60 Build Ep 2 - Chassis bracing

[@Toca9990]

This is awesome. Love my 60, love what you are doing

[@aarondowney5110]

My mate showed me this build series and now I’m hooked Thanks sick Wish you do a 4Runner one day

[@mattkinsela]

Maybe one day!

[@darrenhendricken231]

This is going to be the best build to date anyone has ever done. Well thought out & very unique 👏👏👏

[@mattkinsela]

Big call man!

[@adammckinley1367]

Great to see a build getting done properly. Well done

[@mattkinsela]

Thanks mate

[@robcarroll2403]

The most valuable channel on KZbin and Matt’s an awesome bloke too. 👌

[@jamesbennett2352]

Keep up the awesome work and videos matt, you’re a true inspiration! Currently doing chassis plates, towers, ifs steering box, ruf, high steer, turbo with intercooler on my ln106. And learning along the way. Cheers 🤙

[@mattkinsela]

Nice mate

[@bmccustom4x4]

Great job on the video on how your explaining your logic the younger generation will learn heaps and be inspired so will us older young blokes lol 😂 . This is a great project matt love your work .

[@mattkinsela]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@macpreston]

Sooo keen for this build, definitely buying those long gloves!

[@mattkinsela]

They’re so good man!

[@johndacosta2612]

Best video ive seen in long time on KZbin keep up the great work

[@mattkinsela]

Thanks John.

[@umairhafiz2037]

Great stuff man really like the way you explain how it all works 👍 keep it going.

[@boostedbuiltgarage]

Good thinking/design choice with the crush tubes👌

[@mattkinsela]

Cheers man, definitely learnt that the hard way 😅

[@justintimms5663]

Loving the build man looking forward to more vids!!

[@JamieParson-sn3no]

Fantastic videos Matt love your work 👍👍

[@waynedalton9185]

Loving the videos mate, can't wait to see the next.

[@Suitmyselff]

Great insight with the use of the laser level

[@VaughanMunro-js4nr]

Great Video Matt. Explaining how to do this and why you did it. The laser is a good idea .

[@mattkinsela]

Thanks 👍

[@seanhayes96]

Bloody awesome mate looking foward to this series, just a thought regarding the cad stuff and maybe anything else quite technical and in depth maybe do something simmilar to sam eyles and yea have it as a seperate series, (tech talk) sorta thing that way theres a dedicated section to it

[@mattkinsela]

Thanks man, yeah your on the money with that. The videos will go forever otherwise trying to cover an entire topic while also build progress all in one haha

[@Blake-zc4qb]

Love build already

[@mattkinsela]

Me too

[@mcgonical]

Another fantastic video - thanks for sharing, I'm learning so much! I worry about warping the part with that much lamination, particularly strengthening diffs - it would be good if you can mention how you manage this problem with your design.

[@mattkinsela]

Thanks bob. good point mate, I’ll go through it when I do the weld out

[@user-be2xp9bc6k]

So knowledgeable love it mate. Cheers

[@jedtorpy1183]

This is awesome Matt, your a freaking smart dude

[@mattkinsela]

Thanks man, get it wrong enough times eventually you get it right, right 😂

[@billmccarthy5920]

Great stuff Matt

[@crazyjester900]

Absolutely huge!

[@Cicada4WD]

Great video 👍

[@Mrtysonw11]

Man these videos are awesome. The tech side is on point

[@mattkinsela]

Thanks mate!

[@robcantwell1981]

Awesome Matt👌

[@mrropey]

Good stuff matt

[@out4wd]

Mate, this is so cool and interesting. That would be my dream job building up 4wds like this. Currently, I'm building my hilux up to be a road registered rock crawler

[@mattkinsela]

Nice man, good choice of car!

[@liamsullivan8585]

Love it mate

[@lsswapped80]

Great explanation on every process 🤙🏽

[@mattkinsela]

Thanks mate

[@sketchy2740]

Holy shit Matt!!!!! Thats some good shit man super interesting.

[@mattkinsela]

Thanks mate

[@ammaariboysyed7161]

fkn oath! One thing i really like about this is that he explains everything so clealrly and everything he does is so logical and smart like fuck most of the times i could never think of that

[@mattkinsela]

Thanks mate!

[@ABsOffroad]

Nice!

[@caelumbrandwood8554]

That is one intelligent dude

[@brandonpeall3912]

Great video, I love that you take the time to explain both what you’re doing and why. I found some real gold nuggets of info in this video. Can’t wait to see the finished product 👍

[@mattkinsela]

Thanks mate

[@rickfletcher8422]

Matt, Can you go through the engineering process with us along the way? Like when to first contact all the way to sign off? Can be just snippets not chasing to many trade secrets. Essentially to stop average Joe blow from pissing one off or not asking enough questions etc. Cheers

[@mattkinsela]

Sure will mate, that’s a good one!

[@matthew6443]

It was interesting to learn why the fishplates are cut triangulated at the ends. I always had assumed it was to get a longer weld compared to a straight edge.

[@mattkinsela]

Glad you learnt something mate 🤢

[@mattkinsela]

👍* wrong emoji haha

[@bennyjahmin3953]

Awesome build bro. Since your first episode ive been putting together a build in my head. Hopefully one day i can start collecting parts for it. Couple of questions, Im guessing you will get a GVM upgrade as the rover is something like 2.7t? Are you still going to get to keep the 4t towing? How much weight are you adding is chassis bracing/brackets vs what you have cut off? I didnt think you were meant to weld within a certain distance (10 or 20mm, i cant remember) from the radius of the corners of the chassis, as in if you were to look at the box section cut through from east to west of the chassis rails.

[@mattkinsela]

Hey Ben, I’ll probably end up going through all this in different videos along the way, they’re great points. We can up the gvm to whatever it passes testing for without exceeding the max limits of the parts I use, so for example the 105 diffs are good for more so long as the brakes and wheels etc are too we can run that gvm, but the chassis needs to have new load testing done to suit with all the new modifications I’m doing to it. The radius thing you are right in some circumstances from my understanding it depends on the load of the bracket and the way it’s applied etc.

[@leighchaseling7102]

Love it so far What’s the reason for not protecting the unpainted steel prior to welding ?

[@mattkinsela]

Once it’s all fully welded it’ll be getting coated inside and out with a polyurethane primer to seal it all up

[@leighchaseling7102]

Got ya ok so the weld and the coating essentially will seal in between the two surfaces 👍

[@darrydondon]

With the chassis bracing plates you put on did you have to prime the back of the steel? Are you worried about rust building up?

[@mattkinsela]

Hi mate, no we will seal it all up after, will cover this when we come to painting the chassis

[@grangerdoopey2971]

I have a dumb question about leveling out the chassis obviously you level it out driver to passenger or left to right but what about front to back? Do you just base that off what you want in terms of ride height?

[@mattkinsela]

I clamp a long bit of rhs or similar to the bottom of the long flat section of chassis through the middle and level that. You could also use a chassis drawing and get some dimensions off that to work with, but this works and less maths.

[@JackNoble-xz5nz]

Super informative series mate! One question are you priming between the chassis and bracing plates or do you have another solution to stop corrosion ?

[@mattkinsela]

I’ll cover this when we get to painting the chassis, after speaking to the painters short of painting the whole chassis in a decent primer and then grinding half of it back off to weld the plates on the solution was to just weld it all up then we will seal inside and out with a polyurethane primer to prevent any water and stuff getting in there

[@JackNoble-xz5nz]

Yeah ok good stuff, loving the series so far anyway mate! Keen to follow along!

[@JakeScaramuzzi]

Hey Matt, what sort of rust proofing is required when laminating the chassis like that? With final paint not able to get between the layers, have you ever seen a problem with rust under the fish plates? Always wondered what I should do when laminating steel on different projects. Have often painted first but that obviously gets compromised during the welding process. Cheers, Jake.

[@mattkinsela]

Hey Jake, I’ll go through this in a video when we get to painting the chassis etc, there was many discussions had about this

[@JakeScaramuzzi]

@@mattkinsela I’ll look forward to it. Cheers.

[@Blake.Blackburn169]

Awesome video man loved it heaps of learning,weird question but are you a qualified fabricator or are you self taught

[@mattkinsela]

Self taught mate, covered a little bit of it at TAFE in my apprenticeship, but also did my apprenticeship with an adult apprentice, who had been a boily for like 30 years, spent a lot of saturdays at his old workplace working on my car with him there babysitting me 😂

[@Blake.Blackburn169]

@@mattkinsela yeah ok fair enough,so you don’t need to be qualified to own your fabrication business?

[@Bigcountry_littlelegs]

With the rrc 4ton tow what parts did you need to keep for the engineer to be happy to keep it as a 4ton tow rating?

[@mattkinsela]

Just the chassis mate, as it’ll be registered using that vin and all it’s existing data, tow, gcm etc. (this is all nsw info, might be different in other states)

[@aussiegypsy5860]

when i see other people weld to chassis the use copper spray or welding spray paint on the chassis before they put the plates on. is there a reason why you didn’t?

[@mattkinsela]

I’ll go through this when we get to painting the chassis as I figured it would come up, I spoke to a bunch of different guys regarding this and I think we’ve come up with a pretty decent plan

[@aussiegypsy5860]

@@mattkinsela awesome can’t wait i am loving every episode. you are a great teacher

[@Franksssss]

Nice work mate. I too have repaired acouple hilux histeer issues for people. What cad program do you use. I have solidworks, then use vcarve pro for the router and the waterjet has its own basic 2d cad program.

[@mattkinsela]

Yeah it’s a pretty common issue for them hey! Solidworks mate, only the best 💪

[@Franksssss]

@mattkinsela nice. Solidworks definitely for the win. Looking into a 3d scanner now, not a super expensive one tho.

[@4x4ZOOK]

This is gunna be a cool build but to much talking not enough working

[@Dms37.]

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[@mattkinsela]

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[@Dms37.]

@@mattkinsela frothing this build . Longer uploads is a yes from me .

[@mattkinsela]

Don’t think I could handle listening to myself on loop editing it if it was any longer 😂😂😂 maybe when I work out what I’m actually doing it’ll go smoother and I won’t want to edit it on mute haha