Coming up to Speed With Grubbicon

Grubbicon said:
Plan on finishing up the steering tomorrow. Supposed to take it to a buddy monday morning to do the gears, lockers and put the atlas in.



Appreciate the support man [emoji106]🏻[emoji23]
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Driveable by the end of next week or do you still need to get drive shafts measured and made?
 
MR.Ty said:
Driveable by the end of next week or do you still need to get drive shafts measured and made?
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Gonna need to order driveshafts. Kinda hard to measure with not tcase lol. After that though I believe brakes and mounting the ram. I think thats its.
 
Grubbicon said:
Gonna need to order driveshafts. Kinda hard to measure with not tcase lol. After that though I believe brakes and mounting the ram. I think thats its.
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You could've eye balled it! Lol! Getting really close though, I bet you are excited.
 
Last night I started to mess with the bender and got a tierod build. Its got 20* bends on either side and now I realized that I should of put more bend in it because I ended up a bit long and barely getting into the diff cover. Im hoping I can just stick it back in the bender and get a bit more out of it. With the bungs in the end of it it may be possible but before they were in I had too much cut off and not enough material left to bend with.
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After that was done I was going to build a draglink but turned out that I didnt have enough tube so Im gonna have to get more. Fast forward to this morning I got it out of the shop and up onto my dads roll back to go over to a buddys shop.
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He is gonna do the gears, lockers, put the atlas in, do the brakes and more then likely gonna be putting a fuel cell in. We have come to the conclusion that there is no way this tank is gonna work considering the yoke and pumpkin is sitting on it. Now I just gotta decide between a fuel cell and the genright tank that sits in a style like a TJ. Im leaning more toward in the jeep just because I feel like that other tank will be more in the way.
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Nice! Even if you pushed the rear axle back one or two inches you think that it would still hit?
 
MR.Ty said:
Nice! Even if you pushed the rear axle back one or two inches you think that it would still hit?
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Well axle is already supposed to be back and inch with the RK long arm. I think even if it went back more the driveshaft will get into it. Plus when I stuff a tire it is as far back as it can go without getting into the poison spyder flares. As of right now really leaning toward a genright 25gal tank all though $1500 sounds crazy. Odds are if I go this route and move the tank Ill end up triangulating the rear and getting rid of the 3link after I see how it does.
 
Grubbicon said:
Well axle is already supposed to be back and inch with the RK long arm. I think even if it went back more the driveshaft will get into it. Plus when I stuff a tire it is as far back as it can go without getting into the poison spyder flares. As of right now really leaning toward a genright 25gal tank all though $1500 sounds crazy. Odds are if I go this route and move the tank Ill end up triangulating the rear and getting rid of the 3link after I see how it does.
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Ah that makes sense. You can ditch the rear track bar if you triangulate it right?
 
MR.Ty said:
Ah that makes sense. You can ditch the rear track bar if you triangulate it right?
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Yes it would and honestly I dont have much faith in my trackbar mount lasting through a bunch of abuse. I may have luck though selling all 6RK arms other then being stuck with the front 3.

EDIT: It would also allow me to get the LCA mounts out from underneath the axle and have a lot better clearance.
 
cozdude said:
Why would you change what you have?
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The rear 3 link really bothers me. If I would of started with the front and knew I was gonna have to build arms I would of went ahead and done the rear too. Also with the fact that Im now going to a fuel cell because it seem the factory tank doesn't have a chance of working I really want to triangulate the rear. Ill pick up a good 4" of ground clearance on either side because no more low hanging LCA mounts and no more axle swing.
 
Grubbicon said:
The rear 3 link really bothers me. If I would of started with the front and knew I was gonna have to build arms I would of went ahead and done the rear too. Also with the fact that Im now going to a fuel cell because it seem the factory tank doesn't have a chance of working I really want to triangulate the rear. Ill pick up a good 4" of ground clearance on either side because no more low hanging LCA mounts and no more axle swing.
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Makes total sense. I was unaware you were three linked in the rear
 
cozdude said:
Makes total sense. I was unaware you were three linked in the rear
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Yeah I had the RK Long arm before I started this project and my original plan was to reuse it all. When I found out that the front of it didn't work now I have half the kit just laying around. Part of me just really wants to get out and use it, but wants me to change. I told my buddy to not mess with the rear end until Ive made my decision so I need to make up my mind pretty soon. I would just save it for later, but dont really want to pay him to set up another set of gears lol. I could use what I got but Id like to have a full truss if I do it because of all the force that will be put on it. I know I don't NEED it but I want it lol.
 
I ended up ordering a Genright 20gal fuel cell and got a few fittings and 20ft of AN Line. Im sure Ill need some more fittings and possibly more line. As far as axle goes I have decided to at least try it the way it is instead of instantly changing it.
 
Grubbicon said:
I ended up ordering a Genright 20gal fuel cell and got a few fittings and 20ft of AN Line. Im sure Ill need some more fittings and possibly more line. As far as axle goes I have decided to at least try it the way it is instead of instantly changing it.
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I like that idea man. You've came this far with this one, might as well give it a shot.
 
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