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The carrier is done. Really like the Baja look and how the Y strap looks too.

Thank you. That aluminum isn't as big any more, u have it chucked in the lathe at work. It's too bad, I really liked it as a heat sink for welded parts. Thinking about getting a large plate for that reason.

Made some progress on the tire carrier. I welded up some flanges to make the carrier removable. I only had parts with a 2" ID and I'm using 1 3/4 tubing. I welded some 2" and will slide them onto the 1 3/4".

Thanks, about $40 in materials and about 20 hours.

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Thanks man. I don't think it'll ever be completely done haha.

Thank you Thank you Thank you. It was tedious but it came out great and I think it was worth it.

While I'm waiting for the next day to go to work, I started getting the spare tire mocked up to build the spare tire carrier. There should be enough space to go up to 40's once these tires are worn out.

Thanks, I'm glad I had those classes too. It definitely came in handy for the transfer case flange, I can use the adapter plate and transfer punch the hole for that flange.

The material for the new foot plate came in today. I'll have to wait until I go to work to get started turning it in the lathe. I ordered a piece of 6061 aluminum, 8 1/4 diameter by 3 1/4 length. It should be stronger than the old cast plate.

I cut the jaws apart from each other after being worked on as one piece and drilled a hole in the moving jaw for the lead screw. Once all the pieces had been machined, I started welding everything together. The nut was plug welded into the main body.

I had started a fixture to be used for notching tubing with my rotary table and mill. I finished it by drilling and taping 2 holes. I needed to use it as a V block to make another fixture for cutting the knurl in the jaws.

I made a nut for the lead screw and tapped it with a 5/8-8 acme tap. I welded a 15/16th nut onto the end of the lead screw to give the ability of using a crescent wrench in a trail bag. I put the nut inside the channel inside a piece of. 180 wall 2" square tubing to check for fitment.

I used a piece of .250 wall 1.5" square tubing for the sliding portion and milled it into a channel.

I'm too cheap to buy a trail d-vise so I tried to make my own. Here's what I came up with. First I drilled 2 holes in some 2" square bar stock. The radius's were milled with a rotary table. Then I milled them to the thickness I wanted and milled slots for the jaws to mount into.

It's those dang yota's again... lol

Replaced to old pinion flange with a forged 1350 pinion yoke. The transfer case is clocked lower than I want. A clocking plate would reduce spline engagement, the best option I could come up with is to make a new foot plate and clock the holes. The material will be here Friday. Hopefully the...

Since it's an automatic now, the clutch peddle isn't really needed any more. I decided to reduce the weight a little.

Thank you!