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Plan is to drop the front down to where the bottom of the engine platform is even with the undersides of the buggy and then build some hangers to come up and ride on the frame rails. That whole mess is sitting on a wider piece just as a 'jackstand' to mock it all up. The axle housing is 2.125' OD, going to use 2 1/4 muffler clamps and tack them to the angle iron, where they'll swivel but not bounce.too much.įront crossmember is 19' wide and sets in the angle. I'll cage that onto the axle shaft with muffler clamps and nylon-insert locknuts. It'll float with the suspension while (hopefully) dampening any front-to-back changes in the distance from the jackshaft to the FnR output. The back is cut out as a saddle over the axle housing. Why'd I choose that size? Simple: That's what I have The width came from the tight fit on the right hand side, and making that somewhat symmetrical by placing the left side about the same distance in from the frame rail. I cut the two side rails of the engine platform out of 1 1/2 x 1 1/2 x 3/16 angle.

Folks, question: Do I have the FnR gearbox oriented properly? Looks like it's gonna fit, since all that's left is a chain and jackshaft back at the axle input. Table's 36' wide and the rails I made are 37' long, but they overhang about 3 1/2' past the axle input shaft, so as long as I've got a few inches left on the table I can get it all crammed in there. That table is just about as wide in the pics as the hole where I'm setting the stuff into is long. DOH! That's not really crucial just yet, so I left the thing set kinda sorta where it might wind up going and measured up.

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I have no driver sprocket for the gearbox. Got the FnR gearbox lined up behind the engine and lo and behold, I discovered my first (of probably many) forgot-to-order parts. Put it on everything you might even think you might need to disassemble.) I decided to line everything up on a table inside, to be sure everthing's gonna fit and make sure of how wide and how long to make the mount plates. (Oh, and see the blue and red can there? Never Seize. (When you don't have metric taps and dies, you just wash and hope. Took several rounds of brake cleaner and Free-All, chased by compressed air, to get the gunk out of the until-today unused mounting holes both in the crankcase and in the end of the crankshaft. Mounted the torque converter on the engine. If not, it'll get its own engine back before springtime The rototiller is slowly and quietly trying to back away, as it appears to have just realized it's fixing to 'volunteer' something to the build I did sweet-talk it and explained that if things go the way I intend, that it's going to get a brand new engine. I have a picture in my mind but I don't feel like typing a thousand words Need some pics that I haven't yet gotten to refer to when 'splaining that. I'll go into how I'm thinking of adapting the splined shaft coming out the rear end into something useful in another post.

That'll give me the ability to have the engine and transmission system held a constant distance from the electric motor mount so I don't have slacky chain when the suspension flexes. Plan is to use that 3/16 x 1 1/2 x 1 1/2 angle and put a couple of runners that cage around the back axle somehow tightly enough to not move around but loosely enough to have a little movement, then ride them on a piece of that box iron running transverse and resting on the frame rails. It did get too dark for decent pics of as far as I got today but if I remember, I'll take some starting point pics tomorrow. Come fall and it cools off enough to be playing with sheets of tin, I'm enclosing a cookshed enough that we can continue that practice later into fall and sooner in spring.AND when it's raining (if it ever does again SMDH -there, I used it again!) During the summer and as far into the fall as we can stand it, we cook and eat EVERY meal outside, just to make it easier on the air conditioner. Got the canopy off of it and the leaves and junk blown off of it, and by that time it was past time to go light a fire for supper. Some of the piles of drops and scraps I've got to work with: anybody need a wiring loom or a speed controller for an old golf buggy? LOL Yeah, that's it.Īnyways, rolled up and set to cutting out rotten battery holders and unplugging spaghetti that won't be needed by a gas burner. Occurred to me to check and sure enough, the parking brake was set. Dug a couple decent furrows pretty much all the way to the shop building, until I had to get off to move a hanging basket that I could duck around but the canopy wasn't gonna miss.

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Both sides.Īll the way from the barn, I was dreading having to pull the back wheels and free up rusted shoes or, worse yet, find that the thing had sat in water and the rear end was toast.

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