welcome back to the channel I've been
out of town for a couple of weeks so we are going to get back in the swing
of things first of all got a new seat lower profile it's lower than that one that
one's sitting on the ground right now and this one is sitting on an inch and a half of uh
two by fours uh we got it sitting back further it's sitting lower this is the seeds we're
gonna go with for nrgs um and this is gonna this is sitting right now at the height of the
batteries I think we can actually tilt it back just a little bit more and we'll get a little
more Headroom which is going to be perfect so for this episode what we're going to start
doing is now that I have this fitted and I know where it's going to be sitting at we can go ahead
and start cutting up the chassis we got to cut the floor out we got to cut out this entire Center
remember right here and then we got to cut out all the parts that we don't need there's mounting
for uh battery in the back and fuel tank there's a mounting for steering rack up front we're going
to cut all that out clean it all up make sure we got a good clean slate to work with and then we're
going to go ahead and start fitting everything up all right like I said that's going to be our seat
I'm going to go ahead and order a second one I'm not going to go ahead and order the carbon
fiber ones uh just from my understanding is all they do for carbon fiber ones is they just
skim the outside with carbon fiber uh if anybody does have the carbon fiber one and they want to
correct me off that please go ahead and do so um but yeah so this is the seat we're gonna
go with I think we can like I said get some more room by tilting it back farther and
otherwise it's going to be good uh so we'll go ahead pull everything out of here Jack this
up and then start cutting out the floor pan foreign so on the bottom here we have all this quarter
inch steel ribbing that is put in so we're going to cut it basically we got to cut it right here
at the front rail here here all the way around we've got to cut these Center ones out
and then once we get all these ribs and everything cut out we can go from the
top there's only a couple bead welds across some of portions and then the entire
floor pan here and here should drop out um and then that should be it then after we're done
cutting the floor pans out we'll move on back it's back here a little spider webs after the floor pans are done back here this
entire portion so this needs to extend out back more so what we're going to do is we're going to
we have to cut out this entire rail portion to right about right here and then remove all
this and then we should have room to get our battery in and then we can work building
back the frame after the battery's in here so go ahead and do that start with your
pants and then work our way back here thank you foreign foreign of course the camera died right when the pan just
dropped out so I tapped it up and the whole thing just swung out and flew over this way and ended
up down here and you can see right where it hit the ground right over here so there it is one
down one to go we'll pick this up tomorrow all right here we go it's another
day let's get the other half out foreign thank you foreign foreign foreign guys so now we got the floor cut out we have the floor cut out the floor is on the
floor and we still have all this bracing in here that we need to cut out so I'm going
to take for this portion since it I don't have to get through the thick grinds of uh the
quarter inch or 3 8 steel we'll take a Sawzall cut the braces cut the entire cider section
out take that out of here and that'll clear up all this we'll still need to take
this out and the two running back but for now let's get started with this and
then we'll hit that up on another day thank you foreign foreign that's out it's clear so next we're gonna
go ahead and get to the back and we can take and grind down these Cuts later
uh these don't matter so much down here since this entire member across
the back here is getting cut out all right I'm gonna go ahead and clean this up and then pick us back up the next day cutting
takes a lot out of you get it get it oh hell no so first thing you got to do we gotta
clean off the surface right here so we can go ahead and weld in our cross braids
and we're going to use the same two by three uh frame rail to come across here we could
probably go with something smaller because it's also going to get the battery rail but
that'll be fine because that's already what it is and we're taking a bunch of weight out
for what was there from the frame itself might as well just go onto a little bit heavier
side right here and we'll be in a good place foreign all right so we need 17 inches of this
two by three I have an evolution saw so I just gotta take it out and we can
go ahead and chop our uh 17 inch piece foreign cut nice talk about a precise cut right on the money thank you all right it's all lined up squared up and in
position we're going to take it's not moving anywhere because uh we have to beat it in place
it was that precise uh and it will take and put some good tack while it's on there and then we'll
be able to take and do some drop links temporarily or actually we can just relocate that drop
blank before we cut the frame and then relocated to it like right
over here we should be good foreign so like I was saying we're going to take
and just relocate this guy back here and to do that I went ahead and notched this
flush with this and we're going to do the same thing up here we're going to notch it flush
and then I'm going to take a sawzall with blade and then just run it flush against the
bar cut it flush and then re-weld it back here that way it's not in the way
you can still get the bolts out but we got this part braced up and it's
not going to move when we cut the frame out so I went through made sure
that if this gets put right here that if we take this bolt and index it it can
still exit because this has an eccentric washer on it uh looks good it's going to clear so we've
got to clean up this area in this area down here this is going to get welded in just like mirror so let's go ahead and do that I'm going to mark it up and then we'll go ahead and
clean it up and weld it in place foreign foreign foreign it's all braced good triangulation up
in the top frame right here so we can take this entire bottom section and
cut it out right back here where the battery is going to end up and then we
can start working on the battery frame foreign should never be able to cut
open a pipe or a tube that's all welded shut and it's got freaking water inside foreign foreign sweet so this is all dislodge back here that's
all dislodged from these frame bars we don't we're not touching the main hoop we are not
touching the main hoop we're going to take and cut this right down here on both sides
and the whole thing should just come out foreign looks like my blade got a
little fatigued and broke off foreign that's done Next Step battery frame so that's a wrap for this episode I'll catch
you guys next time thank you for watching
