the new fattness...

[Berne]

and so......it begins.....

 

[Berne]

Built new motor mounts for it....

 

[Berne]

just FYI.....

these are the bushings that were in my front links.....for the past 3 years....
:kissmyass:

 

[Berne]

I boxed the frame where my big x-member goes, so it needed alot of re-work....its basically all new/different now...

 

[Berne]

the sleeves through the frame for mounting the front x-member...

 

[Berne]

and a couple pics of the big-assed rod ends all ready to go...

 

[crash2]

Nice berne---will be watching this thread :;

 

[Berne]

ya,
things are coming along pretty well.....a little on the slow side, but I'm still shooting for goldendale.....

oh, and I suck at the pictures.....I thought I had a bunch more, but....when I went to take them off the camera.....dunno WTF happened to them...

OH.....that reminds me....

THIS THREAD IS BROUGHT TO YOU BY MY SPONSORS....

www.4lockedfilms.com/

since the g-unit never answers his phone every time I try to return his camera....


anyway...
I should have the front of the chassis finished up this week (need to make the mounts on the x-member for the front links and finish up the tranny mounting)

this weekend should be thestart the rear suspension....


--B

 

[tomota]

Looks like the **** is about to hit the fan. Where abouts are you in Ore?

 

[Erik D_lux]

Looks good yo!

 

[MarcW]

eh berne, like your signature, i played sunday morning coming down for Bunk while he was over the other day :redneck: was the front set up radius arm/ panhard? were in oregon are you? my mid-build snow wheeling trip to see my uncle in salem is planned for december. :D maybe we can go wheelin then and you can break trail for me with those big swampers if your close:D

 

[War-Jeeper]

Looks like you got a pretty sick rig in the works!

 

[Berne]

I live around Canby....


for those that don't know the back story.....
the rig has been 'relatively' rock solid for the past few years, staying virtually unchanged for 3 years in a row now...
except for the motor mounts.....I've broken ALOT of them, and this last time, they both let go at the same time.....causing all sorts of problems....fan eating radiator....breaking the transfercase adapter mount.....
so, that.......combined w/ the fact that the body was......'not so straight' anymore....I basicallly got pissed off at it and decided it was time for a rebuild.

the front suspension will stay just the way it was, something between a 3 link and a wristed radius arm setup......only I'm getting away from the radius arm bushings I was running on the chassis end (originally went w/ them because they were cheap and easy) and going to the big rod ends.

the rear will be 4 link.......coil springs....at least for now...

then its going to get the M715 cab.......after alot of debate, I think I've settled on that.....the scout tub I've got was.....well, RUSTY....rustier than I remember'd....rustier than I want to deal with.

so, I'm in the middle of it now......should have the front half of the chassis (mounts, x-member, front suspension, etc...) done this weekend and start on linking the rear.

6 weeks 'til Goldendale....


--B

 

[Harvester of Sorrow]

then its going to get the M715 cab.......after alot of debate, I think I've settled on that.....the scout tub I've got was.....well, RUSTY....rustier than I remember'd....rustier than I want to deal with.


--B

Sad choice...so sad.

Still looking forward to the results though...keep the pics coming.

 

[Grama]

when is this ***** gonna be whorin out on the trails?

 

[Berne]

when is this ***** gonna be whorin out on the trails?

from above...

"6 weeks 'til Goldendale...."


thats my 'official' goal....
its going to be tight....I'm hoping to make it, (and I don't want to start making excuses already), but there ALOT to do yet....I'm afraid its going to be the little details that wind up fawking me....

 

[Berne]

Sad choice...so sad.

Still looking forward to the results though...keep the pics coming.

I know Mark.....I really didn't mean to disappoint you....I'll try and make it up to you sometime....


I'm hoping it comes out kinda cool either way though...

and I'll try to keep up on pictures.....I'm not used to taking pictures of everything, its hard to keep up on...

 

[Berne]

so....

in my for-thinking.....

I happened upon what I think will be something cool....

I found a "truck box / transfer tank" thing meant for the bed of a P/U on craigslist...
40 gallon fuel tank, and a tool box thing built in on top of it. I think I'm gonna go get that and build it into the chassis right behind the cab. its more fuel than I was thinking of carrying, but its got some built in storage (which will be super nice)....
problem being, the tank itself is flat, wide, and shallow, in the bottom of the box.....
BUT....it has a trasfer pump built into it.....
I'm thinking of coming up w/ some sort of "another" tank, to use as an accumulator tank......in the 1-2 gallon size......big enough that I'll have PLENTY of run time on just the accumulator tank before I need to get back to the flats to fill it back up....

thoughts....???

 

[Comet]

M715 will be cool as hell!:cool:

 

[Comet]

If you use that tank I would put at least two fuel pick ups in there, maybe more. APE in Texas sells them. But if it was me, I'd just use your Bronco tank. Is there a reason you can't?

 

[Berne]

If you use that tank I would put at least two fuel pick ups in there, maybe more. APE in Texas sells them. But if it was me, I'd just use your Bronco tank. Is there a reason you can't?

the 'accumulator tank' would get me around having to have mulitple pickups...and I think be more reliable/flexible.
the bronco tank....well, the one I've been running lately is too small (20 gallons)...as the old big one has just been beaten to badly (too many holes to fix at this point).....and just generally-all-around hard to mount cleanly and have it look good.....and it too has issues of starving for fuel if it gets much under 1/3 tank....

 

[Ben Holloway]

build your own, or but that one and put some baffles or a huge ass sump in there

Ben

 

[Erik D_lux]

Funny I saw that same tank/storage

I wouldnt use it. When I had my normal fuel cell with no pickups I tired to make an accmulator. It didnt work out too good. Still ran out of fuel here and there. I ended up making my own cell and running the pickups.

 

[Berne]

Funny I saw that same tank/storage

I wouldnt use it. When I had my normal fuel cell with no pickups I tired to make an accmulator. It didnt work out too good. Still ran out of fuel here and there. I ended up making my own cell and running the pickups.

so you're running the 'multiple pickups'....like the ones that holley (used?) to make.....w/ the wierd little check valves that will close when open to atmosphere??....
where'd you get them....I can't find them listed anywhere anymore...

 

[beatupbronco]

change of subject off the fuel cell, but those beadlocks you have, are they recentered h1?

 

[Hip]

Berne maybe try a boat shop for the multiple pickups with check valves. like a bigger boat shop, tug boats and such. they have large and sometimes multiple fuel tanks with cross over systems.

even my 22 footer has a 60 gallon alum tank with front and rear pickups but i have never had it apart so i dont know about the internal pickup system.

or maybe airplane stuff?

 

[Berne]

change of subject off the fuel cell, but those beadlocks you have, are they recentered h1?

they most certainly are.....

 

[Berne]

OK....more pics....

took some just random pics last night before I closed up my shanty....


general "pics of my huge shop"....

 

[Berne]

and the annex to the shop.....

 

[Berne]

ok.....I actually did a little bit of work too....

more x-member work....getting closer...