Trailer - challenge truck build

200tdi ayre · Mar 15, 2015

Paul D said:
Cool ..

Yeah, Trayback would sort departure angle I guess. I thought your front attack angle looked good, but maybe it still overhangs the wheel front a bit.

Saw a cool looking mod a while ago, someone had added a couple of 2" x 2" box section 'sliders' between the front and rear diffs .. which might lose a little break-over, which might be negated by it not catching (hopefully) anywhere. They also protected the gearboxes quite well ..

yeah trayback is in the pipeline, but i'd like to buy my own bender to make it myself, as i've got a design in my head for how i want it to look plus theres a few other bits id like to make

yeah i've seen a similar thing that someone created a 'ski' underneith to ride over rocks, but i think i'm just going to make a bash plate so its abit better breakover angle but protects the gearbox

Paul D · Mar 15, 2015

Nice ..

jackmac · Mar 15, 2015

Was down at gigglepin the other day talking to Jim, he was saying he was very impressed with how you drove so must have been doing a decent job of it!

200tdi ayre · Mar 15, 2015

jackmac said:
Was down at gigglepin the other day talking to Jim, he was saying he was very impressed with how you drove so must have been doing a decent job of it!

i was mightily impressed with Jim, he helped me no end, especially on the quarry section where he helped guide me around the harshest bits and the last bog stage, where a previous competitor had knocked a tree down across the path, and he got i with his Hand Saw !! and cut the tree down whilst i was getting to that part of the section. legend

his truck is kinda the inspiration i use on mine too

200tdi ayre · Mar 16, 2015

the engine bits have gone away to be sorted, they'll call me once the crank is ground so i can order the shells to the correct size, bores are getting honed slightly and heads having a light skim and pressure test

200tdi ayre · Mar 18, 2015

crank is ground, bores honed, just the head to do then i e it all back, they took 20 off of the crank s it was fairly worn but not excessive

parts ordered frm real steel, cyclone cam HD pushrods, new followers, upgraded oil pump bits and all the rebild stuff, should be here friday then rebuild over the weekend, just need to sort some oil from my supplier for running in and looking after the new bits

winch serviced monday night, its amazing how dirty the oil gets even with it being completely sealed, re greased and ready to go back in

hopefully should make the ext challenge next weekend

discomark10 · Mar 18, 2015

200tdi ayre said:
crank is ground, bores honed, just the head to do then i e it all back, they took 20 off of the crank s it was fairly worn but not excessive

parts ordered frm real steel, cyclone cam HD pushrods, new followers, upgraded oil pump bits and all the rebild stuff, should be here friday then rebuild over the weekend, just need to sort some oil from my supplier for running in and looking after the new bits

winch serviced monday night, its amazing how dirty the oil gets even with it being completely sealed, re greased and ready to go back in

hopefully should make the ext challenge next weekend

No hanging around son!

200tdi ayre · Mar 18, 2015

discomark10 said:
No hanging around son!

****s gotta get done

she looks sad sitting in the workshop with an empty engine bay

Mr Noisy · Mar 19, 2015

soooo... forgive me if ive missed the point, but what actually happened to the engine??

Mr Noisy · Mar 19, 2015

make sure you get some oil with plenty of ZDDP in it to look after the cam for many years to come

200tdi ayre · Mar 19, 2015

Mr Noisy said:
soooo... forgive me if ive missed the point, but what actually happened to the engine??

As far asni can work out the only thing that coukd have gone wrong is it slipped a tooth on the timing which caused it to run so terribly

Yeah im getting my lil supplier to get me some top spec oil

Mr Noisy · Mar 20, 2015

Righto!

Dare I say there is probably a tooth's worth of stretch in the chain, so add another tooth and we've got a chugger

200tdi ayre · Mar 20, 2015

Right seeing as I bent both radius arms at the welsh I decided to beef the up abit

Weld porn

Done

And some engine bits arrived today

Got the block and crank back today so can build up the engine 3/4 over the weekend and get it timed up before the heads come back monday ready for challenge on sunday

Oohh and heres another pic from the welsh

discomark10 · Mar 20, 2015

New push rods anol! Flash git!

Oh and thieving my expert cropping skills lol

200tdi ayre said:
Right seeing as I bent both radius arms at the welsh I decided to beef the up abit

Weld porn

Done

And some engine bits arrived today

Got the block and crank back today so can build up the engine 3/4 over the weekend and get it timed up before the heads come back monday ready for challenge on sunday

Oohh and heres another pic from the welsh

200tdi ayre · Mar 20, 2015

discomark10 said:
New push rods anol! Flash git!

Oh and thieving my expert cropping skills lol

Yeah mine had signs of hairline cracks and the new set weren't dear so got them

cheers mark !!

200tdi ayre · Mar 22, 2015

Pistons back in and bottom end torqued up

New duplex chain on with 2° timong advance

she wont skip off now

Heads should be finished tomorrow then put the new vavle seals and springs on and the rest can be rebuilt

discomark10 · Mar 23, 2015

It feels so much nicer having a freshly rebuilt engine.
all you need now is ms

200tdi ayre · Mar 23, 2015

discomark10 said:
It feels so much nicer having a freshly rebuilt engine.
all you need now is ms

I love building engines

its a satisfying feeling after everyth I ng has been timed up and carefully re ebuilt to have it running swet as a nut again

MS would be nice, but she already runs well with water so it would only be ease of tunability that would be the major benefit, and it costs quite alot

haigy · Mar 23, 2015

Nice welding james. Keep up the good work

200tdi ayre · Mar 23, 2015

Heads are done and ill get them back tonorrow so I can rebuild the engine Tomorrow night.

Or put a new clutch in my TD5 because it seems I never have enough work on at once so decided to split that tonight seeing as I couldn't work on the truck.

I think I have a problem

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