roguevogue Posted February 4, 2013 Share Posted February 4, 2013 Looking good Dan, how many projects do you have on the go? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dirtydiesel Posted February 4, 2013 Author Share Posted February 4, 2013 Looking good Dan, how many projects do you have on the go? Thanks Nick, I make a point to never have more than seven on the go at once Seriously though i have this wrangler, my nissan patrol, my 1942 willys mb and a G wagon replacement. The willys and new buggy are hovering just out of the parts gathering phase, and theres a volvo c202 waiting in the wings ready for 80 series cruiser axles and a 300tdi and autobox. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roguevogue Posted February 4, 2013 Share Posted February 4, 2013 Great work, wish I had time to do more. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dirtydiesel Posted February 5, 2013 Author Share Posted February 5, 2013 Bit more done tonight, chassis is back together. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bill van snorkle Posted February 5, 2013 Share Posted February 5, 2013 Interesting explanation of the leafspring setup Bill. I'm not sure I fully understand it, I think you're saying the SPRING HANGER can "flip", and is stopped by something when moving upwards to make it a rigid mount point? Yes that is a reasonably close understanding of what I have. I just substituted the word 'shackle' in your quote with the words ' spring hanger'. The only change I have made since that thread was written is to replace the single leaf Transit Van parabolic spring with a 4 leaf semi elliptic spring pack for better damping and longevity. Dan, did you use standar RHS stock for the chassis rails or have the section folded up? Beautiful work by the way. When do you get time to eat and sleep? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bowie69 Posted February 5, 2013 Share Posted February 5, 2013 Wow, love the method of jointing the chassis, very, very neat. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mickeyw Posted February 5, 2013 Share Posted February 5, 2013 Wow, love the method of jointing the chassis, very, very neat. x2 Impressive project you have here Dan. Thanks for sharing with us. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dirtydiesel Posted February 5, 2013 Author Share Posted February 5, 2013 Dan, did you use standar RHS stock for the chassis rails or have the section folded up? Beautiful work by the way. When do you get time to eat and sleep? It is 120x60x4 rhs. i just go out into the workshop after the kids are in bed, last night was 8-11.30 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mick the digger! Posted February 5, 2013 Share Posted February 5, 2013 Thanks for posting your builds again, got to have a good look under your pajero hybird at an event over here a few months ago, very well built!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dirtydiesel Posted February 5, 2013 Author Share Posted February 5, 2013 Thanks for posting your builds again, got to have a good look under your pajero hybird at an event over here a few months ago, very well built!! No worries, it's nice to have somewhere to post them. How was the pajero doing? I do miss that car, it's sucsessful formula is driving this build! You could do to post some of your work on here there would be a lot of interest for sure. Ps. did you upgrade to rcv cv's for your rear steer? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
honitonhobbit Posted February 5, 2013 Share Posted February 5, 2013 I'm liking this one Dan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mick the digger! Posted February 5, 2013 Share Posted February 5, 2013 No worries, it's nice to have somewhere to post them.How was the pajero doing? I do miss that car, it's sucsessful formula is driving this build! You could do to post some of your work on here there would be a lot of interest for sure. Ps. did you upgrade to rcv cv's for your rear steer? yeah its doing fine from what i gather...certainly well put toghter!! Im more of a lurker than a poster, but ill stick up a few things that im fiddling with. Ended up ditching the rear steer, wouldnt bother again unless using 404's or planetarys ect. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dirtydiesel Posted February 7, 2013 Author Share Posted February 7, 2013 Got the steering box in place so i could mock up the steering. Old steering box spacer and new crush tubes. The bottom half of the bracket is only tacked in place at the moment, just in case i want to remove it integrate it all into the panhard rod mounting. Then i measured the steering box throw, drew out the 19.6 degrees of ackermann and made some mock Hi-steer arms, and mock steering bars. Everything looks pretty good, i'll have room for nearly 8" of uptravel. I decided on using the stock amount of ackermann as my wheelbase (101") falls inbetween the short and long wheelbase g wagons, and i'm pretty confident it'll help it turn with the lockers in. Stock steering arms, you can see how much ackermann they have built into them. Dowels to take some of the shear loading off the swivel bolts, clever austrians. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soren Frimodt Posted February 7, 2013 Share Posted February 7, 2013 A petrol driven steering box, I must say, I've never seen that before, you gonna install megajolt to control that for extra precise steering? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bill van snorkle Posted February 7, 2013 Share Posted February 7, 2013 That is a vicious amount of Akerman angle on those standard Merc arms Dan. As close as I can measure under all the crud, my Series LR arms only have about 7-8 degrees , measured at the arms themselves, and about 15 degrees when measured at where the projected lines of halfshaft and swivel pins converge. Doubling of the angle is due to my vehicle being changed to have reverse ackerman steering. with normal ackerman the angle would probably be halved instead. Actually, now that I have had 5 minutes to think about it.If my true Ackerman angle, due to king pin inclination is actually double the measured offset angle of the steering arms,then If you want to retain Standard Merc Ackerman angles,but with cranked up steering arms mounted on top, verses at bottom with original cranked up arms, wouldn't the angle when measured from the swivel/halfshaft axis convergance point to the TRE be what you should be trying to replicate? Or have you already done that in your calculations when making the mock up arms? I have confused the hell out of myself by looking at my front end and trying to visualise the steering arms and trackrod back in their original Ackerman location as opposed to their revised Reverse Ackerman arrangement. But it would seem that top mounted arms would need to have a different offset angle than bottom mounted arms to give the same actual Ackerman angle, due to as Rick pointed out on the other thread, that true Ackerman is measured from the TRE ball joint to the axle/kingpin convergence point.So I'm guessing the actual Ackerman angle or the Merc axle is more like 14 degrees when measured at those points. I think I'll have a cup of tea and a good lie down after that bit of mental torture Edit. It is difficult to tell from the photos Dan, but it does appear that if you dropped a plumb line down through the TRE hole in your mocked up trackrod arm, it would drop through the TRE hole in the original Merc arm below. Is that so? If yes, then that would indeed replicate the original Merc Ackerman angle in my view, based on all that bulltish I wrote above. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dirtydiesel Posted February 7, 2013 Author Share Posted February 7, 2013 A petrol driven steering box, I must say, I've never seen that before, you gonna install megajolt to control that for extra precise steering? The more amusing thing is that either i found an imperial spark plug????? or the yanks have used a metric thread? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soren Frimodt Posted February 7, 2013 Share Posted February 7, 2013 Haha well actually there's a funny thing about sparkplugs, I'm pretty sure that all spark plugs have imperial threads? It must be something that lies very close to metric though, but what makes me think so is that all engines I've stumpled upon use the same standard of threads, and the hex to tighten it down is not metric, it is imperial. Totally OT I know, but somewhat of a mystery.(to me) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elbekko Posted February 7, 2013 Share Posted February 7, 2013 Spark plugs are generally metric fine thread. I think the ones in the RV8 are M14x1? Or perhaps M14x1.25. I came across a chart of spark plug threads a while ago, not sure where to find that one again though... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CwazyWabbit Posted February 7, 2013 Share Posted February 7, 2013 Spark plugs are generally metric fine thread. I think the ones in the RV8 are M14x1? Or perhaps M14x1.25. I came across a chart of spark plug threads a while ago, not sure where to find that one again though... That it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elbekko Posted February 7, 2013 Share Posted February 7, 2013 Nope, a different one, but this one is nice too! Was actually looking for that info when I came across the other chart Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soren Frimodt Posted February 7, 2013 Share Posted February 7, 2013 okay, there you see, learn something new everyday, still pondering about why its 20,8mm and not 21mm on the hex? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dirtydiesel Posted February 7, 2013 Author Share Posted February 7, 2013 13/16th's? anyway enough bleeding talk of spark plugs, in sure theres a lawn mower thread elsewhere I'm off to go bend some tube. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soren Frimodt Posted February 7, 2013 Share Posted February 7, 2013 Haha Sure, there must be a reason why you call yourself dirty-DIESEL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dirtydiesel Posted February 7, 2013 Author Share Posted February 7, 2013 Fell out with petrol engines many years ago, some of the newer lumps are appealing, until i think about trying to fix one in a field with a lump hammer and an adjustable spanner. Got some tube bent with my new stupid bender, damned thing makes my head hurt every time i use it. i may have to give up and buy bendtech soon. carp mobile pics sorry. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
honitonhobbit Posted February 8, 2013 Share Posted February 8, 2013 Oooh G12... mmmmm quality veteran leccy winchy stuff. Is it 'improved'? Got a useful scource for the OE bearings fitted by Uncle David Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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