Outer Limits 4x4 Board

hiluxmad wrote:first off i am new to custom coil setups....
does a trianulated 4 link need a panhard??

4 link with a panhard will just bind. 4 link does not move through the same lateral arc that a panhard does and they fight each other.

Tim

Have searched all over the place and can't find an answer.

Looking for some dimensions (especially overall length) of the gearbox and transfer case in the title.

Also, anyone know the torque and HP these things are good for?

Thanks for any help.

Tim

Road legal Tube buggy :shock: .......

Thats right!

It will eventually have just enough bodywork to be road legal, but done with style. Have got some really good looking initial design sketches.

One of the only good things about living in Blairs Britain is the fact that, as long as it's built ...

Andy

Can't go full hydro as it needs to be road legal.

Thanks for the info.

Tim

Build up has been pretty quiet fro a while, haven't put anything on PBB for a few months.

Tim

Stew

Just outside London, Hertfordshire, not far from Watford.

Drop me a line if you want to see the buggy and grab a beer.

Tim

Any ideas / experience of these axles being converted to high steer?

Tim

Here's a pic of the work so far. Sitting on the older straight axles, above ride height by quite a few inches and with the wrong transmission. Apart from that it's right!

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For reference the tyres are 35". Will be going a bit bigger ...

MD do sell into Europe.

I think these may be the first set of Marks coming to Europe (or the second).

Bear in mind these will be under a buggy weighing about 1500kg and in the UK we don't really do big horsepower :finger:

I am sure they will be plenty strong and lighter than Mogs. I am just ...

I am already getting the Marks 4wd axles.

I hope they will be lighter than Mogs.

Tim

Hope you don't mind, put this in Nissan board but thought it might get missed by buggy folk.

Sorry about the newbie question.

I am mid way through building a tube buggy here in the UK but have had a very recent change of plan. Instead of JacMac uprated LR axles on triangulated 4 links front and ...

We are doing a trrayback in the UK, making panels to create the cab. In this pic it is sitting down on its bumpstops.

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Scrapiron are to be avoided at all costs
the copy other products and rip them off as their own

This is a new religion here in the UK! Not defending any of the commercial parties involved. But amazed how many people over here seem to need a meaning in their lives. :lol:

Wonder if they all wear T ...

Just a few pics of a Disco tray back we are putting together.

Panels are GRP with an inner layer of woven carbon / kevlar for strength and to reduce the risk of penetration if (when!) it gets rolled.

There are welded in steel pieces internally to restore the integrity of the bodyshell.

On 35" ET2 ...

I have a D3. Great vehicle.

It will be perfect for towing my D90 based tube buggy in and out of sites for comps!

Tim

Double UJ / Carden / Near CV does not give you any greater angles as the centre tends to be quite restricting. ONly need them if you have the right angles (ie diff nose ponting straight at the transfer box output). If the output and pinion are parallel then a wide angle UJ prop will give you more ...

Went to Iceland in a 110. When I came back there was no paint left on the doors inside the frames where they rubbed against the seals. Movement plus volcanis dust.

Tim

That's why they are built with huge panel gaps.

Tim

I found mine go down a bit over time and you need to top them up. Otherwise you think 12psi will be fine until the bead pops off! I learnt the hard way lol

Tim

I run 40 psi in the second airs with the tyres down around 12psi. When you drop the tyre pressure the second airs do drop a bit.

Tim

Ruff

Just to get this straight. Do Haultech use the LR box with double ended rams? When you say it is heavier, do you mean heavier than steering under normal conditions (i.e 30psi, flat ground, level vehicle) but that it remains the same even when the vehicle is in a hole, all the weight on one ...

My 90 is at Ashcroft as we speak. Td5 (chipped), converted to an auto box and now having an underdrive fitted.

Should be trying it in a couple of weeks.

Tim

If you have lots of travel on the front the shock binds in the spring seat as you can't get a straight line from top to bottom mount through the spring seat. You get a bending force on the shock.

I had to move my shock to this position.

It also makes changing springs and shocks a lot lot easier ...

Micka

Thanks!! :armsup:

Its on a 2" lift, dual rate front springs, single rate rear. Pretty stiff but can't remember the poundage.

Shocks are custom built Orams, same all round, eye to eye, 15" travel, remote reservoir, damping and rebound adjustable. Rear end on sliders from Scorpion / Equipe ...

The shocks are 15" travel so obviously it is not 15 up and 15 down.

And it does reach the end of the shock travel.

I run rear (longer) dislocating cones on the front. I have eliminated the bind with the hinged radius arm and by running the shocks in front of the springs. I get the full range of travel out of 15" shocks front and rear.

Tim

I too find this very hard to beleive, exspecially if your using ...

I run rear (longer) dislocating cones on the front. I have eliminated the bind with the hinged radius arm and by running the shocks in front of the springs. I get the full range of travel out of 15" shocks front and rear.

Tim

I have masses of travel and dislocating springs front and rear. I find that there is some advantage of keeping wheels on the ground for traction and can drive up stuff without lockers whereas other trucks need to use them.

A really major advantage of loads off travel is that going over rocks or ...

Will

They seem strong enough so far!!

But you never know!!!! The welds are actually really long (and properly done) and there is no sign of flex or paint cracking.

Tim

PS Dropped my car off with Dave Ashcroft yesterday

Hi,

here is mine:1988 3.5 efi auto, portal axles from Volvo C303 (1:5.99 total axle gearing), ...

Task list: disc brakes, ...

-Paavo

Paavo,

I've been looking at this also, and I would like to know what you are going to do for disc brakes on the volvo portals.

John

There is an American ...