Today is my birthday and as any loving wife would do she asked my what I wanted to do.
My answer? Shorten the wheelbase of the Viking..
An so I did. What we came up with is that between the front and the rear leave spring mount there is exactly 1 meter 30, or in American 51”. Instead of cutting the frame, we just brought the axle forward and modified the front mounts.
Here the axle still in place:
Here the rear mount:
And the front one:
Seeing they are identical, the holes line up easily. I bought some heavy duty drill’s 10mm (little under 4”) and drilled out the rivets. Easy job with a proper drill and drilling oil.
We took of the front mounts from the spring for easy maneuvering.
The back mounts lined up like a charm
We used 10.9 bolts M12 (little over 7/16”) which we tightened to 110Nm (81ft-lb)
We then modified the front mounts by cutting off the lip so we could mount them at any hight we wanted. So we measured 2,3 and 4 times, just to be sure!
Then it was the fun part
So what does it like like now?
And the funny thing is, just by luck it is exactly the same lenth as the C10
looks nice together
Now it fit's in the garage
All and All,
it took us exactly 4hrs to get the job done! (maybe because it's my birthday?? #happycamper