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Originally Posted by Samurai I think what people are wondering about is.... Ok, let's look at this image.
When you decided to extend the front overhang by so much, how much of approach angle did you lose? Was that loss of approach angle worth to gain a winch?
Also, what is the effect of adding so much extra weight in an IFS vehicle? Exactly how much weight was it? Considering the cantilever effect, what was resultant load on the IFS? Did you take that all into account? |
@ Samurai, thanks for throwing in more light.
yes I know I am loosing approach angle, & all the work I did to gain some of it with the custom bumper design earlier, first wanted to get the basic setup tested & working, later address it by relocating the same at an angle or change the support structure to improve it. in any case its completely removed from the front now. Even if I add an electric winch, I will loose some angle 9surely lesses than what was in the picture, but its not final.
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Originally Posted by svsantosh Sunil, I am surprised that you are surprised...
The whole unit is at least a 100Kilos, adding it in both front and rear will cause some performance issues, besides it looks plain ugly, forgive me being so rude.
Yes, one needs to appreciate few things rare such as a PTO winch, propshaft hand brake - but when newer and better technology is available such as a warn/ramsey, they need to be put to use. I am sure you are spending at least 50K on this whole project, a tabor costs just about that...
Imagine the added driveline stress a PTO winch is going to cause, thats why maybe the warn guys started their line of business...
Look at the tyre project of yours, just because it is OE your didnt stick to those non-sense appolo? tyres - you moved on to cooper (?), apply the same logic in all your efforts on the gurkha, after all it is special (Read - RARE) and cutting a chassis and welding is no joke... I for one can fool around literally, because I have a mayapuri to go to for CJ3B chassis for may be 50K, what will you do??
At the end of it, its your vehicle... just thought I can use our acquaintance to be so open... |
@ SV,
No Issues Sir, I take all feedback & criticism constructively
I will get the correct weight of the entire setup. in a Gurkha of 2.6KKgs .1K hardly matters
I think its around 65 Kgs (was planning to replace the steel 12mm cable by nylon rope later, if every thing else falls in place which will remove half of the weight.
Yes it looks Ugly, but if it works I was ok with beautifying the ugly part with other mounts or paint & lights, lets first get it to work.
The PTO output is right for from the T-Case, Drive line (front & rear prop or diffs) are not in the picture while using the PTO as the 4x4 liver is to be in neutral.
I am not sure if I got it right, Coppers at OE size surely helped & no second thought about it.
I have not cut my chassis, just opened up the front & rear caps to the tubes & inserted an other tube in to it (the front setup), in the rear, we will fit the winch on the mounts meant for fuel tank (its bout 30 to 35 kgs including the guard) & rear bumper
No worries, I love my vehicle & that should be good enough to protect it.
Looks like people got some wrong picture from the pictures, I haven't cut the chassis at any place, will never do that. have a PTO & want to try (real hard) to use it, if all this fails, will just put an electric winch like most others, but do not want to jump to conclusions without giving it all that I have.
bring it on.
Cheers
Sunil