A new beginning for a tatered dana 60 spindle

[Zeus33rd]

Necessity is the mother of invention right? Or maybe it's "being rediculously behind schedule is the mother of invention"?

Anyways, we needed to figure out a way to support the front output of our Atlas-

There was no tube/material of the appropriate size to machine the planned part, so Joe scrounged up this old hashed dana 60 spindle-

Chucked it up in the lathe and started cuttin. I'll let the pictures tell the story.

Pretty damn cool part if you ask me.

 

[mtnman]

Wow!!

 

[cuervo]

Could you not have done the same with a blank?

 

[Zeus33rd]

Could you not have done the same with a blank?

Of course....but-

There was no tube/material of the appropriate size to machine the planned part, so Joe scrounged up this old hashed dana 60 spindle-

We just didn't have any thing else useable. 20+ min ride to town to get anything else that would work. Joe had that done in a bit over an hour. Win win.

 

[chulisohombre]

very nice work.and as long as it would have taken to go get anether piece a metal this is done.sweet.

 

[JDNobodi]

Whoa, wait, are you building a tube buggy now or are you helping somebody else build it now?

 

[big pappa b]

He's helping out on a KOH build

 

[63chevyll]

Nice work.

Most guys prob wouldn't have done anything. I'm betting experience has taught that lesson

 

[Zeus33rd]

I would post more stuff and answer more questions....but 12+ hours a day 7 days a week for the past 2 weeks (minus xmas day) working on this car leaves me not much motivation for messin around on the computer. Shower, food, sleep. That's pretty much it.


I did toast a $90 FK heim a couple days ago.

 

[mountainexplorer]

Always good to be able to reuse other parts that you can't use for their original application anymore. It's like a variation of the term recycling.