The "Get Me By" MJ Truggy by cgmrdc

4 minute(s) of a 99 minute read

Thanks!!

Been a little distracted lately, put in a new septic system and had a bunch of left over dirt and had 4 semi loads of busted up concrete delivered from a race track they are rebuilding so we built a little offroad course in the back yard.









Should make for a nice little test course for when the MJ is done!

And for Halloween, couldn't help myself.

Family night in the shop, my girlfriend and our two dogs came up and we made the front fender bars, gonna add matching ones in the rear.

And finally got the back of the chassis figured out.

10-28-2014

Missed a couple replies I guess.

I design and build stainless steel equipment for the food processing industry. I went to school for mechanical engineering. After school I moved to Texas and joined my uncle's small fabrication company. Our shop is 60x60, the majority of it is used for our business and he has his living quarters and office and I have a 20x20 section in the corner I use for jeep stuff.

I started welding after high school and put myself thru school working for local fab shops and the schools machine shop. So I've been welding for close to 10 years, 6 of that has been doing jeep stuff and the last 2-1/2 years have been here in Texas.

Our local jeep club was supposed to have a pumpkin carving contest so I had to bring out my A game. Unfortunately it's been hot this fall so my pumpkin has already turned to mush...

12-13-2014

Ran out of tube so progress on the MJ has been slow. And drove 3400 miles round trip to Nevada and back to Texas to pick up a Clydesdale for a friend of a friend right before thanksgiving so that slowed me down too. 

Bought an 1.5" die for the bender so I decided to rebuild it and build a stand. 

After almost 10 years of fabricating I finally built myself a nice welding table too. 3/8" plate top, metal castors. I'll add some more over time but this will get me going on fabbing up all the suspension brackets. 

Got my Christmas bonus so was able to go pick up a bunch more DOM. Shouldn't run out this time. 

And got the front set at full bump so I can get the front links made and lay out steering and the truss. 

Had a little chat with the GF tonight so hopefully work cooperates and I can have this thing done before KOH this year!