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The restoration/modification of Daisy.
- Thread starter muddysub
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This picture says it all! Grin ear to ear! Way to go man!
Love that first drive feeling
ITS ALIVE!!!
Thanks guys! I've already looked up the trans temp sensor and found some good prices on front hubs, she won't be down for long.
Well the hub is fixed for now, just took a little careful grinder work and she's trued up and running smooth. To fit my H2 wheels I still need to machine down the hub body some more. I'm gonna do whatever I can for free before spending the $$ on hubs. The TFT sensor is ordered, $50. When it shows up I'll drop the pan and install it and that should clear up my limp mode problem.
itscheesey
Registered Member
Congrats dude.
Burbdood 74
Giver of not a single damn...
Hot damn, congrats!
Sounds awesome! Glad to see it running on the road. 
The restoration/modification of Daisy... [6-13 first drive, trans in limp mode]
So I spent yesterday refining and mocking up my upper shock mount idea. Once I had it all laid out on the frame and actually put the shock where it needed to be I realized that it was not going to work. The body of the shock would hit the spring plate and I'd rather not cut a big chunk out of my front spring plates when I can just relocate the shock.
So this morning I'm in the garage and I've come up with another design that leans the shock back some and I think it's going to work. The biggest difference is that this has to be welded to the frame rather than bolt on like the last design. Welding it onto the frame makes me a little nervous because I've seen shock mounts ripped off of these frames and leave big gaping holes. But I think the way I've got this designed will prevent that. so Im posting this up to see what you guys think before I actually buy the steel and build this.
I think welding on the outer face and top flange of the frame will keep it from ripping out. I need to fine tune the shape of the vertical tabs where they go over the hump and dip in the frame where the OEM shock mounted.
So I spent yesterday refining and mocking up my upper shock mount idea. Once I had it all laid out on the frame and actually put the shock where it needed to be I realized that it was not going to work. The body of the shock would hit the spring plate and I'd rather not cut a big chunk out of my front spring plates when I can just relocate the shock.
So this morning I'm in the garage and I've come up with another design that leans the shock back some and I think it's going to work. The biggest difference is that this has to be welded to the frame rather than bolt on like the last design. Welding it onto the frame makes me a little nervous because I've seen shock mounts ripped off of these frames and leave big gaping holes. But I think the way I've got this designed will prevent that. so Im posting this up to see what you guys think before I actually buy the steel and build this.
I think welding on the outer face and top flange of the frame will keep it from ripping out. I need to fine tune the shape of the vertical tabs where they go over the hump and dip in the frame where the OEM shock mounted.
y5mgisi
1 ton status
Looks way plenty sturdy to me.
Congrats on getting it driving! One thing you might want to do is plate the area around the shock mount on the frame creating a double welded joint for the mount to spread load out.
How long are you shocks and where is the bottom mount?
The design is fine, was thinking it may be a bit short.
The restoration/modification of Daisy... [6-13 first drive, trans in limp mode]
I was considering that as well.
Shocks are 14" bilsteins, from eye to eye at ride height is roughly 27", which gives me 6 inches of up travel and 8 inches of down travel out of my shock.
With the ****ty Pro-comp springs on there I won't be able to use all of that. I'm hoping that if I get some better springs someday I will be able to get more travel out of the front end. I also plan on putting in some 4" bump stops that will limit me to about 5" of up travel.
I was considering that as well.
Shocks are 14" bilsteins, from eye to eye at ride height is roughly 27", which gives me 6 inches of up travel and 8 inches of down travel out of my shock.
With the ****ty Pro-comp springs on there I won't be able to use all of that. I'm hoping that if I get some better springs someday I will be able to get more travel out of the front end. I also plan on putting in some 4" bump stops that will limit me to about 5" of up travel.
My .02, move the bottom mount and move the top so that you don't have to re-do them after you change the springs later.
Do it right the first time so you don't have to do it again, just like my front down bar mounts
Do it right the first time so you don't have to do it again, just like my front down bar mounts
My .02, move the bottom mount and move the top so that you don't have to re-do them after you change the springs later.
Do it right the first time so you don't have to do it again, just like my front down bar mounts
That's what I'm going for right now. If I ever get better springs, I'll still have to limit the up travel at the same point due to steering clearance. Right now I should have more down travel in the shock than the spring is capable of, so I ever get more down travel I should have shock travel available. If I top out the shocks I'll put in limit straps.
Today I changed the trans temp sensor/harness and filter. Filled her back up and turned the key on to find I'm still getting a TOT (trans oil temp) fault. Still only 2nd and 3rd gears and I cannot clear the code. I re calibrated the TCU, still nothing. I sent an email to TCI, hopefully they call me tomorrow and we can get this issue resolved.
y5mgisi
1 ton status
Interesting. Hope it gets resolved!
yeah me too. TCI has really good customer service in my experience so i'm sure we'll get it worked out.
One email to TCI and they had it figured out. On the main transmission connector there is an arrow that needs to be on top, the plug is symmetrical it will plug in either way and I had it upside down. So I flipped it over and now it's not reading any fault codes at all! Tomorrow morning I'll go get some fuel and take her for a spin to see how everything runs.
I'm going to put some heat sleeve material over this harness, it sits about 2" away from the exhaust.
Success!!
I'm going to put some heat sleeve material over this harness, it sits about 2" away from the exhaust.
Success!!
y5mgisi
1 ton status
How stupid that the thing will go on either way! Hope that fixes it!
