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looks good
I dig it.
looks great, now it looks like that bumper is begging for a winch
nice job, looks good
i finally finished the box for the bed of the jeep, the frame of the box is built from 3/4x3/4/3/16" angle, the lid is 3/4x16 gauge box, and its covered with 20 gauge. Its got two locks and gasket material to keep it waterproof as well as being caulked to hell because the last thing i want is this thing leaking.
Also i ripped out all the old heater ducts and vents up under the dash sinse i didn;t have a heater core or blower motor anyway to make room for an on board air compressor that is going to be mounted up under the passanger side dash. I also removed three of the old pull knobs that controlled the heater vents from the dash to make room for the three new arb switches that are going to be mounted.
I'm going to start the teardown tomorrow, remove both axles and bring them to cooper so we can trade them, he's going to use my old ones as rollers, and i'll cart them back to dallas to install, so the new plan is dana 30 and amc 20, arbs in both, 3.73 gears, one piece shafts in rear, on board air.
was that cheaper than buying an aluminum box? I know it wasnt easier or lighter. It does fit nice though.
i don't know how expensive an auminum box would have been, i looked around for one, though i can't say for very long or very hard, but to my credit i did look. It cost $100 give or take, it's always the little expenses that jump up and bite you in the ass, the metal was around $80 which i thought was pretty resonable, but then hardware, paint, caulk, tape and gasket is what really surprised me, it was probobly closer to $150 now that i think it out.
oh and its not rediculously heavy, about 30 pounds.
is there a reason that you didn't make it flush witht he wheel wells
yah the tallest item i carrry around with me are those large jugs of engine oil and coolant so the box was made with a 1/2" clearance of these items.
Who cares on the cost, I flushed $50 one time on some ideas for rock sliders that didn't work out. The more important thing is the practice welding, grinding, fabricating, etc. Looks good, and you have the satisfaction of building something different instead of just bolting in some chinese crap you overpaid Dennis Collins for.
make sure you use some rubber bushings/isolaters when you mount the compressor. it'll be obnoxiously loud and rattle everything if you dont. electric compressors are also slow as balls and draw alot of power when hot. the better oba system would be a engine driven york compressor.
its the one that cooper has on his 85 cj i assume its arb brand but i don't know what model, the smaller or the larger. At the current time i'm just going to use it to run the arb's and go from there if i want to air up and down tires, run air tools, exc. i'll have to get a tank. But basically i'm just going to run it how he was it set up at least for the time being because of the time crunch before comming back to cs.
if u ever plan on running anything more than lockers i would advise against the ARB. it is a slow weak compressor, even the new ones.
i'll upgrade to a vlair or something else later, but for now i'm paying enough for those axles, the least of my worries is buying ANOTHER air compressor with the time and money on hand.