40 Series Buggified!

[DMcCready]

-UPDATE-

I managed to grab a few hours on the truck this week. Ive got the transmission tunnel sorted, all welded and cleaned up with just a sand needed when I strip it all down for paint. This turned into a bit of a major pain in the ass so Im glad its done.

Pics!!




In Place



With the seats and a bit of a mock up of the Fiddle brake lever in position

[Fakey]

Wow very nice work there

[motorhead]

Keep up the good work

[Swamped]

Thats some sweet fab work man, keep it up.

[DMcCready]

- UPDATE -

Jeez its been a while! Ive just found a downside to posting on this forum. You see just how long it was since you last worked on your project!

Anyway now that work has settled down I can get back onto the cruiser. Im working nights at for the next couple of months so Im planning on working on the cruiser in the afternoons before I head off to work.

Got a few hours on it today

Mounted the inner guards



Extended the 60 series steering shaft



Installed



I also started fabing up a Airbox. I had intended using a Donaldson unit that Diesel and Turbo had but once again there simply wasnt enough room so I built my own.

This box is purely to keep the K&N filter out of the mud and water. A snorkel is also in the works

Box tacked up



Filter fits!



Sitting roughly in place in the vehicle



Tomorrow I will finish the box up, finish corners etc and make a lid. May even mount it if Im lucky

[dawwen]

must be time for an update

[DMcCready]

Yea guys its been a while. Work at the moment has been days/ nights and weekends! Hitting it this weekend so will post up some photos.

[DMcCready]

- UPDATE -

been working on a few bits and pieces lately

PTO lever sticking out of trans tunnel.


Finished and mounted the Air box


Mounted the Oil filter


Folded up an Air tank. Going to plumb up the A/C Compressor to fill it.


Air tank sitting in place


Now that I knew where the winch was going to be I could cut the front crossmember to allow the winch driveshaft to get to the winch


Mocked up the PTO driveshaft


Ive also bought some radiator hose so that will be the next mission. Just trying to source some clamps at the moment

[niblik]

nice form fella!!!

[DMcCready]

Cheers bud. Hows yours coming along?

[rokhound]

That looks the shizzle, Good to see some actual fabrication work going on there

[Lynx]

looking sweet as man

Cheers Daniel

[niblik]

Hows yours coming along?

moving along slowly.. look forward to testin it out and about somewhere.. plenty more little fabrication bits to do yet, but its good to have driven it and now tick along on the crap little time consuming things..

still keen to get ya down this ways...

[DMcCready]

still keen to get ya down this ways...

Yea man even started looking for trailers to drag it there!

[petefj40]

Cool thread David.
Good to see another 40 being built. This one looks special.
I'm another keen subscriber.

Keep the updates coming.

[DMcCready]

Update!

Its been awhile but progress is possible now. Ive organised to have the engine management computer installed on the last week of november so I have to get a move on!

Here some photos

MEAN!


How its sitting now. Bonnet bolted down


Airbox finished



New clutch master cylinder to match the slave cylinder Im using


Brackets done for the water hoses


Fiddle brake lever and cable shift levers for the second T/case bolted down


Radiator and shroud finished


Battery box and fuel pump ( will build a cover over this )


Mmm locker...



Built the gauge cluster today. Came out half decent



Thats all for now but Ive got all next week off to hit this thing hard. The plan is to have it so we push it into Brian Howats... and drive it out for a quick test drive before I strip it down for the last time to paint.

David

[niblik]

good to see her movin forward.. coolies.. dash did indeed come out goodly..

whats the colour scheme goin to be fella? and do you have an estimate final weight?

p.s... still lovin your 'suspension blocks'...

[skid]

oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah



thats some orgasmic shit right there

[rokhound]

That really does look the tits dude, Good work

[Lawrence]

Loving the build!!! Awesome job with all the fab work!

[suzukisport]

Looking very cool Keep up the good work

[DMcCready]

cheers for the compliments guys! This week is going to be mayhem.... so much to do!

Niblik. Paint scheme is probably going to be dark grey cage with red panels. My first car was a red BJ40 so I thought it would be cool to paint it the same red. The other option for the body panels is orange (think KTM colours)

As for final weight, in rockcrawling terms this truck is going to be a heavy bastard especially seeing a mates zuk is looking like being well under the ton. Oh well the V8 will hopefully overcome any weight issues

If I had to guess I would say round the 1.5t mark

This is my first build so I can live with not having it as light as I would have liked. Im 24 so I recon Ive got a couple more builds left in me yet

[rokhound]

In Rock crawling terms. weight means fark all. Strength is king, so you keep at it the way you are doing it.
Keep the weight down low and the wheel base long(ish).
Remember that when you fark it up on rocks it is not like a quiet flop or roll in the soft mud, the rocks will win

[niblik]

In Rock crawling terms. weight means fark all.

personally i think weight has a lot to do with things guy.. gravity can be a killer in certain cases, still, look forward to you finishin it and bringin it down south and wheelin with rok and i...

[DMcCready]

Its funny. Watch say W.E Rock in the states and you can see the light weight buggies carve it up big time. but on the other hand watch the King of the hammers or even Tuff Truck in Oz and I am constantly blown away by where those 'heavy' trucks are going. Different styles of racing I know but they each have their pros and cons.

Ive built this one to deal with a heavy right foot and to be able to hit a range of different terrain. Gunna be fuuunn

.....the next project will be the single seater, rear engine, 4ws, light weight crawler


And guys I started building this in a tiny garage on Selwyn St so its only fair that it comes bach to chch! Is there still the annual gathering of crawlers. Round Jan wasnt it?

[niblik]

And guys I started building this in a tiny garage on Selwyn St so its only fair that it comes bach to chch! Is there still the annual gathering of crawlers. Round Jan wasnt it?

good to hear you'll be back.. theres always something we can tee up..

[rokhound]

You bet. We can surely make something happen

[DMcCready]

Ok so.... the last two weeks was full on!!

Averaged 12 hours per day working on this thing.

-Motor and Gearboxes all sealed up and oiled
-Weld session on the chassis
-Exhaust done
-Radiator hoses done
-Fuel tank pressure tested and finished
-Fuel lines done
-Locker Installed
-And a stack of little things

For everything I worked on I found two things that I had forgotten about

Anyway as of this afternoon it is sitting in a shop in Naenae waiting for its brain, A megasquirt one that is!

Still pushing for it to be running by christmas

[flyingbrick]

bloody love this truck and the build. Good on ya dude ktm orange pannels with dark grey everything else would be SWEEET.

[Fakey]

Still pushing for it to be running by christmas

You an me both (hoping mine will be ready to roll by then too ) keep up the good work an put up some pics