Work Begins on the Leach Buggy

Beacon · Post by **Beacon** » Fri Jan 19, 2007 5:44 pm

Here it is before any cutting, Leach is re-working the rear tube

Baber and T Small providing help

Cutting Begins...

T Small on the torch

Leach and the grinder

yeah thats a gas can...

he was getting pissed at pictures being taken

Post by **Dieselram** » Sat Jan 20, 2007 12:18 am

that thing will never move again

Post by **TheGr8Doughboy** » Sat Jan 20, 2007 12:46 am

Glad to see you've gotten some time to work on it. Lemmie know if you need some help.

Autozone fired me (something about having to work at least 1 day per month) so I can't help you out with parts... but I can run a grinder.

Chris

Website · Post by **tsmall07** » Sat Jan 20, 2007 4:11 am

lots of grinding is needed. i torched off all of the pieces of tube as close as i could, but there is a looooot of grinding to do.

Post by **yotacowboy** » Sat Jan 20, 2007 9:04 am

and then leach said, "ab-ra-ca-get-the-fuck-apart".

and then leach said, "ab-ra-ca-get-the-fuck-back-together".

good luck dood... i wanna see this thing get flogged like a baby seal before i leave town!!! it's the grape-ape part 2! you KNOW we're painting this thing purple, you fucker...

Post by **Arya Ebrahimi** » Sat Jan 20, 2007 9:44 am

tsmall07 wrote:lots of grinding is needed. i torched off all of the pieces of tube as close as i could, but there is a looooot of grinding to do.

These two things are mutually exclusive, either you suck at torching, or you're over-exagerating the amount of grinding

Leach, I'll see you this afternoon, you've been my grinder bitch for countless hours

I don't mind paying back the favor

Post by **Leach** » Sat Jan 20, 2007 6:28 pm

Preciate the offers on grinding help. It wont take me an hour tops to clean up all the cuts, then the reworking begins. I started to change my design again but soon realized I will need more tube than I can afford so I am going back to my original plan.

Rear tube work will end basically above the rear axle and I am trying to fit in that small area 2 pane tanks, tool box, cooler, spare tire mount, rear winch, etc. etc.

I will be reusing some tubes I cut off and Ary sold me a single stick of 1-3/4 HREW so that will go in where I need more tube. After the summer and I pay off the Tundra I might redo it all but for now just building to be safer than it was and get my ass on the trail.

And dont worry Clay, it will be flogged, 4.2L motors are cheap. When are you leaving town? Im trying to shoot for April Big Dogs run.

Post by **Arya Ebrahimi** » Sat Jan 20, 2007 6:53 pm

Leach, I don't have any way to get it down here, but I have one more stick of HREW. I can cut it in half and put it on the roof if that helps you. It's yours if you want it. I'd just hate to see you do this half-ass and have to redo it. That's not to imply that the workmanship would be shoddy, just don't want you to compromise your design and thereby the overall performance over $40 of material. So let me know, I'll be going up there next weekend.

Ary

Post by **TheGr8Doughboy** » Sun Jan 21, 2007 1:00 am

Tube plan sounds good!

Chris

Post by **Sandracer799** » Sun Jan 21, 2007 4:11 pm

Every time i Look at buggy of yours leach all I can think about is the trailer and the tail gate of my truck. Every time I load a truck on the trailer now I am in great fear and that one moment in my head replays like a dozen times.

Glad to see you are finally working on it, and you defintly got to take me for a ride in when you get it all done.

Post by **Ctrow** » Sun Jan 21, 2007 4:44 pm

Got a drawing of how you want the tube to end up?

Post by **Leach** » Mon Jan 22, 2007 2:45 pm

Haha that wasnt my fault Josh. But atleast now you'll be checking everytime you hook up to a trailer.

Ctrow, I am still fine tuning some ideas in paint, but will hopefully be mostly set on it this afternoon and if so I will scan in a picture and post it up.

Leach

Post by **Sandracer799** » Mon Jan 22, 2007 2:59 pm

O i know it wasnt your fault, still brings back that painful memory though, dont knwo anyone that needs a tailgate with a slight dent in it do ya?

Post by **BlueDodgeRam** » Mon Jan 22, 2007 10:09 pm

Leach, I found some weld on beadlocks for your H2 rims

http://ballisticfabrication.3dcartstore ... -1279.html

and some pics built

http://www.pavementsucks.com/forums/vie ... pic=104685

Post by **Yoda** » Mon Jan 22, 2007 10:23 pm

i like that taco truggy, looks friggin sweet