Since I had some free time I added an electric pusher fan. Was having some air flow issues at low rpms which caused the Scout to run between 200 and 210. So far the added 880cfm the 12" fan produces keeps the temp right at 180 or lower during normal street driving. I'm hoping that the fan and low gears (4:1) will generate enough airflow to keep the motor cool on the trail in 100plus temps. If I find I need a little more flow then I will put the 18" 7 blade fan on. My cooling system is now made up of a high flow aluminum radiator, fixed 17" 6 blade fan & shroud, electric 12" pusher fan, tranny cooler, power steering cooler, hood louvers, cut-out inner fenders, and a RS 180 thermostat. Last pic is of the new Bling Red Dana 300. It's now sporting an Advanced Adapter output shaft, Teralow 4:1 gears, and twin sticks. I'm hoping the gears hold up :nuke:

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Thanks to Scouty (Matt) and Jesse for coming over on Friday and Sat to help me get my junk running. Finished up about 7pm sat and took it for a spin around the block. The 3 to 1 is a big difference over the dana 20 2 to 1 and the 5+ to 1 is a huge difference. No more just hammering it up an obstacle, I can crawl:smokin:

Jesse had just left Sat and my wife came out to say she called 911 as our son passed out. He worked a long day as a life guard and walked in the door and drank a big glass of cold milk all at once and took about 3-4 steps and down he went. He was only out like 30 seconds she said. The paramedics said they wanted to take him in to get check out, so about 2am we got home. His fine!! That killed Sunday and I spent the day cleaning up the driveway from all the Scout work and other junk that had collected. About 5pm we went to the lake with friends to have a BBQ.

Jesse came over on Sat to grind the front yoke a bit as it was almost touching just sitting there. A bit of grinding and my old Tom woods joint and even at full droop I have room to spare. All that grinding left these burrs on the ground and I think I pick a few dozen out of my hands. So Sunday I sweep up everything and then washed it all down as my wife likes to walk around bare foot and I would never hear the end of that one.

Jesse and Matt busted me with bondo and wax in the garage and I told them I'm turning my Scout into a show truck:flipoff2:

One pic of the shifters installed. Had to make some offset to keep the sticks up right and in the tunnel cover.

GWBB. Put some new faces to old names, saw some old friends and came home with a Cub 147 in tow.


Nice weekend other than the crappy traffic on the way back :mad:

Wheeled Fordyce for the first time!

I had a blast!


Pics coming soon

Since I had some free time I added an electric pusher fan. Was having some air flow issues at low rpms which caused the Scout to run between 200 and 210. So far the added 880cfm the 12" fan produces keeps the temp right at 180 or lower during normal street driving. I'm hoping that the fan and low gears (4:1) will generate enough airflow to keep the motor cool on the trail in 100plus temps. If I find I need a little more flow then I will put the 18" 7 blade fan on. My cooling system is now made up of a high flow aluminum radiator, fixed 17" 6 blade fan & shroud, electric 12" pusher fan, tranny cooler, power steering cooler, hood louvers, cut-out inner fenders, and a RS 180 thermostat. Last pic is of the new Bling Red Dana 300. It's now sporting an Advanced Adapter output shaft, Teralow 4:1 gears, and twin sticks. I'm hoping the gears hold up :nuke:

What are the specs on the radiator? A fixed 17" should be plenty.

Well I know everyone is probably worried because I haven't shared I a few weeks..... Here's the skinny ... went on vacation, did inventory, watched demolition derby, turned 30, sold piece-o-shit jeep for 1500 proffit, fuel pump in dodge, 15-16 hour days for the last 1.5 weeks, thats about it now Im going to try and get back to actually working on scout...

Sat: Went and finally got contacts. Getting tired of not being able to see when I sweat profusely. After that, I just slept the rest of the day. This being the first week back to work at MATES, I'm not used to actual manual labor. All we're doing now is transmission rebuilds, and power steering pumps.

Sun: My Brother, and I made some progress with going through our Mom's stuff. I've more milk glass than you can shake a stick at. Then helped our neighbor, move her stuff to another place. Going to help her again today, after my dentist appt. at the VA hospital.

Bought some more goodies for my "new" TIG machine and spent a little time tinkering with getting it setup. I ordered a new foot control for it, some 1/0 cable for a ground lead and some, and some SOOW 6/4 (only need 3 conductor, but found an good deal on 6/4). Still waiting for all that stuff to show up. Once that stuff shows up, all I will need is a little TIG coolant and I'll be ready to melt some stuff.

Craig, did you cut & plate your tranny pan? How did that cast Al weld up?

Worked and managed to eek 3 hours out of my schedule to make it to the GWBB. Saw Rusty's new 147 in the unrunning and running state, it's amazing what enough gear heads and tools can get running. BS'ed with everyone I could before I had to go.....to work.:(

GWBB. Put some new faces to old names, saw some old friends and came home with a Cub 147 in tow.


Nice weekend other than the crappy traffic on the way back :mad:

Me too. The GWBB was fun to meet a few new people and see some Familliar faces...
BTW the traffic was even worse at midnight.:mad3:

What are the specs on the radiator? A fixed 17" should be plenty.

HUGE! Stock scout size, but made of aluminum with 2 rows 1.25" tubes. .

Bought some more goodies for my "new" TIG machine and spent a little time tinkering with getting it setup. I ordered a new foot control for it, some 1/0 cable for a ground lead and some, and some SOOW 6/4 (only need 3 conductor, but found an good deal on 6/4). Still waiting for all that stuff to show up. Once that stuff shows up, all I will need is a little TIG coolant and I'll be ready to melt some stuff.

Craig, did you cut & plate your tranny pan? How did that cast Al weld up?

The pan came out good for not having welding aluminum since I don't know when. I started out with a pure tungsten rod with a balled end and the arc wander all over and was not working that great. I welded up the 1/2 NPT hole someone put in there for a temp gauge, which was re-drilled for 1/8 NPT. So I switch back to the 2% with a sharp point and it welded much better.
The 2% tip gets a smaller ball vs the pure tungsten.
link (http://www.pirate4x4.com/forum/showthread.php?p=10047933#post10047933)

http://www.pirate4x4.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=453609&stc=1&d=1247291898

Friday picked up my boys from the ex-wife.

Saturday my oldest and I worked on my Power Steering Box :smokin:. Then we rode the mini bike around the school down the road. Went to the movies and watched Transformers II.

Sunday we just hit up a couple of Farmers Markets and hung out with the boys.

Sunday night I finished putting my steering box back together. I think I put the balls in correctly...:shaking:

HUGE! Stock scout size, but made of aluminum with 2 rows 1.25" tubes. .



The pan came out good for not having welding aluminum since I don't know when. I started out with a pure tungsten rod with a balled end and the arc wander all over and was not working that great. I welded up the 1/2 NPT hole someone put in there for a temp gauge, which was re-drilled for 1/8 NPT. So I switch back to the 2% with a sharp point and it welded much better.
The 2% tip gets a smaller ball vs the pure tungsten.
link (http://www.pirate4x4.com/forum/showthread.php?p=10047933#post10047933)

http://www.pirate4x4.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=453609&stc=1&d=1247291898

Looks like it welded just fine. 4043 or 5356 filler? I read another tip somewhere that I have not personally tried, but they recommended 2% Ceritated tungsten with a sharpened point. Seems like more and more people are moving away from pure tungsten w/ balled end for aluminum.

4043 filler. With the amount of power needed the ball got bigger then the electrode. I have a pack of the radioactive rod:eek:, so thats what I used. It still gets a ball on the end after a couple seconds, but it's like 1/2 the size of the electrode so much easier to control.

My first daughter turned 3 on Friday, so Saturday was party day and a minor-league (it's all we have here!) baseball game Saturday night.

Late Sunday night I managed to grind the rear calipers on my trail Scout and bolt up the tires again so for the first time in a long time it's back on 4 tires and in a runnable condition.

Brakes need a little more bleeding, and I still need to re-pack the back after the little tubbing operation, but it might be trail worthy in short order.

Which is good.. since Blair came up for the party and is talking about wheeling and camping in 2 weeks.

Meanwhile, I need to prep the camper and the street Scout for a few days near Glacier NP this week for camping and the 75th Glacier Waterton Hamfest (http://www.gwhamfest.org). Seemed like a fine enough excuse to visit Glacier again. Maybe the 3 year old will appreciate it a bit this time.

Took my argon tank in for a fill, Made an agreement with a friend that I will help (do all) the wiring on his CJ. He swapped in a TBI SBC and I get to make it run. This coming weekend I will work on that, and in return he will help hang the axles under my Scout. Once the axles are in it's just a whole bunch of little things I can do on my own.

I had Drill all weekend long so I got no work done on the truck or shop, then helped start a carpeting job Sunday night....

But at least Sat I got to see Micheal Bisping get his ass knocked out :D

The pan came out good for not having welding aluminum since I don't know when. I started out with a pure tungsten rod with a balled end and the arc wander all over and was not working that great. The 2% tip gets a smaller ball vs the pure tungsten.
http://www.pirate4x4.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=453609&stc=1&d=1247291898

I call BS on not welding aluminum in a while. That looks pretty good for not having practiced in a while. You must have had a little experience before this.

I will agree with you about using the 2% and a much smaller ball and much less arc wander. I experienced this when showing Mechanos a few things on my ancient dialarc 300 while we were waiting for some mysterious fluid that I managed to pump into my CTD. Of course Mech's first stringer pass on Al was pretty good as well.

As far as the weekend not much Scout related ripped out carpet in the basement only to find a few more windows leaking and figuring out that we wanted to wire the basement for surround sound, tv's with video input in two locations still working on that project.

Worked all weekend and tonight also. Headed to Colorado 1st week in Aug. Web wheeled searching for a weeks worth of trails to run that week. We will be in Buena Vista, Salida, Penrose, Fairplay, and Alamosa. Anyone out in that area want to lead a couple of us Okies thru your tuff stuff?

I call BS on not welding aluminum in a while. That looks pretty good for not having practiced in a while. You must have had a little experience before this.

I took a class at the local collage 2 years ago, which help a lot. But I have not made any aluminum projects. The reason it looks ok, is because of all the helmet time on steel projects.:D One day I will make something for the Scout out of aluminum, just not sure what.

I would love to see what my tig beads would look like now, haven't touched a tig since high school (7 years).

Sat nothing cool.......Oh wait I traded 12 60lbs sacks of ready mix concrete for a case of cheap beer. Made some giant sawhorses for my camper to sit on.

Sunday drilled holes in my drivers side frame rail for shackle hangers. The rails were two thirds full of dried mud, so spent some time washing those out. Also machined the sleeves for said shackle hangers.

I'm out to work on that project now.

Tonight saw as bunch of wrenchin' on the tow pig. Changed the trans oil & filter, adjusted the bands and installed new rear d-shaft u-joints.

As far as the TIG goes... I'm thinking about learning Al first. I read an article by an old timer that suggested learning Al first if you can. His reasoning: If you don't know how to weld anything else, you don't know how hard it is to weld Al since you don't have anything to compare it to. :flipoff2: If you learn Al first and get good at it, steel will be a breeze.

Tonight saw as bunch of wrenchin' on the tow pig. Changed the trans oil & filter, adjusted the bands and installed new rear d-shaft u-joints.

As far as the TIG goes... I'm thinking about learning Al first. I read an article by an old timer that suggested learning Al first if you can. His reasoning: If you don't know how to weld anything else, you don't know how hard it is to weld Al since you don't have anything to compare it to. :flipoff2: If you learn Al first and get good at it, steel will be a breeze.

Our High School shop teacher made us learn AL first. Actually I spent my first semester of Tig on nothing but AL preparing for competition.

Sat- cleaned up the backyard a little bit, then washed my fleet of vehicles :homer:

Sun- actually worked on the scout some more, added 4 more gussets to the roll bar(yes... still in construction):flipoff2:

Mon- ordered up some Mustang seats, hopefully get those tommorro...

PS: Looking for a roommate...
http://www.pirate4x4.com/forum/showthread.php?t=792848


:smokin:

Spent almost all weekend on the road driving to Medford to see my grandpa, conflicting reports had him either days away from death or months, I didn't want to change it so we went and saw him. Friday I would have said days -- but by Monday I'd say months.

Tacked on a few more miles and drove to San Fransisco to see my brother who is home on leave from the Army. He is just back from 15 months in Djibouti. We went through his gun collection that has been in my dads attic. I ended up with 2 guns and enough spent brass to open a reloading store... :shaking:

Missed the ol' GWBB for the 2nd year in a row.

Well FUCK ME.....FUCK ME HARD IN THE ASS.

So Sunday I get my steering box all back together...looking good. It did a weird binding up while I was "bench" testing it and cycling it from gear lock to cap, looking for sector shaft binding. I thought hmmmm that is weird. So I tore it partially back apart and found nothing out of the ordinary.

Last night I install the box, reconnect steering linkage and tie-rods etc...and start to get ready to plumb some lines for steering, remote oil filter etc. I think to myself that it would be a good time to kind of clean up the floor no since the "dirty" work was done...

Then I found the little bitch :mad3:. Tonight I have to do a speed tear down and try and put this little fucker in. I imagine the missing ball was the "mystery" bind up that I couldn't figure out. Luckily I found it on the floor...:shaking: I am going wheeling for the day Saturday and am quickly running out of time fucking around...

I spent Saturday pulling my motor out of the Scout do to worn rings & knock/spun bearing.
Also fabbed up some new motor mounts for the replacement.

Sunday I drove up to Placerville & back to pick this up from Aggro hear on the board....

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Stripped it down & started cleaning it yesterday & today.
I'll be spending spare minutes hear & there over the next few weeks, cleaning, painting, and assembling the motor. Followed by cleaning, prepping, and painting the engine bay.

Well FUCK ME...
Then I found the little bitch :mad3:. Tonight I have to do a speed tear down and try and put this little fucker in. I imagine the missing ball was the "mystery" bind up that I couldn't figure out. Luckily I found it on the floor...:shaking: I am going wheeling for the day Saturday and am quickly running out of time fucking around...

Well, at least you found it before you added fluid and started cranking on it:flipoff2:

Wheeled for 4 days with a bunch of friends. We ran five trails with seven rigs it was a great time with very little carnage. I slashed another TSL 44 sidewall, that makes 2 this year :eek:

Couple Fordyce pics

:smokin:

Couple Fordyce pics

:smokin:

Did not even know you were out here!!

I got reaquainted with my chainsaws, the log splitter and burning tree branches

Did not even know you were out here!!

It was one of those trips that I decided to go last minute. I am SO glad I did tho.


Dang fun trail. Your lucky to have that so close!

Lots of pics here.

http://www.pirate4x4.com/forum/showthread.php?t=803369

GWBB. Put some new faces to old names, saw some old friends and came home with a Cub 147 in tow.


Nice weekend other than the crappy traffic on the way back :mad:

Bit Late But....

Nice cruise down to Cabelas in Lacy, WA. Then on to GWBB. Looked at some cool IH rigs, saw some really cool displays in the museum sections. I liked the saw mill best. Talked with and met some cool IH owners. Saw a single seat loadstar creation by this guy who makes weird project rigs.

BS'ed with Jeff, mark, Mike, met Chad, etc. Then ate some awsome BBQ dinner and drove back to BremWA. All in all awsome show.I understand the turnout was kinda small compared to years past but with the economy flush going on...

AND since Mark is too shy to show you a pic of his new Moonbuggy project here it is. :flipoff2:

AND since Mark is too shy to show you a pic of his new Moonbuggy project here it is. :flipoff2:

just need to dig that D60F I STOLE from fleck's place a few months back out of storage and I'll be set! :evil::flipoff2:

14HP of Hydrostatic FURRY!!

just need to dig that D60F I STOLE from fleck's place a few months back out of storage and I'll be set! :evil::flipoff2:

14HP of Hydrostatic FURRY!!

Oh did you help Rick lift it in the truck?? Or did Rick decide to part with it since you were throwing your money around buying Hydro-drive stuff for your rockcrawler?? Heck what did ya score that axle for? It had brand new brakes, rotors, and bearings so it should be well worth $1000 (some day i will hear something and when i do...:mr-t: Beatdown time

Not much.... Went to kelly Creek Idaho and did some fly fishing for 4 days. drank 5 cases of beer 1 bottle of jack ate red meat. had a 4 point white tail in full velvet walk up to me in camp. Oh, and burnt up 2 OZ's of the dank..............:smokin: