Popular Post ThePog Posted July 10, 2019 Author Popular Post Share Posted July 10, 2019 Been on hols, got back today and had a couple of hours in the shed tonight so I mounted the Safari cluster in the Dyna dash. I had mostly fitted the dash before we went away. Shit will fit ok I reckon, I had to trim the cluster hole quite a bit bigger. Factory looking eh. It's all 1992 So no stylistic clashes happening. 16 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post ThePog Posted July 14, 2019 Author Popular Post Share Posted July 14, 2019 Proof that I am now an auto sparky and fuck anyone who says otherwise; Should have cleaned the smeg off my lens for that last one. Then on to the engine cover, but first I had to build a bit of the intake to make sure I could get it all to clear. There is a sweet spot just behind the cab that will fit a 600x 300 intercooler, I am hoping I can get to that area without modifying my gear linkage too much. Made a rim for the cut sheet metal so the floor was stiffer and the cover had something to bolt to. The intake had to be low otherwise the folding rear seats would hit it. Welded and cleaned up. Looks kinda cool. Then some time honoured 'frame it up in solid round then smash sheet metal onto it' fabrication. It's tight. There was a wee bracket thing that hit the cover when the seat was down so I whipped it off with the grinder only to immediately realise it was the hook to keep the seats up. So now I need to replicate it. Like a cunt. I initially used some real thin galv sheet I had but it was clear I was never going to be able to fully weld it without chasing holes all over the place, plus it already sounded clangy and tinny, so I found some 1.5mm mild steel in the rack and used the thin shit as a template. This meant I could get a nice fold where I needed it using the finger bender. Still yet to do the other side and fill in those gaps, but good progress. Front driveshaft assembly is in getting shortened and balanced at considerable expense. Still yet to hear from engine man. I might have to spend that money on coating the chassis etc and hope I can find some more later on. Or find some more shit to sell. As you were. 25 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post ThePog Posted July 21, 2019 Author Popular Post Share Posted July 21, 2019 Mostly finished the engine cover. Not a heap of legroom, but not too bad. I then made a cover for all those electrical gubbins. I then debated about having that whole cover hinge up, but decided that some access holes to get to the important things was a better solution. I have since hinged and latched those. Do I win a prize? Then I fucked around with the surprisingly sweet little stereo that arrived from our Chinese friends. I fucked up but not realising that the Bluetooth on the stereo did not deal with phone calls, so I found a panel mount hands free kit from jaycar for $10 and used the amps aux input. It didn't work at first, then I realised the amp was still connecting to the tablet I use for shed sounds that I hooked up for testing, duh. I mounted it all on some ally, the switch is so I can turn it on without the key if needed. Up is normal acc power, down is always on power, and mid position is fully off. This will be useful for the times the bt does not connect properly and you usually have to turn the key off to restart the lil bitch. It needs some filtering though as a lot of noise from the electronic flasher units comes through, plus the amp has enough capacitance to keep the acc circuit going for 10 seconds after it has switched off. And it has a sweet clunk through the speakers. Cool. 14 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post ThePog Posted July 28, 2019 Author Popular Post Share Posted July 28, 2019 Alrighty bitches, time for the drawers. Real drawer slides are really expensive, the ones I wanted would have set me back $450 ish even at trade prices, so I decided to make some rollers out of bearings and some extrusion from Ullrich. I had already sort of tried to do this with a round rail extrusion and some steel round but this was deeply unsatisfactory. Bearings mounted on a bit of drilled and tapped flat bar, tacked in place for now. Cut out the sides from some checker plate I had lying around, I wasn't too sure about it cos of the generic checker plate wankery that goes on but it looks pretty good. I had stealthily snuck a couple of sheets of 1.2mm electrogalv into the shed on Friday, I made some big patterns for the box and bent them with the finger bender. Then a shit load of weldy weldy, grindy grindy. Then creating the same thing for the other side. During these activities my 5" grinder let out a really considerable amount of smoke and ceased to function. This meant a trip to mitre 10 for a quite expensive replacement. During this I also ran out of gas so dragged out my big tank of co2, I pretty much immediately managed to knock this over onto the concrete and let out quite a lot of gas. This bent my regulator in unfortunate directions. Miraculously it still works so I replaced the snapped outlet and carried on. They are big drawers, 800 wide, 600 in, 350 deep. The extra shelfy bit at the back is for a secondary drawer that will sit on the top and slide away for access to the main box. Should be heaps of room. Here you can also see my modified super sized porta power pump. This now holds enough fluid for my crane to move through its entire possible range. Yay for me. In other news I mounted the fuel filler, this meant moving one of my battery trays, but this worked out ok. This will be covered with a lockable checker plate hatch in the near future. In other other news I made a place for the plate and light. Somehow my deck build calculations failed to take into account the size of the license plate, this meant I had to make a wee mod to the deck. Might buy another of those lights to make it even. Still no word from fucking engine man. @yoeddynz gave me the name of the local safari foamer, he reckoned to open up my engine and have a look to see how fucked it is. If it is at all salvageable I think I will use this. I also got the radiator dude around to check things before getting to carried away with the custom rad, but he was happy so will build it. He will mock it up for me first. This will be super expensive, it will be a 5 row triple pass beast. This is needed as the space is not super wide and I need proper cooling, particularly if I turbo it. Rather pleasingly he said it was the best project he had seen or words to that effect. Yay for me again. 25 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mof Posted July 28, 2019 Share Posted July 28, 2019 Driveline down here just took a turbo td42 from the workshop in bits. It dropped #4 liner, but depending on yours you might make 1 out of 2. I don't know what their plans are for it but they might be happy to move it along. Dream build btw, love it 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThePog Posted July 28, 2019 Author Share Posted July 28, 2019 Shit yea, let me know what $$ they want. I have some spare cash squirrelled away for engines.. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~Slideways~ Posted July 28, 2019 Share Posted July 28, 2019 Interested in the details of that stereo jobby, is it 24v? I've been wanting to find 24v amplifiers because 24-12v inverters are a pain. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThePog Posted July 28, 2019 Author Share Posted July 28, 2019 9 minutes ago, ~Slideways~ said: Interested in the details of that stereo jobby, is it 24v? I've been wanting to find 24v amplifiers because 24-12v inverters are a pain. https://s.click.aliexpress.com/e/u5tcaeM I ran it as my shed stereo for a week or two before I put it into the truck, it cranked a couple of decent speakers pretty well. I think I will get another one as my current shed amp is only 20w per channel and struggles a bit, plus it doesn't have bluetooth and the 3.5mm socket on my tablet is going dog. input is 15-24v as far as I remember. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~Slideways~ Posted July 28, 2019 Share Posted July 28, 2019 1 hour ago, ThePog said: https://s.click.aliexpress.com/e/u5tcaeM I ran it as my shed stereo for a week or two before I put it into the truck, it cranked a couple of decent speakers pretty well. I think I will get another one as my current shed amp is only 20w per channel and struggles a bit, plus it doesn't have bluetooth and the 3.5mm socket on my tablet is going dog. input is 15-24v as far as I remember. Awesome thanks, will look into these. Hoping there is an option for more than 2ch. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThePog Posted July 28, 2019 Author Share Posted July 28, 2019 There are shitloads of 24v car stereos on there as well. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~Slideways~ Posted July 28, 2019 Share Posted July 28, 2019 39 minutes ago, ThePog said: There are shitloads of 24v car stereos on there as well. There are yeah but I want something with a decent watt rating, I have a panasonic something or other 12v stereo and its "50w" but really struggles and a complete lack of bass. Ideally I need to figure out what kind of 24v amps there are. I haven't looked at this stuff for so long, maybe these tiny amps are the way to go? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThePog Posted July 29, 2019 Author Share Posted July 29, 2019 TBH I cant fault this one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
My name is Russell Posted July 29, 2019 Share Posted July 29, 2019 Such a rad project!!! keep the updates cuming! Do those blue tooth boom box's come in 12V? Nice option for a classic car! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThePog Posted July 29, 2019 Author Share Posted July 29, 2019 1 hour ago, My name is Russell said: Such a rad project!!! keep the updates cuming! Do those blue tooth boom box's come in 12V? Nice option for a classic car! There will be plenty more updates to come I am sure, I am totally fizzing to get it driveable... There are an unlimited number of these on Ali express, I am sure I saw a 12v version. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mof Posted July 29, 2019 Share Posted July 29, 2019 22 hours ago, ThePog said: Shit yea, let me know what $$ they want. I have some spare cash squirrelled away for engines.. Will find out 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post ThePog Posted August 4, 2019 Author Popular Post Share Posted August 4, 2019 Some things arrived. The rad is just mocked up for now, I will add some mounts and change the lower outlet angle.. The driveshaft is sorted, I had some adaptors machined out of 7075 ally at Topliss (I am sure I have a pic somewhere), then dumped it all at marine and turbochargers to get shortened and balanced. The shortened extension (you wot mate???) Is a 2wd Hilux shaft. I bought a new hangar bearing for it as well, so that shit represents over a grand of accumulated investment. Gulp. After having a quick check to see that it basically fit (and damaging the fins and spending 20mins with a tiny screwdriver pushing them all into place again and taping some cardboard over the tiny little fucks so I didn have to do it again), I made a fake one out of rod to get the position roughly right. Cable tied in place. Tacked in place I removed the cab to make this bit easier, I have quite a few cab off jobs to get through anyway. I did some other shit but forgot pics so that's all you get for now. 12 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post ThePog Posted August 11, 2019 Author Popular Post Share Posted August 11, 2019 Sunday evening update time. Fuck the weeks go past fast, I must be getting old. I made some hatches for the rear openings; I added some covers for the drawers so my tools don't fall out; I have yet to find a really good lock system for those big drawers yet... I then made a bracket to hold a power steering reservoir in a place where it was easy to access; I made some radiator supports; After I made these I found the Dyna rad supports in my box of shite, so now that I have adjusted these into the correct position with the cab on I will probably change these over. The Dyna ones have some isolation built in which is a good thing. The rad itself is sitting on two M8 isolation mounts on the underside, connected to that bit of angle. I will cut the angle into two smaller brackets, that shit was just to get them in the right spot during the setup. All snugly in place. The reservoir cap does hit the cover so something will need a cut and shut. I then stood back and admired the goodness; O fuck yes. 30 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThePog Posted August 18, 2019 Author Share Posted August 18, 2019 Loads more stuff done, my life essentially consists of real work during the day then smashing out more truck stuff in the evenings and the weekends. My wife is extremely understanding, I reckon I lucked in with that one. Anyway for starters I made most of a heavy duty engine stand in anticipation of stripping the boat anchor down. I'll make the mount to suit the engine once it is out. Then I made some wheel arches and boxes for the deck with the rest of the zintex sheet. The last bit got a little bitsy as I was running out of big offcuts, it looks ok tho. Looks good. Then some little jobs like filling in the steps as these looked a little funny as they were. Modifying the rad mounts so they had some isolation; Mounting the random cooler I got from the wreckers for the power steering. This is just a pipe doubled back on itself in the Safari, but there was no tidy way to mount that in this setup. This will do for now. It's on a removable bracket so I can swap it out if it's shit. It's also out of the way of the main rad airflow which is at a premium. Next I chucked the driveshaft in to see what needs to happen, this will need some more thought but I have most of a plan for the mounting. Excitingly it is the correct length. Also look at that sexy spacer, those are made out of 7075 tooling plate and are very pretty indeed. Because of clearance issues the short shaft may need to be at a slight angle away from the bell housing, this means that things won't be aligned perfectly. It will only be 1 or 2 degrees at most but I imagine it might have an effect due to the single uj by the transfer case. My saving grace is that the shaft will only be spinning when in 4wd and I imagine never at open road speeds. Not too sure about that, I will just have to get it as close as I can and hope for the best. As you were. 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jusepy82 Posted August 18, 2019 Share Posted August 18, 2019 On 07/02/2019 at 20:08, BlownCorona said: it reminds me of a Pinzgauer which are also awesome. Not until you have to work.on them 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mof Posted August 18, 2019 Share Posted August 18, 2019 It's good to have that centre bearing a little off, 2-4º. It'll make the uj bearings at the box do some rotating. Centre bearings are never spot on 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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