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Author:  rockrockets1 [ Fri Feb 11, 2011 9:50 am ]
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Dub asked .....On a CD when you build the rear arms we use a brg housing from a vanagon. The problem with this is it's a big load for a stock bus axle because it's carring the load of the buggy plus the torx of turning the tires 44 .A floater is like on a 4x4 truck you know you can take the axle out of the front and the tire still be on the truck .See that way the load is on the brgs not the axle. Mr Burns has MAD skills so he built him a set for all his CD. When I first built my CD I went threw axles all the time. But then I stopped welding the sprockets on I started bolting them on. I put the axle in my mill and re drilled the 8mm holes to 3/8 clocked it and drilled 6 more holes go from 6 to 12 ,,,8mm or 5/16 to 3/8 fine thread never broke another.

Drug my junk all the way to Cromer one time unloaded, the first hill I hit, broke off the back tire at the very top :shock: That bolted 42 hub and all went all the way to the bottom took us all day to get it back up that hill :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: Not to mention Mr Burns dog Rowdy helped us only problem was he was on the up hill side....I feel like we rolled a 42 tire and a dog up that hill :lol: :lol: :lol:

Author:  kybuggy1 [ Fri Feb 11, 2011 1:11 pm ]
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Dammit!! sounds like some of my luck first year or two of buggies. Gotta have a lot of heart to stay in the sport when you first get in and r working all the bugs out of your machine.
How many guys you seen stuff like that happen to on their first couple trips out , then you never see them in the woods again?? I've seen dozens.

Author:  Buckmaster [ Fri Feb 11, 2011 6:00 pm ]
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I was addicted from the get go,working on them and riding. I was in a Samurai one day and some buggys came busting up this bluff behind me and then hit a hill that i was trying to climb for an hour.i was amazed and had me a buggy 4 days later.No offense 4WD guys.

Author:  ironhorse [ Fri Feb 11, 2011 6:11 pm ]
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this is a buggy website 4x4 suck go buggys jk :D

Author:  chris38375 [ Fri Feb 11, 2011 7:56 pm ]
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ironhorse wrote:
this is a buggy website 4x4 suck go buggys jk :D

hes talk bout a buggy

Author:  PhillipM [ Fri Feb 11, 2011 9:00 pm ]
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What about those of us with 4wd buggies? :D

Author:  nitro_mudder [ Sat Feb 12, 2011 1:00 am ]
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Buckmaster wrote:
I was addicted from the get go,working on them and riding. I was in a Samurai one day and some buggys came busting up this bluff behind me and then hit a hill that i was trying to climb for an hour.i was amazed and had me a buggy 4 days later.No offense 4WD guys.


I was on a 4x4wheeler, Suzuki even, lol. And then had a buggy 6 days after seeing my first buggy in the woods. I know exactly how you feel.

Author:  DUBclub [ Sat Feb 12, 2011 2:15 am ]
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ok for those of us that are several glasses into a bottle of whiskey on a friday night and not ever seen a CD buggy...are there diagrams or good picks of all of these parts...?

Yeah...i wear the label well...."Newbie"

Author:  chris38375 [ Sat Feb 12, 2011 2:45 am ]
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hell yea look up chain drive buggy on youtube,curt is how it will probally look up,,to me they are the baddest buggy you will see,curt and rock has some buggys that are the baddest of the bad,aint no single seater kentucky buggy can hang with them on the big hills,,i myself love them,the best ridin and the best climbin that ive seen

Author:  wildwillie [ Sat Feb 12, 2011 4:24 am ]
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what the hell do you know................... i think all buggys have their place to shine even yours :twisted: :twisted: the best thing about your buggy is whats sittin in the pass.seat..............

Author:  ridenrace6 [ Sat Feb 12, 2011 4:35 am ]
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wildwillie wrote:
what the hell do you know................... i think all buggys have their place to shine even yours :twisted: :twisted: the best thing about your buggy is whats sittin in the pass.seat..............


:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: it sure aint whats setting in the drivers seat :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

Author:  ron [ Sat Feb 12, 2011 8:14 am ]
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damn chris ,
you gonna sit back & take that from your two worstest friends !!! :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
and not even give'em the finger or nothing !!! :lol: :lol:

Author:  Firebug [ Sat Feb 12, 2011 9:57 am ]
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Willies right,,,I got the photo to prove it :wink:, dangit,,I hijacked,,,sorry ,,Floaters are cool

Author:  rockrockets1 [ Sat Feb 12, 2011 10:42 am ]
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I already posted the bulk of this now we can just talk :lol: :lol:

Author:  rockrockets1 [ Sat Feb 12, 2011 10:51 am ]
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Willie if you just tried one one time you would be hooked. :lol:

Author:  JeffClay [ Sat Feb 12, 2011 10:54 am ]
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rockrockets1 wrote:
Willie if you just tried one one time you would be hooked. :lol:


Willie would need a ladder to get in one.

Author:  Firebug [ Sat Feb 12, 2011 10:58 am ]
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rockrockets1 wrote:
Willie if you just tried one one time you would be hooked. :lol:


Biggun,,,bring your next CD to Willies event in Ky and I bet he will climb in it and I bet he will be hooked.

Author:  nitro_mudder [ Sat Feb 12, 2011 11:20 am ]
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Rock I guess I have not worked on enough 4x4 axles to picture the setup. I do understand the axle comming out through the hub. Just not how you are doing the bearing assembly I guess. Got any pics we can see?

Author:  chris38375 [ Sat Feb 12, 2011 11:52 am ]
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well hell,,thats why willie is building a 2 seater so he can ask my ole lady to ride with him,and go to hell morgan,,,lolhaha,marty u need to send that pic to willie,if anybody ever rode with us much in the summer they seen them big tatas,,,marty its gonna be 60 here sunday we going to ride,i gotta ride my baja my motor off my buggy is at the machine shop

Author:  wildwillie [ Sat Feb 12, 2011 2:13 pm ]
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ill be lookin for that pic....................

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