Manky's Pop.

[madron]

I agree with you Ron cant wait but HOW LOW CAN YOU GO looking great Manky

you saw the slug (austin a55 lowrider) used to take cats eyes out if i touched brakes on em lol

[Manky Monkey]

6 inches of ground clearance for mine. I work in Basingstoke -land of the roundabout & speed bump, & you've already seen how bumpy the bottom of our garden is, where the Pop will live when it's done. Gotta be reasonably sensible! Well, as sensible as a V8 engined, roof-chopped pick-up truck can be anyway.
Spent a couple of hours in Loonyville today, welding in a fill-in piece under the axle cross member & making it all pretty. It'll never get seen but hey, I'll know it's there.

[Manky Monkey]

The shocks sit at the recommended 25 degrees. Next job is to sort the bottom mounts out. Had a text this evening from Loony to say he'd come up with a very simple set up for that. We'll have a look when I go back tomorrow.

[brock]

   what a coincidence, I also store old rags and thinners under the fab. bench

[Manky Monkey]

 
Don't do this at home kids. It was body filler hardener, so marginally less flamable than thinners.

[shabby]

muppet, beat up old consul, oh dear, if any bits get moved on your pop" it was nt me. and fancy leaving doughnuts in the fridge, next time you go madron + shabby check the fridge.

fridge fridge was it bolted down lol

[Manky Monkey]

Back at t'workshop after work today.
Loony's shock mount idea will work. A machined block bolted to a vertical plate welded to the axle. Adjustable by moving it up & down a series of holes in the welded plate. The front of the block tapped to take a half inch bolt. The bottom eye of the shock will sit on the unthreaded shank of the bolt. A fairly standard way of mounting shocks on rods I think, but one which hadn't occurred to us. So I need to get the mounting blocks machined up, preferably in stainless, as soon as poss. FLC, are you about?

[Manky Monkey]

We've only got 2 weeks to make this look vaguely like a car to show at the Basingstoke Transport Festival. Half the stuff we're showing will be unfinished projects so doesn't really matter how far we get, as long as it's recognisable as a Pop truck. As we've found at the Shepton Mallet bike show, the punters seem to like seeing "works in progress" as well as finished shiny vehicles.
So we thought we'd better bung the body on & just temporarily tack weld it to the chassis for now, (don't want it toppling off onto some passing child or something). Gave us a chance to see how it sits on the new chassis too.

[Manky Monkey]

Loony practising his cool cruising stance.
"You wanna race punk? Thunder Road, outskirts of town, 10 minutes".
Trouble is the cab's full of a spidersweb of bracing poles at the moment, so it took 5 minutes of contorting to climb in. Once in though, it's suprisingly roomy. A comfortable amount of head & legroom & Loony's taller than me.

[Manky Monkey]

8 inches of clearance under the doors at the moment, but that'll go down to about 6 by the time we've welded the sills on, which is what we originally planned for. The cab's sat on a bracing bar at the back & the firewall at the front so is about 3 inches too far forward. The rear chassis kick up will be hidden inside the cab, behind the seats, so the pick-up bed rails will exit the cab at the higher level.

[Manky Monkey]

The Rover V8 motor's roughly 30 inches long from front to back, with another 27 for the auto gearbox. If all goes according to plan, it should sit perectly between the front chassis cross member & the firewall. The gearchange position should be the same as a normal car with a tunnel about 5 inches tall between the seats.

[Manky Monkey]

Oh, the bike's a little CJ250 Honda, circa 1978, by the way.
PD's nephew's due to be joining the crew for a couple of week's work experience soon. They plan to give him the 50 quid bike as a project, to do as he wants with, under their guidance. There's talk of a bobber project. Cooler than spending your work experience time serving burgers in McDonalds.

[texon]

Now that looks great m8 it gets the juices flowing I am going to be starting my pop pickup soon I hope when the council pull their finger out and get some work done I have sent you a pic of how I want to build it Manky because I still cant get owt to load up 

[panthershaun]

  looking good mate 

[Manky Monkey]

Thank you gentlemen. 
Tex, here's your drawing -very good. We'll add it to the "Ideas Sketchbook" part of the Motors section if that's O.K. Looking forward to seeing that one in the flesh!

Shaun, Madron left a wheel hub with us when he visited with Shabby the other day. Give us a shout when you get back from your hols & we'll nip it over to you.
Any progress on your Pop?