My 1970's argo 6x6 custom rebuild

[sieg]

Heres my first argo that i purchased a little over a year ago. It's a 70's model 6x6 i picked up for $1000 delivered to my door. Body was solid, no leaks. motor started right up and ran good, transmission seemed good. needed new tires so that was the 1st thing i got.

Soon after getting tires on i started replacing other little things here and there and learning about the machine. I've had it stripped apart a few times now and put back together





Shortly after putting it back together each time something else would break. Axles were bending, bearings were shot, My frame broke on one side, i took it all apart and welded it, put it all back together then it broke on the other side. I contemlated buying a newer machine, which i may still do, but i decided to completely rebuild everything in this one from scratch, upgrading it to make it more dependable. A whole new stronger frame, better bearings, bigger stronger axles, New motor, new everything. So i've jumped into the project with 2 feet. At this time i completely dissasembled the whole thing






About a month ago i bought about $1000 in materials and parts to get me started. The diference with this rebuild is that i'm not buying any of the parts to put this thing back together i'm making the whole thing from scratch.
Heres where i'm at so far. I will be updating with new pics as i go along.
The steel thats soon to be my new frame:

New axles and hubs:




luckily i have access to all the machines and welding equiptment i could ever need