Yes! Looks like pods8 was last around here the end of April 2015.craig333 said:
Life/summer/concerns over delamination/other projects... happens. Spent later summer focused on getting a new rifle tuned up and ready to rock for fall hunting, then fall hunting (got a 5x4 bull!), working on cleaning gear up from that now and noticing this bulky thing is STILL in my garage!ski3pin said:
If I recall right I had a tiny bit more door work to do and then just fair out the bottom and paint it. The good news is the top shell sat out all summer in the sun and seems like it did fine. We'll see what progress these next months delivers (I hope it means a usable shell at minimum...).
Yes!billharr said:
Happy to report after 3yrs of hanging out on the front my truck my winch fired up just fine a few weeks ago. Was running along a dirt mountain pass road and a car was freshly off the road, stopped to check for a driver but no one was in it, 1/2mi farther down the road a girl was walking and asked for a lift to town. I told her it'd likely be easier for all if we just pulled her car back up onto the road.pods8 said:A 120lb box of goodies arrived this weekend, and also tweaked my back carrying it so I had to wait till later in the weekend to install. Went with a titan 12k winch. Its an import but of the reviews I've found out there they have been positive so I opted for it.
Mounted and access to control box I made a bracket for an attacked to by lower radiator support.
Winch respooled under tension and good to go:
Car was off the edge of a ~30deg slope sitting on the back of the frame rails (front tires in air) up against a tree (w/o that tree her car would have been much farther down the slope!). It was perpedicular to the road so we put a pulley onto a tree directly across from her car and ran the winch cable diagonally from my truck to that. Initially upon winching my truck was getting pulled across the snow/dirt road (trans in nuetral brakes applied) so had to stop and loop a strap around a tree behind me to my rear reciever. Once anchored I just kept it rev'd up around 4k and a thumb on the pull button and up the hill her crossover came. Had some bumper/headlight damage but no fluids leaking nor damage near the radiator and the slow/straight pull back up the hill prevented further wear/tear on it and she was able to drive off. Truck dinged "check gauges" a few times due to the amp draw but it kept pulling and I kept it rev'd up. I have an AGM battery in there so it will tolearte a deep draw like this and for short stints the single battery seems to do just fine.
Me too! Yours is one of my favorite build threads ever. Good job on getting the crossover back on the road!billharr said:
I just gave it away, the blend of materials didn't work out, the shell didn't want to stay stuck to the core when CO sun hit it. After accepting the emotional blow of massive wasted time/effort/funds on materials I'm finally back at it but with aluminum frame this time.ski3pin said:
The foam was heavily roughed, XPS just wasn’t a good solution (or the resin I used go softer at a lower temp maybe?).Dreamer said:
Lol learning experience... I am buzzing away in the garage with the welder, hope to have something to show for that soon.takesiteasy said:
