CDA 455 II
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TrikeKid
Junk Hoarder
Got the seat mount/cross member dealio built and burned in today. It's probably heavier duty than it needs to be for seat mounting but a little bonus frame rigidity never hurt.
TrikeKid
Junk Hoarder
Zapped in tabs for the rear mounts of the seats, made most of the fronts. I think I'm just going to set these on a chunk of tube through the floor to the frame, most of the load is on the rear and the frame rail is pretty damn close to centered under the front of the seat.
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TrikeKid
Junk Hoarder
Used up some tie rod leftovers on the front seat mounts. Ran out of time before I got them burned down to the frame but they'll do. I botched the shit out of the hole in the floor on the passenger side so I'll have some extra sheet metal work to do afterward.
TrikeKid
Junk Hoarder
Small progress today, welded the seat mounts in and got rear brake hose routing/tabs done. Completely spaced on grabbing my flaring tool so no hard lines today. Ended up just driving around getting soaked screwing around in the woods. Need to trim the steering stops and get some turning radius in this thing, got a long way before the tires get into the springs which has always been all the steering stop I've had on previous rigs.
Next weekend I think I'll pull the seats out once again and get this cage brace re-worked into a harness bar and get it away from the passenger side's head space. I don't want to be handing out concussions.
Next weekend I think I'll pull the seats out once again and get this cage brace re-worked into a harness bar and get it away from the passenger side's head space. I don't want to be handing out concussions.
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TrikeKid
Junk Hoarder
Had some of the extended family show up today so I didn't get much done but I did get my rear axle hard lines done. Rear brake hose for a CJ5 with a 4" lift worked out to be just about perfect length. The matching fronts are lookin' way too long, will have to get some stock length if I can't find a better way to route them.. Cut/replaced steering stop bolts but I didn't get any testing done on that.
TrikeKid
Junk Hoarder
Back from the dead with progress! I've putted this thing around the property a bit but haven't been working on it. Today I went ahead and started on getting the new winch in. Bumper and the old winch came off with really no fuss at all, wasn't even picture worthy. I backed the jeep onto the lift for all this, so I threw the winch on a table and mocked it up in place of the old one.
Snipped the center of the bumper out, old fairlead is seized up and too wide, and the center of the bumper was taco'd anyway. If this were any other Jeep built by anyone else I would build a very basic new bumper but I'm gonna salvage all I can of the original here.
Temporarily reinstalled and mocked up. I've got a stick of matching channel to build the new center with, and a chunk of bigger stuff that will serve well as a winch plate. Probably won't french the fairlead into the bumper, just takes a lot of strength out for the little bit of clearance gained.
Snipped the center of the bumper out, old fairlead is seized up and too wide, and the center of the bumper was taco'd anyway. If this were any other Jeep built by anyone else I would build a very basic new bumper but I'm gonna salvage all I can of the original here.
Temporarily reinstalled and mocked up. I've got a stick of matching channel to build the new center with, and a chunk of bigger stuff that will serve well as a winch plate. Probably won't french the fairlead into the bumper, just takes a lot of strength out for the little bit of clearance gained.
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BustedCrank
Webwheeler
Like what you're doing there, figured you would have put an upright on the front of it though.
TrikeKid
Junk Hoarder
I couldn't find an 8274 for anything approaching a reasonable price at the time I bought the Runva.
My other Jeep has a monster of a Ramsey upright on it but it wouldn't fit between the frame and steering box anyway.
My other Jeep has a monster of a Ramsey upright on it but it wouldn't fit between the frame and steering box anyway.
shortbus4x4
Junk collector
Nothing a bigger frame wouldn't fix.
TrikeKid
Junk Hoarder
Nothing a bigger frame wouldn't fix.
If any of them get that treatment it'll be the CJ-5, it's just shitty enough that i'll have no remorse cutting it up. Then again at the pace I'm completing shit on this one, maybe my kid will be working on that thing.
shortbus4x4
Junk collector
Yeah, Tweety is too nice and has a history to do anything crazy like that.
TrikeKid
Junk Hoarder
Got a few minutes to get the bumper zapped back together. Hopefully get the winch mounted next weekend.
Nice. Subbed.