GOOD to hear!

Been busy playing with the kids, dirt bikes and other toys Mark? Been a while since I've seen any posts from you. I'm going at a snail's pace on my truck and it seems I may pass you by in completion date...

 

I had to get a couple other projects out of the way before a little hand surgery (again). I rebuilt the motor in my 77' powerwagon and then installed a KDX220 motor in a KX125 roller. Nice little swap that was!





And the Powerwagon...



I'll have to look around and see what you been up to!

 

Twin turbos.....

Re-evaluating this project and what I really want and need don't quite line up. So I going to shelve the twins for now and just run a single... at least till I get the truck on the road and such.

Any thoughts as to running a 62/74 with ported head, cam and a 5 speed?

 

Sure wish I had wrote more stuff down... spending too much time getting caught up!

I have been working on miscellaneous items, such as steering and throttle items, which brings up an inquiry... does anyone have the linkage assembly for a P-Pump laying around? I hate to have to fab out all new stuff!

Made a new pedal mount...


And fitting the steering shaft...

 

Finished up getting the injection lines cleaned and installed along with the injectors...

 

Also been working on the dual feed lines. Got the Y block mounted... feeding a -6AN to the front and a -8AN to the side port. The Y-block is being supplied by a -10AN to the AirDog.

Waiting on fittings to finish it up....

 

Power steering issues still....

After 3 days of research... I'm giving up on the Eaton BB pump as they seem to be getting phased out.. so I have a Vickers vane pump in mind with the needed SAE "A" flange, 5gpm and 1500 psi. Just need to find a dealer to order through.

Spent the better part of yesterday out at pick n pull... to my surprise they had 5 bump sides, so I picked and pulled every miscellaneous bracket, bolt and flange that I seem to have miss placed since this project started.

Today I started on the roll bar....

 

Do you have your own mandrel bender?

 

I do have one, but have not had any time to get familiar with it... so I ordered a kit as offered at Summit and Jegs.

 

Looks good so far. You doing a full cage?

 

Current plan is to go with a six points with two rear main hoops... so we'll see how that all goes first.

 

Looks good! You are going one step further than I am and that is a step further than i thought you'd go. I've thought about a cage but have been avoiding doing it because I know it will snowball into something crazy. I'm trying to keep the interior stock-ish at this point. We'll see how long that lasts...

 

Just wanted to add a little more protection to the contents... hopefully I will never need to know if it all worked out! I initially just wanted a place to tie in some shoulder strap mounts, but then one thing leads into another.

Anyone have any good cage building links?

 

I hear ya. I'll probabyl end up adding a cage to mine, but like I said I'm sure it will snowball into a race cage - which I don't want.

What are you looking for in cage building links? A lot of the stuff i have is all "prerunner" (desert race actually) related so it's probably major overkill for what you want.
Any specific questions you are looking to answer - or just looking for pics, etc.?

 

something like this?

Roll Bars/Cages