Rear Sway

Rear sway in place







Moved it back and down. Hopefully will clear the rear winch




Need to setup the drop link and add tabs to the axle side still

Slowly and not so surely..

Lower mounting bracket for the radiator



Uses cushion mounts with nuserts in the frame



















Fuel filter/heater mount


















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Radiatore

Finally getting back to the Rover.

So the pic below is a lot of the reason for the new fuel cell. Basically have to pull the cage and lift the body 6-8" to get it in and out. The other reason are it's a fair bit of work to finish it and it's a great spot for the radiator....




Hi-lift jack FTW




Ron Davis custom radiator. It's a 28" double pass core with twin fans.




Really nice craftsmanship




Front facing inlet/outlet







Sitting in it's new home. Needs to tilt to match the shock tower and lift up for upper link clearance.









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Upper Link Tower

I've been working a lot with my buddy Ben on the new tower design. Without his help I'd just be using Kentucky windage.. Reason for the change is with the steering ram mounted mounted to the rear of the axle it has to pass the clevis and tie rod through the upper link tower on the left side of the rig.

This is a front shot showing the coilover location when the left side is at full bump when the other side is at full droop. Worst case scenario for clearance.
Looking to the left side from the center of the axle. Shot shows the ram passing through the tower.

Rear looking forward. Again the clevis/tie rod are sitting inside of the tower.




FEA model

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Fuel Smell

Fell cell showed up yesterday. I decided to abandon the cell I was building to save some time and free up that area for the radiator.

Rock Equipment sway bar




Nice aluminum arms. Waiting on some laser cutting to get this guy mounted.





22 gallon cell sits nicely between the air bumps and shock tower




I need to build a platform for it to sit on 2.5" about the from since the upper link mounts come up above the frame at full stuff



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Front Bumps

The front bumps are finally installed. I did a lot of head scratching and with the steering in front side traditional location I wasn't sure where to mount the bumps. I an older post I had some mock ups of ideas but didn't really like them.








Axle ready to go back under the rig




Only about .500" of clearance between the bump pad and winch tray at full stuff





















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