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4 seat buggy, best approach...

I am now where I was then, nowhere. It's been a combination of analysis paralysis, and general burn out along with "family issues", general "bad luck", and AZ heat. I keep telling myself I'm going to get started on this, or at least a revamp of the truggy, but the truggy still sits there broken for the last 6 months. I've done some work to "fix" it, but general bad luck has kept me from making any progress...
 
Russ,
Have you put any thought into linking just the rear of your truggy for now since that is the major issues you have right now? With your tools and knowledge it should go together pretty easily. I also think there would be minimal cost lost when/if you go to a full tube frame buggy. You can keep your axles, shocks, heims and even the links (depending on designs) for the rear of your new buggy. The only parts you wouldn't be able to recycle are the actual tabs/brackets for the conneceting the links themselves. Your front works well as it is. 1 tranny 8 heims, and 20 ft of tube and you are in business. That should take one solid day of measuring/designing and about 2 weekends of actual fab. The rear of your frame is flat enough to easily link out anyway.

Food for thought.
 
Well, the link length would likely change as well, so they would need refab.

And I agree totally, that has been exactly my "fall back position". But, I haven't been able to generate the gumption to get that done either. I'm just burned out for now and frustrated. Just look at my broken trans fiasco. Couldn't find a trans that I wanted local, looked for and found remote, shipped in, found broken bell, decided to split loss with seller rather than ship back, bough "ultra bell" that was supposed to work, found it wouldn't fit a truck converter, multiple bells and shipping delays/expense back and forth trying to create a "new product", and months pass with many hours work and no progress... And everything I've tried to do to the truggy in the last 6 months has gone that way.

Yeah, I know "give me some cheese to go with my whine". Just trying to define my "burn out" problem. It seems to be passing, so maybe soon...
 
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Well, the link length would likely change as well, so they would need refab.

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Going from truggy to buggy they would probably get shorter, so you most likely could just cut them down. Or replace them as links on a heavy weight are usually twisted junk in one season. You could keep the square d-shafts if the foward pivot center line was close enough to that of the u-joint.
 
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Why not stick it ? /forums/images/graemlins/ears.gif

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...because juice trannys are better! /forums/images/graemlins/ignore.gif

Marv
 
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Why not stick it ? /forums/images/graemlins/ears.gif

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...because juice trannys are better! /forums/images/graemlins/ignore.gif

Marv

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