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I plan on having at least three of those battery packs so a total of 18 of those "batteries" twelve up front and another six under the bed |
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Fun project! More value as of lately
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Costco Jack & Craigslist Jill what could possibly go wrong
Oh no it's too big! how many times have I heard that before [don't nobody answer that!] |
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someone once said you haven't wrenched until you made or modified yer own tool, am I right fellas
I once volunteered at a motor cycle shop for Big Al the man who sold me this truck, we quick become friends, and I asked him once why he cut his ratchets down to stubbies and he said: "cause I got tired of snappin' them bolts" that's some street credit right there you feel me Young Blods? |
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so let me get this straight, now we needs a jack to put the transmotor on the jack and we needs another jack to lift the rig up on ramps to git that trans on this jack under the jacked up rig??? follow all that? ha ha
this sounds like one of them two things we likes like chocolate and steak just not together there deals I recon all them hernias from bench pressing those 850 lbs transmissions [I'm looking at you Muncie SM465] was a worth it shout out if you know what a Granny Low SM465 feels like, ha ha |
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so here we go again, another one man slow dance
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Trying to play catch up, and it's tough for an old guy. The batteries looked good inside the frame rail. Can you run them toward the tail end further too? Looked like there was some frame back there to put another row. If I remember your work from before, you've already considered that.
Also, like the jack conversion. Beats getting a buddy and laying on your backs to try and muscle that thing in!!! Did that with a Torqueflight 727 when I was much younger. |
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this one is only 9 kWh the leaf one is 24 kWh just last night I received some good news from a fellow EV Converter running the exact same battery pack and transmotor and he confirmed we can now calculate 3.25 miles per kWh if not 3.5 (son on par with the Leaf) I was being conservative at 3 miles per kWh the BMW pack is much much more bang for physical space the Leaf battery pack is huge |
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and that's just Phase I, cause BMW makes a newer pack that is 12 kWh instead of the 9.1 yet it is exactly the same physical size, so in Phase two I plan to upgrade to three of those for a total of 36 kWh so maybe a 125 mile range with that one, we shall see |
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just increased my chances of injury by 400%
making a bell housing block off plate since there will no longer be a Lexus V6 internal combustion engine in front of this hybrid transmission or transmotor as I call it, because there are two electric motors inside of it |
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took a bit of back and forth, and for some odd reason Lexus decided to use two different sizes of bolts on this bell housing, the red circles mark the larger ones which in SAE or American standard sizes equate closer to a 1/2" and the smaller ones are roughly 7/16s
it may take another round of nip and tucking to get the plate to match that weird shape it happens to be |
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next it was time to work on the Ninja star, this is the clutch plate coupler I cut out of the original clutch plate thingie, I will be using it to lock out the input shaft of the transmission, doing so will force the front electric motor to spin the output shaft assisting the second larger electric motor, win win
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cutting 1/2" aluminum plate a mil at a time using my FREE Craigslist Craftsman Radial 10" saw with a Diablo 84 tooth non stick blade, yeah baby
thrilling I tell yah! Craftsman Radial Saw cutting aluminum plate |
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Are you going to convert the space in front of the transmotor into a trunk?
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Put some motor mounts on and the radiator, with torn off hoses like it just jumped out of there somewhere along the way.
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The two motors in the original vehicle were working in conjunction? Or on and off at different times? LS motors have a fan relay in the Computer that turns the fans on and off as needed if the motor is working harder. Sometimes only one is working while other times both are working. Is the two motor transmission using the second motor as it needs it but in your arraignment locking them together will any computer reprogramming be necessary?
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Wow that is cool, Alternator and starter in one. I have heard that the giant (three story tall) quarry dump trucks use electric motors for breaking.
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with the truck almost one foot off the ground on blocks, I still could not roll the trans on the jack under it, so here I am literally hoisting up the trans with an engine crane just so I can set it on that stupid jack with the trans adapter on it, PIA PIA major PIA RECOMMENDATION: Do NOT Buy! |
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I got the HF trans jack, worked ok for the 4L60.
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No, I splurged for the Pittsburgh $200 one. https://www.harborfreight.com/media/...0/60234_W3.jpg
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I always us a motorcycle jack with blocks of wood under the trans. If its not high enough, I add more blocks while under the truck. I usually have to jack up the truck to get the trans slid under too.
10/10 would not recommend for safety reasons. But I still do it..... |
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so what are the odds one of my existing trans crossmembers will work (couple more on the floor not shown)
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having eliminated the original crossmember that held the Turbo TH350 transomatic in place in the first place, I moved on to one with some drop, using rubber feets from my stock radiator core support (run what you brong!)
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looks like it was made for it
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That fit nice.
I just noticed that the front of the transmission looks like a "fidget". Yeah, keeping grandkids this week.... |
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mounting the transmission is by far the biggest job on this project
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I'm going with these Jeep like AMAZON motor mounts, figuring if they was strong enuff to hold an engine they ought to hold a transmission
now hang on to your comments as this is all just spit ballin' mock up, and that frame's got more twist and turns than you know it |
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so like most I make big plans in my head and then use what I got layin' around the garage
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and if you've followed any of my prior builds, you know I like to class things up with rounded corners, ha ha
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one down three to go
slow is the tempo |
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I just trace sum random washer I find laying around
and I do two passes, first one is a ruff cut with a cutoff wheel |
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