dgrigorenko
NAXJA Forum User
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- Big Rapids MI
ok gents i'm polishing the turd. before some say its dumb and weak, i already know that. basically what it comes down to is budget, and i have the material already so essentially all this will cost me is time. plus, i am only running 33's, so a strengthened 30 should work out ok.
so here we go:
mocked up some cardboard:
I was originally going to make this out of 2x4x.25 tube, but after mockup figured that i wouldn't be left with a whole lot of material on top of the pumpkin after i cut the bottom off of the tube to weld to the axle tubage. now i am looking at fabbing this thing out of the only other material i have: 10ga sheet. i know that may sound thin at first, but its actually pretty close to 3/16 material.
now for a problem:
after mocking up the cardboard i discovered i have a problem. the driver side UCA mount would be inaccessible in this configuration:
so now to a question: what is a possible solution to this? should i just chop off the control arms and make my own much like the TNT truss? do you guys think that the 10ga would be a strong enough base to attach a UCA arm to? i also have some 1/4 material in smaller pieces that i could use to reinforce the area around the uca possibly.
just for reference, here is the TNT truss (Note: obviously their UCA mounts are raised up a few inches has this been problematic at all for anyone?)
so here we go:
mocked up some cardboard:
![051fa73c.jpg](/proxy.php?image=http%3A%2F%2Fi87.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fk151%2Fdgrigorenko%2F051fa73c.jpg&hash=4d0d84675a9429028d5a4bcc1c05d0c5)
![ba604a56.jpg](/proxy.php?image=http%3A%2F%2Fi87.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fk151%2Fdgrigorenko%2Fba604a56.jpg&hash=ba6f3cc1fc8b3a78b5ea66884252ad03)
I was originally going to make this out of 2x4x.25 tube, but after mockup figured that i wouldn't be left with a whole lot of material on top of the pumpkin after i cut the bottom off of the tube to weld to the axle tubage. now i am looking at fabbing this thing out of the only other material i have: 10ga sheet. i know that may sound thin at first, but its actually pretty close to 3/16 material.
now for a problem:
after mocking up the cardboard i discovered i have a problem. the driver side UCA mount would be inaccessible in this configuration:
![46b5a346.jpg](/proxy.php?image=http%3A%2F%2Fi87.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fk151%2Fdgrigorenko%2F46b5a346.jpg&hash=db06778fb8b1ad75c54033da3fa03307)
so now to a question: what is a possible solution to this? should i just chop off the control arms and make my own much like the TNT truss? do you guys think that the 10ga would be a strong enough base to attach a UCA arm to? i also have some 1/4 material in smaller pieces that i could use to reinforce the area around the uca possibly.
just for reference, here is the TNT truss (Note: obviously their UCA mounts are raised up a few inches has this been problematic at all for anyone?)
![D30truss.jpg](/proxy.php?image=http%3A%2F%2Fi87.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fk151%2Fdgrigorenko%2FD30truss.jpg&hash=ab01245ed5747c8650a5e335728d4ece)