Thanks Scoti!
I agree with you on the size of the compressor. But it will never be a under the hood showtruck, so I went with function over beauty.
I try to do everything myself, and I'm taking my time with it.
A lot of this time is thinking of all the possibilities on what to make and on why to make it a particular way.
For axample the next thing.
Making the rear shock mount's
I start off with everything I want and need.
I want:
- as much travel as possible
- it to look good
- it to work good
- no crazy expensive shocks
- not stick out too much under the axle
I need:
- as small as possible angle of the shocks
- as far out on the axle as possible
- Not go above frame level and hit the bed floor
So after roughly 6 hours of just holding the shocks all the possible ways on all possible places, I decide to make it this way.
First I make A lower axle mount. similar to the one i ended up with, but it was to short and the angle wasn't good. Threw it in the bin. (3 hours past)
Then made new ones:
cut the angle with a hole saw, it definitely didn't like it.
after some cleanup and some lightning holes
tacked one to the axle and clamped some scrap steel to the frame to find the angle I wanted.
Then welded a tube in bitween the framerails. Than welded the original shock frame mount pins on the tube, ad reinforced them with another chopped up tube.
And after cleanup ended up with this
Just these mounts took me something in the lines of 18 hours of thinking and fabricating time.
Oh and just before I made all this I found a place to mount my airtanks to
Those are 2 10 liter tanks, so thats just over 5 gallons total.