I have the Budbuilt mount as well - very slick!

I've never heard of chaining down the motor mounts??

 

Ya, I never liked how complicated AllPro's crossmember is, and I've heard of people having problems getting the holes lined up on the frame. This one went right on easier than the stock one even. Having the two mounts doesn't really do anything for the twisting, but the tranny doesn't bounce up and down anywhere near what it used to. I have an old set of Rockstomper's motor mounts that I'm going to throw in it for now, when the vibes get to me I'll deal with rigging up a chain or strap setup.

 

 

Crash, what the heck does that mean?

 

Pretty cool!

crawler #976, I'd like to see some ppics of how you did the chain thing. I can't picture it.

 

I'm confused too, are those good or bad s?

 

Good of course (how often do you see me being a mean guy on this bbs,lol)

Looks good, way too much bolt on stuff for my taiste, but thats ok, we all have our limits..

 

Well ya of course it's a lot of bolt on stuff! The transfer case bolts together, it bolts to the transmission, the shifters bolt onto it, the driveshaft bolts onto it...

 

Yes, but if your Crash, you need to shim the first bolts, weld the second bolts, make your own 3rd set of bold and weld the rest of it together.

 

Na, toss it into a box and back into the closet

SO shane, does this mean you actually might go wheelin?

 

naaaaaa, I think I'm gonna stick to mall parking lots for now. Those rocks still scare me.

 

I can definately fix that for ya

 

The 12 rock program? Start out with a grain of sand and work your way up to boulders?

 

You are gettin the picture :O)
Hopefully you will see my rig before it goes under the knife again, but probably won't be till fall (gotta wheel it thru the summer)

 

You making the transition to all out buggy? Not much left that you could do...

 

I refuse to go all out buggy(even though I will have all the tooling nec here soon), they have no identity... I love my rig, and going to make it in my own style, and hopefully it won't look like a rolling turd.. Taken me a # of years to figure out what I want, the evolution continues....

 

Very cool, can't wait to see what you're planning. Every rig you build is freakin' perfect so I'm sure it'll turn out great.

 

Roger Brown has good info on chaining down mounts-

I'll take a couple pic's, but since I don't do the digital thang, it'll be a while before they are developed to a CD.

Look at the left side mount- it has a steel shell over the rubber isolator. I used big, heavy link chain welded to the front and back sides of the shell and then welded it to the frame on each side

Since the coolant pipe was kinda close to the mount, I found it was easier to remove the left mount, tack weld the chains to the upper shell on both sides, install it and then tack the chains to the frame. Once they were tacked in place fairly tight, I then welded the links together, w/ only one link "free" to provide a little slack to avoid the BZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ.

later

 

Well, I got to try out the crawler offroad today, and I'm loving it. Nice and slow through the twisty spots, and very controlled descents on the steep 'n twisty stuff.