Mounting a Moke on a frame.

[Terry]

Hi,

A thread for discussion, feedback and more details related to mounting Moke bodys onto frames or rotisseries relating to this article.

http://www.moke.com.au/modifications-and-repairs/442-mounting-a-moke-on-a-frame

Terry

[Newie]

A request from one who has trouble visualising concepts. Can we have a photo of a Moke mounted on the frame?

Newie

[Terry]

A request from one who has trouble visualising concepts. Can we have a photo of a Moke mounted on the frame?

Newie

Eventually there will be photos of that but at the moment I am not able to lift anything and I still have to make the rear bracket before I can put the body on the rack.

Terry

[sa mokin]

Nice design Terry. I was wondering how I was going to mount my 76 Moke without a removeable grille! (currently using MD's great design which needs a removeable grille)

One thing I have discovered is that the centre of gravity of the vehicle is not straight forward - I made an alteration to the back mounting bracket which makes the car "top heavy" when turned upside down, causing the car to want to "right itself" if you haven't secured either end with a screw.  I used the tailgate area (for lack of a better description) exclusively which was a mistake - I probably will change the back mount to use the subframe mounts as I used in the front of the car.

Can't wait to see your final designs!

[Terry]

SA,

One thing I was suprised by was where the front cross memebr sits which is quite high in comparisson to MD's designs. This is because the shocker mounts angle slightly upwards towards the front of the Moke so by the time the 'arms' come past the body at full stretch the front cross bar is about half way up the grille.

This is going to affect the balance but I am hoping to fix that with an adjustable mount on the cross bar to see if I can find the right height for the center line. Plan on doing something similar on the rear to find out the best points and then maybe redesing to suit.

Terry