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absolutly spectacular workmanship !!!!!!!!!

sounds like a reasonable price... 16 hp is a little small though

ok all you guys, don't get your panties-in-a-bunch,
i think all he was askin for is the engineering crunched numbers, THERE ARN'T ANY, if the engineers back in 1967 used numbers, weights and...

200 rpm on a 25" tire is about 15 mph
mudNmallards your calculation went south when you used the rolling radius ,you should have used the circumfrence of the inflated tire

nope never seen it before, but it apears the walking beam works LOL, why do they allways have to make them so big and bulky ?? that thing looks huge for an aatv

yup

so who's in on designing and building a new machine ?? i can design and build the fiberglass tub and top molds for a proto, and i have an idea for the suspension on an 8x8 but it won't work on 6x6...

well i got a bit more done
here i mounted the Lexan windshield and i put some foam trim on it for appearence then i used alluminum pop rivits to mount it, the bend was carefully heated and wrapped...

yaaa i wish i had the GT 215s instead of the 210, but i took what was available at the time

putting things back together
http://www.6x6world.com/gallery/data/934/thumbs/SAM_1334.JPGhttp://www.6x6world.com/gallery/data/934/thumbs/SAM_1335.JPG
remounting the track brakes...

i'll just be putting an 18hp briggs 4 stroke for now to see what kind of power i'll need, and then go from there

This pic is of the black painted interior and finished the orange final gloss coat as-well-as some of the chrome goodies back on
http://www.6x6world.com/gallery/data/934/thumbs/SAM_1328.JPG...

well i'm back to this thred, the Cat repairs went well but cost a whole lot more than i was expecting (but isn't that the way it usually goes) and it needed some stuff that i wasn't expecting like a...

when i was talkin to the fellow that owns this Centaur he said that Argo has lost their amphibious status on the Centaur because of too many sinkings carrying even a small load, i think they are...

Yup Mike i think it looked like #80 chain to me but had no #80 in hand to compare it to, another thingy i noticed was the enclosed Brg housings with tappered rollers (like automotive spindle Brgs)...

well thats kinda what i was thinking too, concidering they are 50-60k new, and they do seem to be very toughly built, but if it turns out that the Centaurs are a hunk-O-junk then it really don't...

so ive got an oportunity to buy a 2005 Centaur for 10k ,just wondering if the centaur is all it is hyped up to be ?? any words of wisdom from Centaur owners would be appretiated, thanks

it will be a couple weeks before i get back to this project, my D8k cat caught on fire the other day and i'm a little busy with repairs to all the hydrolic lines , seals and wiring that don't do well...

yes sometimes the rollbar has lean to it , it is because of the exact location of the hole in the body in relationship to the plate behind the seat, if the rollbar leans forward then there is no fix,...

sorry Mike i just noticed that those photos went into "6x6 around the world" not "all other aatv" sorry i'll get it right yet :hmmmm2:
oops forget that , somehow they ended up in the right place...