Recent content by IHCJ9

Oh yeah, bending the square tube over and then welding it is nice because you strain harden the steel, but then the heat from the weld anneals it anyway. You might be better off just cutting it completely and than butt welding it. This will avoid some of the residual stress left over after...

Round tube has a less chance of buckling and or collapsing under compression than square tube. But think of it this way, how many vehicles with exo-cages have you seen roll and have zero or minimal damage to the cage and body. A Exo-cage is nice when bouncing off of trees and rocks. If you...

The 700 lbs is our heaviest car.. Dry weight of 450 lbs, add 150 to 200lbs driver, and then we add weight to simulate mud that gets packed into every nook and cranny of the car. We use 700 as a rough estimate. So in reality it may only weigh 550 lbs at the beginning. But at the end we've...

Yeah hydraulic bumpstops are the latest fad in a lot of off road racing, but they are pricey! Post pictures when you can. I'd like to see them on a cherokee

None of these cars have their sway bars on in the photos. I need to upload the latest testing photos, It may be a while. But the website baja.mtu.edu also shows the Computer Aided Design we do on these cars. I hope this can help some of the fullsize people wanting to baja their jeep. A...

The vehicles we build are designed around a fairly strict set of rules to protect the driver. but here is a quick layout of the cars. -Single seat, 1.25 4130 chromoly frame, TIG welded -SAE rules require all teams to use 10hp Briggs and Stratton engines, a little under-powered but thats what...

I am new to this forum because I just bought a Cherokee, but I build design and fabricate tube chassis baja vehicles. They are on the smaller scale of single seaters. We put about 300 hours of design into each car before we build. I'd like to put my two cents in about desert blasting. We...

So, I don't know if this belongs in the OEM forum or modified, but I need a little help. I just bought a 2000 Cherokee, 90,000 miles, 2 door 5 speed, 4.0 L. I was wriving down the road last week and heard what I thought was a wheel bearing. So I pulled the good old dana 35 apart and checked...