Very Mini Army Jeep

[porsche930dude]

 

[Doc Sprocket]

Looks terrific- nice work on the folding/venting windshield!

 

[landuse]

This is a great project!!

 

[Bando]

I like this built. I'm looking at from the beginning. Soon I will put pictures of my Jeep with a peerless three speed & reverse transmission upgrade.

 

[Doc Sprocket]

I've always had a love of Jeeps. You and Bando have a couple of beautiful builds going on there. I do wish I had your (both of you) talent for bodywork!

 

[porsche930dude]

thanks guys. nice choice on the transmission Bando I have the same one in my jeep gokart . I think thats just about the best peerless tranny there is. I think they are model 350 or 400? I blew out the reverse in a smaller 3 speed i had and the 5 speeds just arnt that beefy either though i havnt busted one yet on my other machines so i guess theyre not bad. these are old pics you can see the old 3 speed in there

 

[Bando]

At first I thought building a willys, but did not find one to take measures and decided to build a CJ.

How long is your Army Jeep?

 

[porsche930dude]

which one? lol I do have a cj-2a to get the measurements but there are plenty of places online that you can get measurements of the flatfenders. i also have a cj5 that i could have copied but i wanted to go full military on this one. plus i was never happy with the gokart one the proportions are all out of whack and its built really crappy. i basicly threw it together in a few days. its good fun though
http://i721.photobucket.com/albums/ww211/jeep2003/old jeep/IMG_3180_zps2e19480e.jpg
http://i721.photobucket.com/albums/ww211/jeep2003/old jeep/IMG_3188_zps2ca80bac.jpg
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y17/porsche930dude/blue jeep/1234567.jpg
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y17/porsche930dude/blue jeep/123456.jpg

 

[Bando]

A family of willy's. I refer to length of the army jeep.

 

[porsche930dude]

The body is around 19" wide and 38" long plus the bumpers. Whenever i neaded a measurment i just took it off my 2A and got it as close to 1/3 as i could .
I got the axe and shovel made . Chop!Chop!Chop! just gotta make the mounts and stuff. also nearly done with my Ramrod so thats good!

 

[voided]

Thumbs up to you sir...... Both builds look really good

 

[B man]

Whos going to be driving this?

 

[Doc Sprocket]

Your attention to detail is impressive... That said- are you going to fab up a more accurate steering wheel?

 

[porsche930dude]

thanks . I think im going to keep the steering wheel for now. I got the hood latches done and the fender light and headlight guards. I started cleaning up and painting the bits nd pieces. Iv still got to finish a few things before I tear down the body but its going well

 

[porsche930dude]

everything is pretty much done and the frame is painted and back together. Still need to fix up and paint the body . I just made this mini 12" carbine yesterday and the ramrod is done. Things are going great I could sell these like hot cakes if I felt like it

 

[porsche930dude]

 

[porsche930dude]

Took it for its first ride today. I have a bit of a problem with fuel delivery. Too much fuel I need a return line apparantly. But works great otherwise. Click the video >

 

[DaiSan76]

That is nice work. Congrats on the completed project.

 

[porsche930dude]

Thanks ! Its not quite complete. Im going to build a trailer for it next after I finish up a few other progects first

 

[B.M.800]

Wow. Thats pretty awesome.



What do you think of the 30cal carbine round? Ive though about building a bolt acting that fires it... maybe not the most practical. Would make a fun little rifle I think.
Note: Still doin my homework, wont be some ugly $24.56 hardware store jobby