Looking for Buggy Opinions.....

[Ghost]

I have a 81 Bronco Frame in good shape and was thinking about boxing it and putting D60's front and rear with triangulated 4 links. Is it a bad idea to build from an exihsting frame liek that? I'd like to put some sort of 4 door truck body on it I think. Just fishing and wondering.

[WTF]

In answer to your original question, if you are planning to use a truck body for a buildup, using a boxed truck frame is a decent platform for this "buggy build"...Although all you are really talking about doing is building a boxed truck frame with another truck body on it with 4 linked, 1 ton axles underneath it.

I'm not a blue oval guy much less a bronco guy, but unless there's some huge problem with a early 80's full size bronco frame that I'm not aware of, it should be as decent a platform as any other half ton frame as a base.

[Ghost]

It was a freebie. So why not use it. Just fishiing and thinking.

[BrettM]

I think it would be WAY easier, and only slightly more expensive to build a simple rectangular tube frame to build off. 2x3 .188wall would be my choice for a 4000lb or less buggy.

[CRASH]

I think it would be WAY easier, and only slightly more expensive to build a simple rectangular tube frame to build off. 2x3 .188wall would be my choice for a 4000lb or less buggy.


Ditto that, I've done both, and a new mild steel rectangular constructed frame is way easier in the end.

[Ghost]

I guess then I'd do a tube chasis. Why bother building a frame then tubeing it....

[BIGWOODY]

Why bother building a frame then tubeing it....
Cause the square tubing frame is WAAAAAY easier to attach round tubing to .