figured i'd start me athread since i'm doing a over haul! but i started out with 2 peices of junk and took good parts off of both to start with built a 1641 with 3 rib and ended up with this cant get much muddier than this!! got new carb weber 40 for that motor then it blew up! go figuregot me some v treads and cut em[img][IMG]http://i663.photobucket.com/albums/uu353/diamonddav/20120411_203228.jpg[/img]http://i663.photobucket.com/albums/uu353/diamonddav/Picture090.jpg[/img]this was three years of work on this and rode real hard, not the baddest but has served me well, so after a tcomplete tear down and about 3000$ worth of parts heres where im headed! then got a 1776 motor with all new ,about everything!! these pics are at the hill climb at wheelers in ohio last year new parts , rack and pinion, new pedals , cutter, 3inch raised spindles, 3xx3 arms, bus cv's with chromoly cages, polished and clocked!! seat covers and belts, stereo, shifter, calipers, bumper, yada, yada, you'll seenow the tear down and rebuild

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7P4J7PYRtI heres a vid from some time ago

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Good luck with the rebuild, looking good!

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looking good dave get er done buddy and lets ride

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finished the other half of the x brace, made new o shit handle and foot rest to fit the wifey cause she rides there the most yeh i allready seen it coming i crack myself up!!!!!!!new shifter mount and quick disconnect. had to use a sedan shift box cause noone had the bus one but i'm a fab genius cant you tell oh yeh new sidebars to keep my drunk ass in the buggy and a bumper to save my beam from the trees!!!!

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almost for got my little wings!! should have seen them when i tacked em on backwards

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Can i drive it first Dave ...just to make sure it's safe

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get you some

all fab work is done and the paint is flyin, everyone and there cars are orange

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stupid site i spent forever once to do this and hit submit only to have it say you need to be logged in anyhow, hugger orange is the color and black of course,WHO-DEY!!!paint is on and looks bad.

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looks good!!!

Looks good.you going to get it together for wellsville? Chad

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NOW GAS IT!!!!!

thanks guys. and chad im tryin real hard for wellsville bud, just lots to do and not enough hours in the day, starting to assemble it, front end with 3 inch lift, all new ball joints, tie rods, stainless stell nuts and bolts 3x3 arms, stainless braided brake lines rollin with the same wheels and tires for now just gonna clean them up, but its comin together, spent ALOT of money on this and im damn sure gonna make it look good the second time around

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looks nice

all them extra lbs ...i no a guy that could build a nice 2500

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Where did you get the wheels from?

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Loud pipes save lives.

got em of of craiglist some time ago.got the front end all together, front brakes are going on it but have to fab up a mounting bracket, and my ass is itching to ride ,so, it'll happen later! seats and belts are in, new pedals, put the old roof and lights back on, but im replacing it with diamond plate, moving the lights down and replacing them with h.i.d. lights bright as all hell. shocks are on as well, as is motor and tranny

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lookin good D...r u going to dirt days? its not lookin like my buggy will be ready BUT harlan county here i come,even if i have to walk!

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Hey,can you hand me those zip ties and that roll of duct tape?!

Its been a few days how about an update...how do you like that extra bar you added since you put the padding on it? When i did mine i followed the contour of the bottom bar and it was to tight, had to cut it back out and make it wider...there was no elbow room

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rick i love that extra bar, makes it feel safer too! i've had it all back together and apart several times now, between tryin to get the torsion adjusted right, which sucks ass! and stripped out studs in the rotors pissin me off, and one rotor got a little warp to it,so i figure i've spent so much allready ,off to drews i go this afternoon for two new rotors.got a little touch up paint to do now also from all the beating and bangin of getting it assembled. i'm confused between show buggy and woodsbuggy now my motor and tranny arent centered up very well, i hate the undercarriage, and my tranny mount that bolts to the frame horns is all jacked up, so replacing that and gonna build a new undercarriage.... got the diamond plate for the roof and hopefully my lights will be in today so i can mount them and my speakers. gonna bust ass on it this weekend so i'll have plenty more pics to put up.thinking about starting a cable show called "FLIP THIS BUGGY" oh yeh and i missed wellsville which sucks but i will not miss dirt days at haspin

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don't buy new rotors drill them out and put will studs in them...stock vw studs suck and will strip on the trail its not a matter of if, just when

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my buggy has that extra bar also...i love it, feels like youre gettin in a race car...and plenty of room

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Hey,can you hand me those zip ties and that roll of duct tape?!

are you going to harlan county with us?

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Hey,can you hand me those zip ties and that roll of duct tape?!

yeh i know rick had that happen before, this was the studs that messed up, so new rotors are on it now, so problem fixed. lights and speakers are mounted , diamond plate roof is on. got to adjust my torsion again now that i have a angle finder instead of guessing at it! remount the shocks, and figure out some sort of limit strap set up its comin along , and has came a loooooonnnngggggggg way from what it was! totally different buggy. i got a shit load of pics to put up when i can find time to mess with stupid photobucket.

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damn...he just straight ignored my question...see who pulls you out of the woods now diamond dave

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Hey,can you hand me those zip ties and that roll of duct tape?!