How longs it taking you to build your 22?

[wacattack]

I got mine last night and want to try and race it at Worksop on Sunday, however I only spent half an hour building it last night, have some of tonight free, at a wedding tomorrow so wont get back to Leeds until Saturday afternoon then Im going out on Saturday night. Do I have enought time???

[reg]

my first took about 10 hours..............my second took about 7 hours

[Tom3012]

Took me 4.5 hours

[Legacy555]

If you going to rinse out the bearings, check ballstud tolerances, run in the gearbox, tap all necessary holes, ream all of the hinge pin paths, drill pistons and prep each piece - remove flashing and tidy up, and of course, cut and paint the body..... you'll need an absolute minimum of 12 hours - I prefer to do it over 3 or 4 evenings.

[wacattack]

Hmm, I like to do it properly so this weekend might be out of the question

[reg]

Originally Posted by wacattack

Hmm, I like to do it properly so this weekend might be out of the question

iv built mine properly.............just not anally

[Dudders]

Originally Posted by Legacy555

If you going to rinse out the bearings, check ballstud tolerances, run in the gearbox, tap all necessary holes, ream all of the hinge pin paths, drill pistons and prep each piece - remove flashing and tidy up, and of course, cut and paint the body..... you'll need an absolute minimum of 12 hours - I prefer to do it over 3 or 4 evenings.

That's a lot of work to bui;d a kit Is that down to the quality?

[Tom3012]

Mine went together like a dream, no flash to remove or anything like that...

Only difficult bit was the turnbuckles

[Legacy555]

Originally Posted by Tom3012

Mine went together like a dream, no flash to remove or anything like that...

Only difficult bit was the turnbuckles

Sorry, forgot to meantion turnbuckles. If you take a M3 x 20 screw and cut a slot up the length of it with the dremel (making a tap as such) and then use this to thread all of the ball cups. Use a bit of GT85 or WD40 on the turnbuckle as you thread it in for the first time.

If you do this, you will find that adjustment is really easy when on the car yet not sloppy or loose, and there it becomes alot more difficult to over tighted the rod into the ball cup causing yielding in the head and usually failure.

Takes the guts of a hour on its own.
Sorry for sounding a bit OTT, but if it's built right it'll perform better.

[J.Kirkman]

Originally Posted by Legacy555

Sorry, forgot to meantion turnbuckles. If you take a M3 x 20 screw and cut a slot up the length of it with the dremel (making a tap as such) and then use this to thread all of the ball cups. Use a bit of GT85 or WD40 on the turnbuckle as you thread it in for the first time.

If you do this, you will find that adjustment is really easy when on the car yet not sloppy or loose, and there it becomes alot more difficult to over tighted the rod into the ball cup causing yielding in the head and usually failure.

Takes the guts of a hour on its own.
Sorry for sounding a bit OTT, but if it's built right it'll perform better.

You can only do this for half the ball cups. The thread is reversed on the other side so you would need a screw with a left handed thread. Telling people to do them all could result in many wrecked ball cups!

[Legacy555]

Originally Posted by J.Kirkman

You can only do this for half the ball cups. The thread is reversed on the other side so you would need a screw with a left handed thread. Telling people to do them all could result in many wrecked ball cups!

Good shout, sorry folks. You can get lht M3 taps easily enough. Got mine from screwfix
You can cut a spare 3mm turnbuckle to do this also

[coleman758]

I got some good old mole grips and a small G clamp and my turnbuckles were done in about 10-15 mins. It was hard to get them to bite but i just opend them up with a reamer.

[Legacy555]

Originally Posted by coleman758

I got some good old mole grips and a small G clamp and my turnbuckles were done in about 10-15 mins. It was hard to get them to bite but i just opend them up with a reamer.

Thats fair enough - nice and quick and to the point. You could lock the ball cup into a vice and beat the turnbuckle in with a lump hammer which would be even quicker.

But it you want the turnbuckles to be easy to adjust you will have to remove the "cut" material that is created by the threading process. You really should tap the ballcups first.

[wacattack]

That was faster than I thought. 5 hours in total and jobs a good en

[Timee80]

Mine took about 11 hrs over 3 evenings (not including the shell). This seems to be about average for me on most buggies ive built. I really dont see how anybody can build a buggy which they are not familiar with to a high standard, checking that everything is spot on along the way.
Im not knocking anyone who does it quicker, im just amazed really. Or maybe im just getting old and things take me longer

[mole2k]

Mines still in the box so I've no idea how long it'll take me. I would imagine around the 10-12hrs that Will was talking about to do it.

[Somerwil]

It depends on the number of wrenches you have in stock. You'll need a new one every 5 screws or so.

[Tom3012]

Originally Posted by Somerwil

It depends on the number of wrenches you have in stock. You'll need a new one every 5 screws or so.

[wacattack]

Originally Posted by Somerwil

It depends on the number of wrenches you have in stock. You'll need a new one every 5 screws or so.

Huh??

[ian h]

Originally Posted by Somerwil

It depends on the number of wrenches you have in stock. You'll need a new one every 5 screws or so.

Tap out threads first.