lightweight buggy

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i went down the farm yesterday to have a rummage through the scrap looking for anything useful as you do and found the remains of a commercial mower that had hydraulic steering  so i nicked that 

 

so do any of you clever folk know how much pressure a power steering pump makes  will it work a hydraulic ram ?

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hello guys
yes Dave its Andy here, difflock seems a long time ago now
your buggy looks good l have dropped in from time to time to see how your getting on, i can remember dropping in at yours and buying some seamless tube off you when i was working up in Llandudno , that seems a lifetime ago lol, l know what you mean about finishing one its a struggle to see one through to the end before a new idea takes root in my head but the biuld is as much fun as driving it for me, there's something nice about taking a rusty crudy old chassis and having it shotblasted along with all the suspension and then painting it all up better than new, i find that satisfying,
anyway i intend to strip this one down and biuld something out of it, engine type and position is still undecided, i want a tube buggy a bit like an oversized honda pilot however the jimny like all 4 wheel drives has the engine mounted above the axle with plenty of clearance making for a very tall bonnet line this i dont like or want so its either a different engine thats much lower like a subaru flat 4 or maybe use the standard jimny engine behind the seats so its rear engined, dunno yet still pondering that lol

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Maybe some ideas

hi
   thanks for that  very interesting stuff
my chassis is at the shot blasters now, will post up some pics when it gets back
i have rounded up 1o springs which l think are jimny but of course they are all different colours, dose any one have a list of where each colour goes ?
thanks    Andy

 

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wrote:

Maybe some ideas

hi
   thanks for that  very interesting stuff
my chassis is at the shot blasters now, will post up some pics when it gets back
i have rounded up 1o springs which l think are jimny but of course they are all different colours, dose any one have a list of where each colour goes ?
thanks    Andy