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Great idea on the TDI bus. I have to 98 Jetta tdi. Thinking to put the drive train in a minivan

Ever do another video on the ninja 250 build?

Probably cheaper to just get a Volvo c303 like I have. I have 3 busses and they are great but a stock truck on portal axels makes a bus seem like a toy. Which they are. Lol. Cheers and keep it up.

what fuel pump did you guys use

ZB we miss you

As people have said its likely not worth the time to retrofit over just getting replacement parts. Stuff I retrofit is generally much higher end machines or much larger machines and retrofits I do are full electronics replacement (everything electrical except the spindle motor and stuff like end-switches gets ripped out, which if the mechanics are good ends you with a basically new machine). China/taiwanese servo 23bit absolute encoder kits are just so cheap that it generally make no sense to keep the old motors for the total price of 1,5-3k all of those cost shipped to your door (3k is for full set of 5,5kW motor kits). Especially so if the old component is expensive on the second hand market as generally selling the old electronics covers most if not all the cost of the new components so you are only paying with your time.

one possibility why the fire suppression is there is the machine might of ran straight cutting oil instead of water soluble coolant. When you use straight oil it can create an oil mist in the enclosure that can catch fire easily if your chips are too hot or if you create sparks. Magnesium and other metal fires are extremely difficult to put out and would be completely mitigated just by running coolant. If oil was used I would recommend you to do your best to clean out all the the coolant lines and get any remnants of oil out of the machine before running coolant. You might still run into some issues with seals going bad Ive always heard its not a good idea to switch a machine from oil to coolant or vise versa but getting a drum of oil for that thing would be very expensive.

Looks like you are building a 4x4, no such thing as too tall then.

Fix the stock control / wiring. not worth the time to do a retrofit on that machine. You will not be able to sell it easily when you decide to upgrade to a better machine

I have 3 Fadal machines that i use in production. I would not replace the 88HS control. It will take you much longer to get it to a useable state and you will lose some of the cool features it has. I also own Okuma, Doosan (Fanuc) and have played with Mazaks and help teach CNC at our local tech collage on the weekends (Haas) From my experience once you learn the quarks of the 88HS you will actually like it. I prefer to prototype working on my Fadals than my DNMs.

If the Fadal control works, use it as is. The XT series machines were low end linear way weldments any way. Ive done several Lcnc retrofits and unless its a really hi end machine, its a questionable waste of time. The machine has dc motors and resolvers, which means you either swap encoders or you need a resolver card and an encoder card. The Fadal control is easy to use and rock solid. There is little to no advantage to any retro on that machine, the dc motors have limited speed, the amps are old slow technology and the machine itself is not designed for speed. Dont even consider Mach , Centroid or Acorn. Tons of Fadal parts around.

Cool Stang brother.

Having done a couple of these conversions from some factory provided control to Linux CNC, Fluidnc, Mach3, etc. Think long and hard about it. By the way, you will not save any money. Doing one of these conversions creates what is known in the control systems world as an orphan. Or a control system that you have no possible outside support when things go wrong. Chewed wires are simple to repair though time consuming. I bought a Southwest Industries ProtoTrak bed mill that had all of the external cables cut, presumambly for the copper. SWI sold me all of the required cables complete with factory done connectors for about $900. Once it was put back together, being able to talk with someone who works on these things every day saved me so much time. My interest was in making chips, not learning how to adapt a new control.

Adjustable shackles and throw in some spacers for when you need to get over a hair

Return them for the CORRECT ones

Ahhhhhh, need a whole new vehicle. Dang, so close!

Under axle

Ajustable shackles and over axel

Flippy flippy it will be nifty !!! 🧰🛠️👍

Send them back get the correct ones because you don't have a bracket to flip them to the bottom unless you on cut that one and weld it to the bottom of your rear end

You know under

that was a long laundry list😸hope you got it all together and are boondocking already🇺🇸

Flip the leaf spring on the other side you'll drop it down a little bit. If it's the Volkswagen you're working on drop spindles to match the ride height in the back😊

Why do people, men especially, collect so much crap over the course of their lives....?

Flip it under

Under

Hi, I am not sure if you have looked into the calmotion upgrades but I would seriously consider that. I know that they now make a modern controller/pendant that is expensive but may be worth it (for the FX version). The downside is that they charge you for every little feature whereas linuxcnc is a headache up front but has all of those features built in. Calmotion has less expensive upgrades like lcd screen, drip feed, etc.

Consider tu use one Acorn Cnc from Centroid. Their products are amazing. Greetings from switzerland

You can either go under axle or remove a leaf

Take a leaf out, if your not trying to go toooo low

I dig the narrow track width, but stability coul be sn issue like uou said

Cool!

Spring under , safer ride , better steering geometery, less bump steer.

Spring under

Springs under

Spring under = less spring wrap as a bonus you get the correct ride yeah go for it

Spring under and adjustable shackles

Spring under

Mock up spring under axle and get creative.

Agreed

Lots of figuring out to get it level. Nice job

wandered over from TDI Scumbags... I am planning to ride this one out to the end. Heckuva build man! It's gonna be next level cool.

G'day wicked frame mate great work.

Think u can setup some sort of rack and pinion steering?

Stalking you on this build. I love it baaaad

Engine will stick over with the 2x4, I was thinking a subie engine will be a better fit for the height.

Trying to square things up while "working in air" is always a challenge! Great project.

Good job ❤

Gonna need a porsche engine soon!

G'day I think this is one of the coolies VW bus builds on TH-cam.