SJ 410 buggy

[Silverfish]

Ya, Brentlift and I started on the buggy project tonite.

Removed lots of metal, all thats left now is the firewall, windshield, hood, and part of the front floor pan. More to go tomorrow!

Found out that it had NO body mounts left at all.

It's fun to harvest sheet metal with a sawzall and a zip disc.

[moose]

yah all right a BLZ!
BrentLift Zuki that is.
Noticed yesterday that the forklift were all out and erect around the SJ.

[Silverfish]

ya, they were excited too!

[Wallace]

Me and Cody went and had a peek at it today, not to much left.

[Tim J]

Stopped by today, its gonna be RAD, and might be ready for ZOTR

[Silverfish]

Oh, it will be ready for ZOTR..

It won't be finished, but it will be there!

[wwwabbit]

And the pictures are?

[Silverfish]

sadly, not digital camera yet.. been spending any extra $ on 4x4's

I will be taking lots of pics with my regular camera.

[wildcat]

Originally posted by Silverfish
sadly, not digital camera yet.. been spending any extra $ on 4x4's

I will be taking lots of pics with my regular camera.

Most places will put your pics on cd now, all you need is a negative.

[Silverfish]

I shall have to check that out! :cool:

[toy 4 life]

did you buy this sj off me

[Silverfish]

yup

[Carnage kenny]

It's going to be a cool fun ............. um ..... thing ...... haha not too much in the way of body left on that thing lol. good luck man

[toy 4 life]

hope you have as much fun as i did with it send me a few pics of it when your done i got some of it before you started if you want

[Silverfish]

Ya it should be fun to build up! I will put up some pics of it when I am a little further along. Could ya send me some pics ? Thanks
silverfish@shaw.ca

[Silverfish]

Bit of an update,.. cage is pretty much done, cept for a few bits here and there. We almost have the second t-case mounted, it is in place and attached to the zuki t-case.. just need a couple o brackets and it's in there.

Oh ya, it's from a Lada.

We rounded up a couple o axles from an '81 Toyota, and the front is mostly in there, using leafs from the old van leftover pile. 55" long I think.
Rear end is still in the planning process, coils and maybe a wishbone type 3 link with radius arm bushings... but we shall see. Fun so far!

[Cody]

here are some pics i snaped tonight
the dual t-cases


cage




rocker gaurds/cage



rear axle getting brackets made up



things looking good
there will be more pics later in the week as progress continues

[Wallace]

ya, I was there tonight and this thing is lookin "good".

[Silverfish]

I don't know if "good" is the right word for it Matt...but thanks!

Thanks fer the pics Cody!

[Wallace]

As for function I meant it looked good, but as for the over all look it is a little beat.

[toy 4 life]

you think it looks beat now looks awsome from when i sold it to him thing whent every were thow

[Cody]

heres what we finished off tonight

bruce completed the 2 main links for the rear, using the ford radius arm bushings








and i finished off the front spring hangers, little more welding and it will done


and here is the other link being starter

[Silverfish]

fabbin's fun

[Wallace]

Nice work guys, those are some pretty beefy links..what the matierial, DOM?

[Silverfish]

even better...
1" sch 40 with 3/4" sch40 inside it at the radius arm end.

[Silverfish]

DOM is too much $ for this buggy makin monkey!

[cam]

lol, that sounds very similar to what i made my links out of. other than i went with sked 80.(and one size bigger)
why did you decide to go that small?
are you not afraid of totally messing them up on a rock?

[Silverfish]

i fear no rock

[Tim J]

It's gonna weigh alot less than your Jeep too dont forget Cam...and it has 45 hp

[chet]

lookin good guys! Don't forget the washers for the radius arm bushings!(I'm sure you know this!)