bj40 build...

[SupraLux]

I'm pretty sure Wayne will be fine with cap screws... its steering components themselves he generally wants made from mild steel (like the flipped arm I made for the Toy axle in the MU) due to its ability to 'give' rather than crack and fail.

Don't quote me tho Go with what Wayne says since its his arse in a sling if anything happens...

Oh, I used high tensile rod with the two threads lathe-cut for mine rather than bolt the lot down - I figured that way I could bolt the first arm down tight, then drop the cone washers on top of the nuts and then the flipped arm then bolt that arm down tight too... double locked each stud... and despite my best efforts nothing has ever come loose or broken.

Damn... 12 pages of happiness... last time I read this it was on page 3 I think... I guess I have some catchup reading to do... a little dissapointed about the chassis colour tho.. I thought we discussed that?

Steve

[MNC]

a little dissapointed about the chassis colour tho.. I thought we discussed that?

Steve

[niblik]

no thanks mnc...

anyhoo...

steering shaft needed to be longer so to insure the spline was all goodly and well seated, made the 'extension' 95mm.. as steve posted earlier, cut the main shaft on a 45 degree angle for more purchase area on weldin and the lockin factor..

shaft with extra 95mm in and welds in pre-tidied and pre-sleeving form..


finished moddin the 40's steering column shaft to take the 60's bottom uni joints etc and use the bottom bearing.. (in the triangular bit by the mount to the fire wall, bit nicer than the corroded bush that was there..) not using the big oogly washers on the base plate either, just put them there to mock up the fitting..



and the engine bay side.. steering all in etc.. joy! it works... all sleeved and weled up by h20.. also did the weldin on the rest of the lsp's too.. damn purty weldin too..

[rokhound]

All good Nib.

Got another trip planned in 2009 (just for you). Do ya think you will bea ready?

[wopass]

lookin good bro

i thought i would add a pic of yours to make it seem more realistic tho trying to ton it boiling its ring out batterys buggered and no gas

[niblik]

Got another trip planned in 2009 (just for you).

[SupraSurf]

Hell Nibs that thing of yours is a rocket !!
160 kph or mph ??

[wopass]

Hell Nibs that thing of yours is a rocket !!
160 kph or mph ??

i tacked the needle at 155kph, theres no way that little diesel would do the ton....

but it is comming allong nicely, cant wait to see the updates each week.....

[lilpigzuk]

Hell Nibs that thing of yours is a rocket !!

I would of thought more of a bomb

looking farkin awesome nibs, keep up the good work

[niblik]

theres been a few late nights lately.. a couple on gooses rig and some on mine.. gotta love the '2 hours sleep and off to work' thing.. talk about naffed...
|-)

so thanks again to billyvanbohemann for helpin me with my new purchase.. sat em in my lounge and fed my son joey his tea in them..i think he's gettin a whole lotta fun out of em already..


when i sat them into their approximate location, found that the height adjuster and mounts were far too tall in relation to the steering wheel on the drivers seat.. thus removed the height adjuster and mounted the rails straight to the seat..
here you can see the old version on the passenger seat (further rail..) and the newer lower version on the closer.. gained about 2.5 inches..


cut but yet to weld the underseat adjuster for the rails.. made some brackets to secure the front of seats to original mounts and rears should fit too with slight moddin.. sat the seats back in before comin home this morn just to check how they sorta fitted.. bit grubby from being stored by po and turned upside down to work on rail system..


havent bolted em in yet as still to work on rear mounts and do a few little bits.. thats next session..

oh yeah.. also got this... coming soon to a 40 near you.. diff armour..


]:-)

[MNC]

Hey Nib - Those are some nice red seats. Think they might clash with the Pink paint job though.

[niblik]

they should fade and match right on in... :geek:

[turoa]

oh yeah.. also got this... coming soon to a 40 near you.. diff armour..


]:-)

I wonder who gave you that idea

[niblik]

hmmmmmmmmmmm... :scratch:

i read it somewhere...

cheers 2s..

[callum007]

oi... theif... stealin ideas.. or should i go check the barn

[niblik]

ya didnt even notice..

how do you find them callum?

[wopass]

ya didnt even notice..

how do you find them callum?

he opens the door and...THERE THEY ARE ! WOW !...


hehhehheh

[callum007]

they bit on the plastic side, but very comfy.. not sure if they recline etc. they jammed against the cage.. and have no runners..

[niblik]

they do recline, and i also have runners..

[hiriklux]

niblik
Posted: 2007-02-26, 00:53:53

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they do recline, and i also have runners..

you building a rooting wagon nibs???????

[niblik]

no fella, but i am a tired old man... mid arvo naps rule..

[niblik]

been a while, so theres a few little bits to bring ya's up to speed on..

h20 finished weldin in the rear mounts for the seats.. decided to use a piece of 10mm plate and tap a couple of holes into it for mounting 'em, then weld that to the tub.. pics to come..

when i was originally cuting out the rear wheel wells, i got a bit over enthusiastic and being 'green around the gills', sliced straight through the bars that run under the tub and sit on the chassis rails..


cut off the old remains and fabbed up some new supports with thanks to h20's weldin skills..

old supports gone ready for the new bits of bar..


picked up some 75mm x 25mm with 3mm wall, galv box.. had to fab up the ends so as to sit above the rails nicely allowing some room for a rubber bushing..

started with..


bar all fabbed prior to weldin..


h20 then welded those up for me, then he tacked em in place under the 40.. thanks j.. :thumleft: i'll get pics of them once theyre all welded up..

its a bit of a bore at work when ya gotta do the easter weekend shift.. |-)

sooooooooooo, i decided to knock out a bit of diff armour..

started with this weld cap..


then measured distance from edge of diff housing head, to the crown wheel cover, to the filler plug, and to the other side of the housing.. worked out i could cut with a gas torch type set up and make two bits of armour from one.. :thumright:

below shows the mods i had to perform once the weld cap was cut in half..
yellow = a 1.5 inch hole put in the bottom of the housing to allow any small stones/water/mud that may get in to escape or be flushed out at a later date..
red = a 10mm (at the top down to nothing) 'v' section needed to cut out and welded back together to provide a snug fit over the pumpkin of the diff..
aqua = this area around the bottom of the cap needed to be trimmed down by 25mm to move the armour closer to the housing so as not to stick out like a damn big oogly ramp..


then once all the welds were done (by a chap at work, cheers jeremy..) i put a bit of a pattern onto the housing using an air powered dremmel...
finished product ready to go on..


i'll get pics once welded onto diff too, but need to do a couple of little things to the diffs first then paint em..

ttfn..........

[H2OLOVA]

Styly Jas.......I love that, me needs one for my truck. Complete with insignia to please

[hiriklux]

loooks sweet dude get me one too


we could be the #### you 4 wheelers

[wopass]

love it

[SupraLux]

I kinda feel like maybe you made that just for me

Lookin good... can't wait for 2014 when we get to see it driving for the first time... I'll bring the incontinence pads, you bring the walking frames

[H2OLOVA]

You guys could make a day of it......... we could have a BBQ, get some balloons and a bouncy castle for the kids.............................................the big unveiling of a Dayglo Bigdick

[rokhound]

Looking good my friendly native. Didn't see any pics with big tyres on though Come on, you have the goods, get em on, chop some sheet metal, and give us some piccys .
Was thinking that would be good for you Steve when I saw it.

What do you guys reckon reckon then.....I like H20's idea, BBQ etc, sounds great.
That bouncy castle is for our grandkids is it J

[niblik]

ok.. just to tidy up the loose ends of a few bits that have been on the go..

alrighty.. this ones for rokhound..



cheers my vewy special fweind.. both for the lend of the tyres and the dayglo orange paint!!

a quick tidy up about mountin the seats..
when mounting my seats, for the front of the seats goose located a bit of box, nice 6mm stuff to cut and fab some brackets out of.. nice form goose..


these are the rear mounts for the seats that h20 welded into the tub for me.. ended up threading a piece of 10mm plate.. beaut..


and then the seats were good to go.. sahweeeet!!!

finished fabbin up the rear tub supports and h20 kindly welded them into the 40 for me.. finished product..


been startin a bit on the driveshafts... h20 was playin around a little with the driveshafts and removed the double cardin joint from the front driveshaft of the donor 60.. decided, according to some guesstimation and 'within operational tolerance' measurements that a front driveshaft from a 70 series will fill the gap nicely as the slip yoke is approx 80mm longer and the shaft longer in general.. didnt use the entire 70's d/shaft as it doesnt come with a double cardin like the 60 did, and i'll be needing one because of the soa.. ( thats just personal preference, not essential..) once the d/c joint is on, should be good to go...

anyhoo.. for now i measured up the rear driveshaft and needed to shorten the shaft from the donor 60 down to be spot on for the 40's rear.. using a pipe cutter was great as was able to keep all of the cuts exactly straight and flush, also the cutting depth was adjustable.. swish.. ( because the uni was joined to the shaft of the driveshaft in a pipe over a smaller pipe type fashion.. ) cut the universal off the driveshaft and trimmed the shaft down to the correct length.. doh!! found that the ends on the std shafts taper by the slightest increment.. luckily a chap at work was able to chuck the original taper piece that was no longer required, into a lathe and make a 'shim' out of it to slide inside the new shaft for refitting.. keeping the join onto the uni nice and tight and staying "true"... that was swish..


once that was sorted, h20 was again able to come to the party with his welder and zip it together for me.. ta fella.. put the slip yoke back together and put the shaft into place.. tried jackin the springs away from the chassis and hallellujah, its a success..plenty of spline in both directions and the correct length..


yet to be balanced of course.. i'll finish the front shaft then do the both of them a the same time..

there.. i think thats all up to date for now..

off to the workshop now..

adios peoples..

[rokhound]

Good shit Nibs,

Those swampers still look better on my wreck though, stiiiilllll not too shaby dude.

All ya gotta do now is get some horsepowers into it