Marsfab light weight Toyota buggy

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Ask and you shall recieve...

Driveshafts mocked up, pillow block built, roof done, steering done, clutch, brake pedal mounted, orbital mounted, stainless grill done. Started on a new alternator bracket tonight to raise and better align it with the other pulleys and have to weld on knuckle gussets and it's done!
The pillow block is a piece I made in house to try out. There is literally no room for anything larger than 3" between the cradle and the bellhousing so I had to come up with something that would work. I used 2 pieces of 6061 aluminum to sandwich a factory 2 piece shaft bearing, then mounted it on rubber so it's Isolated from the chassis. We'll see how it holds up.....

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TBItoy said:
Reason the ram is mounted so low in relation to the tie rod? ???
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On a toyota with hi-steer arms the tie rod sits only a few inches in front of the axle tube meaning the steering cylinder has to also be close to the front of the axle. That leaves no room for the lines to run out the back between it and the axle and you really don't want them to come out under or in front of It so they have to come out on top. It sits that low so the lines can come out of the cylinder with 90's and across the housing. If we were using a smooth body ram like a Howe or PSC it may have been possible for it to actually go behind the tierod up higher but this thing is over 4" diameter. There was just no way.

It may not be ideal but the tie rod and cylinder are perfectly parallel at full lock in both directions so I'm optimistic that this will hold up fine. Because of the spacing I was able to make the tabs that hold the ram to the tie rod much wider to at the weld too. It spreads the load better and allows for almost a 7" long weld where most would only be a small 2 or 3 inch wide tab with half the weld.
 
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MarsFab said:
On a toyota with hi-steer arms the tie rod sits only a few inches in front of the axle tube meaning the steering cylinder has to also be close to the front of the axle. That leaves no room for the lines to run out the back between it and the axle and you really don't want them to come out under or in front of It so they have to come out on top. It sits that low so the lines can come out of the cylinder with 90's and across the housing. If we were using a smooth body ram like a Howe or PSC it may have been possible for it to actually go behind the tierod up higher but this thing is over 4" diameter. There was just no way.

It may not be ideal but the tie rod and cylinder are perfectly parallel at full lock in both directions so I'm optimistic that this will hold up fine. Because of the spacing I was able to make the tabs that hold the ram to the tie rod much wider to at the weld too. It spreads the load better and allows for almost a 7" long weld where most would only be a small 2 or 3 inch wide tab with half the weld.
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I figured that's what it was, didn't know if you had planned ahead for something else.

I've tried to put single ended rams on Toyota axles a few times, and always end up going to a double ended ram for packaging reasons.

No doubt it'll hold up fine, I'm planning on doing something similar with ag rams on a set of 1 tons.

Looks good man, impressive work :dblthumb:
 
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kmcminn said:
How close is the drag link going to be to the front shocks?
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In that second picture I suppose they do look really close don't they? It's not nearly that close though. There will be more than an inch between them at full droop and that's the closest point.
 
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Been a wile sense I posted on here got the buggy almost done just need to wire it up this weeknd and get some shock springs and a steering wheele
 
Any plans to delete the drain plug under the front diff? One of the best mods I did.

Buggy looks awesome :woot:
 
Chris Marshall- Mars Fab. His fab work is second to none. That is no joke, this man got mad skills thumb.gif
 
Oh no dought one of the best fab and welding skills I have ever seen and a cool dude
 
Chris - I noticed that this rig is being finished up by the owner. If you happen to get any pics of it finished, would you mind posting, would love to see it. Thanks
 
I don't have anything recent other than a couple pics the exhaust shop posted on Facebook when they ran the pipes. Hopefully josh has some more pics now that he's got it all painted up. I can't wait to see it with the coil overs on. As small as they are to the buggy I think it'll really look complete once they're on and they give it some color contrast.
Thanks for all the good words. Now I'm ready to build another with tons and an LS I feel sure this'll be a really good handling buggy. It should do pretty well going fast if it needs to. This specific chassis was designed around 7 up 7 down on a 14" coil over on each corner but I planned ahead for it to work with trailing arms and a few more inches of wheelbase.

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U can tell its gonna be a bad mofo cause they had to tie it up with a winch to make it sit still long enough to get the exhaust done. molaugh Great lookin buggy.
 

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