Desert Patrol Vehicle build 3 year adventure sort of.

[gorth]

trying to post original condition after rust removal and some gray primer
<a href="http://s1002.photobucket.com/albums/af1 ... IM1532.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i1002.photobucket.com/albums/af1 ... IM1532.jpg" border="0" alt="Original condition 2"></a>
<a href="http://s1002.photobucket.com/albums/af1 ... IM1518.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i1002.photobucket.com/albums/af1 ... IM1518.jpg" border="0" alt="Original condition 1"></a>

[gorth]

Edit by Leatherneck: added to pics

[david58]

trying to post original condition after rust removal and some gray primer

[gorth]

Thanks for the assist Dave. I will throw some more pictures in the old photo bucket.
Jim

[Leatherneck]

Thanks for the assist Dave. I will throw some more pictures in the old photo bucket.
Jim

Good, want to see how you went about this one.

[gorth]

Here are some more links of the build pictures.









Notice the engine is not level. See the bent part. Well all for now. I have a bunch more pictures and will keep posting more.
Here is one current picture.


Jim

Jim hit edit then highlight your jpg link and then hit the Img icon. Just like I did the first one. "You can do it!"

[gorth]

Hey thanks for the assist on the pictures i have it down now. Here is a start of the boring details of a bunch of stuff replaced. Bad battery, starter, spark plugs and spark plug wires, distributor cap. Opened the voltage regulator and a bunch of corroded junk fell out so new voltage regulator, ignition switch. Rewired enough to see if the engine would crank. Finlay sort of got the engine to turn over but could not shift into neutral so the buggy would lurch forward and would shut off. Then getting off the old exhaust pipes. From the picture above you can see that i snapped off the bottom stud trying to get the rusted on nut off. I actually broke both bottom studs off and then proceeded to snap off easy outs off in the holes i drilled in them. So I purchased 2 new heads. Second from the pictures the right frame horn was cracked on the top and buckled on the bottom and had a square steal length of metal hammered down the inside of the frame horn to keep it from bending any further. Later i would cut both frame horns off and got 2 tube frame horns from Barrien buggy. Also had to replace the steering shaft due to it being bent and a new baring for it. Got the buggy in the garage and had to pull the engine and transaxle together due to them of course not coming apart like the book said it would when the 2 bolts and nuts were removed. Several weeks of PB blaster and pry bars and screw drivers i only got a half inch gap between the engine and transaxle. Took it over to my friends and got them apart with both of us prying with crow bars. The clutch and clutch plate were one solid chunk of corrosion. New clutch and clutch plate. Cleaned up the engine and put the new heads on with new push tubes. Replaced the cracked nose cone on the transaxle. Got a manual hydraulic tube bender. Borrowed a buddy's welder that his wife still does not know that he has. First i chopped the windshield off and started bending and welding a frame that i would later chop back off and start over. Well more history of all the stuff i replaced later.
Jim

[gorth]

Picture after engine and transaxle rebuild reinstalled painted, engine runs but still problems with shifting and no moving. Also all 4 tires replaced



First try before chopping back off

[gorth]

Second try with the frame but still would have to chop the back off when i added the aft gunner cage.

[gorth]

After a bunch more stuff done along with a new fuel pump and carberater it finally moved.


Fabricated a body and hooked up a speedometer.

[gorth]

I decided to add the third seat and picked one up along with some other stuff while visiting Fisher Buggy's. I had to chop the back off again and then fabricate and add the aft gunners cage. It was real fun trying to hold every thing strait and tack weld and i had to step back and look and try again. It would have been a LOT easier with an extra set of hands. Here are some of the pictures.

[gorth]

Here is my most recent problem. Some how the snap wring came off the left axle in May and when i got it apart i found the differential side gear all chewed up. See picture below.

So until i get a new one the buggy sits with that axle off. Hopefully the spider gears teeth are not chewed up too.

[gorth]

Here is a picture with the DUMMY GAU2B minigun mounted on top.

[gorth]

Here is the passenger and aft DUMMY M60's mounted.

[gorth]

Here is a current video of my buggy.

Here are 2 older ones before the gunners cage.