Removing spare tire well
Posted by Racinkid13
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the roll cage thread got me thinking. This was something I had been thinking about. As JVL so candidly pointed out, the accumilator on the mud bunny is in a rather precarious position. Thinking of replacing the well and repositioning the accumilator and spare tire mount similar to in-bed mounts on 4x4 rigs. replacing with plate steel? pretty integral to structure? stupid idea? somewhat plausible? |
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Yeah,,,aluminum,,,or al-youminium as they on BBC. Get Grant to cut a big circle with his Skil saw.
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(And I bet you could cut a spare tire sized circle out of 1/16 in under 1.5 hours with under 3 blades.. with a jig saw...  )
(But I would use our plasma cutter with the circle cutter compass thing.) |
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Jack Russell Junior Moderator Location: Downtown Seattle Join Date: 06/05/2008 Age: Midlife Crisis Posts: 206 Rally Car: phil's GTI |
my fuel pump recently died while ironically driving the car to the gas station, and after monkeying around with the stock fuel pump location, i decided it was about the worst place for it.
i built the fuel pump box into the front of the spare tire well, as the back has the battery box. i think this was much easier building two sides of a box instead of 5, if it was on top of the shell inside. if you dont cut out the spare tire well, i think this is a pretty good use for it. 
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Just what was it about your driving that made it ironic?
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