AM
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| Rock Crawler Join Date: May 2007 Location: pasadena, tx
Posts: 847
| all his updates are on scale. |
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05-07-2009, 02:01 PM
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| Introvert Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Do I look like a freaking people person?
Posts: 887
| Well I'll be a.................................... Here's a link to it http://www.scale4x4rc.org/forums/showthread.php?t=33140 |
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05-07-2009, 05:56 PM
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| Rock Crawler Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Pasadena
Posts: 968
| woops, didnt know anyone had responded...    |
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05-09-2009, 11:37 PM
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| Rock Crawler Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Pasadena
Posts: 968
| well here is my failure of a hood. preadded the dents from the tree that grew through the front end and bent it to hell. its all over rough...good thing it is gonna get a healthy rusting...    |
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05-10-2009, 08:45 AM
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| Rock Crawler Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Beechview/Pittsburgh
Posts: 536
| nice! I am digging the buggy leaf front end... |
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05-10-2009, 09:45 AM
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| Rock Crawler Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Lehigh Valley
Posts: 675
| Sweet, that is looking awesome |
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05-10-2009, 04:20 PM
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| Rock Crawler Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Pasadena
Posts: 968
| outside pics!        |
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05-10-2009, 05:36 PM
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| Upgrayedd  Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Houston
Posts: 969
| Looks awesome man |
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05-10-2009, 06:31 PM
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| Quarry Creeper Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Gresham
Posts: 388
| This thing looks great  |
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05-10-2009, 07:02 PM
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| Rock Crawler Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Pasadena
Posts: 968
| jesus, please remove that enormous quote. that is one of my pet peeves. decided to try my hand at a faux trans.   |
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