- Location
- Golden, CO
Damn Skully! I wanted to watch him go through this one, see how it's done. Not like I have time and money to drive to the Springs.
Lets see the body count so far...........you trashed 1, bought another 1 and rebuilt it by using parts off the old trashed 1 then in the process of selling its lifeless corpse, you trash the new 1 and luckily the old hadn't been picked up yet and you pulled the sale to combined the old and new 1's to make the current Frankenstein's monster, and now trashed it all with in 6 months .......everybody got that? .....unless xj-grin has other bodies of dead np231's lying around buried in his yard that he is not admitting to.............me thinks you should stay away from building transfer cases and let someone else do it this time.
..................then in the future for anyone listening be weary if xj-grin offers to help you rebuild your np231 :scared: :cheers:
.....hopefully it will hold up better with more lube.....
I'm not gonna lie, that usually helps with longevity...
Ya'll are sick................
personally, lube and longevity have never really gone together for me.:greensmok
That was more for her....
Nice weather we're having eh?
xj-grin I thought they had drugs for that type of dysfunction?
Hey nice trailer build can't wait to see it carry the crushed cooler and the bumper dumper!
Just to mess up this thread a little more:
http://www.sylvansport.com/it.html
It looks a little like how I was thinking about adapting my M416 for camping(beds hanging off of the side.) It'd be nice if that top piece holding the tent was available seperately.
Fred
Actually, you managed to bring it back on topic, Fred!!!
didn't happen, so I'll probably use a full Wildernest topper once I find one for the right price.:cheers:
I assume you've read Gojeep's trailer page? Just like with his Cherokee pages, there are some pretty novel ideas here: http://go.jeep-xj.info/Trailers.htm
Jim www.yuccaman.com
Yucca-bot
So after years of thinking about it, and a year of DD'ing the anticipated donor, and after seeing Prepmech actually execute it really well (see thread in Adventure Forum of ), I am finally on the road to my MJ off-road trailer. Yellaheep and I agreed on a trade - my barely running MJ for a bed with a tounge for me to work off of. We both agreed that problems and all, my MJ was just in too good of shape to go under the sawzall. While I own a welder and can weld, I wouldn't call myself a "welder", and big thanks to Yellaheep for his talents and equipment in getting the touge good and secure!eace::thumbup:
So, the tounge is made of 3x4x1/8 steel, with about 10 inches inserted into the MJ "frame, and rosette welded, with a couple of grade 8 bolts with crush sleeves for good measure
Well I followed the link... MAN !!! I have drawings of the same way you tied into the frame... scary... same O.D., but I went 3/16th. Going with the same axle size also... got one or two different twists...
I hope to someday have it set up to sleep 4 adults... be able to stand up... fold up relatively compact... it won't be a super quick set up, but should go up fairly quick... I'll be watching...
This makes about 6 or 7 that I'm aware of...
Curt
Then we stared at it for while an cogitated, and agreed to take a 30 degree "pie slice" out of the inside of both rails. This way we could bend both sides into the center for an a-frame effect, while leaving the outer portion of the tubing uncut. We didn't use any jigs, but did a bit of plumb-bobbing and eye-measuring, and either through luck, skill or both, we appear to have a damn-near perfectly centered tounge... Yella then welded the "pie slices back over the bent and welded peices for added strength
Once the bends were done, they were attached at the front with a nifty sleeve that Yella came up with, allowing the welding to be in multiple planes -- once it is road worthy, it will have a really cool 360 degree movement hitch from a Pennsylvania company called Lock 'n Roll (more on that to follow), and will also be able to accept a pintle lunette in case someone else needs to pull it...
Then a cross-brace was added, which not only strengthened the structure, but made a great place for the center-mounted trailer jack
That's the tounge build in a nutshell
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