I'll be the first. :D

Friday night - got halfway done putting the Scout back together.. fabbed up some new bump stop brackets for the rear, and started cutting some more off the front fenders..

Saturday, celebrated Michelle's BD with her folks in Great Falls.. also a good excuse to go to Home Depot. :D Got the sub-service panel I needed to finish my wiring job in the shop.. and get the stick-welder and oven goin'.

Saturday night - more getting ready. Put the bump stops in (Used some 2x2x.0883 box tubing that bolts to the 3/8" thick spring-plates (SOA).. even angle-cut both ends to save weight and look cool).

Used the new pack of Sawzall blades from Home Depot to remove an inch or so of the rocker and firewall area on the passenger side front..

'round 1am, finished up.. brakes felt a little soft, but no time..

Hit our meeting spot in the morning, not too happy with the WHOA.. but they still worked. Brought tools to bleed the brakes at lunch..

By lunch, I had NO BRAKES, and no fluid leaks. I'm guessing yet another dead rebuilt m/c.

Just made sure I didn't have to back up, and didn't stop on any hills... with the wide box, wheelin' w/o brakes wasn't too bad. The drive home on the Interstate over a pass was a little nerve-wracking though.

Anyhow, the R&P didn't :bomb: so that's good.

My friends should send me some good action photos of my rig - a couple of photog enthusiasts were in front of us. :D

I only got two good trail pics.. when I dropped into this criss-cross section and the tires rubbed and the motor stalled.. good chance to take a pic.

Still need to take more out of the fenders. Driver's side needs the firewall/rocker trimmed back now, and both sides I'm hitting at the top of the wheel opening, which I expected.

Probably should lower the front 'stops. Also started thinking on how to open up the fenders some more, upwards.

The rub marks at the top of the fender all seem to be outboard of the vertical wall that's on the "top" of the inner fender.

Started thinking maybe it would be beneficial to cut off the outer part of the "shelf" altogether, instead of the "straighten/flatten/raise a bit" I did back in Feb.

Just cut it out, so the inner is no longer an inverted T, but just an L.

Then you can trim back the outer fender up a bit more.

Sure, you might be able to see the inner fender shelf.. so paint it all black and park in the shade.

Harder to tie the outer fender lip to the inner.. but my "tying" experiment failed, anyhow.. but the box tubing "brace" keeps it from flapping.

Also noticed I need to take some out of the core support area, just outboard of the body mount.. tires are rubbing there, too.

Zzzzz..ZZzzzzz.. I'm enjoying my ear muffs. :D

My no-flex Skyjacker fronts..

http://www.m4x4a.org/ImageGallery/album43/DCP_0197.sized.jpg
http://www.m4x4a.org/ImageGallery/album43/DCP_0196.sized.jpg

All I got accomplished was getting this, this weekend.

Friday night I went to a buddies house and we replaced all the wheel bearings on his 16' trailer and jacked with the trailer wiring.

Saturday we hooked up the trailer and headed out into the country a bit. 30 to 40 minutes later we were pullin' up to Starvin' Marvin's Bait & Tackle where I picked up a 1980 Scout II. The deal I was working a couple of weeks ago on an '80 fell through but I did happen across this one. Last time I stopped there, we fired it up and it ran great. When I went to pick it up, the brake lights were stuck on and it drained the battery. Marvin went a pulled a battery out of another vehicle and it fired up. WHOA.... it was pumping gas all over the place so it was a quick haul ass onto the trailer and shut it off. Turns out that Marvin had replace the accelerator pump in Holley and had pinched and cut the o-rings on both ends of the fuel tube between the bowls. Stopped at the parts store and pick up some o-rings and bowl gaskets so we could fire it up and get it off the trailer at my place.
Also picked up all the bearings for my t-case. Started putting t-case back together.....

Sunday I woke up and looked out wondering who parked that POS in my driveway..... oh yeah, I did. Finished putting front and rear outputs back into t-case. That's as far as I can take it until the wear pads for the rear output shift fork show up. Then I can drop the intermediate shaft back in and button it up.

A few friends and I wheeled Wheeler Lake this weekend. The last hard obstacle ( hard enough that no lockers means no go ) had been filled in to the point that anybody could cross it. I got to the lake at the top and overhead a guy in his stock TJ saying that he stacked rocks for about an hour to get past it.....jackass.


Wheeler Lake (http://www.picturetrail.com/coscout/1041129)

Some good flexy shots and some air, overall it's a very fun trail and not too hard.

I worked on my Scout Saturday after making an offer on my first house :nervous: and got the Scout ready to roll. Hope to get those 2.5" bs wheels off my Scout today and the new ones with the correct BS on!!

All I needed was a third hand to fix the steering....discovered that the grade eight bolts I had the steering box bolted on with after reinforcing the box frame mount were to long, oops, so I replaced them with correct length grade 5....no eight the right length available...oh well...no wonder the steering felt so funny...

To stretch the steering shaft yoke I bolted in the steering wheel and goodies...then took a come-a-long and attached it the lower part of the steering shaft with the broken ps belt from the last excursion....looped a chain around the base of the tire on my daily driver to give a low anchor point in line with the shaft and after a crank or two I was in business again and ready to roll. Ain't it great...ready to break again!! :p

Made the offer on a **starter** (read: fixer upper) house (getting married in October) that needs some TLC but has a really nice and NEW 20' by 24' interior dimesion shop on the lot....big enough for now..room to expand....smooth concrete pad...textured concrete drive out at the front of the shop....huge door..tall enough for the 37's....two windows..needs a small door......really nicely built..............POTENTIAL
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Me to my Finacee wearing my D60 front and my matching OX lockers on her left ring finger:

"Honey, I think this house is perfect for us.... :D "

Gonna ask for most efficient layout sugestions for the SHOP later on and tool reccomendations after I do a little search.

Not going to be a parking lot wrencher much longer, Lord willing..... :flipoff2:

Originally posted by daleviathan

Wheeler Lake (http://www.picturetrail.com/coscout/1041129)

Some good flexy shots and some air, overall it's a very fun trail and not too hard.

Looks like you guys had a blast. I can't beleive how beautiful it is out there.

I think Wheeler Lake is one of the more scenic trails I have been on... thankfully alot of the more difficult trails that reach the higher altitude haven't been trampled by the throttle jockies yet.

Originally posted by YellowIH

Made the offer on a **starter** (read: fixer upper) house (getting married in October) that needs some TLC but has a really nice and NEW 20' by 24' interior dimesion shop on the lot....big enough for now..room to expand....smooth concrete pad...textured concrete drive out at the front of the shop....huge door..tall enough for the 37's....two windows..needs a small door......really nicely built..............POTENTIAL
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Me to my Finacee wearing my D60 front and my matching OX lockers on her left ring finger:

"Honey, I think this house is perfect for us.... "

Gonna ask for most efficient layout sugestions for the SHOP later on and tool reccomendations after I do a little search.

Not going to be a parking lot wrencher much longer, Lord willing.....

heehee know that feeling....

luckly, my SO only has an ARB on her finger..... started as a promise, turned into an engament, now will be wedding..... thank god she is practical. We'll upgrade it later :D


I got the house (2 years 3 months now), but no shop :mad:


learned alot from this first house, picked up a dishwasher to instaul this yesterday, got the laundry room done, most of the hideous orange/peach walls andsky/cloud celing has been primed over, got to figure out how I want to do the door and how I want to build/finish off my new DEN!! Got the new 200A service started

Got the lower back yard "leveled" a bit, growing grass now, got a better layer of gravel under the "scout parking area" and my lower driveway/trailer turn around (2" minus kicks ass!! don't mess with 5/8 or even 1-1/4").

Now just got to work out permits (damn wetlands), move the existing "barn/stable/POS" wo were I want and buld me a SHOP!!



course by then I'll have moved :D, were already looking/figurng out a new house.


Bigger house, better yard. It WILL have room for toys, and it WILL have an attatched garage for her car, my DD and a "toy", AND a detached shop for me to make a mess in....


1/2 acre min.....





OK, this weekend I didn't get shit done, except for making a HUGE dent in cleaning out my "workshop" (wood floor, no way to make it into a car garge). Couldn't walk more than 5 feet in it. Now I found homes for a bunch of the crap, orginised, straited, threw some crap out.......

Then we registered Saturday night, Sunday we returned the "portable" dishwasher, picked up a builting in, along with a new celing fan for the bedroom, more grass seed, paint stuff.... then dinner/b-day party for me, my mom, my mom's best friend....

Basicaly July and August birthdays....


hmmm, I think I'll go wheeling next weekend............

Originally posted by daleviathan
I think Wheeler Lake is one of the more scenic trails I have been on... thankfully alot of the more difficult trails that reach the higher altitude haven't been trampled by the throttle jockies yet.


looks like you guys had a blast! Not a "tough" looking trail, but looks fun!!!


who's rig's this???

http://pic5.picturetrail.com/VOL83/531061/1041129/12092076.ptp


Id like to see more of the 1/2 doors, and also talk about how he did it, how he likes them, and what he would do different next time.....

that is Neal. I know he made those half doors from a set from pick n pull, and that he really wants to make some door inserts cause it gets really cold... :D

I will give him your email address cause he doesn't log on here very often.

Originally posted by tsm1mt
...I'm guessing yet another dead rebuilt m/c.

you too?

Swapped mine out Friday nigth so we could head out wheelin' around 8:00ish..well, I was bleeding the brakes and the M/C took a Shiznit...oh, well...what do you expect when you pay $15.00 for a master with a lifetime warranty?


Originally posted by YellowIH
..Me to my Finacee wearing my D60 front and my matching OX lockers on her left ring finger:

Funny, I always tell my Fiancée that she is wearing my Plasma Cutter on her left finger....




Sunday: Went to Home Cheapo where my buddy works..it was Friends & family day..so I got 10% off. I bought all the stuff to finish my work benches broght it home and built my desperately needed bench.

that's it...

No work on the Scout but I did make it out to PNP

Haul includes:
8 pass tranny cooler
new front spring plates
extra stub axle
new a/c compressor (10.1 CFM)

On thursday I picked up the new rear d-line.

Ready to turn some wrenches this week.....

Originally posted by Scout Dude


Swapped mine out Friday nigth so we could head out wheelin' around 8:00ish..well, I was bleeding the brakes and the M/C took a Shiznit...oh, well...what do you expect when you pay $15.00 for a master with a lifetime warranty?


Hmm.. I think I only get a 1yr warranty, and mine are $20.. dang..

Funny thing is.. they last about.. 13 months. :D

Do you think its worth the coin to spring for a **new** one? Does it really make that much of a difference? Would it make the spongy pedal go away even after a good bleed?

Hmmmm......

So what's a good cheap stick welder to the IH forum...we have an old red box lincoln at home...but I need one for the shop and the search hasn't really told me squat yet...

:rolleyes:

Originally posted by YellowIH
Do you think its worth the coin to spring for a **new** one? Does it really make that much of a difference? Would it make the spongy pedal go away even after a good bleed?


Might help.. I haven't priced 'em though..


So what's a good cheap stick welder to the IH forum...we have an old red box lincoln at home...but I need one for the shop and the search hasn't really told me squat yet...

:rolleyes:

I have a Century 230amp AC stick welder.. $170, IIRC. Cheapest decent welder I could find at the time..

Need to get the new sub-panel installed and wired so I can start using the buzz-box again.. and try out my carbon-arc gouger, too. :D

I'd like to have a DC welder, but at the time, $170 was more than I had - and now that I have it, it works well enough I haven't felt the NEED to upgrade.

I have a Hobart 120 MIG for the lighter stuff.. there again, I'd like a bigger MIG, but other things are more of a priority.

Originally posted by YellowIH
Made the offer on a **starter** (read: fixer upper) house (getting married in October) that needs some TLC but has a really nice and NEW 20' by 24' interior dimesion shop on the lot....big enough for now..room to expand....smooth concrete pad...textured concrete drive out at the front of the shop....huge door..tall enough for the 37's....two windows..needs a small door......really nicely built..............POTENTIAL
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Hmmmmmmm.......
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Me to my Finacee wearing my D60 front and my matching OX lockers on her left ring finger:

"Honey, I think this house is perfect for us.... :D "

Not going to be a parking lot wrencher much longer, Lord willing..... :flipoff2:


I think that's about the same thing I said last month, she might have even been wearing the doubler as well. Ohh well, at least I'll have my garage this month and a backyard big enough for a nice shop.

I didn't get much done on my scout this weekend. I did change the brake pads on my DD, then tried to change the key cyl. in the t-handle. Decided that I needed a roll cage and soft top sooner than later so I don't need to fuss with getting the t-handle working. Next weekend: New spring bushings.

i almost finished my cage this weekend, just need to weld the feet on...
again, its 1 3/4 .125wall 4130 chromoly.
i also managed to figure out the latch mech for the half doors...
any opinions/ suggestions on the cage are appreciated.
pat

Originally posted by patstanley
i almost finished my cage this weekend, just need to weld the feet on...
again, its 1 3/4 .125wall 4130 chromoly.
i also managed to figure out the latch mech for the half doors...
any opinions/ suggestions on the cage are appreciated.
pat


pics please!

Originally posted by patstanley
i almost finished my cage this weekend, just need to weld the feet on...
again, its 1 3/4 .125wall 4130 chromoly.
i also managed to figure out the latch mech for the half doors...
any opinions/ suggestions on the cage are appreciated.
pat

You used moly? Dam I wish I had that type of cash, I know you know someone right. How did you weld it and let's see some pics.

Joe

He e-mailed the pics to me to post for him but the server keeps dying..I loaded them to my WWW account below..they should show up in about a half hour under "Pat's Cage" or something or other...

ok joel has posted them for me in his weshots gallery. they should be up soon. i got the tubing for 3.30 a foot from an aircraft supply place in western pa. really nice guys. and i have a fr\iend who has a welding business, he taught me how to weld moly. its not too bad, a little messy compared to plain steel...and you have to be sure not to overheat the moly too.

pat

sorry heres the link.....
pics (http://community.webshots.com/album/45997826UndoZR)

Tom, just cut the fenders, why mess with a little at a time. And, How did you break the axle with 36's did you gas it? tight spot?
I just re-wired my car hole with a 200 amp breaker box, and now going to replace the meter box, had to up grade all the wiring going in/out of the meter.
The lincoln AC/DC stick box a Home Depot seems to be the cheapest I've found. I want the DC just in case I ever would like to use it. Going to take another welding class this fall.
Found one locking hub bolt missing, the other side has a striped one already, hope to just add a longer bolt.
Scott Ray

Originally posted by Scout Dork
Tom, just cut the fenders, why mess with a little at a time.


Well, first thing I did was take close to 3" out of 'em, flattening the outer part of the inner fender and then cutting the outer fender to match, so the outer lip is as high as the inner shelf..

http://www.m4x4a.org/ImageGallery/album35/DCP_0040.sized.jpg

I'm just finding out through trial and error that I didn't take quite enough out in a few spots - like the rocker/firewall.


And, How did you break the axle with 36's did you gas it? tight spot?


On the gas, up a hill, snow and rocks and logs. A fun trail. :D

Broke the axle with a worn out Trashlok in the back, too.. and the Swampers are at the wear-bars in the rear.

Kept backin' up and trying harder..


I just re-wired my car hole with a 200 amp breaker box, and now going to replace the meter box, had to up grade all the wiring going in/out of the meter.
Scott Ray

We had to upgrade the house to 200amp so I could put a 100amp drop into the shop. This new 100amp box will be slaved off of the main one in the garage, and will be exclusively for some big 220 items (aka I didn't want to make 3 runs of heavy-gauge wire, so I'm making one run.. to a box)

-Tom