"505Turbeaux" (505turbeaux)
06/22/2015 at 14:21 • Filed to: None
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"505Turbeaux" (505turbeaux)
06/22/2015 at 14:21 • Filed to: None | 5
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well, looks like this weekend I will be up to Bass Harbor for the annual “Blessing of the Cars” with the Invicta. I mean what the hell, it seems to work for the lobstermen who are enjoying another rise in prices. Please exorcise all rust and mechanical demons dear priest...we all know these as devils
Also going to get some taxes and deeding out of the way for the
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. Take some pics and start getting floor plans together. As much as I wanted to GTFO of this state this weekend, this is okay
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RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
> 505Turbeaux
06/22/2015 at 14:30 |
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Between still being behind from the UK trip and doing some Buying Of Parts I perhaps could have held off on, my finances are roffled for the time being. I’ll keep you updated as to when the necessary funds/etc. become enabling to me - another couple of weeks at least. Also tied up in some lolprojects at work dependent on parts being fabbed which I shall have to fix if the design sucks.
OTOH, I now have a Borg Warner 1354 transfer case for with to be making the Ranchero’s power takeoff and the seats to know where the floor needs to be, so at least I can make project progress. I think I’m going to ask for a raise when the new unit I’m designing starts making it to the floor...
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505Turbeaux
> RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
06/22/2015 at 14:32 |
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All good man, I have a feeling we will see you when the weather is still warm up here.
Also, sounds awesome on the Ranch!
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RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
> 505Turbeaux
06/22/2015 at 14:41 |
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Did I tell you what the donor for the seats was? A wrecked Envoy that was on the chopping block for its engine - aluminum block LS the guy is putting in an E30 bim two-door. The guy was like my brother from another mother.
As to the transfer case, this is so I can run PTO generator trailers’n’shizzle like the Rover can, and a jet-drive, because the Ranchero is to be capable of floating. Hopefully. It’s a Ranger unit I’m hooking up backwards and tossing the planetaries from, so it should weigh about 50lb all in, with two selectable power outputs (rear axle, PTO). I just need a weld yoke stuck to a cut off shaft from a 4r55e 4wd, and then I have a 2” slip spline on the axle side, and a yoke and flange surface good for normal U-joints at the trans side and flex shaft. Flex shafts suitable for my use run about $300.
Also, TFritch says he’s in on a Peking-Paris adventure in about a decade.
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505Turbeaux
> RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
06/22/2015 at 14:42 |
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haha the 10 year plan. I did hear about the Envoy deal, sweet!
Like you are going to float that thing when you are done. You would be my hero, but still...
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RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
> 505Turbeaux
06/22/2015 at 14:50 |
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That’s what the radiator placement, the oil pan bob, the overall weight balance, adjustable suspension height, front end decking in, detachable belly pan, independent rear suspension (i.e. fixed diff position), boat-grade coal tar epoxy coating, and raised thresholds are all about. Well, I mean, in addition to being capable of light trail-running and still being low when I need it without danger. So many of these things overlap pleasantly...
RallyWrench
> RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
06/22/2015 at 14:52 |
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Ok, I saw your mention of a PTO in your other post above, and had a “WTF is going to do with that?” moment. Then I saw this:
because the Ranchero is to be capable of floating.
I’m sure I missed something in this project’s genesis, but... the fuck?
Andy Sheehan, StreetsideStig
> 505Turbeaux
06/22/2015 at 14:53 |
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#blessed
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RallyWrench
> 505Turbeaux
06/22/2015 at 14:55 |
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Ahem
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505Turbeaux
> RallyWrench
06/22/2015 at 14:55 |
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let it be so!
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RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
> RallyWrench
06/22/2015 at 15:01 |
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It’s a stretch goal. A
fucking awesome
one, admittedly. One that’s been present since inception, but which I’m trying not to commit myself too solidly to. Nonetheless, all the little things I’m doing, I’m trying to set priority on things that make an awesome and unique rod... which also are conducive to that. The exhaust system design, sill raise, the suspension adjust, weight balance, and so on and so on. You must also admit that even if I don’t get that far successfully, having a PTO is graet. Water drive is via the unit from a PWC, clipping to the trailer hitch.
I need an average of about 5” over plan/6” over actual body area into the water for correct displacement at curb weight + a little extra. Detachable nose float and possible rear float styled As Unto A Continental Kit (Sort Of) should take care of remaining capacity + leak safety margin. There will be 2lb foam involved.
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RallyWrench
> RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
06/22/2015 at 15:10 |
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A PTO is always a useful thing if it’s to be used as a truck at all. The fact that you’ve done the numbers on floating it is crazy awesome enough, and the Continental float is genius. But I’d have a hell of a hard time driving my recently completed, completely re-engineered, stem to stern custom hot rod into a lake. Unless, perhaps, there were some improbably hot watery tarts in it handing out swords.
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RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
> RallyWrench
06/22/2015 at 15:16 |
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Well, the easiest thing to do is to get the bodywork set, have everything rigged to float sans engine and trans (possible compensatory ballast) and interior/electrics, and take it somewhere with a recovery rope. I could even do this before top-coating. Just as long as the exhaust pass-thrus are in place and the sump pump. If it goes “glub blug”, I just have to drain out the brake master, PTO drive box and rear dif and remove the passenger compartment drains. Clean it off, go “well, shit”, and fix anything that didn’t work.
ly2v8-Brian
> 505Turbeaux
06/22/2015 at 16:34 |
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What a good looking dash!