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Re: My other Jeep project aka tinkertoy

Post by cruiserlarry » Tue Feb 08, 2011 10:49 pm

Very impressive crawler you're building....looking forward to seeing it in action !!! :D
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Re: My other Jeep project aka tinkertoy

Post by Willie H » Wed Feb 09, 2011 10:02 pm

cruiserlarry wrote:Very impressive crawler you're building....looking forward to seeing it in action !!! :D
No kidding! I want one!
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Re: My other Jeep project aka tinkertoy

Post by aw12345 » Sun Feb 13, 2011 3:03 am

Thanks guys, cannot wait to take it down to Johnson Valley
Well dedicate a ton of your free time and a bunch of money and you can have one lol.
It has been a lot of fun building this thing, but it's nice to see light at the end of the tunnel :mrgreen:
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Re: My other Jeep project aka tinkertoy

Post by aw12345 » Mon Feb 14, 2011 1:35 am

Two days worth of work but the floorboard and tunnel went from this

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To this

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and then to this

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Re: My other Jeep project aka tinkertoy

Post by aw12345 » Sun Mar 20, 2011 7:30 pm

Latest greatest update

Had a blast, other than the powersteering pulley being out of alignment and peeling a bit of the belt of it worked like a charm. we had a ball blasting through the trail, got to love them big tires in the dirt.
Could use an afterburner on the street, but the gearing for the trails is just about perfect

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Re: My other Jeep project aka tinkertoy

Post by OLLIE » Mon Mar 21, 2011 8:47 am

Did you even know you were aoff road? :lol: You need to get that thing out to Johnson Valley or Calico and give it the trial there.
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Re: My other Jeep project aka tinkertoy

Post by aw12345 » Sat Mar 26, 2011 10:32 pm

That is the next destination
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Re: My other Jeep project aka tinkertoy

Post by aw12345 » Wed Jul 13, 2011 5:31 am

Looking purty

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Re: My other Jeep project aka tinkertoy

Post by aw12345 » Sun Oct 30, 2011 3:16 am

Has been awhile some things got improved a bit got tired of bending the tierod so redid the steering worked out pretty well so far

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Since it's a battle to figure out where your right front tire hangs out when you try to place it on a rock I tried to do something about it.
Seems to work pretty well got that put together yesterday

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Tried it out today, we did a quicky Cleghorn both ways, 2n17x and Dishpan made for a nice afternoon in the mountains.

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Found this the other day is what the Jeep looked like before it got totaled and I got it
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Re: My other Jeep project aka tinkertoy

Post by OLLIE » Tue Nov 01, 2011 1:20 pm

Isn't that Jim's old TJ? The one he flopped on the freeway after his Cleghorn run one night?
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