...'course you fawkers will probably bring it to its knees again on bandwidth :flipoff2:

Anyway - check it out:

http://www.rightcoastcrawler.com/billaVista/Tech_Index.htm

Buggy article is linked at top.

I think it was the bb that was bringing it down, so hopefully it will stay up now.

that thing looks sweet.... did you actually weigh that or is that a guess as to the weight?

how did you get a 71" wide chevy 60? mine are all 69.5"

Looks like your son is going to have a lot of fun in The Wolf!

Great location, looks a lot like my property here in Indiana!

:D

great:flipoff2:
my world is now complete
you should call the site '1001 reasons to not buy a jeep'

good score on the buggy

I have to be honest I did try and give someone a link to your site when it was dead.

that thing looks sweet.... did you actually weigh that or is that a guess as to the weight?

That's actually weighed on a scale - 1100 lbs on each front corner, 800 lbs on each rear corner.

how did you get a 71" wide chevy 60? mine are all 69.5"

Ummmm.....lousy job poking the tape measure in behind the wheel? Or maybe it's a Canadian Chevy D60 thing:flipoff2: Anyway - when I have the wheels off - I'll get a more acurate spec and post it up.

Great location,

Thanks - nice to be able to hammer away and not annoy anybody. I read those kalifornia "residents association problems" threads and shudder to the core....yikes!

This is one of the better looking frame up tube design rigs I have seen. Keep up the good work.
Dan

dam that thing is sweet!
why a d20?
why the strange lookin links up front, was he gonna try increased ground clearance arms and changed his mind ?

Not sure why a d20 - but I might guess coz that's what he had lying around?

The front links?...might have something to do with the 1/4 elip it used to wear up front? I'll find out.

I suspect the 20 because:

a) mine used an eb d20, and he based his on mine but needed a passenger drop

b) the dana 20 is probably around the shortest case you can get in an all iron gear driven case, so it makes a good candidate for multiple t case swaps.

c) Because of the input gear design, it is possible to make the 203/xcase adapter extremely short, because in effect the 203 output gear goes inside the 20 case. I'm not sure of other designs that do this, and it might only make the difference of an inch or whatever, but when you're looking for every single c-hair you can find, I guess it counts enough.

In Rue's case, you're right, he could/would use whatever was handy, and he had/you have the wheelbase for it, I'm just saying there are logical reasons to use a 20 in that situation. Of course, the flip side of that is it's potentially not as strong as other choices, and you can only put 1310 yokes on it (or at least on my ebd20).

I'm guessing the jeep 20 has that funky pattern (texas pattern??), so you can't swap a 205 on there, can you?

Of course, the flip side of that is it's potentially not as strong as other choices, and you can only put 1310 yokes on it (or at least on my ebd20).

I don't know about the bronco 20's, but I have a jeep style d20 out of a j20 behind a t18, it has the weaker 10 spline style outputs and 1310's, however I had to replace the front yoke because it was intended for a cv and my local driveline shop looked it up in the Dana/Spicer catalog to get the proper splines and counter bore yoke and told me that they offered 1350 yokes for them, and the local distrobution center actually had them instock, however they had to special order my 1310 yoke. I would have gone with the 1350 yokes, but since my outputs are only 10 spline, and I had just had them make me a long travel shaft with 1310's at both ends I wasn't going to have them redo the shaft and decided to stay 1310's.(For now anyway;) )

Funny thing,

When we made the trade - Rue unloaded a big box of spares - including input and output shafts, different gears, and a whole mess of stuff. He was explaining about this and that and I'm nodding and going "uh-huh", meanwhile my brain is in full Homer Simpson mode and is screaming at me from inside "Will you puhleeeze just show me how to start and shift it!"

Funny thing was, it was the same the other way around....he told me later, as I was explaining all my electrical doo-dads and wiring and such, he was just thinking "Dear God, LOOK at all those wires !"

Thanks for the info TNScrambler

Bill, since you're the only one that I know of running that size of XML, would you go out and measure them at trail pressure. I'd like to know the actual height I'll get out of them in a real world application.

Easy

Originally posted by TNScrambler


I don't know about the bronco 20's, but I have a jeep style d20 out of a j20 behind a t18, it has the weaker 10 spline style outputs and 1310's, however I had to replace the front yoke because it was intended for a cv and my local driveline shop looked it up in the Dana/Spicer catalog to get the proper splines and counter bore yoke and told me that they offered 1350 yokes for them, and the local distrobution center actually had them instock, however they had to special order my 1310 yoke. I would have gone with the 1350 yokes, but since my outputs are only 10 spline, and I had just had them make me a long travel shaft with 1310's at both ends I wasn't going to have them redo the shaft and decided to stay 1310's.(For now anyway;) )

COOL!!! If that's true, then I can swap to 1350 yokes! That would be really great....

My bronco d20 also had (I think, was a long time ago) 10 spline output shafts..... and a front 1310 CV yoke. Frankly, I took both the cv front and normal rear yokes off, and probably I just don't get it, but I could not see any difference between them at all. In the end I swapped the front 'cv' yoke onto the back and visa versa cuz I have a normal front shaft and cv rear....

The other option is to do the wild horses or whatever beefed up output shaft, I think those are 32 spline, and possibly 1350, but personally I'd rather spend that kind of cash on an atlas instead.

So I guess I'm not 100% sure if those yokes would work on an ebd20, and I could be wrong about the spline count on an ebd20, but I think it was 10.

Easy....already on the page, top right:

Static loaded tire dimensions:

Height 37"

Width 12"

Those are a little rough - it was sitting in my non-level gravel driveway. I'll update with more accurate when I get them.....MAN I need a trailer!

I'm blind, thanks Bill.

Easy

Chad,

The EB D20s do have 10 spline outputs, and CV yokes front and rear (well, most have CV front and rear...I did find a 66 that had a standard rear, but I guess this was rare...it had the BW yokes vs. the later Spicer ones).