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Hacked up Newbright TJ (first rig and post!)

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Began dovetailing the ole TEEJAY....well it's pretty much done... just have some patching up to do. what do you guys think about wheel wells? should i just build my own out of styrene?









Also, finally got around to building a (proper) 4 link truss for it. Front one isn't started yet. (need to make new links (unbent) and braze servo and panhard tabs on the chassis first).



AND, i found out that you CAN braze with propane rather efficiently. This joint was made using harris 56 and a propane torch. The tubes were at a 90* angle and i tried pulling them apart with vise grips to test the strength. The tubing failed before the joint did... so... propane = success!



Getting ready to build a cage for it tonight.

INSPIRATION:
(i apologize if you see your rig on here. I would give credit where it's due but I forget whose pictures i nabbed...)









There was another one that i'll probably straight up copy but i forget where i found the image... it'll probably be a mixture of the 2nd and 3rd pics.

what do you guys think?
 
more updates

Well i finally got around to building a damn cage for this thing!
got the back half 90% done today. Just need to braze a support from the very back end to the plate holding the the rear of the body together.





Things are a teeny bit crooked because i don't have a tube bender, but i'm happy with how it came out so far.









The cage will be done as soon as i pick up another stick of brakeline. :twisted:

does anyone have any ideas as to how to go about mounting the front part of the cage to the body? i thought about brazing small tabs and then jamming them between the doors and dash and running a bolt through it... how do people normally mount it ? does anyone have any detail pics they'd like to share? hrrmm?;-)
 
All I did in that area (dash) was to flatten the tube (brakeline) and drill though it for a 3mm bolt. I did use a washer with the nut on the body side. It has held up great so far. Here is a crappy pic<, it was hard to aim at where the bolt is with everything assembled.

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Rook82 said:
All I did in that area (dash) was to flatten the tube (brakeline) and drill though it for a 3mm bolt. I did use a washer with the nut on the body side. It has held up great so far. Here is a crappy pic<, it was hard to aim at where the bolt is with everything assembled.
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That's a good idea!
 
Boggers arrived!

Well after impatiently waiting for 1 month, my boggers finally came in!

testing out some larger pictures...







Now i have to stretch the wheelbase a little bit... front tires rub the fenders and the rear of the wells. hopefully straight links will fix that "thumbsup"
 
jeeper03 said:
rig looks great!! i had the same 1:1 inspiration

http://www.rccrawler.com/forum/showthread.php?t=279903
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haha! holy shit! yeah yours is the one i was actually talking about copying! i just couldn't remember who built it. i was gonna do the cage the same as you did by the seats too, except i started my dovetail right at the doors, so i had to wrap the cage around the seats and mount it in the middle. I think i'm gonna leave my windshield on mine though. yeah yours looked sick, i saved your images on my comp to use as a reference when i was dovetailing mine!
 
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