Dynafari running report and general fuckery

[ThePog]

Not been on here much at all for a few months, mostly cos an unnamed mod changed one of my posts to make me look like even more of a cunt than I actually am without indicating that they had done so, this gave me a complete sense of humour failure so I lost quite a lot of interest. I guess I am over it now but we will see how things go....

Anyway I have been up to a bit of stuff in the absent months, I will let the pics mostly do the talking.

Cost 3x boxes of beer

White dust is from fingerprinting, was stolen and recovered..

Fitted pretty nice with minimal sheetmetal cutting

Engine is seized, need to find another, but will use this to set up the mounts.

Made a removable subframe for the rear and mid body mounts

Later model safari steering box, this might be a sticking point but i have a plan that has been agreed with the cert man in principle. The box is rotated forward from the original position, the tie rod position is exactly the same though

Front body mounts and steering box mount are all tied in. I have a design for this in CAD which looks pretty good.

Fitted the Safari clutch booster in there with relative ease

Engine is just propped there, I have moved it back 570mm to help with weight distribution/radiator clearance/etc. It also means I can use a SWB rear driveshaft.

Gear linkage might be fun, although apparently the gearbox in a Condor/Atlas with the FD42 has the same box housing, the top plate and gearshift mech should respectively bolt on/be able to be modded to fit.

Took it to a weighbridge to check axle loadings, 1755kg all up, 1130kg on the front. Axle ratings are 1500kg front and 1800 rear so should be good to go. The weighbridge was reading 65kg heavier by the time we were done so this is probably worst case.

GVM of the Safari was 2505kg, so will be racecar.

There is a lot to do yet, as I said the engine is seized so need to find another + turbo to put on it.

Build the front cab mount and steering mount, engine and gearbox mounts

Need to think how to build the front driveshaft, probably a shorty shaft to a frame mounted carrier, then use the standard front axle.

Need to find FD42 gearbox linkage

Probably needs new tyres and at least one more rim for a spare

Need adjustable panhards and adjustable rear lower trailing arms to get the axles in a better position. It had a 2" lift that translates to about a 3.5" lift with the current weight, so axles are a bit off to one side and the rear will need rotating so the driveshaft flanges are parallel.

Need to airbag the rear for load leveling.

Need to convert the AC pump to continuous air for the airbags and whatever else

Will need to build a deck with big ass drawers underneath for my tools.

Will probably will have a budget hoist of some variety, maybe just an arm with a chain block.

Electrical will be a nightmare as the cab is 12v and the chassis is 24v, need to talk to an auto sparky to discuss my ideas.

Still need to 100% make sure that my cert guy will be able to take it on, there is no one in Nelson with 1D unfortunately.

Piece of piss really.

 

[johnnyfive]

Many likes. Guy locally was putting a Dyna body on a LN106 chassis + 1uz. 

Many likes

[M.H.]

Fuck that's cool. There's a dude on Facebook trying to sell a patrol with a Cummins 6bt as a project

[ThePog]

Yea I have some pics of that. I did wonder about a 1uz, but as this is intended to work after the zombie apocalypse/mass coronal ejection I preferred a donk with no real electrical requirements.

Edit; reply was to the one above.

I have been fantasizing about a big Cummins, but I figured the td42 was plentiful and relatively cheap.

[NickJ]

Alex was telling me about this project when we called through over Christmas, stoked to see it and hopefully a few more progress updates to come!

With a to do list that big, adding the cummins will only take an afternoon at best......

[Mof]

Let me know if you get stuck with the fd42. My work has a Nissan truck wreckers in Dunedin, I could see if they have anything. 

[flyingbrick]

Damn this is a good idea!!!!! Love it!

Now i need to go google what an fd42 is 

[ThePog]

47 minutes ago, Mof said:

Let me know if you get stuck with the fd42. My work has a Nissan truck wreckers in Dunedin, I could see if they have anything. 

Yea talked to a wreckers in dunners a few days ago, need to chase them to see what he has found, that was about the 5th place I called and the most likely sounding...

[azzurro]

Love your work.

Hope you are planning on fillling the cavities with lots of...

 

 

 

...Dynatrol

 

[~Slideways~]

This is so cool.

What is it going to be used for, except being awesome?

 

[ThePog]

27 minutes ago, azzurro said:

Love your work.

Hope you are planning on fillling the cavities with lots of...

 

 

 

...Dynatrol

 

Please stop.

[ThePog]

22 minutes ago, ~Slideways~ said:

This is so cool.

What is it going to be used for, except being awesome?

 

It's a work truck mostly, but when I build a cabin for the back it will be an expedition vehicle, and when society breaks down it will be used to make armed raids on fuel dumps.

Mostly I just think it will be fucking awesome.

 

[BlownCorona]

Damn that's cool, never have I started reading a project thread and been so disinterested, and then so rapidly brought around as I have on this thread! 

"Heres a slogged out looking dyna I paid beers for, several pictures later and a few words and it looks like a beast"

[UTERUS]

What on earth kind of work do you do, to want that? 

 

Rad. 

[ThePog]

17 minutes ago, UTERUS said:

What on earth kind of work do you do, to want that? 

 

Rad. 

We move shit around and install it. The stuff is mostly big and unwieldy and I have a big box of tools I need to take.

There is a long convoluted justification involving being unable to find a decent replacement for my current work vehicle, but this is tedious and mostly unbelievable so I won't bother.

The real reason is that I think it will be cool and I am only happy in myself when I have a nice big chunk of interesting stuff to do that isn't work.

[Nominal]

18 minutes ago, ThePog said:

The real reason is that I think it will be cool and I am only happy in myself when I have a nice big chunk of interesting stuff to do that isn't work.

Good reason!

Also, good to see you back.

[BigT105e]

Hey bro, mean project, I'm just pondering how the cert will work, I looked at doing something similar a few years ago with putting a series 2A truck cab on a disco chassis I had and my cert guy said that putting a different cab on another chassis then it would be considered a scratch built, so I flagged the idea and pretty much gave it all away, looks like my cert guy may have been full of it?

[ThePog]

It is a scratch built because I am messing with the steering stuff.

The to do list I have is mostly made up of relativity simple things, even if there are a lot of them, but the steering box reposition and chassis mods associated definitely put it in that category.

[Shakotom]

So I opened this thread, had a scroll down and as soon as I saw that picture of the cab sitting on the safari chassis I was all like oh hell yeah.

 

keep up the good work. So much potential for awesomeness!

[ThePog]

For sure the potential is all there, it just looked so right from that first fit up, it matched what I had in my head almost perfectly.