Somewhat scale version of my 1:1 Jeep

[Easymoney]

Howdy,
Well this is my first time building a truck. I hate starting the post so soon as I don't have a lot of the parts yet. But I figured I would go ahead and post the drawings and demensions I do have. It's going to run custom aluminum frame and cage, TLT axels, pede trans, Jeep body (of course), 2.2 Dirt Hawgs on Pede rims (starting out cause I have them already), 2.2 Moabs (when I get them), Beadlocks of some kind (not sure what yet), Brushless (I hope!), and Full custom light set. Thats all I can think of at the moment. The demensions on the frame as of now is 20" long, and 3" wide, it has a center drop of 1.5" from the top of the frame to the top of the drop, 2" from top of frame to the bottom. Well now on to the 2 pics I have. The first is of my chassis drawing and the second is the Jeep it's being built after. Let me know what you guys think and if it looks like it will work as I have it layed out. Thanks for any help you can give me.

[Easymoney]

Howdy,
Well I finally got enough parts to start on the Jeep. I've got everything cut and tapped that I need to so far(I think). I'm having problems setting up my suspention though. Well on to the pics. If you guys could help me it would be great. Thanks

[pd2]

That is awesome! With having your own metal shop/mill that makes it really easy for you to turn out what you need from the raw materials. Awesome work!

PD2

[Easymoney]

Well I got a little time to work on the Jeep today. I only got one set of shock perches done though. I've got three more sets of perches to make. I know how I want to make them now and it doesn't take me very long. I hopefully will get them done tomorrow if I get a chance to work on it. Also have a pic of the rear shock/link setup, but it's problably going to change. Now the pics.

[Easymoney]

I got 5 more of the perches done tonight. I started working on them tonight and the lathe broke a belt, so I had to fly to the auto parts store for a big o-ring to fix it. So I aleast got 7 of them done so far. Got one more to do then I can get the frame back together. Well here a couple pics. The second is of the mound of aluminum from cutting the perches. Thanks for looking.

[Easymoney]

Howdy,
Well I got the shock perches done finally. Now I got to figure out how I'm going to mount them. I also got the rear suspension put back on but am having problems with it. It's really starting to tick me off. When I hook up my top links I lose all articulation. I'm not quite sure what I'm doing wrong. SO if any of you guys could help me out it would be GREAT. Thanks in advance and Thanks for looking. Later

[pd2]

Tim,

I'm no expert on this stuff, by any means, but I think what is going on is that the top links are center mounted instead of outside mounted. If you center mount them, the rollcenter or roll point that you should get from the articulation is gone - it will only move between the two mount points of the top links. See if you can take the top links further outside. Either that or you will need to change those top links into shocks so that they can easily compress and take some give to roll more for the articulation. Does that make sense?

PD2

[pd2]

Tim,

I've been awake a bit longer and going back to the pics thought of something. What if your top links where just a unilink? I think that if all you had was a single link on the top to the center of the chassis - may have to make a modified version of the ladder post so that you can mount a link in the center - that it would allow a ton of articulation. You are probably gonna have to play with it a bit.

Good luck!
PD2

[Easymoney]

Ok guys. Got more time on the Jeep tonight. Got all of the perches completely completed. I had to wait until I figured out how I was going to mount them before I could complete them. So with those done I was able to get the springs mounted. Now to work on the mounting of the shocks. The front is going to be pretty much like it is other than I want to remove it from the chassis and go just above the chassis. As far as the rear goes I'm not sure. I want them mounted on the crossmember like I had them between the frame but then I have no way to mount them to the axle. Thanks for the advice Goat. How could I do it that way with how I have the springs mounted?? Let me know what ya think. If you could piont me to any pics that would help that would be great too. Thanks again. Now on to the pics.

[Easymoney]

Ok guys, the server is fixed and I got updates done. So here are the pics to go long with the last post. The first pic is before I cut the Maxx springs and got the shock mounts done. The rest of the pics are after that. There are more pics on my site, so if you want to see more just head over there. Thanks for looking. Comments or questions are welcome.

[thirdgen89gta]

Thats pretty wicked there! Truly one of a kind.

[twistednitro719]

Sweet custome disign looks like its coming along very nicley

[Easymoney]

Well the Jeep is about 98% finished now. I got the body painted. The paint I mixed came out pretty good. It's pretty close to the color of my 1:1 Jeep. I was actually really surprised it came out so close. I only have a few things left to do on it now. I'm going to eventually add lights and a winch. There is a lot more to the build. You can go to my site and check it all out there. Well now on to the pics. Let me know what ya think.

[thirdgen89gta]

Simply awesome. You did a sweet job with it and it looks very realistic.

Now, how about an action shot, or a video.

[pd2]

Congrats on an AWESOME custom job! That thing is very much to scale and looks great! Not sure how much more you are gonna do to it, but you are practically there!

PD2

[PDBRider]

sweet. Excellent job.

[Easymoney]

Thanks for the complements guys. It is pretty much done. I think I might try and redo the rear suspension. I'm also going to make some rock sliders and build a winch for it. I have most of the parts for the winch except a few gears. Thanks again guys. Later

Tim

[Rock Spyder]

Great work buddy... reminds me of what I went through building the Rollin over Jeep...
Again Great work

[rcoverboard]

Nice work. That thing looks great.

[Mad Marty]

That's just awsome and great work wow!

Marty