How to make spindles for a long travel suspension

Watch as we use salvage parts from a donor Chevy Silverado to build budget spindles for our Jeep J10 off road Race Truck that we are preparing for the Baja 1000 using LS engine power, King shocks, FK bearings, and parts from a Silverado 2500HD.

Hello and welcome to the NTD Racing Channel. My name is Dave. I'm your average engineer with not so average ambitions. I'm looking to fulfill one of my life goals which is to build an amazing off road race truck, take it 95 miles south to Ensenada, Mexico and compete in the world's most prestigious off road race. You're watching "The Journey to the Baja 1000". In this episode we start the fabrication of the spindles. Watch as we show you how we take a concept, put it to CAD, cut it using our favorite tools and weld it up.

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Here are some links for tools I use in this episode. Check them out!

Milwaukee 6232-21 Deep Cut Band Saw
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SWAG Off Road V4.0 Portaband Table (V4.0 Table w/Foot Switch)
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Grizzly Industrial G0561-7" x 12" 1 HP Metal-Cutting Bandsaw
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There are many great YouTube channels out there...here are a few of my favorites that have helped me get ready for this build.

Welding Tips and Tricks: Jodi gives welding instruction and has and shows you how to use the things he sells in his store. Prices seem reasonable. https://www.youtube.com/user/weldingtipsandtricks/videos

The Fabrication Series: Great instruction and explanation about suspension design and welding https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcxlBLmujrjTVSSUkzZ2Jlg/videos

Wings World: These guys just build cool stuff and provide great tips along the way. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-EvEsnY9D-koR6pECc-ZlA/videos

Doug Bug: My hero when it comes to building really cool stuff on a budget. Doug provides great instruction on how to use Bend-tech software. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8n0_ivJZHBDANHHHOWuC2A/videos

Driveway Engineer: Another one of my heroes in the “make it happen on a budget world” Start here if you want to know which LS engine to look for and references on how to remove VATS. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8n0_ivJZHBDANHHHOWuC2A/videos

Busted Knuckle Film: The Rock Rod Tech has some of the best, easy to understand instruction for many things like suspension design and safety equipment https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3h1g9dV2nw&list=PL_01w129A3WTF7Lfuw7m_Zy_1UbSZQTXu

Filthy Motorsports: also owner of www.crawlpedia.com has everything you want to know about King shocks and suspension setup. https://www.youtube.com/user/FilthyMS/videos

Ucandoit2: Great step by step video about how to make a stand alone LS engine using an LM7. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChSzl_R-t-ziu92gTVdctSg

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