I like that your trying to help people get to the holy grail, I have alot of respect for your machine, and your experience, the fact you talk like a crazy person sometimes does slightly detract from your perceived reliability though
I see ALOT of machines designed for race and play running the high miss-alignment heim joint steer a-arms, I was trying to build on something "proven" by making it from main stream
available parts.
why izzie parts, what made you go that way? available to you at the time? I live pretty rural, I can't see finding spares if I need them any sooner than I'll find link pin spindles, especially since the only trucks I've seen less than a izzie pup is a vw truck. thats not an insult its just a statement of fact, I can see going ford, dodge, chevy, as they are driven by a huge percentage of the population so there are tons of parts in yards and parts stores. I even considered Mustang II spindles, because you can get them without paying "specialty rate" because they are mainstream, so I'm open to not making my own, but ultimately I want to be able to get parts if I do something really dumb and have to redo it.
2800passat wrote:
Thanks Jeff. I am putting a lot of my time writing this so youngons can see the good and the bad of my day. I'll let them heed or trash my thoughts. There is a wall in Greece that reads, These children today will not listen, they think blah blah blah...you can not reach them. At the bottom it reads Socretees.(2000 years ago). I am just here to help the new generation take some of my information, but take their own an make some dangerous economical machines. I used to absolutely hate old men until I slooooowy realized they were right. I told my son that I climbed and fell out of a memosa tree in 1965. The sky and the yard looked EXACTLY as it does today. SO there is no difference in the world then and now. It is kinda fun being well hated, but I am trying to reach the ones in the back. The math in today's a/c and w/c buggies is stale and we are old. Take the torch and run forward.