Mounting a CBR Transmission Cooler using the Langmuir Systems CrossFire Pro

hey folks my name is dave welcome to our shop here at ntd racing this is honsho our 1978 jeep j10 race truck just got done with vegas torino and now we're getting ready for the baja 1000. in this video today we're doing just about everything we're welding designing things on cad cutting with the laying mirror systems crossfire pro and doing a whole bunch of fabrication to get a cbr transmission cooler into honcho before we get to any of that if you like what you see here today please consider hitting that like and subscribe button below it sure helps us out so why are we doing this before we did the vegas tourino race i did a little bit of work myself on the 6l90 transmission and maybe didn't do it just perfectly when it was all said and done we didn't have fourth gear for about the first 30 miles and then once we did get the fourth gear back we had a little bit of overheating problems we got up to about 270 degrees so we're pulling the transmission that is currently in honcho out we're going to put in another transmission that i got on ebay and see how that one works and we're also going to change the transmission cooler to try to keep those temperatures down and make sure she's ready to go for the baja 1000 let's go ahead and get to the fabrication all right here's a look at some of the tools and techniques that we use to lift an engine high enough to get it over the roll cage and into honcho this is the transmission we just got from ebay you might recognize the guy in the background there that's ryan one of my neighbors and also our driver that will be starting the baja 1 000 for us on the uh i think it's the 18th of november great dude uh really a swiss army knife and all things he does in life and i wasn't sure i don't think he was much of an auto mechanic before working on honcho but now he's our sheet metal guy and the guy helps me put engines in the honcho all right here's the project today we're going to go ahead and get to work on the mount for the new trans cooler this is the old one that we ran in the vegas arena and it just wasn't enough while we were climbing hills we started getting some overheating so we're going to try to double that with our new cbr transport you just tell this thing is massive it should be it should work good anyway uh what we had was the trans cooler in here with our battery i had this tray this is what made it in the vegas arena it worked out pretty good protected the transmission you can see the the the mesh down there we're gonna build the same kind of thing close to it over here i'll look to mount the battery and the new transmission cooler and maybe spice it up with some other cool little details let's go ahead and get to it we'll start with cutting some tubes and get on the fusion 360 and the lingmeier systems crossfire pro to make the other side plates well i love talking about tools and i get asked sometimes you know hey what about a shop tour what tools do you have in your shop that you really like and this is hands down my favorite i've talked about it before it is my band saw i just find it's really easy to use to get measurements now buying one initially is a little bit pricey they're about around a thousand dollars to buy a bandsaw but the value of these things is how well and how cleanly they cut the fact that when they're done cutting you don't have metal all over your shop you know from coming off of the the saw and then also the longevity of the blades cannot be understated uh some of my dewalt saws you know the metals the metal carbide blades those things go bad after you know a couple weeks or something like that of heavy use and this thing i literally built the entire honcho truck on the same blade that i'm using right now and they're like 20 or 30 bucks a blade you just can't beat it if you're interested in that one of those saws or any other tools you see me using on my videos please check it out either in the description below or go to www.ntd racing and click on store and any tool that i use i put a link for it in that place well i do enjoy tig welding but you know the real reason i think i tig rolled most of the parts i think about this truck in a race situation and sometimes i think the difference between the truck breaking down and you spending the night in the desert while you wait for your chase crew or you continue the race might just be that one weld you don't know where it is so i usually will try to take well just about everything to make sure i have the highest quality possible weld i can get okay i'm going to go ahead and get into the fusion 360 on this and kind of fumble through while you're watching me but what i'm going to do is i'm basically going to create three different sketches and when i go to my plasma table i'm going to cut them out as three different sketches i know that this first thing i want to cut out is going to be five inches wide that's because the holes i'm going to mount that on are going to basically be centered this thing out of the way they're going to be centered on this tube right here about five inches wide and that'll minimize how much air restriction i'm giving to the cooler and also allow me to basically mount this thing on both sides of this tube right here with a plate so it's gonna be five inches wide i'm gonna make it eleven and a half inches long is gonna be how long all the plates that are gonna be going over this will be today so so start with um i'm gonna go to sketch sketch on this plane again it's the x and y axis which you need to use when you're doing the other plasma table and what i like to do is i like to use center rectangles just because i find that to be a little bit easier so i'm going to say 5 by i think i said 11.5 so i said 11.5 inches measure twice cut once there we go and i'm going to say enter so there is my rectangle and now what i want to do is basically one inch in on either side i want to make some holes i'm going to make it a little bit easier on myself i'm going to go ahead and make some construction lines i'm going to make this first construction line right down the center the second construction line um hit the l hotkey across the side and that'll let me do a little couple of measurements but also let me mirror some stuff which will make it a little bit easier on me later so i'm going to get in here i'm gonna say again a construction line and go out to one inch let's go right in the middle let's say 1.3 that looks like a nice place to remember say two and then another line and say to enter now i'm gonna hit the c hotkey for circle and i'm gonna go ahead turn the construction lines off i'm using 3 8 inch bolts on this which i usually would use a 0.4 but i might make it just slightly bigger like a 0.42 hole for that one and then i'm gonna do the same thing one more time over here omega point four two and then i'm gonna do one more right here and make a point four two and then now i just wanna go ahead and make that same thing on the other side mirror that one that one that one i want to mirror it on that line there we go okay that looks good now i want to mirror it again and i'm going to do that one that one that one that one and that one there should be five objects and i'm gonna mirror it on that line okay i'm gonna extrude that that was extrude point five make sure it's going where i want it enter there's my part that is part number one let's go ahead and make part number two make a new part i'm going to sketch it again on the x and y axis you should see front over here again i'm going to do a rectangle center rectangle and this one is going to be again 11.5 but the width will be let's just make it seven and a quarter so seven point point two five by 11.5 there we go now what i'm going to be doing is i need to be able to put my hand in there and reach into underneath there and put in some bolts i'm going to go ahead and just put a hole in here side center rectangle how about right here let's make something looks like that let's go ahead make sure you don't cut your fingers on the edges of this thing that looks good i'll go ahead and radius those that part looks good and hit the hotkey e now i want to hit enter i'm going to finish that hotkey e there we go i'm going to extrude i always turn it sideways so i can see where i'm extruding at 0.125 or if i'm cutting extrude that part 0.125 enter there we go that's part number two let's go ahead and make part number three this will be the more difficult part to make so what we're going to be doing is i'm going to get the radiator i'm going to put it in place and where it's going to go and basically what i want to do is to hold these radiator ends one of the issues with cbr radiators is they don't really give you at least i haven't seen any instructions on how to put these things together so my plan is to put some plates in here have them come up and i'm going to have them engage these three bolts so i'll take these bolts out and have them engage those so first thing i'm going to do to do this is i just want to know what the size of that plate is going to be and it looks like if i go three and a quarter i think i'll just use this as a reference three and a quarter by say eighteen so three and a quarter by eighteen so i'm gonna sketch again sketch on that plane i like this center rectangle again um it's because it makes it easy to go back in and use dimensions off of those um zero axises there all right so it's going to be would i say 18 1 8 measure twice cut 18 by 3.25 i'm sure i got that right three point three and a quarter cool money enter there is my plate i'm gonna make um and now i need to find out how high those bolts are on that plate looks like 2.8 is going to be a nice number so i will draw a line i'm going to make it an a construction line up at 2.8 i'm going to draw another construction line from the side over i need to find out what the width is or how far these bolts are apart and hopefully they made them some kind of nice round number they look like they did it right at eight inches thank you so i'll go ahead and make a line over here straight across at eight inches and then make another one straight across at eight inches all right now how big are those circles gonna be let's go ahead and take out one of those bolts real quickly and figure out what the diameter is of that bolt got that out of there there's a nutsert inside there that they use and uh make sure this is zeroed out and i'm showing it's about point two three you know just because what's really important is i also wanna compress it in there i to just keep it from falling out it doesn't have to be perfect so but i also want to give myself the ability to have some slop so i'm going to go with a 0.3 uh hole so i'm going to go and take off construction lines i'm going to say 0.3 enter center over here point three enter center over here and say point three to enter there we go now i'm just gonna make this thing so that plate is ready to go i'm just gonna make it a little bit more friendly so i'm going to just put some radiuses on the corners over here i'll do the same on both sides that looks good and then i kind of want to make it personalized so i'm going to put my logo on here we're going to put ntd racing on there before i do that i like to extrude it first so we're going to go ahead and hit the hotkey e to extrude it i'm going to pick this part and then we're going to stretch the 0.125 there that's the eighth inch plate still which i'll be cutting this into now i got that part now i want to put some cool stuff in here so i'm going to sketch again i want to sketch right on the face of this thing and what i normally do when i sketch is i'm going to pick a line and i hit the construction lines i kind of wanted to sketch right along this line right here and i am going to hit create text and i wanted to to draw along that line right there once it has that the font that i like to use is stencil a and i have that up there and i just want to put in delete all their words and put ntd and let's say about let's go about two inches tall for that lettering that looks pretty good i'm going to center that over here and now let's see if we can extrude ntd so for the extrusion what i want to do is i don't want a new body i actually want to cut it and i wanted to cut through the length of the full plate there we go so i got that one now what i want to do is i want to put racing in there and i want it to be slightly smaller so you can kind of tell it's ntd then racing but it's going to be the same font because it's a stencil and i find that stencil a does work the best so i'm going to go ahead and create a sketch again and once again i'm gonna hit the hotkey l and make a construction line slightly out of plane with that one and then i'm gonna go over here and create text and i'll turn off construction lines just in case i'm not sure if it really does matter but i'm going to draw it along that line i'm going to type in the word racing racing and let's go at one and a half 1.5 inches tall we should be able to move this around so it looks the way we want to how about that boom and then i'm going to extrude racing from this thing i'm going to go cut and i'm going to cut it out there we go okay check that out i think that'll be pretty trick on the side of that plate there and we'll cut one for both sides there we go so since we're going to cut one for both sides um you know what i'm going to cut one at a time just because i don't know how it'll nest and if i don't know exactly how i'm going to nest it i'm just going to cut one at a time and reset the machine and cut another one let's go ahead and do that so you'll find that with the stenciling sometimes it doesn't make the g-code or just won't make the the line the cut lines for you so let's make sure it'll do that we're going to go out of design into manufacturing we're going to go to setup and i'm going to be cutting and for this one it's just one part so i should just be able to say cut it right there i'm not going to hit any of those buttons but i'm going to say this is the ntd [Music] side plate all right and then i'm going to go to cutting so let's go to fabrication cutting we're going to select the razor weld 45 i've been using this plasma torch forever now and i just as i was doing the order for the xr i consider not going with a 45 i'm going with a 45 again it's gonna save me about two thousand dollars and i just think you can't beat it i was cutting in one eighth inch plate still so i'm going to cut it about 65 i'm going to let my uh my lead ins be at 50. i don't do a lead out but i put it in there anyway just because i'm going to cut this part right here i need to make sure it says in computer and then leave that unchecked sweep that should be i'm gonna say point one is what i like to use there i'm gonna turn out turn off the lead outs and i want it to start right there for the the cut let's see if it makes the whole tool path it sure does and you can see if you go to simulation you can go ahead and watch it do the full mil down and turn the speed up a little bit so we see the whole thing killer so all right the g code now the post processing is looks like slightly different than it used to look um just the way they display it but you're still post processing in your fire control and it has all the parameters over here here's the name of the thing you're making and then i got to figure it out how to make my plasma cutting folder the default folder because right now i'm going in here and selecting this every time which i think could save a little time if i don't have to go through this whole rigmarole to get that in there but anyway i'll select that folder post process it let's go ahead and take it over to the fusion three over two fire control now and the langmuir systems crossfire pro and get these parts cut out of all the tools that i have in my garage the langmuir systems crossfire pro is definitely the biggest game changer it is the one that i think allowed me to build a going from nothing to having a race ready truck in 10 months and i think with some really quality parts that were made in my own shop i think that was made possible because i have this plasma cutting table system uh you can have one for yourself in your own garage the ingredient system is the crossfire pro you know shipped with the plasma cutter everything in my garage working which is a little bit over uh four thousand dollars and i have a lot of videos showing you how i put it together and how i put that to use and now they have the langmar systems x crossfire xr coming out i think it's going to be totally a game changer if you're interested in any of these tables please click on my link it'll get you a discount about a hundred dollars on the table when you purchase it and also i am an affiliate with language system so it also helps me out and i do appreciate that but super cool table and i can't wait to show you how i put the xr together it should be showing up in my garage here pretty soon all right we're getting to the end of the fabrication of this transmission mount i'm using these cards here just to put in between so that when i'm done welding these plates on there i can slide that transmission cooler back out again i said i don't like mig welding but i do do it sometimes just to practice or in areas where i think it's pretty low consequence and you know a good mig weld should be just as good as a good tig weld but again i like to tig weld so i'm going to go ahead first i lay down a couple of tack welds which i think works really well with the tig welder because you can get some really small tack loads on there another thing i did is i marked off every two inches along this plate that i'm going to weld on there and i'm just going to do a stitch well i'm only going to weld two inches skip two inches well two inches skip two inches i think it's a pretty good look and it just isn't required i think weld that whole thing all right to finish this thing up here i'm just going to use some tin snips to cut some of this mesh out and once i fit it up into place really all it needs is just a couple tack welds with a mig welder it holds that thing in place so whether you're making this thing to protect your radiator from rocks or if you're just making a barbecue grill outside this stuff is pretty easy to work with and just a couple tack welds and that thing won't come off and the finishing touches for this whole job and probably one of my favorite parts this is my seven-year-old's gonna do the painting on this and and check out this the spray paint shooting technique from this guy he's getting to be pretty good at shooting a light coat and coming back around in a second pass and making it look really good check it out nice all right check it out this is what the cbr trans cooler looks like now in this freshly painted mount i think it really makes that ntd racing pop on there looks really cool got the battery mount right there this is all going to go together just drop right in the back of the truck we had to drill a couple holes bolt this thing up and uh we should be driving honcho tomorrow let's go ahead and get it into the truck well it is always a relief when you get a transmission or a new part into a car and it works the first time so i'm really happy about this transmission that we got on ebay we're going to go ahead and take it out to the ons of brego desert and really put it through the paces all speeds all kinds of terrain make sure that it shifts gears and also maintain temperature out there what's coming up next we've got the crossfire xr i think it's showing up sometime next week i'll have all the videos on that and putting that thing to use especially as we start the build of the next truck where we're gonna take all the lessons we learned while building honcho to build a better faster truck maybe for a little bit less dollars anyways look forward to showing you all that stuff we'll see you next week take care of yourself [Music] [Music] you

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Length: 23min 23sec (1403 seconds)

Published: Tue Sep 21 2021