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#1 ·
I need to see some pics of some 80's model toy trucks that have been made into buggys with pipe or tube!!
 
#8 ·
i need to see more pics and i need to know some specs like is it tube or pipe, what did you bend it with, how long did it take, etc.
thanks
 
#14 ·
Yeah ok I got one, done from mostly tube now. Took me a weekend of cutting the bashed top off and fabbing all the tubing. Used my harbor frieght bender. I'll be glad when the JD3 bender gets here though. Takes a bit of time to get it right as far as bends go

Coiled.....it took a weekend??? That seems damn fast to me...then again I have never done a project like that, but it still seems fast. Looks pretty good too. How hard was that to do as far as bending the metal???
 
#15 ·
Anyone have any idea how much it would cost to do something like this??? Im using pipe though because I only have a cheep pipe bender I need prices though?????
 
#17 ·
If you are gunna use pipe then you might want to just find a local scrap yard where they sell it by the pound. It didn't take me long because I had done one before hand, just added a bit more this time around. That is a weekend of working all day long too. So it really was a lot of work. Make sure you get good pipe though. I have found that even certain kinds of tube will bend up ok in your pipe bender so long as it isn't anything too sharp of a bend, but you have to be choosy there as well. 1 3/4 worked well for me.
 
#18 ·
http://www.offroadsearch.com/jason/

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alot of hard work goes into these but they just arent my bag. I'll never see one of these guys on a snow run.... My truck is topless and all but with my soft top and my heater I can wheel all winter, these guys are pretty much stuck freezing their asses off.
 
#19 ·
Ok, I know that pipe is a bit more brittle than tube, right? At slow rollovers does it really make a differance with pipe or tubing? Just asking. I am thinking of a jd2 and I'm not sure if I need to for the price or to just stay with the harbor freight. wht is the real diff between 2" sch 40 and say 1 3/4" 120 wall tubing? <IMG SRC="smilies/confused.gif" border="0"> <IMG SRC="smilies/question.gif" border="0">
 
#21 ·
Originally posted by GETMRUTN:
<STRONG>Ok, I know that pipe is a bit more brittle than tube, right? At slow rollovers does it really make a differance with pipe or tubing? Just asking. I am thinking of a jd2 and I'm not sure if I need to for the price or to just stay with the harbor freight. wht is the real diff between 2" sch 40 and say 1 3/4" 120 wall tubing? <IMG SRC="smilies/confused.gif" border="0"> <IMG SRC="smilies/question.gif" border="0"></STRONG>
search. <IMG SRC="smilies/rolleyes.gif" border="0"> this topic has been beaten to death.
 
#22 ·
Originally posted by poppyseed:
<STRONG>search. <IMG SRC="smilies/rolleyes.gif" border="0"> this topic has been beaten to death.</STRONG>
<font color="yellow">HEY! Only us Toyota drivers are allowed to tell the newbies to search in the Toy section! <IMG SRC="smilies/thefinger.gif" border="0">

Go play back in the Suzuki sandbox, Poppy. <IMG SRC="smilies/biggrin.gif" border="0"> <IMG SRC="smilies/biggrin.gif" border="0"> <IMG SRC="smilies/biggrin.gif" border="0">

{In my best YODA impersonating voice:}
"Having Toyota axles does make one a Toyota owner, hmm?." <IMG SRC="smilies/biggrin.gif" border="0"> <IMG SRC="smilies/biggrin.gif" border="0"></font>
 
#24 ·
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Now if you'd been a good boy and done the whole drivetrain from a Toy like I told you to, we might let you keep hanging around over here if you're nice <IMG SRC="smilies/biggrin.gif" border="0">.

But nooooo. He's gotta try and turn 38" swampers on the <font color="green">MiniDigger</font> with a 1.6l! <IMG SRC="smilies/rolleyes.gif" border="0"></font>
 
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