Time for a Four Seater - Buggy Build

[sixstringsteve]

very cool mount, I like it.

 

[Kiel]

That support is fancy

 

[Herzog]

Here I am pretending that I know what I'm doing with all this wire.

It all works in my head, if DC wiring people notice any big mistakes, let me know.
2 fuse panels on the left. Below that there are two rows of power dist blocks. When I ordered them I thought they were all connected but it turns out that they are all isolated so I had to daisy chain them. Upper row is pos, lower is neg.

Switches in the short dash. Some of the wiring is done on those but I ran out of time for the weekend.

My fingers hurt.

 

[I Lean]

Wow, nice clean wiring! Bummer about the non-connected terminal blocks, that made a lot of extra work for you.

 

[Bart]

Wiring looks great. Nice job.

 

[chadschoon]

Sickness! Clean wireing.

 

[Herzog]

With the RME BBQ and a few other things going on I had to take a 3 week break from this but I finally got to work on it again this weekend.

Mostly finishing up the wiring. I still have to clean up some wires with loom & zip ties but it's probably 98% done. It's amazing how quickly the stock harness wires can make a mess of your neat wiring once you start integrating all of it. Ah well, still pretty organized and easy to trace.

For the fan, I decided to make it always on when the ignition is on. The switch is a kill switch instead of an "On" switch so I will be less likely to leave my fan off and over-heat. Happened often in my other rig. :homer-doh: So now it's always on with a high/low option.

Crappy phone pics.

 

[ricsrx]

Nice work, good progress, you will have it going in no time!!

 

[YOUKNOW]

Dude, you work pretty fast!!

 

[Coco]

Looking awesome Shane, keep it up! cant wait to see it up and running

 

[Seth]

Shane I have tons of 1/2 and 1/4 split loom if you need some.

 

[Herzog]

Thanks everybody!

Shane I have tons of 1/2 and 1/4 split loom if you need some.

I really like the spiral loom I started using. I always have a hard time getting that split loom over the wires. I may take up your offer though, I appreciate it!

 

[big cherokee]

almost there shane, so where is the first outing going to be you think. might have to load up and come run with you guys.

 

[Herzog]

almost there shane, so where is the first outing going to be you think. might have to load up and come run with you guys.

So close! I still need to figure out my driveline situation, run exhaust & transmission lines.

Not sure when the first major outing will be since it's going to get hot soon. I'll probably do a few shake down runs this summer to really get it ready for some good fall 4-wheeling. We'll have to get in touch when the time comes!

 

[Herzog]

Late night update from today.

Got the Inner Air Locks put in. First one was a PITA, the rest were not so bad. Just had to get the process down.



For future reference or search integrity: Inner Air Lock replacement tube size; 17 inch wheel


Mounted the tires up to take a look. Not to shabby!




To do list (mostly because I need somewhere to write it down)

• Finish few random wire runs
• Run brake lines
• Make new gas pedal (hate the last one)
• Make mounting bracket for electric radiator fan
• Vent lines
• Properly route hydro steering lines
• Exhaust routing
• Make new transmission lines to cooler
• Finish cooler/gear rack
• and some other various things.

 

[I Lean]

....and weigh it so you can order coils.

Looking gooood!

 

[Herzog]

....and weigh it so you can order coils.

Looking gooood!

Ah yes. And I need to figure out my drive-line situation still. I've been putting that off.

thanks! I think it looks better in person. The photos put a weird perspective on it but either way I'm really happy with it so far.

 

[1995zj]

Very nice!!!!

 

[Greg]

Woah... impressive!!! :freak:

 

[_Auzzy_]

simply amazing herzog