Blacksheep Q & D redo

blacksheep10 · Jun 20, 2007

all right, getting Quick and Dirty time. I want to wheel now. I am doing it strong, not pretty. pretty is for customer's rigs and my buggy when I get there. Okay, finished the transfers crossmember tonight. what a bitch, but I'm confident its done right. :spin:

Okay, same basic deal as cabot's, 2 bushings on the right, one on the left.

so that the transfers didn't try to break apart from each other (aluminum case) I braced the cases to the crossmember in several places.
on the back of the front output:

also the left side of the 205 at the rear

and the 231 to 205 plate

the front tube of the crossmember goes between the 2 cases, or more like under the 231. it has 2 tubes going back to the 205/231 adapter where it bolts into the 205 face bolt holes and 2 tubes going to the 350/231 plate with nuts welded inside them to bolt to.

then I took a factory support rod that goes from the bellhousing to the side of a 205 and modified it. I bolted it on the top bellhousing bolt hole and welded a 5/8" nut to the 350/231 adapter. I shortened the the strut rod and tightened both bolts. as luck would have it, they pulled tight right next to each other, so together they got welded. like i said, Q&D baby :flipgotcha:

blacksheep10 · Jun 20, 2007

the above **** will all get taken out, finish welded (it is all tacked, some better than others) and painted and reinstalled tomorrow night.
steering:
put on my de ram, made new arms, put a bridge/ram guard on the front to bash **** with and the tie rods are .250 wall 1.75". the rod ends at teh cylinder are 3/4x7/8" chromo and the arms are 3/4x3/4 chromo. little overkill, but **** it, what I had.

I connected the bridge to the link bridge at the center point where the links converge so that the ram mount was braced and the link bridge was braced as well. I used 3/4" plate and cut an eye in it to put my winch hook in for front end suck down. the plate is the full piece, the tube is coped around the plate.

here are the new wheels I got done last night

still lots to do, but gaining. hope to do shifters tomorrow night after I weld up the crossmember. that should make it easier to take in and out as needed. I hate killing it, getting out, climbing under, shifting it, getting back in, start in gear, get where I'm stuck, shut off, repeat :spin:

P · Jun 21, 2007

I really like the way you mounted the DE and used its "stock" mount without cutting and such. Looks real good man !!

theres alot of sheeiot under you doubler, I thought you were going DS drop with the 231, so is it/ it appears to be 231/205 on the pass side ?

Im dumb on all the doubler ****.... :flipoff1:

BamaTJ · Jun 21, 2007

Good god Kelly, do you ever paint anything? :flipoff1:

6uldv8 · Jun 21, 2007

Kelly would have been great in the "Road Warrior" movies. If he'd mount a crossbow on the hood and one on his wrist it would look perfect!

CRANK1 · Jun 21, 2007

"Two men enter, one man leaves!!!" and i am talking about the blacksheep :flipoff1:

blacksheep10 · Jun 21, 2007

I was going Drivers drop, that is what I bought the doubler kit for. a ford has a circle 6 case. the box 4 rox shaft is not long enough for a fig 8 case....or is it?

It took 2 new plates and some ingenuity, but I got the chebby case with a 31 spline ford input in it to go. I only had to leave out 1 bolt, and that is taken care of by the rod between the 2 cases above teh crossmember that goes through the other plate I made with a plasma cut hole and slag hanging out of it

. Q&D baby.

blacksheep10 · Jun 25, 2007

okay, not all the way dirty, but still quick. did a little shakey paint.

if I keep this **** up, the whole rig will be painted by sometime in '08 :flipoff1:

BamaTJ · Jun 25, 2007

Holy crap you painted something!!!

InDaShop · Jun 25, 2007

You really need to get on meth. You'll have the 'sheep sparkly and winning show and shines overnight. :spin:

P · Jun 25, 2007

HA HA, **** good one Wyatt. Hell I need to get on Meth... Slim was workin 24/7

BamaTJ · Jun 26, 2007

Probably like 20/7 after you add in all the meth breaks ;D He loves him some meth

Bones · Jun 26, 2007

I see the shop floor. Fantabulous G

P · Jun 26, 2007

It will be cool to see the SHeep actually alive and painted... The real question is how long will the alive part last ? :popcorn:

InDaShop · Jun 26, 2007

P said:
It will be cool to see the SHeep actually alive and painted... The real question is how long will the alive part last ?

42.5 seconds.

It will give up a ghastly death when Kelly does the ritual out of the shop burnout, and then kabbbllllooooeiiiiyyyyyyyyy

I can't help but think of the Red Rocket burnout at Kellys by Miles. It was so long it was funny, then got no funny, then got funny again, then got not funnt WTF is Miles doing, then it was funny again.

blacksheep10 · Jun 26, 2007

InDaShop said:
I can't help but think of the Red Rocket burnout at Kellys by Miles. It was so long it was funny, then got no funny, then got funny again, then got not funnt WTF is Miles doing, then it was funny again.

I love that part of the vid. you are staring at it going, "okay, that's enough, he can let off....then you start laughing again, then it wanes, then you see his face looking at the temp gauge and its funny again. So, you replicated anything yet?

tonight, shifters. no, they wont be pained :flipoff1:

P · Jun 26, 2007

c'mon, you were don so well!

blacksheep10 · Jun 26, 2007

shifters didn't happen.
I ran out of ****ing wire while welding...gay.
until the wire fiasco, I worked underneath some more. I am tying the lower link crossmembers together underneath the tranny crossmember. this will make tubes that go from from to back and aid in skidding, and also make it so **** is less likely to get caught on the tranny crossmember. I am coming straight off the link mounts, so the pressure will be 100% direct, not spread with a side load. Should have taken pics of that. anyway, I have tabs poked out that weld to each crossmember with 1/2" holes in them to fit these 2" tubes. the tubes here have 1/2" holes in the washers I made and welded in the ends.

these will bolt into the tabs I weld to the crossmembers. then the spreader tubes will weld to the little gems you see above. this way they are unboltable for easy crossmember removal.
the washers you see welded into the little tubes are strap with a 1/2" hole poked in the middle and then 1" poked around it, and then set in the tube. I made my own 1/4" thick washers

blacksheep10 · Jun 28, 2007

more on teh dirtay dirtay. whacked the completely custom as **** old coil perches off the frame. man, those things were stout. who needs 1/4" wall 5" pipe with 3 kickers to hold a fuggin coil on. apparently I did in '03. then again, this is the guy that put 6" channel as the back of his frame :spin:

here is full stuff from the rear and side (it has never been close to this in real life because of the coil perches)

here is the kicker tube crossmember that I was making with the bushings in my above post. I lost about 2" of breakover from what it could have been without the support, but gained about an inch from what it was with the factory clocking on the 205 and crossmember. I painted it too :flipgotcha: