I wish I had cleco's when I was assembling the back seat delete kit. My knees would've thanked me. Climbing in and out 40 times took their toll on them.
BUILD THREAD “The Juggernaut”
- Thread starter Rktpwrd
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D I'm having a hard time wrapping my head around this can you perhaps take a photo from a little further back? This way I have some factory components to get a reference from. I'm just having a hard time understanding the overall here. I understand where and why just not the how?
Like the 2.0 version but would of it been possible to use a Elky's bed mount as a base for the design?
I hear ya. Other than the never ending ordeal that the crossmember gave me, the worst part of this whole floor project has been the toll it’s taken on my body. Constantly crouching, kneeling, hunched over, or contorted in weird positions, it would’ve been much easier to do 20 years ago. Little damn harder and more painful nowadays.
I’d love to oblige Eric, but there’s very little left in this thing that resembles factory for decent reference points anymore. Best described as being for the body mounts just in front of the rear wheels. Because this is also where the pipes pass through/over, there’s almost nothing for the pedestals that the body mounts sit on (normally welded to the body and underside of the rear floor crossmember) to attach to.
The reason it’s difficult to see where these pedestals go is because they’re obscured in behind the pipes and underneath the floor crossmember. I need to design and build these pedestals now because they will get welded to the underside of the crossmember before the crossmember gets welded into the body.
It would be an absolute nightmare and damn near impossible to do afterwards.
Rodger that.
Munchies and math. Pie and projects.
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I have absolutely no idea, I’ve never owned an Elky so I haven’t the faintest clue what one looks like. Care to enlighten me?
I wish I took picks of them on Friday at the yard I was at to show but they are like a pedestal under the bed to replace the trunk floor mounts of the car bodies.
Looks like version 2.0 is going to work. I cut apart the template and laid it out flat…
…then transferred it over onto some freshly prepped steel and cut it out on the bandsaw.
Bending it was a little challenging, the triangular shape made it impossible to do entirely in the metal brake. But after a little perseverance, I got it done.
Mocked up onto the underside of the crossmember, I can see that it needs a little finessing to fit perfectly. No worries, I’ll use this metal version as a template for version 2.1 and add in the areas that need it.
In this angle you can see where I bobbed off the notched areas and made them straight. Version 2.1 will include this piece as part of the main piece, that much less welding to do.
An amusing aside, I wasn’t paying attention when I laid out the bend lines and on what side of the material I was putting them on. So after bending it all up into shape and attempting a test fit, I realized that I had inadvertently created the driver’s side and not the passenger’s side like I had intended.
Hahaha. Dumbass move for sure, but hey, at least I don’t have to make a driver’s side one now!
At any rate, getting closer!
…then transferred it over onto some freshly prepped steel and cut it out on the bandsaw.
Bending it was a little challenging, the triangular shape made it impossible to do entirely in the metal brake. But after a little perseverance, I got it done.
Mocked up onto the underside of the crossmember, I can see that it needs a little finessing to fit perfectly. No worries, I’ll use this metal version as a template for version 2.1 and add in the areas that need it.
In this angle you can see where I bobbed off the notched areas and made them straight. Version 2.1 will include this piece as part of the main piece, that much less welding to do.
An amusing aside, I wasn’t paying attention when I laid out the bend lines and on what side of the material I was putting them on. So after bending it all up into shape and attempting a test fit, I realized that I had inadvertently created the driver’s side and not the passenger’s side like I had intended.
Hahaha. Dumbass move for sure, but hey, at least I don’t have to make a driver’s side one now!
At any rate, getting closer!
Food and fabrication!
I get where it's going now. I think it was the template throwing me off before that and the talk of pyramids upsidedown. If I'm to understand correctly the pice your making now is going to transfer body load from the floor brace to the mount and there's another one going to make up the floor section?
Damn, I might be getting to the point where I’m good enough to not have to grind down all my ugly-assed welds!
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