Rusty Red

[SByota]

Back at it. New transmission crossmember mounts burned in. Motor in its final position, it’s tight in a lot of places, but it’s going to work. Motor mounts and engine cage next.

Pups were happy to hang out in the driveway.

 

[Ckuebert]

Can’t wait

 

[SByota]

Drivetrain mounted! I sucked at taking pictures today as it was work full steam ahead to get this thing drivable by KOH.

Workbench is a good indication of how the day went.

Starting the engine cage next.

 

[4xFoorOffroad]

Might probably already be in your engine cage plans, but at least box in the motor Mount frame perches - they fold if you take a big hit even with a 6 cyl.

 

[SByota]

Might probably already be in your engine cage plans, but at least box in the motor Mount frame perches - they fold if you take a big hit even with a 6 cyl.

Yes sir, plan was to add a center rib to the frame perch and box it in.

The bigger challenge will be making the engine cage main tubes wide enough to get this huge DOHC 90° V8 out…

 

[SByota]

Put in the stock radiator just to see what kinda clearance I have…not much 2”ish. The fancy EBay radiator I got has an extra core, but the mounting flanges are the same width. That means I can use this crusty old one for mockup and not worry about banging up my new one.

2” of clearance, fan is 3” deep. I need 1.5-2” more depth…..sadly an ongoing theme in my life.

What’s one more thing to fabricate?!

When is KOH again?!

Trucks are dumb.

Also, very lazy yellow lab.

 

[SByota]

Fancy Camaro Spal made fan on the new radiator. Mounting it and making it modular took way too long.

I trimmed the core support some more and a quick test fit tells me that this unit is going to work, with only like .5” of clearance. Clearance is….clearance.

Dogs spent her day in the rain…zero cares.

 

[SByota]

Mill’s forward and reverse switch decided to die while I was using it to tap……worse possible time. Got that swapped out with one on China’s best drum switches. Wiring was totally different. Got it figured out without melting anything or burning the house down.

Started on wiring up the fan controller in it waterproof box.

 

[SByota]

Sometimes is 2 steps forward, 7 steps back. That little protrusion on the fan pulley locates the fan, the mechanical fan I can’t use. I have been fighting it and decided it needed to go. I had to pull a ton of stuff of the front of the motors to pull it off. A couple of tack welds with the tig torch, 2 min with a grinder and it’s gone.

The radiator actually fits now, albeit very close to everything. Now to build the new radiator mounts. Then I can figure out plumbing, fuel, air intake and engine cage. It’s wild how one thing can hold back so much.