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Rumble Bee. (Getting cannibalized for the greater good)

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Something else I noticed and wondered about.

On a 2 piece drive shaft, where the angles change the same at the same time, (the same as a front axle) , you need to have the 2 pieces timed correctly or it will bind..... I noticed today that the ujoints in my front axle are far from timed correctly.

Which could be why when it's locked and I turn, the wheels do NOT point the same direction... One will wobble in and out.

I'm going to try and time the ujoints for now to see if that helps
 
Your front axles will never be timed or in sync with each other, every time you turn the shafts have to turn at different rates.
 
Chevy305 said:
Your front axles will never be timed or in sync with each other, every time you turn the shafts have to turn at different rates.
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I was thinking of that... But normally they aren't welded together...... That was the part that makes me wonder. I'm not sure if that would change things...:dunno:
 
For a while now this project has sat idle.

I mainly bought it for the parts, so that I could build a buggy very similar to Eric's Horton...

But given that I'll have kids in it at times and half the year is snow wheeling I kind of need enclosed (heated) seating for 4 or 5 people (We take our nephews for extended periods sometimes, and may end up with them permanently). So I can't get myself to do much with the current platform.

My current thoughts are

A. Buy a Blazer and swap all the goodies over
(There's a couple rusted 90s near me for $1200-1500)

B. Buy another burb and swap goodies + bob it.
(Can't seem to find any around here at the moment, but not ready to buy anyway really)

C. Find a cheap rotted Crew cab (cab only) to clearance the corners on and use on my current frame.

All 3 are about the same work really. All 3 probably cost the same in the end. All 3 will most likely take care of my wiper issues. And the first 2 would hopefully get me into an auto trans.

So thats why I'm not moving forward at the moment. Plenty I could be doing, and have steel for. But I don't want to use it until I know what direction I'm taking.

I gotta fire sale my silverado, get the crew cab I bought as a DD home. And settle into my payments after the shop purchase before I can buy any of the 3. Shop purchase has put the hurt on pretty hard at the moment.
 
Work so much overtime at the first one to stay on top, that I don't have time for a second one lol. Plan was to build and sell some stuff in the shop after I bought it. But I need money to buy materials to build with, and then the time thing gets thrown in there:doah:

So now I have a shop to do projects in and no money or time to work on projects because of buying the shop :rolleyes:..

If I had known that I was going to get a chance with the shop when I bought the Silverado I wouldn't have bought it... That payment would go nicely to projects every month lol. Half to the fun stuff and half to materials to make more shop money with.
 
I could always combine trucks and have a 6" lifted, bored big block, crewcab on 37's for a DD / family toy :thinking:

But I'd rather have a dedicated toy with a CC tow rig set up just enough for possible recovery duty if needed.

As for the nephews,,,, yeah I'd need a second job if that happens :doah:
 
shady said:
Work so much overtime at the first one to stay on top, that I don't have time for a second one lol. Plan was to build and sell some stuff in the shop after I bought it. But I need money to buy materials to build with, and then the time thing gets thrown in there:doah:

So now I have a shop to do projects in and no money or time to work on projects because of buying the shop :rolleyes:..

If I had known that I was going to get a chance with the shop when I bought the Silverado I wouldn't have bought it... That payment would go nicely to projects every month lol. Half to the fun stuff and half to materials to make more shop money with.
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I'm in the almost exact same boat. Bought projects, and built a shop. Now funds stay low and time is, wait, I don't even remember what that is. But I keep telling myself it's gona pay off eventually. Just be patient?:dunno:

Oh and you have to have good reliable wheels for work and life so the truck payment well...
 
So rumble bee is still a cab truck right. Why not graft parts in. Find a pickup bed. Strip it down, attach to truck. Cut out back if truck cab. Build cage. Get soft top made.

Yep it's a ton of work but seems a good solution to me
 
Thats why I built my blazer. Can't fit a family of 4 in 2 seats. Having reliable wheels as a DD is key though. Sure what I spent on my new dmax hurts the other truck fund, but not being broke on the side of the road, or the constant maintenance of an older vehicle is nice. Oh and AC seats are tits!
 
tenderfoot said:
I'm in the almost exact same boat. Bought projects, and built a shop. Now funds stay low and time is, wait, I don't even remember what that is. But I keep telling myself it's gona pay off eventually. Just be patient?:dunno:

Oh and you have to have good reliable wheels for work and life so the truck payment well...
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The good reliable wheels will be provided in starter form by Eric pretty soon lol. Kind of another project. Selling the new truck will provide the money each month to fix it up slowly. And every other month plus OT will go into the toy in whatever form it takes.
Work is only 12.5 miles from home. And I have the wife's van for longer distance stuff for now.

As for being patient., That's what I'm figuring too. In a couple years the kid goes to school and wife wants a job then, and about that time 2 or 3 of my payments fall off. So I just gotta get through till then.

blazinzuk said:
So rumble bee is still a cab truck right. Why not graft parts in. Find a pickup bed. Strip it down, attach to truck. Cut out back if truck cab. Build cage. Get soft top made.

Yep it's a ton of work but seems a good solution to me
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I actually started looking for parts far that exact thing. After getting the Bee, But money wise to get a bed and such, plus build a soft top puts me almost at what a rusty Blazer or burb would cost me. And still keeps me at a manual, which I hate for the type of wheeling in my area.

Every bed I've found around here is $500 for nearly unusable. Most just get scrapped. I can get a short bed box for $300 about 2.5 hrs from me, and I keep leaning that way. But Im just looking at the cost of that, plus top, plus eventual auto swap, etc.,. And weighing that against a cheap Blazer or burb. I'm nearly not even considering a CC body really. Just an option I've kicked around.

If I run across the right parts for the right price it may get frankensteined.

I can use it as is mildly for now though( hard to shift in a hurry without elbowing my 2 year old). I just don't want to do any more to it until I have a clear path.
 
Well I actually found a box. I'm picking one up for $250 Monday. Pics make me think it's in good shape. If so it may not end up on this truck. May be saved for a better one. But if conditions are right, it'll go on here and I'll just go that route, with a snapped on soft top over a cage.

I have a bunch of a tarp like material that's SUPER tough that's used to cover flatbed semi trailers. That will make a great top. As far as how to sew it or make seams though.....:dunno:. my sewing machine isn't tough enough for sure lol
 
After work yesterday I decided to do another search cause I was bored and this bed popped up. So I got ahold of the guy and snagged it.
 
This bed will definitely go to the Bee... Going that direction I guess. Dude basically told me it was mine... Still got my fingers crossed. He's building a sweet short bed k10 himself.. I gave him a link for here :waytogo:

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I looked at the pics and skimmed em the first time. Second time through I seen the faults.... More than good enough for the bee though
 
So now that my short dilemma was solved by chance and CL, I know the direction it'll go.

I'll have to cut some things at the rear bottom of the bed to clearance it for the bumper. And the front wall looks like it unbolts so that will be easy. Then I'll match that opening line up on the back of the cab and cut...

I kind of have another thing I've been thinking about... I want to mate the cab to the box, but the cab is soft mounted and the bed is solid bolted.....:thinking:. When I tie the cage through and too all of it it becomes solid mounted anyway.... So being a 90% non street truck would it be fine to replace the rubber mounts with solid ones? Or is that asking for issues?
 
I'm not sure what you had in mind, but I'd keep the bed and cab 2 pieces until you want to cage it... factory frames flex too much:

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Cage will fix all of that though
 
That pic is kind what I was worried about...

Last night while drinking a beer and visualizing it I decided I'll use some of that 4 or 5 inch wide weather strip
That has a metal pinch seam on both sides... People use it to remove thier whole back window and seal between the cab and toppers sometimes. I'll find a pic.
 
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