Dave's la(te)st buggy build...

Gus/Chris was selling some steel HD mounts ask him for a price
easier to weld a cradle to ready made mounts

Nice work Dave,

I wish the axle on my Surf was that clean.

Paul.

jackonlyjack wrote: Gus/Chris was selling some steel HD mounts ask him for a price
easier to weld a cradle to ready made mounts

Thanks jackonlyjack... I did have a look through Gus's list and thought about them... BUT I still have the jig I made to manufacture a small initial batch of transfer box mounts as ZookBOB so I'll be using that to make somr mountings (yes, a cradle as it happens )

I'm trying to make / do as much as I can myself to keep the costs down, although saying that a box arrived from JimnyBits this morning, as when I was lying under the Jimny buggy wrestling the transfer box out I couldn't help but notice how vunerable the fuel tank is?! So there's a guard for it in the box
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Paul_sterling wrote: Nice work Dave,

I wish the axle on my Surf was that clean.

Paul.

Thanks Paul, ironically I can't wait to get it dirty again :lol:

Dave

This is the jig I mentioned above -



You can justa bout see the dowels pointing through the 4 mounting holes, nd the box section mount has two holes corresponding with two holes in the steel plate base, a couple of bolts through them and line the pegs up and we're good to weld... usually... but I want these to be a bit longer...



So mockup the mounts and then...



Turn the box over with the lever through the peep hole in the 'bench; and start looking at the angles...



And then the other side...



Experiment with some cardboard!



We shopkeepers have plenty of cardboard boxes lying around



Happy with the design so transfer it to 5mm steel plate!



Voila!



And then cut it out with a bigger pair of scissors, or even an angle grinder



Cut two thirds through the plate to make the bends...



And the beaver away forgetting to take more photos! F'Oh! :lol:



Almost done but run out of time....





Will finish it off on Sunday

Nice one Dave! that looks a sturdy bit of kit

What the hell are you expecting to hit? You could jack the car off the ground on that! Good work, love it.