Birty Dastards Jeep Club
Tech Forum => Workshop => Topic started by: warp on September 06, 2010, 07:28:31 PM
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Well I was all set to attend cheapfest and would you know it there's a shuddering from the steering wheel and the little voice inside my head Say's "That ain't good!!!" So get back home and have a look under the jeep to find this
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The little voice in mind head coughs and goes "That defiantly ain't good!!"
So the options open to me were
A: Buy a new axle (To expensive and way to much hassle)
B: Get some pre made one's from rusty's offroad in america (Basically £100 and a 6 month wait for rusty to get his finger out of his A*se and send them)
or
C: Make your own
So going for option C involved a hours under the jeep to come up with the following diagram
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After checking and rechecking that the measurement were correct. I went in search of the materials to make said offending articles. One option i did consider was 120mm x 80mm box section which did help with the overall shape, but decied not to because of the amount of work it would take with the cutting. So I settled for 5mm mild stel plate (£10 for Beeches in netherton).
To finish off after a Day's work I ended up with these
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looking good :greggmo:
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Thanks, I don't know if I would be pissed or proud if I bust these :icon_biggrin: