'Nother Diesel Build Thread

Roll bar sawhorses?  Way to make something do double duty! 

Now on to the seats. I like cheap seats. I found a pair of Polaris Razor seats on Craigslist. I spent quite a long time last winter rigging up a seat slider from a Chevy Cavalier. It really turned out nice, but when I set up the driver's set on the gas tank it sat up too much. My head was pretty much as high as the roll bar, probably not a good idea. I think we will have to design something else a little shorter.

   Your PS pump mount looks stock. nice work.

   Oh, hey, a few pages back you had a photo looking down into the engine bay, and I couldn't help but notice your U-bolt mount-plate with the ends pointing up out of harms way.
   What vehicle did those come off of ?

   thanks

Got to update this thread before it becomes buried again and I can't find it!  Gathering stuff, mostly.  My awesome wife got me a wiring harness for Christmas and I'm trying to gather gauges and such.  I made a mount and wired up the little ARB compressor for the lockers.  I also got a Lokar shifter for the TH350 - trying to look a real stick shift!  It's so nice when things come together - I had an old CJ5 transmission cover that will fir right around the Lokar - sweet. 

Edited by bobevans - 29 Jan. 2020 at 3:33am

After the steering I thought brakes might be a good thing.  I'm using a Corvette style master cylinder.  Got all the lines run and started bleeding the brakes.  After a couple of rounds of drain all the fluid back out and fix this or that, I finally think I got all the leaks addressed.  Now just need to find something to give my wife the incentive to come out to the garage and sit in that grungy seat and pump some brakes!                                                                                                           I'm going with a Dana 300 transfer case.  Great case, but no e-brake.  For some time I have wanted cutting brakes - like on a tractor.  Hit the brake on one back wheel and turn hard and really make a tight turning radius.  Well, my rear axle has disc brakes, but has the little dum inside - it's how the Isuzu Rodeo had parking brakes.  I figured if I rigged up two levers, I could control each rear wheel independently.  It took WAY too much time to make this work.  I had to modify the stock Rodeo cable and shorten them a bunch.  Then I had to devise a setup where I brought the cables through the rear floor riser.  I think it works OK right now, but my big worry is that they will wear quickly and either need adjusted constantly or turn out ineffective.                                                     The braking Oh Snap moment when I realized that hooked up the back brakes to the rear of the master cylinder and the front brakes to the front.  I'll address that when I pull the body for final painting.

Two weeks is a little enthusiastic!  I'm hoping next year, maybe the Rubicon trip if I get the bugs worked out.  Two weeks will be the old grey 2A/3A