I have been working on the Scrambler since the beginning of December. The Scrambler is an 81 and had the 151 engine with a 4 speed. I will keep the 300 and junk the rest.The focus was to get the body separated from the frame, stow it out of the way and make repairs to the frame so the body could be reinstalled for body work.
The scrambler's frame was less than desirable. Sitting in the woods didn't help. So the quest was on to find another frame and in time one was found a few towns west of me. But it was a CJ7 frame and tub that had rolled and the owner had parked out back on mill felt...frozen into the ground, with a foot of snow..what to do? Well that is another story. Needless to say the frame and tub were eventually dragged, and then plank skidded onto a beaver tail and brought home to be freed of the tub. With the two tubs side by side and a day or two drinking beer, taking measurements and trying to think of the easiest way to go about this to come out with a CJ8 frame.
Grinder Ready. Cut Time.
It was a lot easier to take to the blaster in two pieces. And easier to clean the insides out. The cuts were staggered, and the inside tube was opened up to stagger the seam and be able to weld a strong back to the inside or the outside frame rail.
Originally I was going to use tubing, and slide it into each section of frame, bend up some plate steel and skin the outsides to bring flush. But I didn't like how the tubing fit internally and changed course to the strong back idea. And then bent some plate up. 3/16 plate outside, 1/8 tubing cut for the inside.
Its getting late and 0400 comes around pretty quickly. More to Follow.
The scrambler's frame was less than desirable. Sitting in the woods didn't help. So the quest was on to find another frame and in time one was found a few towns west of me. But it was a CJ7 frame and tub that had rolled and the owner had parked out back on mill felt...frozen into the ground, with a foot of snow..what to do? Well that is another story. Needless to say the frame and tub were eventually dragged, and then plank skidded onto a beaver tail and brought home to be freed of the tub. With the two tubs side by side and a day or two drinking beer, taking measurements and trying to think of the easiest way to go about this to come out with a CJ8 frame.
Grinder Ready. Cut Time.
It was a lot easier to take to the blaster in two pieces. And easier to clean the insides out. The cuts were staggered, and the inside tube was opened up to stagger the seam and be able to weld a strong back to the inside or the outside frame rail.
Originally I was going to use tubing, and slide it into each section of frame, bend up some plate steel and skin the outsides to bring flush. But I didn't like how the tubing fit internally and changed course to the strong back idea. And then bent some plate up. 3/16 plate outside, 1/8 tubing cut for the inside.
Its getting late and 0400 comes around pretty quickly. More to Follow.