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#41
03-21-2012, 09:37 PM
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Re: Ain't Your Daddy's UTV
One of the upper arms was a real custom unit, AJ tried to talke me into into keeping it because "custom" work like this isn't easy to come by....especially the high end sockets for ends.
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#42
03-21-2012, 09:37 PM
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Re: Ain't Your Daddy's UTV
Chop!!
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Mark Twain: "Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore, dream and discover".... Life's journey is not to arrive at the grave safely and in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways totally worn out, shouting "Holy Crap, What a Ride!"
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#43
03-21-2012, 09:38 PM
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Re: Ain't Your Daddy's UTV
The tubing size is close to 1.25" but the wall thickness was a bit goofy in spots with some burn through in the joint. AJ wanted to do the splice where it could be reinforced and keep it stronger than the existing area. Installed some [COLOR=#fff200! important][COLOR=#fff200! important]slugs[/COLOR][/COLOR] and used 1-1/4 tubing...
Slugs were 3/16" wall, welded the seam and plug welds of course. It's very handy how these stand up on end to work on.
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Mark Twain: "Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore, dream and discover".... Life's journey is not to arrive at the grave safely and in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways totally worn out, shouting "Holy Crap, What a Ride!"
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#44
03-21-2012, 09:39 PM
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Re: Ain't Your Daddy's UTV
Tacked in place, AJ spent a good half hour tweaking it until it finally burned it in...
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Mark Twain: "Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore, dream and discover".... Life's journey is not to arrive at the grave safely and in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways totally worn out, shouting "Holy Crap, What a Ride!"
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#45
03-21-2012, 09:40 PM
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Re: Ain't Your Daddy's UTV
Hasn't been cleaned up in this pic yet... AJ also duplicated the factory tube gussets to further reinforce the joint where he did the repair at.
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Mark Twain: "Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore, dream and discover".... Life's journey is not to arrive at the grave safely and in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways totally worn out, shouting "Holy Crap, What a Ride!"
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#46
03-21-2012, 09:40 PM
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Re: Ain't Your Daddy's UTV
And then came the fun....with so many things to consider...camber, castor, bumpsteer and keeping all of these within limits along the arc of travel. And the fact that these arms are not designed for use on this frame...A LOT of fitting, measuring, re-fit, measure, check angles...re-fit...... All the while keeping it within 61" width...AJ shot for no more than 60".
Since the stock metal is thinner on the upper a-arm mounts AJ used some .090 tubing cut in half to beef up the frame in the area he was going to put the mounts.
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Mark Twain: "Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore, dream and discover".... Life's journey is not to arrive at the grave safely and in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways totally worn out, shouting "Holy Crap, What a Ride!"
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#47
03-21-2012, 09:41 PM
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Re: Ain't Your Daddy's UTV
Tacked in place, cycled it through it's limits and neither castor or camber changed much at all. There will be reinforcement plates over the mounts as well.
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Mark Twain: "Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore, dream and discover".... Life's journey is not to arrive at the grave safely and in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways totally worn out, shouting "Holy Crap, What a Ride!"
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#48
03-21-2012, 09:43 PM
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Re: Ain't Your Daddy's UTV
Tomorrow AJ will get the shocks mounted up. Will take the measured length of travel of the shocks and find the optimum position so it's using the full length of travel and keep the ride height close to stock.
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Mark Twain: "Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore, dream and discover".... Life's journey is not to arrive at the grave safely and in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways totally worn out, shouting "Holy Crap, What a Ride!"
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#49
04-17-2012, 05:22 PM
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Re: Ain't Your Daddy's UTV
Couple of pictures of it... Now we are putting on a few finishing touches, moving a few attachment points for various little things...Once it's all done, we'll strip it down to the frame and off to the powder coater...
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Mark Twain: "Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore, dream and discover".... Life's journey is not to arrive at the grave safely and in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways totally worn out, shouting "Holy Crap, What a Ride!"
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#50
05-01-2012, 05:19 PM
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Re: Ain't Your Daddy's UTV
We have one side pretty much fabbed in for the body work, 2 more panels to go. We decided to leave them as individual pieces so they can easily be repaired or replaced if damaged.
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Mark Twain: "Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore, dream and discover".... Life's journey is not to arrive at the grave safely and in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways totally worn out, shouting "Holy Crap, What a Ride!"
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