Building my first Streamliner

[kustombrad]

Thanks guys!

[tauruck]

Brad, you're flying along and the work is fantastic.

You're committed 100%.

[kustombrad]

Yep, I 100% SHOULD be committed! 

[Frankie7799]

Most of us need to be committed lol. Beautiful work Brad

[kustombrad]

Thank you!

[kustombrad]

It's not pinned or finish welded, but here's the back part of the steering all mocked up.

 

[lsrjunkie]

In my opinion, steering always seems to be the most difficult part of any build. Looks great Brad! Keep up the hard work and keep those pictures coming! 

[Koncretekid]

It's not pinned or finish welded, but here's the back part of the steering all mocked up.

 

Is the horizontal shaft the steering shaft?  If so, when you turn the wheel, or bars, the rearward wheel turns more than the forward wheel (shorter radius), is that correct?  I can't see the rest of the mechanism, so I'm guessing.
Tom

[kustombrad]

Yes, the horizontal one is the steering shaft. As far as the steering goes, they're both on the same plane so they turn evenly. It looks complicated but it really isn't too bad.

[tauruck]

Is that bag of snakes what I have ahead of me?.

It looks special, I'll give you that.

The quality of the materials and parts is way up there.

[kustombrad]

Worked on the back suspension a bit yesterday. I took some brackets that my friend Brett laser cut, put a support tube in the middle and tacked them together

 

Here they are with the swingarm pivot shaft

 

And mocked up on the frame

 

It's slowly coming together!

[Sumner]

Very nice work!!!



Is the swing arm going to be trapped between the mounts or is there a way to remove it?  I've tried to keep everything where it can come apart as salt/rust will get into everything.

If it is trapped how about the mounts welded to a flat plate and then a second flat plate welded to the frame so that the two plates could be bolted together.  You could then separated the plates and slide the mounts off the swing arm ends.  Just a suggestion, you probably already have this all worked out,

Sum

[kustombrad]

Hey Sum! Thank you sir! The mounts will be fully welded then welded to the frame. To remove the swingarm, you just have to take the nuts off the shaft (which is hard chromed so no rust) and slide it out! It's actually pretty simple. Now I'll build the swingarm (around the tube), bearing carriers and shock mounts.

[kustombrad]

I also scored the domain name "breakingwindstreamliner.com" so I have somewhere to sell shirts and other merchandise once we finish the website up. I have a couple other artists besides myself for a bunch of different styles! Should be fun!

[Sumner]

... To remove the swingarm, you just have to take the nuts off the shaft (which is hard chromed so no rust) and slide it out! It's actually pretty simple. Now I'll build the swingarm (around the tube), bearing carriers and shock mounts.

Good deal, I was thinking that was all one piece and didn't realize that it had a separate center shaft.  My bad  .  Should work great the way you have it. 

Put up a link when you have the shirts and so forth up.  I'd like to see them

Sumner