[Joe Dillard]

After recently yapping with Martin & finding out his Jeep doesn't fit "my mold" I figured I would make him another truss since the one I shipped to him didn't quite fit as I expected it would. No big deal though - another fellow Jeeper will make use of it (Dale/Weekender1969).

Anyway, I made at least some progress this morning before needing to get ready for my evening shift at work.

Drilling the spring plate truss holes was easy enough after I cut the plates to the new specs. I start with a relatively small bit & work my way up from there.



Looks to be ~34.5" between center to center of the outer ubolt holes I'd say Martin.


Here she sits, almost ready for the Miller (not Millertime, MillerMatic MIG )



I still gotta finish the center support brace, drill a few holes in that, & triple check everything before welding all the pieces together. Hopefully I'll finish it tomorrow.

[GrimJeeper91]

Is this for a D30?

[Joe Dillard]

Originally Posted by GrimJeeper91

Is this for a D30?

It's for a HPD30 set-up SOA.

[leftlanetruckin]

joe, you are the man!

its actually for a high pinion dana 30, sprung over, that is 1" wider than everyone else's dana 30.....

hopefully i will have better luck with this one....damn jeeps!

cheers again mate

martin

[Joe Dillard]

Thanks Martin. I'm hopefull that this one does the trick.

I work the eve shift again tomorrow - so during the AM I should be able to finish the support brace cutting and drilling. Then after that's done, fire-up the MIG and start tact welding things and run some beads. Piece of cake.

[leftlanetruckin]

Originally Posted by Joe Dillard

Thanks Martin. I'm hopefull that this one does the trick.

I work the eve shift again tomorrow - so during the AM I should be able to finish the support brace cutting and drilling. Then after that's done, fire-up the MIG and start tact welding things and run some beads. Piece of cake.

i wish roll cages with compound angle notches were as easy.....
found out the hard way that the b pillar on dales rig is metric! so had a little "finessing" to do.....

need to go back to school and relearn mathematics me thinks.....

[Joe Dillard]

The roll cage stuff is new to me since I have zero experiance with a bender & notching.

Good to hear it was your head banging the wall & not mine.

[leftlanetruckin]

mine and dales....
apparently he had ever messed with a notcher either....and maybe never will again!
my poor old notcher, it has a hard life.....gets used hard, then left in the corner all oily,forgotten, until we abuse it again.
then start cursing it...

martin

[Joe Dillard]

^^^ ^^^

O/T: But....funny thing happened first thing today. I went to move my bench grinder, which I haven't done in a few weeks, and low & behold, look what I found under it. Beer $$. $14 bucks worth.


BOT: Fired up the MillerMatic this morning & here's the progress. Not much left to do except finish the support brace, which should happen tomorrow. Aligning things without a jig took longer than I expected....oh well.

[richmond1273]

keep the pics coming i would like to see the finished product and what it looks like installed

[doug_1994]

Joe, your welds look purdy.



Doug

[rbn1357]

Originally Posted by doug_1994

Joe, you look purdy.



Doug

I see a proposal coming soon!

[Joe Dillard]

Originally Posted by richmond1273

keep the pics coming i would like to see the finished product and what it looks like installed

The pics above are of the 6th revision. It will be going on Martins Jeep.

Here's a pic of revision #4 IIRC. It is almost finished in the pic below.

I'm starting to work on revision #7 for the HPD30, and also working on revision #1 for an 8.8.



Here's a pic of one while I was playing on Sledge Hammer.

[Joe Dillard]

Thanks Doug, I'm slowly improving.

rbn1357, shame on you for thinking those thoughts.

[atomicmoose]

Joe, I know that you design these for SOA applications but I have a question...

Do you think this would work with a u-bolt flip kit?