Solid Axle Swap BS Thread

i want to run 1.5" X .120 and sleeve it with 2" X 3/8" if I can find it

 

and I paid about $3.25/ft for it delivered to my house!! Any of you guys have this around you here is a 20% coupon

 

f u guys

I'm running 2"OD x .25" DOM for my front links, not sure yet on the rear links. Either thicker wall and/or larger diameter DOM, or 4130 since the rear links are gonna eat shit much more than the fronts.

Bending the hoops for the cage today. Hope I don't fuck it up.

 

Are you doing A-pillar first and out the back or doing the B-pillar first? I did A first from the frame all the way to the back window because it was easy to mirror and then the B-pillar is an easy 3 piece connection. Making a full B pillar hoop land on the frame and fit tight seemed harder to me

 

I'm kinda doing it the other way. C, B, A. (C to C, B to B, and top of B to A if that makes sense...)

 

Unless your sending the links to heat treat just go DOM 2.25x 3/8 wall should be fine if your bending those you can always swap them out for 2.5"x .500 wall. I know if i bend mine (with my wheeling style I don't think I will) but if i do I'll be making some 2.5"x .500 wall lowers.

 

Sure does, take your time and you will be fine I just always cut everything a tad long, you can always cut more, you cant put tube back

 

True words there everything I design in bendtech I add 2" of cut away on the ends sometimes more.

 

Yeah I was originally going to get 10' sticks for the main hoops and after the boat sides + cutting out more of the body structure I measured again, and as best I could I guessed ~132" so I just asked for 140" just in case. There's BARELY any left over.

I had a huge fuck up that killed most of my day.

Things were going really well until the last of 7 bends on the first hoop. Setting up the tubing in the bender, I put the pin in the C shaped that holds the tube to the die only part way in. Forgot about it and started bending away, then noticed this-





Tried a torch and sledge over a scrap piece of 2"OD .25" wall tube but it didn't budge. Finally used the whiskey bend and more scrap to reinforce it. So far, so good.

 

One of my guys did that the first bend I had him do without me watching. What a pain to fix i used the 20 ton shop press to shape it back the best I could.

 

Oh for the love of... why didn't I think of that?! I have a 20 ton press.

 

Painting today...

 

nice.. I had a thought. instead of sleeving 1.5"X 1.20 with 2.0" X 3/8

why not just build a Type of pipe/shim that I can use to adapt the weld in bungs form the 1.5" to a 2.5" X 3/8 DOM save weight and be almost as strong as sleeving with the smaller stuff.

 

Increasing the OD of the link increases strength more than increasing wall thickness. Why not just buy 2.25" x .375 DOM and make life easier? Or buy 2.5" x .500

 

That's what I was saying id much rather go with a bigger Dia. Dom and a thicker wall than just sleeve the smaller stuff. But the Weld in bungs for the links im going to run are ment for 1.5" so id have to build a adapter of some sort maybe just use about 6" of dome that will fit the bill.

 

Do it right and get a bung made to fit the larger DOM. Anyone with a lathe and some taps could make some. Hell, I am sure all it would take is an email to Dan @ ruffstuff and he would have some on the way in a few days.

 

ive got a lathe and taps aren't that much shit I could do it what was I thinking oh yeah cheap and easy.

 

Holy lazy lol

 

Do you have 1.25" taps in RHT and LHT? They are pretty pricey and will get used VERY infrequently to justify there purchase. If you have them great, otherwise I would have some made up. I would avoid an adaptor as that will mostlikely be a weak point having an additional joint etc.

 

Are you saying 2.25" x .375 wall won't work? Its 1.5" ID just like you need. 2.25" DOM is burly shit