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01-28-2011, 10:56 AM
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| Pebble Pounder  Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: Queen Creek
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|  Rob's first scale build
I'm posting my first build for my two daughters, it is my rendition of the disturbed buggy by m&m offroad. I am making this from stainless rod, all tig welded. Be kind, it is still in the early stages of the build.
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01-28-2011, 11:08 AM
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| I wanna be Dave  Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: San Tan Valley
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The chassis is looking great so far Rob!  |
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01-28-2011, 02:46 PM
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| Quarry Creeper Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: Big hands, Little tools.......GRRRRR
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Whadda ya mean be kind.........That looks bad ass! |
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01-28-2011, 07:39 PM
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| Rock Crawler Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Etowah
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Ok its been 8.5hrs since you posted pics is it done yet  Jk chassis looks great looking forward to the rest of the build |
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01-28-2011, 09:45 PM
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| Rock Stacker Join Date: May 2009 Location: East Texas
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Lookin good... |
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01-29-2011, 09:27 AM
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| Pebble Pounder Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Abbotsford, B.C., Canada
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Nice work. Very clean welds, almost looks like you've done this before.  |
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01-29-2011, 12:15 PM
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| Pebble Pounder Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: Queen Creek
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I haven't done anything this small before. I put this together 10 years ago (sandtrix built the frame, skins, and console) I put everything in it, and wired it. I was just learning to weld at the time, so I mostly did billet fab work on it.
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01-29-2011, 12:18 PM
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| Pebble Pounder Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: Queen Creek
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I'm fabbing the skidplate/motor mount today, and plan on doing some more frame work next week, I'll post more pictures then.
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02-01-2011, 09:46 AM
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| Pebble Pounder Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: Queen Creek
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I finished the motor mount/skidplate and lower links. I also fabbed a roof, still have to weld in mounts for it. currently working on upper links and mounts, before I fab the shock mounts and finish the front and rear cage work.
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02-01-2011, 09:51 AM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: San Tan Valley
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Nice skid Rob and even nicer rail... wish I still had my sand toys sometimes.  |
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02-02-2011, 05:52 PM
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| Pebble Pounder Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: Queen Creek
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What is the best way to mount the motor in my set up, drive gear facing the front of the car or the rear of the car?
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02-02-2011, 07:52 PM
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| Quarry Creeper Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Huntspatch
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02-10-2011, 09:34 AM
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| Pebble Pounder Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: Queen Creek
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| update pictures
here are the most recent pictures of my project. man does this s**t take a long time to build. i need to find more than 30min. at a time to work on this. any and all criticism of anything done wrong so far is appreciated. i seem to be having a hard time with the suspesion and shock setup.
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02-23-2011, 02:13 PM
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| Pebble Pounder Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: Queen Creek
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I have finished the rear of the car and started to skin it in aluminum. I will hopefully have more time comming up to finish the front shock mounting and get the steering designed and built. Here are a couple of new pictures. I'm quickly finding out that I don't have the sheet metal skills to pull off a scale fj hood, this is about as good as it gets for me.
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02-23-2011, 02:53 PM
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| Quarry Creeper Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: Big hands, Little tools.......GRRRRR
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| Nice
The rig's coming together very clean. Nice work! The hood on my wreckluse was a huge PITA. I eventually chiseled a shape in a scrap piece of wood and pressesd the aluminum hood between the wood block and the chisel in a vise to make cowl induction. It came out ok. Stay on it, and good luck with those front shock mounts! |
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02-23-2011, 06:05 PM
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| Rock Stacker Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: Santa Fe
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That is really nice tube work. Can't wait to see the finished product. |
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03-04-2011, 02:29 PM
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| Pebble Pounder Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: Queen Creek
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I just finished the side panels, and front shock mounts. Here are the new pictures. The tires are a little too big, and the front shocks are a bit to long.
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03-04-2011, 04:00 PM
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| Rock Crawler Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Arizona
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looking good ....... |
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03-04-2011, 04:26 PM
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| Rock Crawler Join Date: Nov 2010 Location: Denver
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Nice lookin rig! |
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03-04-2011, 05:08 PM
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| Quarry Creeper Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: Big hands, Little tools.......GRRRRR
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| Looking great
The rig is looking awesome. From a couple angles, the tires look just right. From othrs, too big. Maybe some 1.9 Baja Claws? Is that a sleeve over the tie rod to help it slide over rocks instead of hanging? |
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