After a 5 week wait....

badog said:
just think of all the tree huggers you make cry!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFUDEmMjC-c
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poor tree huggers...
I'm jealous too.
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I would give $100 bill to see somebody fire up a chainsaw when that group is doin that.

Nice case Chip,almost too nice to hide between two frame rails.You need to order another one and make you a coffie table out of em.
 
upnover said:
The Atlas is going into my SILVER(for Yagar) CJ. For now. This winter I plan on dismantling all the good stuff, and putting it into another project. I am looking hard at using a Wagoneer frame and having Jim(quickracer) to make me a tube buggy out of it.
My CJ has just a few original parts. The hood, grill, tranny, and frame. The frame is my problem. I stretched it 2 feet, and with all the heavy unsprung weight of the axles, tires, beadlocks, I have tremendous frame flex. So much that I kept busting my crawl box(es). To the tune of four in a year and a half. The frame on my CJ is 2" lower on the passenger side than it is on the drivers side. With the weaker CJ Frame, 240K+(odometer stopped working about 8 years ago) Rust and extreme use, it has served me well, but everything wears out.
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besides making it easier to "bolt in" parts, why not just go completely tube?

From experience I should have just done full tube with no stock frame in it... It wouldnt really have been that much more $$$, but I wanted to keep the drivetrain configuration being "bolt in".

super nice case btw, cant wait to see it in action...
 
paradisePWoffrd said:
besides making it easier to "bolt in" parts, why not just go completely tube?
From experience I should have just done full tube with no stock frame in it... It wouldnt really have been that much more $$$, but I wanted to keep the drivetrain configuration being "bolt in".
super nice case btw, cant wait to see it in action...
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2 groups of people....
1- Those who do and say they should have sooner.
2- Those who do not, and defend their decision up until the point they go full tube.
 
Guess I am number 2

Biggest reason is money. To do it like I want to it would mean coil overs. Not to mention I can't bend tube, don't have a tube bender or the know how if I borrowed one.
I may trim some frame and link the rear someday, never know.
 
well i understand that completely Chip, and I figured it was so you could stay with leaf springs as well and being able to almost bolt in your drivetrain... and you can always cut out the "frame" in the future if you link it, but...

with some forethought into the chassis design, you could accomodate leafs now, while being full tube, and easily adaptable to links in the future... just giving you a little to think on while you save up for it... Jim is a great guy to do business with, and Im sure youll be happy either way...
 
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