Zuk on 38's

That is some nice engineering.......impressive

 

berg2065

Thanks for noticing the engineering in the Watts Link. There was quite an effort made just to gather all the info to even start the enginnering process.

 

Here is my old school cardboard 2D cad mock up of the 1.25 DOM radius support bracket.

The specs are:
1.25 DOM Dia. 1/4 wall with a 4.5” inner radius at 90*.
Bottom support bracket 3/8
Top support brackets ¼ (2)


There will still be a front bracket added. Working on the pieces now.

 

Front Side 2nd Bracket is made and welded in place. You can now see the extensive amount of surface area the brackets use for strengthening the Panhard Mount. There will still be the additional 3rd round bar bracket. With all three brackets in these positions will equally distribute the load on the frame.

There will also be an additional Tie in1.25 Heim joint bar mounted between the bumpstop mounts on both sides. This will transfer any additional loads to both sides of the frame for even more strength.

Some I’m sure had some doubt of this actually working out. Hope that these Brackets and Tie in’s have helped in changing your minds.

 

This is the steering link and panhard bars set at 3 ½ degrees. With all the mods made the steering is now close to stock geometry.





Waiting on the DS 1.25 DOM tube to be bent and that will finish this side up.





Made my old school cardboard 3D cad mock up for the PS bumpstop.

 

wow just amazing, great skill you have sir. This is one crazy build!

 

Thanks, sounds like you are enjoying the build. It is kind if refeshing to see something this radical come together once in a while.

 

We are no on real time for the build so updates will be a bit slower now.

While working on boxing in the PS frame rail the rad support bracket was going to have to be removed. The DS bracket was also removed during the same process earlier. Before the removal of PS bracket the DS bracket needed to be made and reattached. This was to keep the 2 bracket oriented properly.

The process and a couple of tips for this bracket install.


Here is the DS radiator support bracket. This had to be remade because of the new location of the lock nuts for the FJ80 box. The box was also dropped an inch resulting
in chopping the frame down.

These 2 obstacles were a bit of an issue. This bracket needed to be made and installed before the PS inside rail was stripped of the radiator support bracket for the boxing in process.

The bracket was made of ¼” plate and 2 small pieces of ¼” plate were added to make a thicker pad for threading. To make up for the missing inch from the upper frame for mounting the bracket was made 1” longer and the top was given angle cuts to blend in to the frame. The bracket was also made 1” wider to go over the lock nuts.

 

Weather is finally getting better to get some work done. I have to work with the door up and the wind and rain was too strong to get much done.

Been busy stripping the bracket and under coating off the PS rail. Here is the progress and a bit of future direction on this side.





PS box plate with rosette weld holes.

 

This is one of my favorite threads to follow.

Congrats TZ for having the time, talent and money to tackle such a build.

 

Thanks for following along, Still have quite a bit to go, hope that you will enjoy the rest.

 

My Radius Tube is finally here!!!!!

After spending 3 weeks wasted on 2 shops that never bent the tube. I remembered book marking a frame shop when working on the Willys that bends custom frame rails. Gave them a call on Thursday and was at my door Tuesday.

Decided to drop everything and get to work on this Rad Tube and Support Brackets. Got the tube cut down and burned in made the bottom bracket and tacked it in place. Still need to make the 2 upper Brackets.

You will notice there is plenty of clearance between the Steering Arm and the Rad Tube. There is also enough room to be able to remove the FJ80 box.

 

This build is amazing, congrats to you man for taking on a build of this epic proportion.. And if you don't mind me asking, what were the dyno numbers for the other build?a

 

Love it, looks like a lot of fun to drive. About how much did this run you?

 

Thanks for the compliments on the build.

Haven't gotten it to a real dyno yet. Used the Desk Top Dyno for the build and it worked out real close to 800HP. I know that is just an estimate but let me tell you it is a Monster. When it is completed I will have to do a dyno on it. That won't be for at least a couple of years though.

 

Still haven't completed the build so it has been driven yet. Looking forward to it. Closing in fast on the budget that was set before the build was started.

 

I see that there is getting to be some interest on the build.

Just wanted to remind you that the Build is in real time now. The updates will be a bit slower now because I make almost everything and that does take some time.

Thanks very much for your interest.

 

Please feel free to ask Questions.

 

Feels good to finally get that very complicated DS done. Don’t believe that Panhard Mount will ever move with that much bracing.

Here is the completed DS components:

1” Dropped FJ80 Box, Panhard Mount with Support Brackets and Modified Ford Shock Tower.