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Web Wheeling Extraordinaire
- Location
- Richfield Utah
So sold off the orange mayhem machine and have begun a new adventure! We're aiming for short, tight, light, powerful, capable, creative and most important - simple.
When I state I want it simple, I mean simple. Not extra nonsense, unnecessary wiring etc. I want all the parts easily accessible in case of carnage. The only custom piece to this will be the rear axle which I will explain shortly. The rest of it will be either junk yard-able, parts store, or easily interwebs order-able.
For the drivetrain We're going with the tried and true 5.3 Truck motor, Turbo400 HD, NWF EcoBox, Ford 205, 1410 drivelines, super 60 for the front, super 14bolt rear.
Went with the ecobox kit after seeing it in action on our buddy Brian's bronco 2 (as seen here on rme4x4) and it takes abuse with a couple big advantages like being quicker to get than an atlas or hero, damn near half the cost, and it offers more gear ratios.
Now the front super 60 axle the plans for now are to just weld up the carrier, shove 1550 shafts in it, keep my 1480s for spares, run the factory hubs which have proven to be quite the abuse takers, cut the shit out of the brackets, simple truss, Cory's MFL Ram mount and diff cover, BKO Ball joint eliminators, yukon 5.38 r&p and then eventually gut the internals for 40spline crud in n out to the flanges.
Rear axle is a ribbed 14bolt that will be cut up and fitted with super 60 C's, knuckles, BKO Ball joint eliminators, ECS Chromo 40 spline inners and outer shafts, branik 1550 joints, wide open design 40 spline spool, 5.38 yukon r&p plus rebuild kit, crane axle shafts seals, MFL Cover - Truss - Pinion Shovel and ram mount, Shaved bottom bolt with leaf spring skid welded on, all that to earn the name of super rear steering 14bolt.
Chassis is still being doodled in my cranium, need to put pen to paper one of these days and laying down an actual design, on thing is half certain at least, and that it will be either Dom with chromoly stringers or full chromoly.
Steering will be psc rams, 3x9s, with a radial dynamics electric rear steer valve controlled by a Mr. Latham direction & RTC kit. Probably go with another 250ml orbital like my last rig, it had good flow and response with the rams. For a pump I need to do my research and make some calls before I settle in on one. My last rig had a modified P pump that flowed great and didn't give me any problems, just felt like it need to move fluid a little quicker.
Suspension wise I'm looking at a double triangulated setup with fox 2.5x16s on all four with aluminum lowers and Chromoly uppers.
Wheels and tires are gonna be 42inch comp treps on raceline Avenger beadlocks which I plan to have powder coated matte gold and leave the rings polished since the wheels I wanted from method are discontinued.
Anywho on to the next post for pics of the random junk that's piling up at corys shop.
When I state I want it simple, I mean simple. Not extra nonsense, unnecessary wiring etc. I want all the parts easily accessible in case of carnage. The only custom piece to this will be the rear axle which I will explain shortly. The rest of it will be either junk yard-able, parts store, or easily interwebs order-able.
For the drivetrain We're going with the tried and true 5.3 Truck motor, Turbo400 HD, NWF EcoBox, Ford 205, 1410 drivelines, super 60 for the front, super 14bolt rear.
Went with the ecobox kit after seeing it in action on our buddy Brian's bronco 2 (as seen here on rme4x4) and it takes abuse with a couple big advantages like being quicker to get than an atlas or hero, damn near half the cost, and it offers more gear ratios.
Now the front super 60 axle the plans for now are to just weld up the carrier, shove 1550 shafts in it, keep my 1480s for spares, run the factory hubs which have proven to be quite the abuse takers, cut the shit out of the brackets, simple truss, Cory's MFL Ram mount and diff cover, BKO Ball joint eliminators, yukon 5.38 r&p and then eventually gut the internals for 40spline crud in n out to the flanges.
Rear axle is a ribbed 14bolt that will be cut up and fitted with super 60 C's, knuckles, BKO Ball joint eliminators, ECS Chromo 40 spline inners and outer shafts, branik 1550 joints, wide open design 40 spline spool, 5.38 yukon r&p plus rebuild kit, crane axle shafts seals, MFL Cover - Truss - Pinion Shovel and ram mount, Shaved bottom bolt with leaf spring skid welded on, all that to earn the name of super rear steering 14bolt.
Chassis is still being doodled in my cranium, need to put pen to paper one of these days and laying down an actual design, on thing is half certain at least, and that it will be either Dom with chromoly stringers or full chromoly.
Steering will be psc rams, 3x9s, with a radial dynamics electric rear steer valve controlled by a Mr. Latham direction & RTC kit. Probably go with another 250ml orbital like my last rig, it had good flow and response with the rams. For a pump I need to do my research and make some calls before I settle in on one. My last rig had a modified P pump that flowed great and didn't give me any problems, just felt like it need to move fluid a little quicker.
Suspension wise I'm looking at a double triangulated setup with fox 2.5x16s on all four with aluminum lowers and Chromoly uppers.
Wheels and tires are gonna be 42inch comp treps on raceline Avenger beadlocks which I plan to have powder coated matte gold and leave the rings polished since the wheels I wanted from method are discontinued.
Anywho on to the next post for pics of the random junk that's piling up at corys shop.
