Willy's #1 Pat's Willy's

[KMS]

Willy's # 1 build ,This one is for a good friend of mine ,hope he enjoys it.
Well gotta get every thing ready before I start ,,,

[KMS]

Chassis rails Wraith skid or what's left of it ..

[KMS]

Time to hang the Wraith skid and Axles to chassis and throw together a roll cage , This afternoon tackle steering wheel,,

[KMS]

Held the Wraith skid in my milling machine and made several passes to get it to the size I needed ,,what a pain ,,but I cant cut a straight line by hand to save my life ,,So I used the milling machine ,

,For the steering wheel I machine a block of Aluminum to the angle to hold the wheel ,, I had to make a steering wheel too .The shaft has a two bearings with collects holding it in place ,,the first ones always ugly ,,

[mudbeast2]

Looks great so far. Love these Jeep builds.

[KMS]

Made a Hinge and mounted hood ,Not bad for first hinge,, While it was curing get tranny and electrics under hood .

[dadrab]

Excellent work. Love the hood hinge and the steering wheel and column are outstanding.

[KMS]

Originally Posted by dadrab

Excellent work. Love the hood hinge and the steering wheel and column are outstanding.

Thank you ,,,

[KMS]

Time for a front bumper . I 've seen some nice one's on here and need a strong one for the ,,WINCH,, It's a military style winch,,, It's not my design ,But a good winch with a few mods ,, I am a few days behind on post's and have converted it to a free spool winch ,,

[KMS]

I took this Winch and did a little testing as it is before any mods ,and played on snow bank in back yard while I was at it ,,Enjoy ,,,
Next post Winch will be free spooling line ,,With a added brace with bearings for the gears ,,

Here's the vid

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGaA4vEPBOM

[KMS]

The winch converted to a free spool with side bearing plate mod ..

[KMS]

Update on winch added a 480 oz servo ,,This design was bob1961 idea .I made a few for him ,,,

[KMS]

Gonna be pretty sharp looking Jeep ,,We talked About a Theme for it ,,Alaska off Road Warrior's ,,,,Super Jeep,,,,

[JatoTheRipper]

Looking good!

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[KMS]

Oops ,Late night building can be to much for this old guy ,,LOL ,couldn't figure why it wouldn't roll until I turned it over ,,,

[BigSki]

Maybe I need some sleep as well, I'm not seeing what the issue was...

[TacoCrawler]

senility is just an excuse for our elders that fail to pay attention

When you wake up... flip that front axle and make it right

tho' I think you would fair better using axles with a centered chunk/pinion output(s).
So your drive shaft(s) can be more inline with the T-case outputs.

It should still roll as is... (easier since that rear DS is MIA)
But it will generally roll with more resistance when the mtr's pinion gear is meshed to the spur gear and engaging the rest of the drive train.
Take off the mtr's pinion... and you should be able to push it around all day long, just like yer hot wheels. Lol

I made a blunder that was far less obvious to me.

I accidentally 180* the locker/ring gear inside one axle housing.

When I tried to run it... the Fr/Rr axles were opposing each other, going nowhere when throttled.

Took me a a few minutes and some head scratching before I figured out my assembly blunder. :doh:

[KMS]

Originally Posted by TacoCrawler

senility is just an excuse for our elders that fail to pay attention

When you wake up... flip that front axle and make it right

tho' I think you would fair better using axles with a centered chunk/pinion output(s).
So your drive shaft(s) can be more inline with the T-case outputs.

It should still roll as is... (easier since that rear DS is MIA)
But it will generally roll with more resistance when the mtr's pinion gear is meshed to the spur gear and engaging the rest of the drive train.
Take off the mtr's pinion... and you should be able to push it around all day long, just like yer hot wheels. Lol

I made a blunder that was far less obvious to me.

I accidentally 180* the locker/ring gear inside one axle housing.

When I tried to run it... the Fr/Rr axles were opposing each other, going nowhere when throttled.

Took me a a few minutes and some head scratching before I figured out my assembly blunder. :doh:

@#$@# WINNER $#@& ,Yes that was it and that's what I had to do ,,It was a late night for me,, Going to McCall Idaho tomorrow ,Wife doing a Quilting,, Shop Hop,, thing and I have my own gift bag ,,Sign my name when we go in to each shop and they gives us [HER] a gift my only protest is I sign HOSTAGE instead of Robert LOL OH hoping to stop at Tekin while there ,

Got a pic of how I mounted Jeep grill ,I added a lower mounting tab on each side , glue worked good ,,,

[KMS]

Made it to Tekin ..WOW .. Those young guys are true gentlemen,and what a good job of representating Tekin. I brought my Willy's jeep with me to show .plus the new KMS K2 FS 480. He was printing some parts for his 6x6 , pretty cool. Had a great time ,Thank you Ty and Zack ,Sorry for picking on you just couldn't help my self..Oh got some goodies gonna install on my Willy's jeep. Enjoy your new KMS K3 FS 480.Ty,,,Thank you Robert

[Loosenuts]

Any update on this bad boy?