The Black Hole

[corkey]

it needs some salt on it !!!!!!!

 

[gmanpaint]

Man have those wheels been around the block. I bought them off e-bay from someone in St. Joesph MO and ran them a couple of years. Then I sold them to Jon. Jon never ran them but I think they were on Bryan's Mounty & now they are on Gregg's.

Wow, I didn't realize I bought some ***** x ***** wheels

 

[Dan Whitaker]

Wow, I didn't realize I bought some ***** x ***** wheels

Hopefully with my vibes on the wheels it killed the "Humbolt Curse" and you shall be free from it for quite sometime.

 

[SVO]

Did someone say *****???


I'm here now!!








Jeff - :navajo:

 

[Turdle]

Hopefully with my vibes on the wheels it killed the "Humbolt Curse" and you shall be free from it for quite sometime.

Dude, you are the one who always brings it up--

 

[Turdle]

Did someone say *****???


I'm here now!!








Jeff - :navajo:

Oh hey--how are the girls?

 

[Dan Whitaker]

Dude, you are the one who always brings it up--

I'm not the only one : Publicly maybe but not the only one.

 

[corkey]

the curse,,

it's over, my rig went ,got fixed, came home, nothing but some bad weather,,

 

[Dan Whitaker]

it's over, my rig went ,got fixed, came home, nothing but some bad weather,,

You must have touched some of my old parts that are laying around Jon's garage

When I go down for my header install I'm bringing a bunch of sage incense to burn. It's suppose to ward off bad spirits :

 

[RangRayy]

theres only a few of us left who havent experienced the "curse" from Humboldt. so its all in ya'lls heads. great things happen down in Humboldt.

 

[MrQ]

AWESOME rig gman, just AWESOME. You need to break that bad boy in!! I want dirty truck pics.

 

[gmanpaint]

Holy cow, my registry has become a thread about curses and chit.

Thanks for the compliment MrQ. It has been thrashed many times already. It is just clean right now. It will get dirty again, promise!..lol

 

[Dan Whitaker]

Holy cow, my registry has become a thread about curses and chit.

Thanks for the compliment MrQ. It has been thrashed many times already. It is just clean right now. It will get dirty again, promise!..lol

I got confuesed and thought it was Pete's thread

My old wheels never looked so good.

 

[corkey]

nope, it hasn't, more about the plans for the tube bumper please,,

 

[gmanpaint]

Tube bumper will hopefully be made with 1.5 or 1.75 DOM Tube. Simple design. Just going across the front with a small wrap around the corners with caps. Angle tubes going to the frame rails for support. I am wanting 3/4" steel d-ring mounts welded to the front frame horns, then a grade 8 bolt going through them and the frame horn.

These:

 

[IZwack]

I am wanting 3/4" steel d-ring mounts welded to the front frame horns, then a grade 8 bolt going through them and the frame horn.

Look closely at those "horns" - they were designed to be pushed on (like on a front collision), not really to be pulled on. You'll see that they are basically only tack welded at the top and bottom (maybe an inch of weld at the top, and another at the bottom).

 

[gmanpaint]

Look closely at those "horns" - they were designed to be pushed on (like on a front collision), not really to be pulled on. You'll see that they are basically only tack welded at the top and bottom (maybe an inch of weld at the top, and another at the bottom).

So what do you suggest to reinforce those "Crumple zones"? Plate welded around them? Or should I not mess with it? I need a tow point in the front.

 

[IZwack]

What I would do is build a base - if you look at the chassis, the closest cross member to the front is the IFS bracket which houses the steering R&P. So I'd weld in maybe at least a 2x2 piece of square tube between the two chassis rails. This should improve pulling the vehicle off at an angle because now both rails are together. Once you have this base, you should be able to weld anything you want onto it - be it D-ring tabs, a bumper, and so on.

Of course 2x2 would probably be the smallest tube I'd go - the larger the better because that increases weld area. So maybe a 2x3 or a 3x3. I think when I built mine, it was a 3x3.

EDIT - added pic:

 

[gmanpaint]

Well I do have this attached with allthread going through it, bolted to both frame rails.

This is what my skid plate is bolted to.
The huge D rings sit to low. I want to get rid of them for a better approach. They work great, but sit too low.

 

[gmanpaint]

Well after staring at the frame rails, and looking at the D-rings, I had a V-8 moment. All I have to do is flip the suckers over to the topside of the frame horns..DOH! I will have the bumper attach to the sides of the frame rails so they shouldn't be in the way of anything up there. I will try it this weekend.

I found some Black hardened 3/8" fine thread pan head bolts for under skid plate at a whopping cost of $3/pc They are Allen wrench style, should work out perfect after recessing them with a step bit in the plate.