Project IronScout

Looking real good david!

My only concern/suggestion is where you powdercoated the spindles and caliper supports. Any surface that is bolted together such as these two parts should not have any paint/powerdercoat/dirt in between them as this May cause the parts to eventually loosen.
 
ihojeff said:
looking real good david!

My only concern/suggestion is where you powdercoated the spindles and caliper supports. Any surface that is bolted together such as these two parts should not have any paint/powerdercoat/dirt in between them as this May cause the parts to eventually loosen.
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Thanks for that Jeff. I will take your suggestion to get rid of the powder coat from those areas.
 
Took some time to work on the top. Pulling out the side windows.:shocked: thanks for the info from ihochad ;:icon_up: I was able to get the windows out in about 15 min and in one piece.:yesnod:

old window with nasty tint ready for the fight.
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Its a start. Getting to this point is a little nerve racking. Watching the glass flex a little:shocked:

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From the inside front. Looks like some rust to deal with.

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Went to home depot and picked up 5 plastic scrapers. Working with screwdrivers made it a lot harder and it felt like I was going to break the glass. The plastic scrapers worked great.

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Glass out. About 15 min.

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A little rust.

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Time to scrape all the old tint off.

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Right side vs. Left side.

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I'm going to take the advise from ian from extreme 4x4 to the next level. I'm going to save some weight by building my front bumper out of cardboard. :yikes: I don't think it would stand up to a toyota prius. Or would it?

My material.
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Getting there.

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Now its time to cut up some 1/4" plate.

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Putting on my rock sliders. My plan is to place to tubes through the frame.

Frame is marked and ready for cutting.

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Plasma cutters are awesome.

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All cut.

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Rock slider in place ready for the welder.

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roll cage time.

Starting out with my three 20' dom 1 5/8 120 wall tubing.

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After putting my measurements into my bendtech pro software, cutting the first tube, and putting it into my jd squared model 4 bender. It is time to start bending the main hoop.
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One of two hoops done.
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Bending the front part of the cage.

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So far so good. All square. Next is main hoop 2 of 2. And the rear section.​
 
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Putting in some auto meter phantom gauges in IHOnly north's dash.
So far I have volt, vac, fuel level, oil pressure, and water temp.

Naked.

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been working with my bendtec pro software. Finished bending 1 5/8 dom shock hoops for the front.

This is the shock mounts I started with. I was not going to use them because I would not be able to use the steering box. So hoops were in order.
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Holes drilled through the frame. The hoops will be going through the frame.
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Inside of frame rails.
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Hoop in place.
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Coil over installed.
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finished with the front right hoop. Its time to get the shocks in the rear installed. Here are a couple of pictures of the axle mount that I started to fab up.

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after cutting all pieces for the axle mount with my plasma cutter it was time to put it all together.

Couple pictures of the welded up mount.

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Tacked to the axle.

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Top mount

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Left side finished. Now for the right side. :icon_smile:

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Great work...

But, it looks like your shocks are not the correct length (fully compressed / fully extended) for your suspension. Looks like the rear shocks will definitely bottom out -- and possibly the fronts, also. It does not look like the pictures were taken with the suspension "fully compressed"...
 
robertc said:
great work...

But, it looks like your shocks are not the correct length (fully compressed / fully extended) for your suspension. Looks like the rear shocks will definitely bottom out -- and possibly the fronts, also. It does not look like the pictures were taken with the suspension "fully compressed"...
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Thanks for that. I have exercised the front and the only issue is tire kissing the very front of finder. I will be trimming that and I will still be good in the front. For the rear; it might be close. I have 5" of compression and 7" of drop out. I uses my jack and jacked it as high as I could get it and I was close. It looked like every two inches the axle went up the shock would compress one inch. So hopefully when I get my tires back on and get the fork lift in place, everything will go good. Ive tried to get the correct shock and other parts that I ordered from the company I got the suspension from and I'm still waiting. Its been over a year of waiting. I gave up. I'm sure I will be getting a set of Bilstein shocks from IHOnly; and I won't have to wait a year to get them. I welcome some advice. What shocks would you use? I was trying to copy pd's drive train and how they set up his shocks.
 
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If you do run into problems this is a link to jegs for the screw on type

mr. Gasket shock extensions - jegs

There is also these but I do not like the design too well

https://beedspeed.com/product_info.php/cpath/78_160/products_id/5648

But I thought of the idea of just using some dom tubing around the shock weld some tabs to the tubing that will work with your shock mount and just run a bolt through the tubing into the shock mounting tab. But this is just an idea I had while sitting around so do with it what you will.

I have no clue as far as a shock you could run.

Hopefully you just don't run into problems in the first place.
 
Oh and what would you recommend as far as springs to give me about a ride height about where yours is.

I have been in a toss up between leaf springs and coil springs. I could probably even set it up in class when I get to the point because I will be building them in class I just need need to decide.
 
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oh and what would you recommend as far as springs to give me about a ride height about where yours is.

I have been in a toss up between leaf springs and coil springs. I could probably even set it up in class when I get to the point because I will be building them in class I just need need to decide.
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Blake, the real expert is Jeff at IHOnly. He would be able to give you the best advice for your set up. What is on my truck is a race runner series 2.0 with a coil of eibach 177557 up front and rear is eibach coil 178901. The rear shock is a rancho rs9000 xl. I did not get this setup from IHOnly. You wouldn't want to get the parts from where I got mine unless you want to wait two years and still wait. Stick with IHOnly.
 
since I had the rear wheels off, it was time to powder coat the rims.

O-ring in place

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Three hours of work and awesome.:winky:
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All put together and aired up.
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