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Comment on Tires and Wheels Done! by wesc

wesc — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 14:59:26 +0000

Yes. Here’s my post to the yahoo group (to your same question)
Yup.

http://www.trog.us/2008/04/21/tires-and-wheels-done/

BFG Mud-Terrains also work.

Make sure you watch the guy who does the wheel balancing. BFG can be pretty sloppy in their molding and sometimes yield tires that aren’t balance-able no matter how much lead you put on the rim. Reject that tire if there’s too much lead or it doesn’t balance.

I have an annoying high-speed resonance (~55mph) that kicks up since I switched to BFG ATs that I think is due to a wheel not being balanced properly. The suspect wheel is *loaded* with lead balancing weights.

You will also have to modify the spare tire carrier on the rear door so the new wheels fit. I welded on a 3/4″ or so extension to the top of the carrier for the wheel to rest on.

-Wes

Comment on Tires and Wheels Done! by Mario Scalese

Mario Scalese — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 10:53:44 +0000

hey
I also want to change the original horrible tyres and fit a BFGoodrich All-Terrain 315/75/R16 .The only thing I was not sure that can fit on the original Wheel 7.50-16 because I read that these tyres need a wider weel 8 or 9 – 16. If you can give me a confirmation that they work well
best regard
mario

Comment on Seat Saga by wesc

wesc — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 23:39:47 +0000

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Comment on Seat Saga by wesc

wesc — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 23:38:14 +0000

I ended up going with the wide LG1s. I’m already going to be modifying the frame of the seats by removing the backrest upholstery and taking a torch to the upper “wings” and bending them out a bit.

Comment on Seat Saga by hdegroot

hdegroot — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 19:36:32 +0000

Dont go with too wide seats, they wont fit between the seatbeld and engine bay. also cut up the old frame and mount them as LOW as possible!!

http://blogger.xs4all.nl//images/blogger_xs4all_nl/masterd/31257/r_upload1.jpg

Comment on Painsai by fredkuhl

fredkuhl — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 19:54:53 +0000

Hi,
i just bought recently a TGB 306 and im also planning to convert it to a camper. I was wondering if you could help me with something:
did you decided to go with the lift up roof top or have you decided to just make the roof a bit higher? And why?
If you could get back to me i would really appreciate it. And congratulations on the job you have done so far, looks great man!
All the best and good luck with the rest of the works,
Fred

Comment on Pops with Roof by Peter

Peter — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 16:45:01 +0000

Nice work on the camper conversion!

Been following the progress for a while and its fun to to see all the inventions you put into this build.

Cheers

Comment on Bottle Jack Extension by AW

AW — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 15:32:35 +0000

Yikes – 1″ . No problem unless you forget to chock those other two wheels / use parking brake — not that I’ve ever…

Also found this amusing b/c I have the opposite trouble. I can’t roll my jack under the car without first driving the wheels up onto some wood.

Nice tool fab.

Comment on First Post by Morris Yarnell

Morris Yarnell — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 18:56:22 +0000

I learned of you from one of the guys on the NWOS website and told him that I was interested in meeting you as you had a Volvo and I really like them. I have a Pinzgauer 710M and I reside in Suquamish.
I rode in a 303 a while back and really enjoyed the trip. Saw lots of them at Northwest Mogfest.
I am not sure how to reach you but I will try other avenues.

Comment on It’s a drag… by hdegroot

hdegroot — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 11:42:35 +0000

well , good to hear you aint destroying the looks all that much Maybe a turbodiesel Mercedes 300D engine something for you?

Comment on Topless Trog by brentcu

brentcu — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 04:38:26 +0000

Wow, that roofline gives you space for photon torpedos.

Comment on Topless Trog by hdegroot

hdegroot — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 18:48:58 +0000

dont lift the roof upwards its ugly as hell!

Comment on Fix for wimpy windsheild washer jets by wesc

wesc — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 16:43:56 +0000

But they do act as flow restrictors!

I’m not sure they are needed. The delay between requesting fluid and the the spray is negligible. I haven’t had any problems w/ the pump losing “prime” (not sure if it’s self priming)

Comment on Fix for wimpy windsheild washer jets by WJM

WJM — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 23:08:01 +0000

Those are not flow-restrictors, but one-way valves….

Comment on First C306 Firetruck by Richard

Richard — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 00:23:36 +0000

That’s really awesome knowing you own a part of Volvo history.

Comment on A C306 made of less rust by Paul B

Paul B — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 20:53:41 +0000

Wes,

If you are interested, Thule makes some high rise rack supports that fit Trog. You could mount it with a cargo basket and it would be removable. I had thought of mounting 3 or 4 with the basket at the back end.

Comment on Northwest Trogfest 2008 by hdegroot

hdegroot — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 18:58:59 +0000

nice pictures!

Comment on Refurbed emergency site light by Marshall

Marshall — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 21:29:43 +0000

Looks like you ran new wiring as well

Comment on Cheezbrgr update by Joyce

Joyce — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 15:48:47 +0000

Looks like your degree in electrical engineering has finally paid off.

Comment on Cheezbrgr update by wesc

wesc — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 14:42:35 +0000

Thanks. I put a resistor on the left light as well. I updated the text above to indicate that.

Comment on Cheezbrgr update by Christian Brudevoll

Christian Brudevoll — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 06:20:51 +0000

I’ll adwice you to mount a resistance on the left rear flasher as well.
It might be simple luck that the left one works without problem.
So by mounting a restistance there, you might avoid getting problems in the future.

Comment on Rotolight repair by wesc

wesc — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 15:40:10 +0000

Thanks,

Check out the yahoo C3/TGB group:

http://autos.groups.yahoo.com/group/Volvo303/

lots of good info there.

-W

Comment on Rotolight repair by João

João — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 00:47:09 +0000

I have to say that this is a great work!

I what to buy a c303 and this is a great read.

Do you usualy post in some other board or forum?

Keep it up and greatings from Portugal!

Comment on A C306 made of rust by Dave Llewellyn

Dave Llewellyn — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 21:27:05 +0000

If it any consolation, I don’t think ex military Vehicles are much different.

I have a TGB1321 / C304 which I am doing a camper conversion on. I spent 6 months last year, working most weekends, stripping the cab and lower rear steel panels to bare metal, cutting out 10 areas of rust and welding in patches.

The result was terrible, the nice neat patches made the general appearance of the panels worse than they were when I started. Six months wasted effort!

The above was due to total lack of experience at doing this type of work and a refusal to see the truth.

I have just got the body finished having cut away both sides of the rear tub and made up replacement panels using 1.2mm galvanised sheet. Hopefully this will outlive me – I am damned if I will do it again.

Best of luck with Trog & congratulations on the baby

Regards

Dave

Comment on A C306 made of less rust by Toby

Toby — Fri, 09 May 2008 07:03:32 +0000

Sheesh, this whole ‘having kids’ thing sure takes away from the fire-truck renovation updates.
Glad to see you potty trained the kid already. Now you just have to teach him to get a good bead with a MIG.

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Thu, 24 Apr 2008 16:07:29 +0000

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Comment on Pretty Sneaky! by Paul B

Paul B — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 20:12:06 +0000

Wow, you’ve made great progress on TROG. You are probably getting a lot of questions from people when you take it on the road. Even at gas stations, I kept getting people walking up asking about the truck and wanting to take pictures.

You were the right person to buy TROG, since you were able to fix it the right way.

Regards,

Paul

Comment on Tires and Wheels Done! by wesc

wesc — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 16:42:06 +0000

Yeah, w/ heavy springs!

Remember BabyBounce game?

Comment on Tires and Wheels Done! by Troy

Troy — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 16:34:17 +0000

PI/2, yeah – looks HOT. So where does the baby changing station go – does it flip up as well?

Comment on Shocks by Josh M.

Josh M. — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 23:50:12 +0000

Hello,

Excellent work fitting the Bilsteins, you will surely love them and wish you would of done this mod sooner! I never put them on a TGB (have yet to pick up mine unforntunately!!) but have used them on numerous landcruisers and the difference is night and day! I now sware by them!
Many thanks for the info as this is likely one of the first mods I will be doing…

Happy trails,

-Josh

Comment on New Siren by fivetimes

fivetimes — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 17:36:24 +0000

cop: “sooo, it doesn’t work huh?”
wesc: “nope. and i have this handy printout i carry with me to prove it. see?”
cop: “are you sure there isn’t some kinda hidden switch hooked to a voltage dubblier?”
wesc: “nope. i mean yeah.”
wesc: “aww crap.”

Comment on Camper Design Final by Arlon

Arlon — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 00:52:06 +0000

This is obviously a major improvement and an inspired design breakthrough. My only concern is that the higher center of gravity will require some additional stability compensation. I think the below linked structural stability conceptualization would be sufficient. structural improvement

Comment on Bumper Crop by wesc

wesc — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 00:00:59 +0000

Dad, i have so much to teach you. Shiny aluminum is the new bling.

Comment on Bumper Crop by Dad

Dad — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 21:24:54 +0000

That is not Bling. It took me a lot of time to understand bling.

Comment on First Post by Wes Cherry

Wes Cherry — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 15:50:19 +0000

Volvo xles come in 3 ratios:

9×33 = 3.666666 (x 2.06 = 7.553333:1)
9×31 = 3.444444 (x 2.06 = 7.095555:1)
11×32 = 2.90909 (x 2.06 = 5.992727:1)

I’m pretty sure I have the “medium speed” 7.095555 axles.

I can do 115km/h, but the engine (fan) howls!

Comment on First Post by hdegroot

hdegroot — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 12:25:40 +0000

You are wrong firefighters also had the fast axles, it should do 115km/h on gps. (mine does) good luck derusting

Comment on Sibling hero by Wes Cherry

Wes Cherry — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 06:01:42 +0000

Yikes, $750/axle! I think i’ll stick w/ drums — they seem to work ok. Though it may make sens for the front axle. Wonder about getting everything balanced right.

Comment on Sibling hero by Paul Bayani

Paul Bayani — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 15:29:58 +0000

I was going to put these on the truck when I had the chance.

http://www.portal-tek.com/index.php?go=home

Comment on Zombies Beware! by Paul B

Paul B — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 21:34:34 +0000

After viewing the Survival Vehicles and the cost they are charging for some of them, I can see why you are building a custom 6×6 camper with all the things you could ask for.

Comment on Bit o’ bling by Paul B

Paul B — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 18:10:40 +0000

Wes,

You’ve really made quite a bit of progress. Looks like things are shaping up and you’ll have TROG ready for the road/off road trips in no time. You are doing all the things I had planned, but didn’t have time to do , or was dissuaded from doing.