Bonus line's super berg

[SpyderMonkee]

(sound of fingers tapping impatiently on the desktop....) well, lets see it

[BoNuS LiNe]

Originally Posted by yukon635

looks good Bonus cant wait to see what you have in mind for mods

I have the same project sittin on the work table right now. I thought about using two long tubes but nobody has them in stock.

If it comes down to it, some 3/4" adapters on xtm wheels will make it right at 13 or 13.5" ( I cant remember which)

thanks yukon .... i cant wait either to see what i come up with lol build on the fly

Originally Posted by littleskull99

looks good man, how did the skinnyjack perform?

Matt

the halfjack did well but the berg showed up the day after i got it running and it has become a parts rig... old technonlgy lmao

Originally Posted by maro69camaro

alan you know im going to keep a close eye on this one.

thanks cody

Originally Posted by Grizzly4x4

What about reducing those XL's to Maxx size? They end up at 6.5" tall and look good for a 16" - 17" wb. If you have any issues that might relieve some stress. That's what my super will be running at Nationals.

I'm interested to see how this ends up.

i was hoping to find a taller tire lol im really not worried about the axle shafts but if my thoughts are all out of whack , i have a back up plan and have drawn up some trick new inner shafts out of 300m . time will tell

Originally Posted by toytech93

Hey B.L. , I wish you the best of luck. But I think an axle is going to twist or snap, if One of those XL's get in a bind. I agree with grizzly play it safe and go with maxx size.

Has anyone hear anything about XTM's x-crawler axle being released seperately ??? That was my idea for a super.....

the difference in tire size is only 1/2" i doubt that will stop things from exploding if there is a problem ..

i keep hearing these axles are gonna fail but i have yet to see a single person produce a busted inner axle...

Originally Posted by SpyderMonkee

(sound of fingers tapping impatiently on the desktop....) well, lets see it

cant finish the build without foams

[Grizzly4x4]

Originally Posted by BoNuS LiNe

i was hoping to find a taller tire lol im really not worried about the axle shafts but if my thoughts are all out of whack , i have a back up plan and have drawn up some trick new inner shafts out of 300m . time will tell

Nice...Ace made the shafts for his worm gear axle super out of tool steel. I don't remember if it was 300M but they were plenty stout.

[BoNuS LiNe]

got to finally do some work on the axles , been super busy but the axles are coming together .

also since time has been tight i decided to go with the cdw chassis instead of cutting my own , yotachump contacted me a couple weeks back and asked if i would like to test his new chassis and i jumped at the chance .

he sent me two braced sides for the berg build

this new chassis is clearly one of the cleanest well thought out designs available and it should make the super berg shine.

i'll be doing a more complete write up on the widened berg axles tonight

the axles came out 10.5" wide from wms - wms and with axial 40 series locks on moab xl's the outside width is a tad under 13"

[drumbeater]

Damn Alan. Now I need to thing about if I want a 2.2 or build a super. It's a nice looking chassis to work with

[1beatjeep]

hey Alan
how wide is that chassis again.

[BoNuS LiNe]

Originally Posted by 1beatjeep

hey Alan
how wide is that chassis again.

the chassis is 2 3/8" wide

[BILLYGOAT]

looks great alan. can you flip the link mounts to narrow up the links at the axle? just an idea.get that sucker built. ill see you at nationals. not compting just going to mountain bike and hang out.

[BoNuS LiNe]

Originally Posted by BILLYGOAT

looks great alan. can you flip the link mounts to narrow up the links at the axle? just an idea.get that sucker built. ill see you at nationals. not compting just going to mountain bike and hang out.

yes the mount can be flipped to narrow the links a little bit.

hope the move to co went good

[BILLYGOAT]

not there yet going thurs bright and early. im going to try and make it to the night comp. ill fly in to reno and jake said i could get a ride with him or parker or someone. so i may see you there. stay cool holmes

[frdtrkguy]

i cant wait to see this thing run.. *******REVERSE!!******** Nevermind, Ill save it for the comp:-P Looks good so far!

[BoNuS LiNe]

man i been so busy i have not had much time on this project but i did start on the steering and upper link mounts on the axle.

also got in a few new goodies for the build

i found these really nice 0 offset axle adapters from new era models , they convert the berg axles to 17mm hex and locknut up from the stock 12mm .

while i was at it i installed axial stubs at all four corners to beef things up a bit .

for steering i went with nluv's bta or as i call it "atgs" around the gearbox steering

there was enough room to squeeze the tie rod around the gearbox and behind the axle to allow me to add an axle truss .

since the axle center was now offset by using the 2 long side axle tubes i needed to figure out a way to center the upper link mount when it dawned on me that the gearbox is now dead center and all i needed was to add another stock upper link mount to the opposite side of the gearbox . this will now allow me to run my upper links parallel . the upper link mounts ended up being 1.5" inside to inside the exact width of the new chassis skid i built ... what luck .

anyway enough gum flappin here go the pix

[BoNuS LiNe]

ok on another note i need a steering arm from a stock knuckle that someone cut off for rear lockouts.

i want to tig weld the extra cut off arms to the knuckles to create a highsteer arm to raise the tie rod up and to strengthen the knuckle.

i lost one of my cut off steerning arms when doing my rear lockouts and need only one cutoff steering arm

pm me if you can hook me up

this is what i am after in the pix

[Flatty]

Alan, this thing is super fly. I am bakc up here in Truckee this weekend (but I broke the axial frame in half last night on a nasty roll down my folks property). I am hoping to get my new BJ chassis together pretty soon here, and then we may be able to hook up this weekend out at Big Bend.

Dima

[BoNuS LiNe]

i can do some crawling @ big bend this weekend .... hit me up

[Flatty]

Originally Posted by BoNuS LiNe

i can do some crawling @ big bend this weekend .... hit me up

I will let you know. I just rebuiilt the entire car, including new links and everything else with simple hand tools up here in Tahoe!!! Granted most things are not straight, but hell!!!! IT WORKS

I will give you a shout should I have the time. I just found out I got some buddies coming up, so that may change things a bit.

Dima

[run2jeepn]

Did they happen to have those Alumn Hex's for 14mm?

[swell searcher]

Originally Posted by BoNuS LiNe

ok on another note i need a steering arm from a stock knuckle that someone cut off for rear lockouts.

i want to tig weld the extra cut off arms to the knuckles to create a highsteer arm to raise the tie rod up and to strengthen the knuckle.

damn, that's a good idea. i wish i didn't trash mine or i would send them...

[BoNuS LiNe]

Originally Posted by run2jeepn

Did they happen to have those Alumn Hex's for 14mm?

i think they do i found these
http://www.neweramodels.com/item.cgi...=&part_id=9056

and if those don't work here is the page with all the wheel adapters

http://www.neweramodels.com/cgi-bin/...p_cat_id=11012

Originally Posted by swell searcher

damn, that's a good idea. i wish i didn't trash mine or i would send them...

thanks brandon is going to hook me up with one .

[Brandon]

Originally Posted by BoNuS LiNe

thanks brandon is going to hook me up with one .

No problem man