Well I built a floor structure, atleast a good start to one. Have to stick the body on and connect it. I am just going to use the same style square tubing stacked on the subframe and weld the floor to it. Still have to cut some for the driveshaft but thats no big deal. I elected to use a subframe like this because my budget is too shy for a beadroller and I'm not that tall so interior space is not greatly needed right now. Mounted the master cylinder, have a great idea for the pedal, more on that later. Welded on the body mounts Finished the welding on my frame & axle Tested out my 4 link design, works awesome, no binding it the entire travel that my airbags will do and beyond, plus the pinion change is very, very minimal. Not a whole lot for the update I guess but time consuming. Ordered a bunch of frontend stuff from hamber Graverobber63, should be in soon. Also ordered my tires. 750-16 & 600-16 So expect a better hopefully rolling update in a few months.
Holy freaking tube stock! looks cool as hell but how much does it weigh? are you doing it for looks or to support your floor?
its all for floor support, the plus side is that the tubing was all free, and I have tons more and its light probably only weighs maybe 60lbs. The downside being building on a budget requires sacrafice, I'd rather of done beads in sheet metal but a roller would be $100-200 less in rod parts, which can't be done right now. Just trying to keep this build as simple & cheap as can be.
Fry, Looking good man, i finally got my frame and gettn some parts from fordnutz and a guy i met at a swap meet, did you get my message about the drums/hubs ?? I have a bunch of free 1" stock as well, theres 30 ft of it in my garage now, gonna build the floor structure as well, very interested in the triangulated 4 link too, seemed the "tightest" setup. Do you have msn ?? A lot easier to talk than chasing Pm's or threads. Jason
Depending on how low you going and shit, I have all the dimensions of my 4 link if you need them. Though I kept my frame very narrow basically a big rectangle to the firewall for ease of keeping everything straight. Justin
WOW that is one HELL of a frame... shouldnt need to worry about safety from side impact in THAT thing ... thing could support a friggin semi. nice work
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