Lord Bajamungus build

[TimS]

Where your tank may be higher than your carb, you may want to add a shutoff valve somewhere.

[BAJA-IT]

Take Tim's advice and put a shutoff valve at the tank, makes it much nicer when you have to remove the tank.

[kyle_pc_75]

I finished welding up the tray for the fuel cell....ooh, look at that pretty weld! I confess I had to redo a few of them. I'm noodling on a few ideas of how to tie the tray into the cage without a tubing bender...





The dash is close. I have some 3/4" idiot lights that will go on the driver's side above and between the gauges. I'm happy with the layout.







Back at it tomorrow. I haven't done much more work on the cage or seat mounts since my last update, and it seems like always the list keeps growing. With only two working weekends left, Vernal is looking pretty doubtful, but that's OK because I'm making progress and the Grand Canyon won't be a problem.

[TimS]

I like those screw on terminal circuit breakers.

[Steve Arndt]

Are you going to run any tubing down to the torsion housing and tie that into the cage/upper shock mounts? If so you might be able to run some struts or tabs off of those torsion brace tubes over to your fuel cell tray and brace them together.

Looking good.

[dustymojave]

I finished welding up the tray for the fuel cell....ooh, look at that pretty weld! I confess I had to redo a few of them. I'm noodling on a few ideas of how to tie the tray into the cage without a tubing bender...

I'm concerned about the notches. What are they for?

I agree with Steve's suggestion. Maybe some braces from the roll cage braces angling down and forward to the front corners of the tray. But with those notches, it better have a cross bar of like 1-1/2" under the tray front and back.

[kyle_pc_75]

The notches are the clear the straps that go over the top of the cell. I'm fine with 1-1/2" if that's what it takes. I hadn't intended this tray to be the only thing holding the cell in place, it's really there to keep the cell from moving laterally. I had planned on more structure to actually support it just hadn't figured it out yet, that's why I have you guys! Looks like I need to get some more tubing. Always adding to the list..

[Ol'fogasaurus]

Kile, I am going to be picky here: in the last pix you show some saw blade cuts/mark on the lower leg of the angle piece. You also have sharp (not radiused) internal corners in the notches both of which are potential stress riser locations.

You are probably going to be OK on this but be aware of this situation. I have tendency to be a bit conservative when building.

Lee

[kyle_pc_75]

Thanks Lee. Like I said, any advice is good advice!

[Leatherneck]

Nice seeing this progress.

[n8ball]

Looking good Kyle. A couple pages back you said I can't drive it?!? I am hurt. What could I possibly do? It's not like I break everything I drive. OK well, after thinking about it, i do break everything. Make sure you add corn dog to the no drive list.

[1966bajabug]

I already know why I'm not allowed to drive it...

[kyle_pc_75]

Well, it's been about a year, so I thought I'd work on the car this weekend. I got warning lights installed in the dash, labeled the switches and breakers, and installed front turn signals. Whew, I'm tired!

My to-do list is growing, but at least I checked two things off. It feels good. You can thank Jarad for pushing me to work on it.

[kyle_pc_75]

I realized I never posted pics of the work I did 6 months ago. Yes, I DID work on the car today. ETB really got my juices flowing again. I redid the dash a little, started wiring, installed the VHF radio, and cut sleeves for the joints in the cage. The passenger side dash is a bit rattle-y so I'm going to add two more insert nuts to the middle. I lost all my electrical notes so I had to refigure circuit sizes and realized I missed a few things, but I have extra space, so that's not a big deal.

Back at it tomorrow! Thanks Tim for the kick in the pants.

[CentralWAbaja]

Awesome news!