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My Marsfab buggy

BustedCrank said:
Care to elaborate? Not disagreeing with you, just curious on your reasons.
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Main issue is lack of gear reduction. The only gear reduction is from the axle gearing, which was 5.29 Toyota axles. When I bought the transaxle buggy, it was on 39.5 Irok (non-sticky) and I switched to 37" Trep sticky (measured out close to 35" on the buggy) to aid in the gearing. A lot of situations, it wasn't geared low enough to have enough "torque" to actually crawl up and over an obstacle. On anything other than smooth, flat ground, I could only use 1st gear even when trying to drive between trails.

The rear steer axle compensated for this in a lot of situations but after wheeling it for a few years, I decided it just wasn't the kind of rig I wanted to continue to wheel.
 
untchabl said:
Main issue is lack of gear reduction. The only gear reduction is from the axle gearing, which was 5.29 Toyota axles. When I bought the transaxle buggy, it was on 39.5 Irok (non-sticky) and I switched to 37" Trep sticky (measured out close to 35" on the buggy) to aid in the gearing. A lot of situations, it wasn't geared low enough to have enough "torque" to actually crawl up and over an obstacle. On anything other than smooth, flat ground, I could only use 1st gear even when trying to drive between trails.

The rear steer axle compensated for this in a lot of situations but after wheeling it for a few years, I decided it just wasn't the kind of rig I wanted to continue to wheel.
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The idea of the trans axle is the "ring and pinion" is roughly 4:1 and acts as the low range. Having had a 4 cyl auto with a 4:1 only tcase, I can see how it wouldn't be low enough in a lot of situations.

What engine and trans did you use?
 
1.6 dohc ZC engine (JDM engine) and automatic transmission from an 88-91 Civic.
 
Started on the plumbing and made the fan shroud.

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Tin work is coming out fantastic.:beer:

May I ask what you're doing to get the grill and fuel cap bracket to come out looking like they do? Kind of has a sand blasted look to it.
 
gt1guy said:
Tin work is coming out fantastic.:beer:

May I ask what you're doing to get the grill and fuel cap bracket to come out looking like they do? Kind of has a sand blasted look to it.
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I'll have to text Chris @ Marsfab and ask him what he did.
 
YotaAtieToo said:
Jesus, save some bling for the rest of us :smokin:

Any idea how much time went into that?
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No clue how much time he had in the gauge pod. Chris can really knock stuff out pretty quickly for a one man operation.
 
That little rain gutter fold on the roof skin is the best little thing I never knew I needed.

I get a tonne of water dumped across my shins as soon as my buggy points downward in the rain.
 
Wendle said:
That little rain gutter fold on the roof skin is the best little thing I never knew I needed.

I get a tonne of water dumped across my shins as soon as my buggy points downward in the rain.
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Almost looks like this....

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Looks really good!
 
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