so I have made some progress on the braking and steering system
i ended up going with the hydraulic steering system
these are clutch master cylinders
off a nissan product I just searched on the internet for the cheapest i
could find these ended up being
about thirty dollars each and had their own little reservoir
so as you can see it as a 5/8 bore
to the piston and i ended up using a brake caliper
of a Chevy product here
i ended up getting those for free so I went with it for no particular reason but
so each cylinder is powering
one rear caliper I don't have the other caliber on yet but
as you pull back on this lever its squeezing the caliper
which is gonna stop this screw from turning
get a closer look at some of the brackets here
here is a shot at the break itself what I did is put a peace of quarter inch
a sprocket on the back here
and welded to the same hub as the chain and I just cut the teeth of the sprocket off
with the plasma cutter
that's how the brakes are operating off the Shaft
I plan on putting another sprocket actually in here
for a second caliper and that's gonna break the
passenger side or sorry the a left hand screw
so basically these levers will be between your legs when you're sitting
I'm gonna have some bars coming off here
in order to just pull back from basically the same as a
regular dozer or something
so now i've got both
the rear calipers on
this is the first one going to the right hands cylinder
and second one going
to the left hand cylinder. you can see i mounted the second disc
on this jack shaft here ended up actually buying a new shaft because i had
that welded the one here
it didn't have key ways in it kinda sick a welding sprockets onto it
so i did it properly now
had to get rid of this one support for the rear
frame so i'm going to have to re-run something I think maybe across here
the caliper and the hose are here
one thing i had to do with these calipers is shim the pads
the pads are too small
normally you'd have a vented brake rotor on a car
I did have to add some steel shims to the disc pad you can see them here
that allowed me to take up that extra space
when the left screw is breaking it is pullin on this chain
and hopefully that isn't too much pressure on the chain
all in all i think it's looking
fairly good. I have run it up in the air and it does
spin the pods and stop one to
spin the other
well i spose the next order business is going to be to get this thing back on
the gravel lot there and see if I can get any
turning action without any total destruction
so that'll be the next test phase
actually it was pretty good