4X4FABGUY
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Alright guys here I go, I will start from the beginning. I found this on craigslist and traded it for a th350 chevy trans. The guy had attempted to convert it to brushless. The first pic is the fine jewel of a motor mount he had in the truck. Yeah thats a 2x4 block of wood. He never mentioned that in the add, go figure. He had the three speed trans in there too which I learned here is a bad idea. There were no brakes in the truck either so thats why I started fab work but, I may have gotten out of hand. I really wanted to just drive the thing but I considered undrivable the way it was so I took it apart and started building a new flat chassis from a chunk of 6061 aluminum. Heres a pic of the chunk with a few holes drilled. I never do to much to make it look good till I am done, I have learned in the past by making stuff look real good only to ruin it on the final machining process. Or have a hole drilled just far enough off to have to trash the thing. So now I do not do any finish work untill all the holes are drilled and machine work done and if every thing fits then its bling time. So heres a couple pics for now, not much yet but I have lots more done now I just have to take more pics. More coming soon. Thanks for looking. Mike M