Jeep projects

[rocksnstumps]

Yes drilling holes in steel bigger than 1/2" is a bit challenging. What kind of mag drill do you have? Been eyeing up the Evolution one. Trying to keep cost down but still get something a bit better than the Vevor bottom barrel priced one.

Just finished up a bunch of 9/16", 5/8, and 3/4" holes in steel. The smaller pieces able to use the drill press and carbide tipped hole saws not too bad but on the long bulky sections had to go with just a regular hand drill. Carbides are just too brittle to stand up to much misalignment and trashed a couple bits and had to finish up with the old cheap set of silver and deming profile ones on the last few holes. On those best to step up with multiple drill sizes and countersink holes before jumping to bigger drill to help align and prevent grabbing when starting bigger drill. Takes forever to final diameter but hand drill not enough oomph to drill hole in one step

 

[b116757]

https://www.fastenal.ca/product/details/303012

This the one I have it’s an FMT I didn’t buy it new in fact some outside contractors where working on my territory and thru it away because the magnet quit working. I took it home opened it up reconnected the spade terminal that came loose on the magnet and reassembled it worked like a champ.that was 15 years ago. I will say that after owning one I will never go without one again they are simply too handy. My coworker was building a new wood workers bench and needed to drill many dog holes in the large bench top I said use the magdrill just clamp a a price of 1/4” steel plate to the wood and go crazy drilling straight holes all over the top. I used one of those cheap ass drill guide things when I built my woodworking bench and some of my holes wondered a little using that piece of crap.

 

[b116757]

Steering box mounts this is upside down in photo. The original mount is similar to mine but I used much more heavy duty threaded weld inserts versus their nuts welded inside the tube on a small plate and the 9/16 DOM tubing is quite a bit heavier than the factory tubing.
I did it this way so factory original hardware would still work with this frame.

 

[b116757]

 

[Catscratch]

At this point you can fab up mounts and cross members for any drive train you could want... any plans for Coyote engine, ls6, hemi, etc?

 

[b116757]

At this point you can fab up mounts and cross members for any drive train you could want... any plans for Coyote engine, ls6, hemi, etc?

I’m just going to use the factory drive train and engine at this point who knows down the road what I might do with it. I didn’t really want to build a rock crawler with this jeep just fix a junk frame. My kids can turn it into a rock crawler at some point if they want to fool with it.

 

[b116757]

Sway bar mount

Fuel tank cross member, body mount and rear shock mounts welded on. I have to order a couple new shock mount studs.