found one

[ryanroo]

finished up the hangers the other day. shot some flat black on the fresh metal to keep the rust gremlins at bay.

[syzygy]

What sorts of cutting tools are you using?? All of your cuts seem to be perfectly precise, and I'm super jealous! Looks great!

[ryanroo]

thanks

for all of the odd shapes and whatnot i use the CNC plasma table. makes it quick and pretty easy to make shapes that otherwise would be rather difficult. it is surely nice to have access to the tools i do at the shop
Ryan

[brute4c]

I was wondering that too...your pieces make mine look like they were done by Fred and Barney.........

[ryanroo]

a while back our plasma took a digger and we were stuck without for a week. we had to keep working obviously. it was really hard to keep up with the creativity and complexity that the CNC machine allows us to have when just working with a shear and basic hand tools. really made me appreciate the cutting table even more. but i also learned how to do it the old school way alot better, and that was cool. it involved alot more drilling holes and punching holes as well as alot more air hacksaw blades and cutoff wheels
Ryan

[syzygy]

thanks

for all of the odd shapes and whatnot i use the CNC plasma table. makes it quick and pretty easy to make shapes that otherwise would be rather difficult. it is surely nice to have access to the tools i do at the shop
Ryan

lol i *knew* it had to be CNC plasma... if only I had access... I suppose having any plasma cutter would be a start. I get to do all my cutting with grinders and torches...

[ryanroo]

finished welding the spring perches on the rear axle, and with all this painting talk and Binfords pics of his CJ i was all enthused to do some painting of my own



also yanked out the fuel tank to see how crummy it is and to allow access to the frame rail so i can run new brake lines



ryan

[dahoyle]

Looks really good Ryan.

You have a pretty good head start on me, but let's try to get together and run them in the mountains when we get done. At the rate I'm going, that should be in 5 or 10 years.

BTW, those are some seriously sexy spring hangers.



Doug

[ryanroo]

Looks really good Ryan.

You have a pretty good head start on me, but let's try to get together and run them in the mountains when we get done. At the rate I'm going, that should be in 5 or 10 years.

BTW, those are some seriously sexy spring hangers.



Doug

Thanks!

we will surely have to go wheelin sometime. i plan on having this truck above treeline as much as i can. hopefully i can do EJS this spring. i know its a cluster**** but i want to do it once. now its a matter of getting all the little annoying stuff done. seems like the little details just eat you alive, both in time and $$$
ryan

[dahoyle]

as promised, pics of the hydro clutch set up







Ryan

Ryan, I am very impressed with your work overall, and I hope you don't think I'm nit picking, but I think it would be a good idea to do a little bit more work here on the clutch cylinder mounting. It is probably a non issue, but I would be concerned about the sheetmetal flexing and eventually cracking under constant use. It might be a good idea to sandwhich the sheetmetal with some heavier guage plate, with rounded corners and edges, to take the load off the area immediately surrounding the mounting bolts. I have no idea what pressure it takes to push the clutch in, but a little bit of insurance would be a good thing there, and would be extremely easy to do.

Just a thought.



Doug