Mystery 6x6

[Stonewall]

I got the carb all rebuilt, the engine runs alot better, idles good and has good response. Now If I could gat the brakes to work, aarrgg... I spent all day trying to get the air bled out of the brakes, so far no luck. The master cylinders are lower than the calipers, I have air trapped somewhere, can't get it out. I even hooked a vacumn line up off the engine, into a catch can and tried to suck it out. Or, I have 2 bad master cylinders, but I had a good pedal before I took the calipers off. Tomorrow's another day....

Coop

Have you thought about one of the reverse bleeders from Phoenix Systems? I saw them on Gearz. They're kindof pricey, but I think it'd be worth it.

EDIT: Sorry, Mike, I forgot about the multi quote button...

[Michaeljp86]

Call me crazy, but I think Northern spray-in bedliners are different from Southern spray-in bedliners. All the spray-ins I see around here (including mine) are relatively soft and have chunks of rubber in them, but I know a couple guys from Michigan that come down here to hunt, and their spray-ins are smooth and plasticy like your describing....

Yep, the liners I know of have a issue of needing to sprap everything just because it will slide all over the place. never seen the soft rubber stuff.

[Coop]

An update on the brakes...they work! Turns out, the brakes didn't have any air in them. The slots in the floor where the levers come up thru just needed to be made longer, the levers were "bottoming" in the slot, I thought I had air because I only had a small amount of brake at the end of the lever travel. I took the floor panal up, made the slots longer, now I have lots of brake and have plenty of brake travel left. I also could have adjusted the rods that come out of the master cylinders longer, but that would have put the levers closer to the dash. Tonight I'll load a vid of it tearing up the swamp...

[LarryW]

Thats cool that was an easy fix. I wonder if there is some sort of adjustment to tighten the brakes up. I bet the previous owners thought the brakes where bad also and didnt want to mess with it. Thanks for the update!

[Michaeljp86]

An update on the brakes...they work! Turns out, the brakes didn't have any air in them. The slots in the floor where the levers come up thru just needed to be made longer, the levers were "bottoming" in the slot, I thought I had air because I only had a small amount of brake at the end of the lever travel. I took the floor panal up, made the slots longer, now I have lots of brake and have plenty of brake travel left. I also could have adjusted the rods that come out of the master cylinders longer, but that would have put the levers closer to the dash. Tonight I'll load a vid of it tearing up the swamp...

Hurry up with that video will ya, I cant take the suspense

[Coop]

Hi Guys...Sorry, I didn't get a chance to shoot a vid tonight, my son had a Little League game I had forgotten about. It is supposeed to be a nice weekend, I'll make a vid showing it driving around and a vid of it in the water for the first time, sink or swim, hoping for swim...I'm going to tie it off to my truck the first time with a 50 ft rope, just in case the bilge pumps have to work and can't keep up

Coop

[Michaeljp86]

Hi Guys...Sorry, I didn't get a chance to shoot a vid tonight, my son had a Little League game I had forgotten about. It is supposeed to be a nice weekend, I'll make a vid showing it driving around and a vid of it in the water for the first time, sink or swim, hoping for swim...I'm going to tie it off to my truck the first time with a 50 ft rope, just in case the bilge pumps have to work and can't keep up

Coop

I was planning to do the same whenever I get my terra tiger going. I figured if its tied up to a truck or tractor I can drag it off the bottom of the pond.

[Coop]

Ok, here is the first vid of it in the water for the first time. It floated well, leaned a little to the left, ( I guess that is "port" when in water), probably would be level if I had a passenger, but being that this was the first time I put it in the water, I couldn't find anybody who wanted to ride with me, go fiqure?....Anyway, this part of the experiment went well, hull seems to be tight, I didn't take on any water. It propells itself suprisingly well with just the tires, at least suprising to me, I've got nothing to gauge it against, I've never had a 6x6 before. After this vid, I put it back in the water and tried out the Berkley jet drive, that went well until the engine quit 200 feet from shore due to the electric fuel pump dying, I'll post that vid later as soon as I fiqure out how to edit out the 15 minutes of dead floating time trying to get it running so I could get back to the launch area.



Coop

[coosaridgerider]

Where you nervous the first time going in the water lol.

[Michaeljp86]

cool, I bet it really moves with that jet drive