You guys wanna see something cool?
Took Thursday and Friday off to hammer on this thing. This was Thursday. Yes those jack stands are sketchy as fuck. No nuns were harmed in the process of this build. Stripped the bronco frame. Half ass held the beams in place at about what would be a 2” lift on a bronco and put the frame under the rig to see what will and won’t clear. Basically, everything clears by a nut hair. Not a cunt hair, a nut hair so slightly more clearance than what a cunt hair gives
Frame still needs to go up 1-2” and I may rake the front up to 10*. Wheel base is within an inch of what it was before
Friday:
Started out by setting beams so they were at the same spot front and back and so caster is set. Then lifted the front of frame up to put a rake in the frame. This does 2 things, lowers the ride height more (which I wanted) and closes the gap between core support and frame
Muuuuuch better.
With that all set, I raised the rig back up and wire wheeled the whole top side I won’t be able to get to once welded in and painted it
Then started on motor mounts. After racking my head on this, wound up using the old bronco mounts for the tracker isolators to mount to. Driverside came out tits, passenger side I’m probably going to redo. Mount doesn’t sit flat and puts the mount at a goofy angle
Checked clearance between hood and engine after taking the engine support out letting the whole engine weight onto the frame. I raised the engine up 1” to move this frame up higher. I’ve got atleast an inch between hood and engine.
And then butt welded the two frames together, just top and side for now. Need to trim the bottom and then fish plate it all. I’ll also box the back side of the bronco frame buuuut she’s off jack stands!
And today:
Spent the whole damn day doing the core support mounts and all the frame gussets. Did not think it would take that long, sheesh.
I don’t think it’s going anywhere though