Recent content by pappawheely

Depending on where your jerry cans are mounted, you might want to have a one-way check valve in the line. That way it won't try to siphon from the tank to the can. Amazon check valve.

I'm having to think 2 or 3 steps ahead as I go. Why would I mount only a 4K winch on the back? To lift my spare tire onto the carrier. Also thinking of other ways to use it. I could design the tire carrier to be like a crane. It would lift a bike too. Got any other ideas?

I went out to the shop and fabricated some sheet metal panels to seal the rear quarter panels, but now I'm eating nachos, watching KOH and drinking a few Modelo's. This shot is one I took back in 2008 at the finish line of KOH. My how things have changed! Dave has always said that his goal is to...

I was hitting the quarter panel with a hammer and found another pile of paydirt. I got the bumper ends done and painted. Of course, the nicest welds are on the underside where nobody will see them.

The other side is roughed out. More bracing and full welding still needs to be done. The trailer hitch fits in the middle.

More work on the rear bumper, corner mods. There's no instruction manual; just try stuff and figure it out. I really didn't have a design in mind, just going with that's there. I'll cap that end. I will have a full size spare tire and two jerry cans mounted to a swing out carrier so it has to be...

The last two days have been nuts. You should hear about the stuff I don't post! :ROFLMAO:

OK, enough head scratching. I had to dive in today and start cutting. I had some success and other shortcomings. I know what to do on the other side. It's going to take a couple days to get this done, then I can get to work on the exocage. I need to do some work to seal up the rocker again...

Time to work on the rear quarters. I'm going to trim the bottoms off and run a slider like on the rockers. It will run down the side and then turn back to the frame rails. It will be a detachable corner that bolts onto the right and left corner of the truck. While taking off the tail lights...

Once I figured out the pie cut technique I made a passenger and driver side bar in a little over an hour. Now I need to make two more for the rear. It's another round of mental gymnastics to weld it all together in an order where I can get the back sides of everything. It fits very tight to the...

I tacked together a bunch of scrap to prototype the first leg of the exoskeleton. On the bottom kink I cut angles and butted it together. On the upper kink I made pie cuts with the chop saw and bent it over. Two pie cuts got me 10 degrees of bend. I'm going to use this method as it's super easy...

I made a couple legs for the sliders, but didn't like them, so I made new ones. These will go under them to give more support. I cut them out like puzzle pieces so I could use less material. Then I tacked them together and did some clean up grinding. That's a good way to make stuff when you are...

Did a ton of welding today. Six plates welded to the frame. When it comes to stacking dimes, I'm the best as long as it's someplace nobody will ever see. Happens every time.

I didn't have to use the Rube Goldberg tool after all. The stubby drill bit on my driver worked great. It actually drilled through the frame rails well. Here is the construction I am doing. The base plate will be welded to the frame to spread the load out. The smaller plate will be bolted to...

OK well, I guess I didn't think about getting the body lined up so good that I didn't want to move it and I hadn't drilled some holes that are necessary for the sliders. You know you're having a bad day when this thing comes out. I had to order a stubby drill bit too.