Local Legend Project: Tur-BRO-yota

[Turboyota]

July 12, 2018

Plasma cut steering clearance into the spindle clevis so it actually looks like a clevis.

Machined the aluminum proxy weld bushings. They work for 1.5” ID bushing sleeves.

 

[Turboyota]

Bends: 28
Discrete plates: 21
Stringers: 5
Tube sections: 4

Behold, the stealth fighter arms taking shape!
Fab footwear: flip flops per usual
Music: Steel Panther
Fucks yelled: none. Shit was fun as fuck

 

[Turboyota]

Migged the insides of the lower arm 96.69%

 

[Turboyota]

Time: 4.5 hours
Materials: 1/8 Hot rolled Plate
Tools: Chinee Prasma Cuttel, Mig Welder, 4.5” grinder, HF Orbital DA sander, Swag press brake, 20” disc sander

Finally made the F-117 A-Arm bottom closeout plate!

Laid out slot locations:

Tacked together:

 

[Turboyota]

November 2018
I finally killed the Chinee Prasma Cuttel V1.0!

This is where it ceased to function:

Fortunately, I got the lion’s share of the lower a-arm plates cut out before it gave up the ghost. The P&O plate on the right is a nice size to manipulate on the bandsaw, so noooooo biiiiiig deal.

Materials: aged 1/8”HR plate & a smidge of 1.8” P&O
Beers: 4 Coors Lights
Time: 2 hours including implementation of CLACTNS(Coors Light Aided Cardboard Template Nesting System—read as: I drank beer whilst tracing 23 discrete cardboard templates onto some rusty steel)
Cost: $250 plasma cutter??

 

[Turboyota]

March 23, 2019

Hours: 5
Beverages: 3 Coors Lights, 4 Keystone Ice
3/4” holes drilled: 3
Bends: 9
Plates complete: 8
Tools: Enerpac 25 Ton Air/Hydraulic Press, SWAG plate brake, 4.5” grinders, bandsaw, vise brake, Millermatic 210 MIG welder, BFH, various air grinders, sharpie, Starrett 12” scale, drill press with Ideal step drill, KantTwist clamps
Expletives yelled: 5; including a SHITFUCK!!! when I shot my Starrett scale across the shop because I set the still-running 4.5 grinder down on top of it.

Front plate getting 2nd of three bends:

Passenger side lower arm progressing nicely

 

[Turboyota]

March 25, 2019

Time: 2 hours
Plates fitted: 3
Beers: 3 Keystone Ice 5.9%—This is probably the best ICE beer. Icehouse is close, Natty Ice is in the same ballpark, but the smoothness and drinkability is superior to Bud Ice, Old Milwaukees Best Ice, etc. Tecate Titanium is great, but i have only seen it in Baja, and not very many of the OXXOs have it. Supposedly it is supposed to be available in the States now...
Music: Metallica: For whom the bell tolls—on repeat

Fitted the main shock bolt stringers and the top uniball closeout plate

March 29, 2019

Time: 5 hours
Beverages: few Coors Heavies and some hot tea
Fucks yelled: 4
Tools: all kinds of stuff, see pic at the bottom of the post
Bends: 12

Yesterday I finished bending all the top plates and got everything fitting decently.

Marked out where the recessed shock bolt head would be:

Proceeded to break the 1/4” pilot drill and mar up the arm with the hole saw. Fuck!

Then drilled the aft side, this side went much smoother because I drilled a #7 pilot hole before using the hole saw.

Missed it. Holes do not line up perfectly. FuckFuck!!

Duh! Didn’t plan this out very well, my 47th chromosome is showing: (FuckFuckFuck!!!) Had to cut that nice $3 bolt outta there. I know all you fucks have done similar shit, but bring on the shittalking anyway.

Made the counterbored shock boss from 1.0x0.250 wall 4130. I love 4 flute core drills—Totally worth the investment. I sent a 3/4” counterbore in there after the core drill to make the bottom of the C-bore flat.

Shock bolt bosses finished:

Notice that I missed the bolt axis on this hole as well, so I ground it into an oval with a carbide burr. Seriously dudes, I fucked up the location of every hole I drilled last night. Fuckfuckfuckfuck!!!!

Welded the areas that will get covered:

Did some final tuning and fitment and tacked the top side together. Surprisingly, both arms look mostly the same.

 

[Turboyota]

Total “Invested” to date minus sold/superseded items: $14,548

Total time spent: 727 hours. Alone.

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My estimated time to make a new front suspension from scratch: 70 hours

Time spent thus far makin’ control arms & uprights: 61 hours

Will I finish in my estimated time? No.

Like how I used 3 different styles of clamps? I should have walked across my shop and thrown a Bessey F-clamp into the mix as well...

 

[dwphoto]

So good

May 2018

Fantastic, problem-free weekend in the Johnson Valley Dirt at the DR Cinco de Drink-O meet.

Dirt miles: 86
.22LR rounds: 100
9mm rounds: 100
12ga: 25

Had a great time driving, shooting, eating tacos & sausages, hanging out, meeting new people, talking shit, and laughing.

Dang, I spy @charlie brown @dwphoto @sdecurti @marcytech @FasterNU @theycallmeWALLY @Lutz and many many othersView attachment 6537View attachment 6538View attachment 6539View attachment 6540View attachment 6541View attachment 6542View attachment 6543View attachment 6544View attachment 6545View attachment 6546View attachment 6547View attachment 6548View attachment 6549

9% beers consumed - Yes

 

[h0runner]

I didn’t get stuck, I just didn’t wanna pull Andrew out of the sand cause my tires were bald af hahaha.

Love re skimming your build. We need to drink a coors heavy soon.

 

[Turboyota]

So good

9% beers consumed - Yes

I spy:
Gxspice
@marcytech
Gort.ur.****.69
And fatfatfatty yours truly

 

[marcytech]

good times! that was the last time that red toyota behind jake and i touched dirt before it cartwheeled! its now center mounted with bms stuff and full kill....18 years later it might touch dirt again lolol

 

[Turboyota]

good times! that was the last time that red toyota behind jake and i touched dirt before it cartwheeled! its now center mounted with bms stuff and full kill....18 years later it might touch dirt again lolol

Fuckin’ tag ‘em!

Seriously though, that really sucks. Was that the truck that @DP_Tundra was riding in when it wadded?

 

[Turboyota]

Time: 5 hours
1/16” tig rods consumed: 18
Tungsten sharpening time: 15 minutes
Music: NOFX
Footwear: flip flops
Shorts: Dickies
Shirt: Black (naturally)
Bro: True

Got some shitty~ish TIG welds on the presentable side of all the miggering I did on the inside of the arms. Fuckit.

And FatFatMobzaBrent installed Lowe’s dynamat for me! What a swell guy!!! Lays down just like the KilMat we put in the Mobza.

 

[Turboyota]

April 26, 2019

Almost done with these F117-lookin’ ridiculous monstrosities.

I spent more time cleaning and grinding and was able to get slightly better results on the joints that had weld on the other side.

Some of these welds don’t hurt my feelings, others still look like I drank 8 Rockstars and channeled my inner Michael J Fox before i started welding:

Cleanish hot rolled steel without weld on the back side:

Cover pass? Pulse pass? Instagram pass? Waste a fucking fuckload of gas for pretty insta colors? Fuck you.

Bottom tie-in slots welded up:

^^^I know the grind marks look like hammered shit, but I don’t fucking give a fuck because after 69 dirt miles the bottom of the arms are going to be completely fucked out by rocks, cactus, scattered nuns leftover from @the bodj -led trips, and broken pieces of Fords.

Anybody else like Mississippi Mud? I have to go to fuckin’ Trader Joes to get it, but there are lots of yoga pants and ITC(inner thigh clearance) there, so totally worth it...

Still need to cut the tacks on the rear bushing assemblies and straighten them, then final wrap and weld.

 

[Turboyota]

After tallking about yoga pants at Trader Joe’s earlier in the thread, this awesomeness prevailed in the thread for a bit:
You’re welcome.

 

[Turboyota]

May 2019

Bitched together some shitty upper arms in hopes of expediting the process.

Tube: 1.25x0.090” square mild steel tubing
Bungs: muffstuff hexagonal 3/4”
Heims: ruffmuff 3/4”
Misaligns: shitty cad plated ruffstuff cheapies
Tabs and Material above spindle uniball: 3/16” P&O steel

My quickie fixture can be seen in these pics; 2x2x1/4” angle with 3/4” holes drilled for the heim locations on the frame side, and a spacer for the uniball spindle side. Tacked that bitch to the weld table with silly silicon bronze.

Arm contacted part of the engine cage at full bump, so I cut that bastard apart and added another miter:

 

[Turboyota]

Late May 2019

Plated the top of the frame with 3/16” plate and tacked the upper control arm tabs in:

 

[Turboyota]

May 25, 2019

Steering shaft scheme to clear the girthy 3.75” ID coils.
Beers: 2
Fucks yelled: 2; including a “Fuck Yeah, Bitch!!!” When everything cleared on take 1.

 

[Turboyota]

From old-ass Partybarge: hopefully that grouchy old ginger viking wop bastard will get an account and start talking shit up in this bitch.


Quoted:
(From his old truck, in case you’re fucking dense)

Mitered tube upper arms are so 1997.

Note the notch to clear the steering shaft. Moved the upper mounts in to lower the camber change. This made a few clearance issues.