ok i have had this truck project going for a few months and i guess i never put it up on here. i call it Caddy-saurus-Rex. it will have a caddy back half and the owners name is rex, so the name is fitting i think. this is not my usual kind of build. a lot of what you will see is all the owners ideas, and me making them work and look decent. not my kind of build but will do the work to best of my abilities. i will start from when i got it in the shop an get all up to date
finally got enough time to get started on the chassis.
started cutting the 2x4x3/16 wall tube
made some wood patterns to plasma cut out the flat plate sections for the rear of the chassis
got a lot of the chassis tacked up on the driver side, used a template for the front of the frame that Mr. Gusset had made up
then moved on to setting the cab on the chassis so far to make sure it has the look ZZ rat is going for
rear of the chassis is going to be pinched in for the wide meats out back
then set the block up in the car to see how it was going to lay
then tossed on the hood and grill shell to do some more looking
cut some 1x1 tube to use as spacers on the front frame rails, using the mill to make sure they are all the same
welding in all the spacers
the front rails all tacked up and squared up, took the cab back off to do some tube work under the cab and finish up the perimeter frame
here is a front shot to show how the front rails are bowed
checked the frame for square before i moved to more tube work and setting the engine and trans
motor and trans set up, centered and leveled out
and some tube work on the center section, and rear of the chassis, more to come
making the motor mounts today
cut out the plates that bolt to the engine
then cut and bent the frame side mount
used some cardboard to fill in the gap
plate cut and drilled, still need to plate the top and bottom to make it an i beam
driver side
passenger side
the removable trans cross member mocked up
so now that we are all caught up to now, i have been working on the truck over the past couple days, hope to have it rolling with in a few days
making the front spring perch
then machined a 7* tapered bung for the tie rod ends on the wishbones. then welded it into a piece of tube to go through the frame. so i could get a socket on the nut and keep water and dirt out of the frame
then drilled through the rails, installed and welded solid the bung assembly
then all smoothed out and tie rod ends installed
