Swing-out tire mount build
Pro Wrench
Joined: Mar 2016
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From: Bham
I always liked that green color on the D1. Never see them much, I believe it was only for 94-95 year models. Guy had one locally he was selling but had to many personal attachments to it and was asking to much. Would have been a great one to have.
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Rock Crawling
Joined: Aug 2015
Posts: 272
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From: Texas
Google calendar every three months.... it gets Meguiar's A2216 Deep Crystal Carnauba Wax. The roof seems to take the worst of it, especially since I have been back in Texas. It really needs body work and a repaint but the thought of removing all the shopping cart gear keeps me motivated to keep the original paint as long as possible. 
Last month I found a D1 in a Dallas salvage yard with the front smashed in but the truck looked like it lived in a garage it's whole life otherwise. There's a big chain of salvage yards here in the South called picknpull. I pulled a bunch of parts off it...to many to list but the best deal was the seats and door panels. Front and back were like new, I mean like brand new not even any scraps you usually see on the driver side seat and arm rest.
My foam is pristine but the leather was in need of replacing. They charge blanket prices per item NOT based on the make or model and I picked up the front seats bottom and back and the same on the rear for $5.99 per seat for a grand total of $24.00 bucks! The guy threw in the armrests and the heater controls for nothing. It took me an hour to remove them and I have not had time to install them yet but there on the build list.
https://www.picknpull.com/part_prici...=&#partpricing
It also had pristine door panels so I grabbed all four for $18.99 a piece..
https://www.picknpull.com/part_prici...=&#partpricing
Life is good
Last month I found a D1 in a Dallas salvage yard with the front smashed in but the truck looked like it lived in a garage it's whole life otherwise. There's a big chain of salvage yards here in the South called picknpull. I pulled a bunch of parts off it...to many to list but the best deal was the seats and door panels. Front and back were like new, I mean like brand new not even any scraps you usually see on the driver side seat and arm rest.
My foam is pristine but the leather was in need of replacing. They charge blanket prices per item NOT based on the make or model and I picked up the front seats bottom and back and the same on the rear for $5.99 per seat for a grand total of $24.00 bucks! The guy threw in the armrests and the heater controls for nothing.
It took me an hour to remove them and I have not had time to install them yet but there on the build list.https://www.picknpull.com/part_prici...=&#partpricing
It also had pristine door panels so I grabbed all four for $18.99 a piece..
https://www.picknpull.com/part_prici...=&#partpricing
Life is good
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Joined: Nov 2009
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From: IL
12 years and somehow you think a modified table saw stand is a good idea to hang a tire from on the back of your truck??
Maybe it's the lack of detailed pics, but I just don't see how that is safe at all. Seriously. That could kill someone.
Have you taken your truck off road or on ant trails with all thay junk hanging off? The bumps will stress all the joints thousands of times.
My 35's weighed 100lbs each. I wouldn't trust it on the stock carrier, let alone that contraption. And you want to run 37's!?!?!????
Maybe it's the lack of detailed pics, but I just don't see how that is safe at all. Seriously. That could kill someone.
Have you taken your truck off road or on ant trails with all thay junk hanging off? The bumps will stress all the joints thousands of times.
My 35's weighed 100lbs each. I wouldn't trust it on the stock carrier, let alone that contraption. And you want to run 37's!?!?!????
Well, it should be very apparent after 12+ years of numerous modifications (Many posted on this forum) that I am unmoved by "shopping cart" comments. As many negative comments as I hear, I have heard many more that dig the mods.
Did you ever hear the one about the guy who hung his Land Rover in a tree to prove a point?
Every year with the U.S. forums I am on, D1 owners drop off like fly's and mine is still around as a daily driver and doing new fun things.
Also, the truck was bought and lived in New England for 3/4 of its life...so no easy Texas life until the last couple of years.
Did you ever hear the one about the guy who hung his Land Rover in a tree to prove a point?
Every year with the U.S. forums I am on, D1 owners drop off like fly's and mine is still around as a daily driver and doing new fun things.
Also, the truck was bought and lived in New England for 3/4 of its life...so no easy Texas life until the last couple of years.
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Rock Crawling
Joined: Aug 2015
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From: Texas
Dude..... You have always been a bit rude but you're really starting to **** me off.. you are a senior member that I have found to passively "troll" just enough under the radar to be allowed to get away with it. So let's just call it as it really is.
Please let everyone on here know where you received your mechanical engineering degree that your obviously using to come to conclusions from online pictures? Mine is from some no-name school you probably have never heard of called MIT. Trying to impress? No..only point out I am infinitely qualified to call you out..
After you do that, please explain to the group what the gauge of the steel tube used here is, it's structural properties and the formula you used to come to your conclusions of failure....like simple beam load or column buckling properties. (Since you obviously have insight into structural failure scenarios)...Or what the bolt shear strength of all thread I used to secure the steel tubing is...the ones you cannot see in the picture (But mentioned in the thread earlier) Or the bolt size, grade and tensile strength of the bolts you can see are?
I have had the truck off in the dirt at least 2 dozen times on my buddies ranch outside of Tyler Texas since installing the rack and guess what? It does not move at all.
But I think I little demonstration is in order. It will have to wait till daylight but a bet everyone will get a kick out of it....
Guys like you are really a bummer.....Think of how you could have handled that so much more diplomatically:
Tex...Have you had that off road? Is there any play in it? Are there any structural support points that are not apparent in the pics? If so what are they? How did you come to your structural conclusions on the rack being able to support that tire? .....nothin but trollin comments...sad
Tex
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Please let everyone on here know where you received your mechanical engineering degree that your obviously using to come to conclusions from online pictures? Mine is from some no-name school you probably have never heard of called MIT. Trying to impress? No..only point out I am infinitely qualified to call you out..
After you do that, please explain to the group what the gauge of the steel tube used here is, it's structural properties and the formula you used to come to your conclusions of failure....like simple beam load or column buckling properties. (Since you obviously have insight into structural failure scenarios)...Or what the bolt shear strength of all thread I used to secure the steel tubing is...the ones you cannot see in the picture (But mentioned in the thread earlier) Or the bolt size, grade and tensile strength of the bolts you can see are?
I have had the truck off in the dirt at least 2 dozen times on my buddies ranch outside of Tyler Texas since installing the rack and guess what? It does not move at all.
But I think I little demonstration is in order. It will have to wait till daylight but a bet everyone will get a kick out of it....
Guys like you are really a bummer.....Think of how you could have handled that so much more diplomatically:
Tex...Have you had that off road? Is there any play in it? Are there any structural support points that are not apparent in the pics? If so what are they? How did you come to your structural conclusions on the rack being able to support that tire? .....nothin but trollin comments...sad
Tex
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Camel Trophy
Joined: Nov 2009
Posts: 4,079
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From: IL
I'm not an engineer and never claimed to be. I have, however, seen collapsible table saw stands like yours and have a pretty good idea the gauge and quality of metal used. I also have a fair amount of trail experience and know the effects of washboard roads and bumpy descents on what seems like well constructed equipment.
You can call me a troll, I don't mind. I don't think I am. Just because you don't like what I'm saying doesn't make me a troll. Yes, I suppose I could have said it in a more delicate fashion......
Maybe it's great, IDK. Hard to tell from the pics. I just know I wouldn't want to drive behind you with that tire leveraged way off the truck on a table saw stand.
You can call me a troll, I don't mind. I don't think I am. Just because you don't like what I'm saying doesn't make me a troll. Yes, I suppose I could have said it in a more delicate fashion......
Maybe it's great, IDK. Hard to tell from the pics. I just know I wouldn't want to drive behind you with that tire leveraged way off the truck on a table saw stand.
Dude..... You have always been a bit rude but you're really starting to **** me off.. you are a senior member that I have found to passively "troll" just enough under the radar to be allowed to get away with it. So let's just call it as it really is.
Please let everyone on here know where you received your mechanical engineering degree that your obviously using to come to conclusions from online pictures? Mine is from some no-name school you probably have never heard of called MIT. Trying to impress? No..only point out I am infinitely qualified to call you out..
After you do that, please explain to the group what the gauge of the steel tube used here is, it's structural properties and the formula you used to come to your conclusions of failure....like simple beam load or column buckling properties. (Since you obviously have insight into structural failure scenarios)...Or what the bolt shear strength of all thread I used to secure the steel tubing is...the ones you cannot see in the picture (But mentioned in the thread earlier) Or the bolt size, grade and tensile strength of the bolts you can see are?
I have had the truck off in the dirt at least 2 dozen times on my buddies ranch outside of Tyler Texas since installing the rack and guess what? It does not move at all.
But I think I little demonstration is in order. It will have to wait till daylight but a bet everyone will get a kick out of it....
Guys like you are really a bummer.....Think of how you could have handled that so much more diplomatically:
Tex...Have you had that off road? Is there any play in it? Are there any structural support points that are not apparent in the pics? If so what are they? How did you come to your structural conclusions on the rack being able to support that tire? .....nothin but trollin comments...sad
Tex
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Please let everyone on here know where you received your mechanical engineering degree that your obviously using to come to conclusions from online pictures? Mine is from some no-name school you probably have never heard of called MIT. Trying to impress? No..only point out I am infinitely qualified to call you out..
After you do that, please explain to the group what the gauge of the steel tube used here is, it's structural properties and the formula you used to come to your conclusions of failure....like simple beam load or column buckling properties. (Since you obviously have insight into structural failure scenarios)...Or what the bolt shear strength of all thread I used to secure the steel tubing is...the ones you cannot see in the picture (But mentioned in the thread earlier) Or the bolt size, grade and tensile strength of the bolts you can see are?
I have had the truck off in the dirt at least 2 dozen times on my buddies ranch outside of Tyler Texas since installing the rack and guess what? It does not move at all.
But I think I little demonstration is in order. It will have to wait till daylight but a bet everyone will get a kick out of it....
Guys like you are really a bummer.....Think of how you could have handled that so much more diplomatically:
Tex...Have you had that off road? Is there any play in it? Are there any structural support points that are not apparent in the pics? If so what are they? How did you come to your structural conclusions on the rack being able to support that tire? .....nothin but trollin comments...sad
Tex
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Rock Crawling
Joined: May 2006
Posts: 401
Likes: 55
From: MD
Now this will be rightfully rude!
Fish is 100% correct. And you are 100% wrong for claiming he did anything but save your as$ from a lawsuit or even worse someones death.
And you should thank him for speaking up.
I get it, maybe what started out as just a weekend idea to mess around got more involved and you forgot you were working with garbage steel.
BUT......That stand is ****!!! Point blank it is a dam danger to the public. People like you are going to invoke regulations that would make any vehicle fabrication illegal.
The fact that you even try to defend this is alarming. Anyone who has ever welded anything knows that stand could only carry a reflector and nothing more.
I need no research to know that the grade of steel in that stand is not to the same ASTM standard required for automotive applications.
Yes I am an engineer, Yes I have welded, Yes I have done large projects requiring frame welding - which I did not do b/c my welding skills are not sufficient - so someone else did that heavy lifting b/c PEOPLES LIVES DEPENDED ON IT.
Seriously not trying to be a total D!ck but you really need a wake up call man. You could literally kill someone with that.
Fish is 100% correct. And you are 100% wrong for claiming he did anything but save your as$ from a lawsuit or even worse someones death.
And you should thank him for speaking up.
I get it, maybe what started out as just a weekend idea to mess around got more involved and you forgot you were working with garbage steel.
BUT......That stand is ****!!! Point blank it is a dam danger to the public. People like you are going to invoke regulations that would make any vehicle fabrication illegal.
The fact that you even try to defend this is alarming. Anyone who has ever welded anything knows that stand could only carry a reflector and nothing more.
I need no research to know that the grade of steel in that stand is not to the same ASTM standard required for automotive applications.
Yes I am an engineer, Yes I have welded, Yes I have done large projects requiring frame welding - which I did not do b/c my welding skills are not sufficient - so someone else did that heavy lifting b/c PEOPLES LIVES DEPENDED ON IT.
Seriously not trying to be a total D!ck but you really need a wake up call man. You could literally kill someone with that.
