Smooth'en out the bumps

[Voodoochikin04]

damn carl. i got my shocks like a week before you. .and havnt been able to touch the buggy.  good job!

[Carlriddle]

damn carl. i got my shocks like a week before you. .and havnt been able to touch the buggy.  good job!

Its not a race, or is it. 

I like the mounts. Are they tied into more than one upright?

Heres a quick pic, should I tye it in better?

[SPEC]

I think I'd try to tie them in better
the load that gets put on the single tube is tremendous

[Voodoochikin04]

tie the center shock mount tube into the two tubes on either side.

[Carlriddle]

The back tube on only a bit in front of the shock mount tube.  I plan to tye it to the forward bar.  I studied that today while I finished of a few cold ones.  Worked on front, drivers side mocked up.  Final ## still to be worked, but looks like 18" travel and about 4* camber.  Had to work the crap out of the spindles I got from DS,  to increase KPI enough top clear 12" wheels. 

[dsrace]

you really did lean those uprights way in!! how much wider are you going to be?  looks good btw.

[Carlriddle]

Have an idea for rear shock mount tie in, but should the bar tie into: bolt hole that shocks will mount to, lower part where mount plate attaches to tibe or top of where mount plate attaches to tube?  Did that make any sense?   

Without new front spindles in hand a real ## is    But looks like 75" at ride height outside of tires + -.  Should be able to suck front end in enought to still fit trailer.  70" inside  75" on toyhauler.  Picks soon, just lots of welding.

[dsrace]

Have an idea for rear shock mount tie in, but should the bar tie into: bolt hole that shocks will mount to, lower part where mount plate attaches to tibe or top of where mount plate attaches to tube?  Did that make any sense?   

Without new front spindles in hand a real ## is    But looks like 75" at ride height outside of tires + -.  Should be able to suck front end in enought to still fit trailer.  70" inside  75" on toyhauler.  Picks soon, just lots of welding.

tube to tube

[dsrace]

update pics?

[Carlriddle]

Sorry, not much new stuff.  I did get the rear shocks braced off, looks pretty good.  Couldn't get much more on front without steering heims and new tie rods.  Hopfully get ordered tonight??

 Did get the bathroom painted, well almost.    Lets just say it evolved like many of my projects.  Lots of cut in work, 5 doors, 2 windows, and I tore out some wood shelves that wrapped the tub and replace with some big a$$ slabs of rock.  4 days work  ready to get back to buggy.

[Engineer]

Surely there is an update Carl!

I hope you holiday wasn't like mine.  The flue bug was rampant at our house.

[trans man]

Surely there is an update Carl!

I hope you holiday wasn't like mine.  The flue bug was rampant at our house.

DAMN that sucks!

[Carlriddle]

Well had to remake one of the upper arms, it ended up 1/2" shorter.  Reusing fully welded in bungs is a  .  I'm drinking it was too much thinking??   Got the shock mount welded up to the lowers and with everything setup looks like 19" of front travel    I could have some limitations when the steering gets worked out, we'll see.  Also now have about -5 camber gain, used to be 0.  Rear shock mount brace?  Definatly stronger, just not sure I like it as well. 

And lastly, time sucking room......

[Enemy]

Looking awesome Carl! I really like your design on your arms. Keep the pics coming!
 

[dsrace]

looks great!