English TowTractor for Estonian boys at Ladoga 2008

[Toy Zuki]

Just Keep Fighting mate! remember when it gets darkest?

[YellowTractor]

Just Keep Fighting mate! remember when it gets darkest?

true........ keep banging my head against a wall until the either the wall falls down or I pass out, I'm to stupid to give up..

the other side panels are in place


I want the petrol tank as close to the bulkead as possible so I need to do a little cutting and some more welding

from this...


to this...


and a little from underneath


I added the fuel filler that I made a couple of days ago - I think it looks pretty neat, I dont know what you guys think?


I need to fit the fuel pumps and find a place for the fuel pressure regulators and changeover valve and thats the fuel system done

[YellowTractor]

John came round and got most of the wiring done - theres a lot of it!


and Mike make some fibreglass - we used the shape from a Mitsubishi Evo


this fits too well but Im not sure if we will use it


this is the start of the upper mounts for the suspension


I like to save a little weight by using thin steel and only making the structural areas thicker, it should work but Im sure we will find out in the race


The front axle gets stuck on, Ive traded some of the anti-dive geometry to get better speed characteristics, the suspension is upgraded so it will cope with the changes


The bulkhead is made and rilled - its strong enough and wont rattle but it only weighs 1.5kgs


The battery box is made


looks a bit more like a car


but still lots of welding to do


I like this picture


we start to make front suspension mounts


and parts for the coolant swirl tank and hydraulic tanks


everyones gone quiet... have I done something wrong?

[Br00n1e]

looking good, keep a full head of steam ....the clocks ticking

[Veiko]

In a last week we had more snow then all winter long.Now everybody is out there playing.
Truck is looking goog.Coilovers are from...

Veiko

[YellowTractor]

coilovers are from Race Runner

2.5" bodys - we use them last year but with seperate springs (Landrover style), it seems easier to use them as coilovers though


ha - snow, you guys think you have it tough, in England we know about deeeep snow, sometimes up to 8-10mm.. I will come and show you how to drive in these dangerous conditions sometime


(ok.......... mostly we just have rain.. we know a lot about rain..)

[K.Kotkas]

I was just about to say, et hey, no updates recently...

[margus4x4ee]

Nice work. It's great to see that kind of stuff here, estonians for some reason tend to keep their builds secret Keep it coming.

Margus

[YellowTractor]

estonians for some reason tend to keep their builds secret

its similar in the UK and I dont think it does much good?? I can understand keeping a few secrets (everyone does that ) but by sharing it helps push things forward, I learn a lot from Estonians, Finns, Russians and we have made pretty quick progress from being the clueless idiots we were 3 years ago - we are still idiots but at least we have a clue

Big cooling fan now has a home - I will be good for sucking mosquitoes off the windscreen


we find a nice guage - it does speed, RPM, temperature, fuel level, stop watch and a lot of other things, its totally waterproof


starting to make homes for the hydraulic bump stops, the suspension we used last year made a massive difference to how fast the car went, these will make as much a difference again - we can hit things faster and not break anything (.............hopefully!)


fitting more tyres... its not a fun job so we do 1 every day and its not so bad


we look at different track rods, Landrover, Volvo, Unimog and... the big ones...


so of course we use the biggest

Zil power (thanks to the moon buggy team for the information!!)

[TR Pjätt]

:::)))

Moonbuggy

[Veiko]

I like this gauge.Where it's from and can U change color of display because when it is blue it's looks like VW.

Veiko

[FridgeFreezer]

I like this gauge.Where it's from and can U change color of display because when it is blue it's looks like VW.

Veiko - it comes from www.acewell-meter.co.uk, speak to Craig and tell him we sent you. They sell lots of cool gauges, this one was the coolest looking but others have more "car" features.

You can't change the LED colour.

It's small:

[YellowTractor]

not a lot of space for extra metal




starting to look right - lots to do though


we make convert the other knuckle to take the Zil track rod end


Vince makes some flanges to make the flexible joints fit to the exhaust manifold


the electronics are built to make the engine work - we should get this in the next 10 days

this weekend we get the front axle finished, the winch trays fitted and the cab finished. the back axle will also be finished (hahaha its a good plan, not sure if it works out that way though...)

so what midifiations has everyone else made for this year? or is it all still top secret?

is Priit bringing his sauna?

[TR Pjätt]

HI Jez, we race this week in Lietuva. I can send photos next week and ofcourse we have a sauna with us. I hope I see you more, then one time in our sauna. :::)))

zheers,,,,,,,,,

Priit

[YellowTractor]

so where are these photos then Priit? or didnt you win??

the flexi joints are welded to the flanges (horrible to weld), we can soon start to make the exhaust


the castor is set to the number of degrees we like to use - its a nice easy job with the drill and a drilling jig


we are almost professionals at looking and not doing anything


everything gets looked at for a long time - we pretend this is because we dont want to make a mistake, really its because we are lazy


sometimes things actually happen


I like Tig welding, it means I can sleep


The steering ram is made to fit


and we make a spanner


it fits the ram - we can fix this now if there are any problems


we find a place to put the bearing for the front propshaft (its a 2 piece)