cutting a 14 bolt

[techtafab]

how deep are you guys cutting the bottom off your 14 bolts ?

 

[87yjtoy]

I cut the lip completely off. Then ground and smoothed. 13 Bolt. no evidence at all of the bottom bolt.

 

[3 tons o fun]

I tore mine and Daniel's down to the bare housing and put it in a mill. I shaved them down to 1/8 from the ring gear. I oriented them so the shave would be parallel to the ground. It all depends on the pinion angle.His was turned up alot and shaved a ton off of it. Mine wasnt as dramatic so we didnt take s much.It was enough to slick them up and get rid of the lip/anchor.

 

[P]

Kelly did mine / Miles at the time , to the bottom edge of the bottom bolt hole ( saving enough to not pop threads obviously) with a porta band. It was ugly but so was Miles truck at the time they did it... I cleared it off and smoothed it out with a grinder / flap disc. Very happy with the turn out.. I think there are pics even in my chassis build thread as well.


Hit it dont babysit it !

 

[blacksheep10]

we're doing rob's this weekend, I'm going to burn out some 3/8" plates on the table that fit what we cut. want to go 1/8"ish from ring gear without a shave job. then burn a ring that fits the new bottom plates to make a cover out of. Come on down. btw, I have my best cad whore on your header flange, I havne't forgotten you

 

[Bones]

we're doing rob's this weekend, I'm going to burn out some 3/8" plates on the table that fit what we cut. want to go 1/8"ish from ring gear without a shave job. then burn a ring that fits the new bottom plates to make a cover out of. Come on down. btw, I have my best cad whore on your header flange, I havne't forgotten you

I need to get on that! I could not get it scaled good enough to "trace' it so I am going to have to just follow the PDF you sent me which = more of a PITA, but I should be able to knock it out pretty fast meaning this week easily over lunch breaks.

 

[techtafab]

pmed ya some more info Bones



well i was cutting a way
cut 1.5 off
now i have a 6X5 hole in the bottom

 

[blacksheep10]

I need to get on that! I could not get it scaled good enough to "trace' it so I am going to have to just follow the PDF you sent me which = more of a PITA, but I should be able to knock it out pretty fast meaning this week easily over lunch breaks.

yeah, I got part of the way through the file in CAD, got sloppy, didn't pull off my base point and assumed some things, got to the last hole and I think I was off if my math was correct. I scrapped it and said **** it, let chris do it

 

[techtafab]

i sent him all the fines that i found
hopfuly he can siffer them out

 

[muchado]

Can you buy a gasket for those? Then you could scan it in and scale it then Chris could trace it---or is it not that simple?

 

[Bones]

i sent him all the fines that i found
hopfuly he can siffer them out

All the dwg files were not there anymore. Just the PDF and kelli sent me that already. I will redo it and save it

 

[blacksheep10]

I probably could have scanned the gasket and traced it, but there was a file with every measurement down to like .0000001. I was going off that when I ****ed up. I liked the precision of drawing it in CAD. we'll see

 

[BamaTJ]

I need to grind the lip off mine bad, I just don't want to wear all the material since it is still attached to the rig.

 

[blacksheep10]

flop it on its side so you can get to the bottom ???

 

[Jeep CJ]

Matt you can do it fairly easily on the rig. The trick is draw you a line and take a Porta Band and take your time. You can take roughly 3/4 of a inch off like this. It makes a huge difference and with a new blade it will eat thru it like butter. I have a porta band I could let you use anytime and probably can come up with a new blade as well.

 

[DavidsCJ7]

I only took about 3/4 off of mine and I cant get it to seal. It leaks like a fat girl in a chocolate factory. I know others that have shaved theirs way deeper than mine, with no leaks.

 

[blacksheep10]

miles's started leaking like a sieve after we lipped it (didn't get into the meat, just the lip). every time he would drag a rock real well, it owuld get his cover. even after we trimmed the cover higher so it wouldn't get hit.
do you have a $ cover david?

 

[techtafab]

hey Kelly can you burn me out a 14 bolt and a D60 flange ring so i can build a cover ?

 

[DavidsCJ7]

miles's started leaking like a sieve after we lipped it (didn't get into the meat, just the lip). every time he would drag a rock real well, it owuld get his cover. even after we trimmed the cover higher so it wouldn't get hit.
do you have a $ cover david?

I bought a cover from Great Lakes Offroad.

 

[blacksheep10]

hey Kelly can you burn me out a 14 bolt and a D60 flange ring so i can build a cover ?

that's what I want to get to doing after I have the plate for the bottom put in. burn a ring that actually fits that.

david, that sucks. my experience was with a stocker.