Thread: The Roofus Special

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I also tried it slid forward and rearward to see what grabbed me. (The gray piece in the pic is the 2x3 crossmember I tried. I tried it mound on top of the upper frame rails and also from the bottom side of the upper frame rails...it just looked wrong)

Forward




Rearward




I liked it best slid to the rear.

So now that I had an idea of how the spring was going to be attached, I neede to sort out where everything else was going to be.

The radiator is a pretty important piece...so I threw it into the mock-up.









Just adding the radiator made it look more like a car.

...But the radiator that far back just didn't look right.

I scooted the motor forward so that the radiator was right behind the leaf spring ....where it would be if I do the upright grill shell like a Rally.

What do you know? The motor is back ahead of the "firewall" again. ....where it was last year!



Foot room is much nicer....again!



Just to make sure that moving the radiator closer to the spring didn't change which perch location looked best...I mocked stuff up the other ways again.





Rearward still looks best to me.

So now that I know where the radiator goes. Time to try and squeeze in the rack.

The good thing about the wide spring crossmember is that I think I can hide the rack and pinion under it.

The rack needs to go 3.5 inches forward of where it is pictured here. It will pretty much be under the radiator.





proposed cut outs



from the side



Now the REALLY fun part. Trying to figure out how to put it all together where I can pull the steering back out at a later date if I have to.

The original idea was to mount the rack on its own crossmember and the bolt the spring crossmember over the rack.

Then I thought about mounting the rack to the underside of the spring crossmember and bolting both down as a unit.

Now I'm trying tofigure out how to fish the rack into the crossmember if the crossmeber was welded in (I really want to weld it so that I can gusset up to the upper framerails next to the radiator).



That's where I am for now. I still have some more thinking to do. ...as if I haven't sat in the thinking chair enough.

Oops. I forgot to post the pics with the a-arms in the mock up.








and the passenger side arm turned upside down as a pretend upper a-arm

And a few more "car" pics.