Project Crawlin68

[Daddy4zack]

OMG!! That Is Beautiful!!!! Nice work Patrick...


Aaron

[FFMDX]

Holy CRAP BATMAN!!!!!

[crawlin68]

Thanks you guys. It's getting there, but still a lot of work to do.

[crawlin68]

I thought that was from High Angle. Been considering that driveline brake over a linelock since I already have his driveline and flange. How well does it work and are you happy with it? That axle looks bad ass by the way.

I like it. It seems to work real nice and holds good.

That is a beast of an axle! I like it!
So how soon until your Bronco is rolling around on that axle?

It will be a while still. After the axle is all built and done, then I have to design and build my 4-link set.

[TBS-POPS]

Looks like sheiat!! It'l never wheel!!! Better get rid of it now!! how much ya want for it!!! Better yet, I WONT charge ya to haul it off for ya. Just because were buds and all.... Bitchen stuff Patrick!!! AWESOME!!!! G-POPS

[720Racer]

That right there is COOL!! Once you finish this, you'd better just buy another Bronco and leave this one alone.




Maybe you should try a stock resto next?

[welndmn]

Well thanks to Galen, my curiosity got the best of me today. So I bolted everything together to see she looks like. I've got 17 1/2 inches of ground clearance under the diff.

Must be nice to drive over a 5 gallon bucket and not hit it

[71BRONCO71]

LIMBO!!!!!!!!!!
That thing is too cool.
What about road manners? and speeds?

[crawlin68]

I got my axle shafts back from being resplined and they came out great. I used 2 long side rear mog axle shafts and had them shortened and resplined to 35 spline. The shafts had to be turned down to 1.5 diameter and then splined.

[Delta 4 Wheel]

I got my axle shafts back from being resplined and they came out great. I used 2 long side rear mog axle shafts and had them shortened and resplined to 35 spline. The shafts had to be turned down to 1.5 diameter and then splined.

those are huge...and look great. Who did the respline? Moser? Cant wait to see you snap those, uh I mean run those on the trail.

[crawlin68]

I made some progress over the past few days on the rear axle. I fabbed up some brackets to mount my disc brake calipers. No body makes this disc conversion for the mog axle, so I had to come up with my own brackets. It took a lot of trial and error. I made one and it didn't fit right, so I trashed that one and made another. It did work either, so I made another. (you see where this is going) Made a third one, tweak it here, tweak it there, grind it here and weld it there. Wasted a lot steel, gas, grinding wheels and time, but finally came up with something that I think is going to work.

The biggest challenge was trying to squeeze the caliper in tight enough so the brake pads made contact with the rotor and still fit inside my H1 rims.

[Delta 4 Wheel]

World class Pat. VERY NICE.

[69crawler]

Looks like a whale and a guppy.

[CityHick]

Looking gooooood! I'm becoming all too familiar with the trial and error, weld, grind, cut, weld, grind routine myself...

Keep it up. That is going to be one killer axle setup.

[blwngsket]

I got my axle shafts back from being resplined and they came out great. I used 2 long side rear mog axle shafts and had them shortened and resplined to 35 spline. The shafts had to be turned down to 1.5 diameter and then splined.

Those turned out great, he sure does nice work. What it cost for him to ship them back to you?
Looks like you almost needed to go with a 17" or larger rim to fit those brakes! Is that gonna be a problem if you ever run into some more of that Yelton mud?