Blackfoot Reproduced Parts

[bearmarm]

I have fabricated stock parts from milled aluminum since the prices on Ebay are insane. I also added ball bearings at all of the pivot points in the suspension. The front body mount is spring loaded to reduce impact on the body. To stop the gearbox side plates from bending out, I put in braces. The drives are rere Frog parts. Also, the rere Frog has a metal gear in place of a plastic one in the original Blackfoot. Nobody seems to have noticed this. I hope the pictures come through. Opinions?

[007al]

Nice work!

Wouldnt mind some of those rear arms and gearbox brace for my Brat.Are these a one off or are you looking at making a few?

[KEV THE REV]

I have fabricated stock parts from milled aluminum since the prices on Ebay are insane. I also added ball bearings at all of the pivot points in the suspension. The front body mount is spring loaded to reduce impact on the body. To stop the gearbox side plates from bending out, I put in braces. The drives are rere Frog parts. Also, the rere Frog has a metal gear in place of a plastic one in the original Blackfoot. Nobody seems to have noticed this. I hope the pictures come through. Opinions?

I really like this - those parts would look even better than they already do if you polished them up , you have done an outstanding job there and i would think you will get requests from members wanting you to make them some parts

[KEV THE REV]

I really like this - those parts would look even better than they already do if you polished them up , you have done an outstanding job there and i would think you will get requests from members wanting you to make them some parts

There you go - before i even got my reply on , you've got a request - good luck to you mate

[Blacque Jacque]

That is some VERY nice machine work

You have one request already, I can easily see more coming your way.

[Old Skool]

Wow really nice work did you do them on a manual or cnc mill?

Dale

[TAZ-NZ]

I have fabricated stock parts from milled aluminum since the prices on Ebay are insane. I also added ball bearings at all of the pivot points in the suspension. The front body mount is spring loaded to reduce impact on the body. To stop the gearbox side plates from bending out, I put in braces. The drives are rere Frog parts. Also, the rere Frog has a metal gear in place of a plastic one in the original Blackfoot. Nobody seems to have noticed this. I hope the pictures come through. Opinions?

Great work, a few people have talked about making aluminum rear swing arms but your the first to do it that I know of.

I really like the idea of the Spring loaded body mount, the stock body mounts break easily but anything stronger risks spliting the body, I may just have to steal that idea to mount my mint Blackfoot hard body on the custom chaissis I'm slowly building for it.

I also tempted to ask you what it would cost for a set of those front swing arm assemblies, I could do with the extra weight up front on my mud-blaster, as much as I could do with the extra strenght. (I'd want to anno them black so they look stock)

The only thing you did I'd question is the gearbox side braces, I know you did it because the common belief is that it's the transmission side plates flex and thus allow the diff spur gears seperate and thus you diff dies a quick and noisy death, the catch is that there is so much play between the Diff bearing supports (the B2 psrts) that diff can self destructed without the need for any real flex in the transmission side plates. Now you can shim the side plates so to remove the play between the Bearing supports and side plates, I've done this myself with layers of aluminum foil tape, but you can only take out so my play in the diff before it binds badly.

I still beleave the simpliest and most effective fix for the diff problem is Oldfrogshot's screw mod, it's simple and it works great, it's also doesn't change the looks of the car. I running huge torque though my transmission with this Mod without issue, without this mod my setup will eat a stock diff in minutes. (infact your can almost measure it in seconds)

But again great work, very impressive.

[dazaa]

Hi

Great idea, I to would be interested in a pair. How much?

regards

dazaa

[ARFFormula]

Good job, some great work there

[billg4]

very nice job

And like already mentioned the machined parts are just incredible, and I am sure you could easily sell more than a few sets.

[bearmarm]

I can appreciate requests for these. They were done on a mill manually so the labor was lengthy. I don't have the time to do more. The aftermarket parts for this vehicle are impressive but they are very expensive and still don't address weakness and flexing in the trailing arms and front linkages. The front is still in progress and I plan to redo it all. I'm a little unclear about the shimming in the gearbox. Exactly where do you do this?

[mymonsterbeetleisbroken]

I'm a little unclear about the shimming in the gearbox. Exactly where do you do this?

you place shim washers in between the differentials bearings and the bevel gears. its a bit of a quick fix to take up slop in a worn differential. Although it doesnt solve the problem of the gearbox side plates bending out, but you've fixed that already

your machine work looks excellent. i know how hard manual machine work is, especially to that standard, so i don't blame you for not going into production