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- Automatic
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- 4WD
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Has anyone built their own frame for such a rig? Not mud truck dedicated I guess.. but more a general purpose off road fun buggy.
I have enough of a 65 chevy truck body I want to do something with. I'm thinking that fabbing a 4x4 leaf sprung frame for it would be cool.
I think making the thing as long as a two door wrangler would be neat.. the body I have is a stepside.. so putting the stepside flares right behind the cab and having just enough bedspace for a spare tire and a toolbox would be the plan and look pretty neat I suppose.
Using two straight sticks of 2x4 or 2x5 rectangle for the rails was my original idea.. but would limit articulation. Now I'm thinking that sectioning/stacking/overlapping the frame like terribly pictured below would be better, and simple to do.
I'm sorry about the quality lol, I hope you get the idea. This would be as seen from the side.
Keeping the frame sections straight greatly simplifies things for me.. simple&cheap would be the theme behind the whole project really. I'm not looking to build a super capable competition winning rig here... just something to have fun in on the weekends.
Input?
I have enough of a 65 chevy truck body I want to do something with. I'm thinking that fabbing a 4x4 leaf sprung frame for it would be cool.
I think making the thing as long as a two door wrangler would be neat.. the body I have is a stepside.. so putting the stepside flares right behind the cab and having just enough bedspace for a spare tire and a toolbox would be the plan and look pretty neat I suppose.
Using two straight sticks of 2x4 or 2x5 rectangle for the rails was my original idea.. but would limit articulation. Now I'm thinking that sectioning/stacking/overlapping the frame like terribly pictured below would be better, and simple to do.
I'm sorry about the quality lol, I hope you get the idea. This would be as seen from the side.
Keeping the frame sections straight greatly simplifies things for me.. simple&cheap would be the theme behind the whole project really. I'm not looking to build a super capable competition winning rig here... just something to have fun in on the weekends.
Input?
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