Nick's CJ build part 1

[RAT]

Looks like we have a preliminary design acceptance. Roll cage coming soon.

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[dr.dirty]

Looking good! Please PM me your address so I can send you that disc!

[RAT]

Looking good! Please PM me your address so I can send you that disc!

Dun! I need yers too

[RAT]

Doing the tub work now. Sheet metal is the material du jur. Made some Redneck metal bending jigs too! Here are a few pictures. More will be up soon.

Flintstones car
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Fitups
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Drive shaft tunnel
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Yep! Two old disc brake rotors and a piece of DOM. Yeee hawwwww...
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More later... OUT

[aw12345]

Nice lovin it

[RAT]

Thought I'd do a quick "from the beginning to now" thing. Yep, I'm bored.

The beginning. A pile of metal and parts
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Getting there. Slowly but shirley. Meh....

[sarah]

Such a cool post. I emailed myself a link so we can start thinking about the writeup!

[Jason]

Nice history. I thought it quite funny that I just happened to be listening to Johnny Cash's "One Piece at at Time" when I clicked on this post.

[RAT]

Nice history. I thought it quite funny that I just happened to be listening to Johnny Cash's "One Piece at at Time" when I clicked on this post.

Nick needs to make that the theme song for this beast!

[curtis]

Some IMPRESSIVE work Kurt!

[aw12345]

No work on the runaway Jeep today?

[RAT]

Last weekend we started building the roll cage. The tube bending Gods were not on our side though, and a myriad of troubles befell us on our quest. But with perseverance and a shit ton of beer we pushed through. Actually the trouble started Friday night. Sitting in the living room talking when a loud crash is heard. I write it off to one of the neighbors moving something. But something made me get up and go out front. Son of a Bitch! A young kid drove his daddy's shop truck into my trailer AND my company truck. Lots of damage, mostly to my trailer. And his POS FORD Ranger. Broke the front wheel off on my trailer. Not a good start to the weekend. Then the bender started to fail. Would not return from a bend. Had to retract manually. Damned expensive manual bender. Then... Damn software defaults weren't what I thought they were. First few hoop bends were off by 1.5 inches. Center dims instead of outside dims. Towel thrown. beer drinked. It wasn't much better Sunday but we did get the skeleton of the cage going. I repaired the bender today and finished the second center crossover tube and it looks great. Enough yaking, here are some pics...

To start the day
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Fun part to make. Several angle changes and cuts to perform.
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And now to make an exact copy...

Software not stupid. Mongo stupid...
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BOOM!
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Still along way to go... There is a tricky tricky part coming up. A full 16 foot, 6 bend part. Can't wait.

[dr.dirty]

Looks great man! sucks about the trailer......

[daniel_buck]

Nice! Rough weekend it sounds like, but the cage is starting to look good

[USMC 0369]

[COLOR="#800000"]I hate to admit it, but it seems that roll cage work goes much smoother when I'm not there. Hmm....[/COLOR]