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daisy 2.0 build
discorich:
that has made me even more gutted, he only wanted 2k for both axles. Grrrr. Asked him a while back if he still had them and suppisingly someone had snapped his hand off. Dam shame i didnt know how good they were then. Ah well mogs i think it shall be after making the rest of the disco a bit better, ie roll cage and winches. After doing my first series of challenge events i am well pleased with how the pic up performed. To be honest my wife must hate you as it was reading this topic that finaly made me get round to doing it, cheers mate.
boss:
not as much done as i hoped. my nan had a spell in hospital last week and my girlfriend wanted to go see her(shes ok now) so i couldnt spend alot of time on the truck......any time really, just managed to drop the first jumbo schute off pick up my last portal box from the yanks place and got my dad to get the other portal box that i had dropped off to overland to get the hub nut off. its off and its not a nut!(photos to follow)
i have a choice now, and would appreciate some advice/pointers on it.
the brake conversion i mentioned involved me removing the old unimog hubs and replacing them with a new hubs machined up to the landrover PCD....obviously alot of monies but im thinking ofcutting the hub flange off, machining the hub canter(splined bit) down and machining up a new flange with the LR stud pattern and welding that on. definatly cheaper and more indepth, and i could say "I did that" but is the "Idid that" factor getting in the way of the "do it properly first time" factor???
any thoughts?
had to take some sneaky photos at work :lol:
anyone who has spoken to me at work will know what its like when the boss is around.
boss:
WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA! :D
not muchly done really. lots of measuring and a little bit of chopping. quite annoying really, crossed the border into norfolk at about 7:30 this morning, left my dads house at about 10:30 after "catching up" then went off to the yanks place to get my short shaft and CV, he is storming ahead with the jeep! by the time i left there it was 12:30 ish so after driving back to the disco and having lunch i got about 4 hours to do stuff....... :lol:
so like i say, lots of measuring and i assembled the front axle bar the diff (this thing is going to be wide!) thinking that ill machine the mog hub down and weld on a new flange, jj has done this and it seems like a pretty sound way of doing it. going to track me down a nice brake disk and MAKE it fit too.
took me along time to get that down there!
thats a propper half shaft! there is a £2 coin there so you can get an idea
winch goodies
more trimmings
and provided all goes well i should have some 51" coilovers before 2010 :D :D :D :D
Little-Green-Machine:
whayey starting to take shape again :D
boss:
cheers mate,yeah.....its sort of coming together. next time i go down there ill make frames up to re skinn the floor and wheelarches. the question is should i use the plastic stuff i got from work or should i go buy some alli sheet?
after looking at the yanks rig ill be using a rear 4 link. looks fairly easey to set up (after you do all the maths) ill look at doing it to the front aswell but i may have issues when it comes to clearance between the upper triangulated links, the huge mog diff and the sump.
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