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Motor-Motor mount ends3211 viewsWe started with some scrap plate steel from the local recycle place.
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Motor-Motor mount body2341 viewsAnd a piece of old iron pipe from the same place.
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Motor-Motor mount rough2469 viewsHere is the mount after some work in the lathe on both the raw pieces.
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Motor-Motor mount access holes2460 viewsIt was interesting putting the access holes in the mount.
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Motor-Motor mount welded2235 viewsHere is the mostly finished mount all welded together.
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Motor-Motor mount test fit2594 viewsHow it fits on one of the motors.
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Bigger holes in the Impulse 92163 viewsWe decided that the rather small bolt holes in the end bells of the Impulse 9" motors were just too small.
So we drilled and tapped all of them out to a 7/16" bolt thread.
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Motor-Motor mount drilled2392 viewsMounting holes drilled and primer applied.
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Motor-Motor mount finished3104 viewsPainted all pretty
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Battery Box Mount3364 viewsThere are 2 5/8" bolts at the back of the box to hold the box down to the bed. To keep these from pulling through the wood/fiberglass box, I put a long 1/4" thick steel plate behind each bolt.
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Battery Box Mount 3324 viewsThere are 2 more 5/8" bolts at the front of the box, with another steel plate for them.
 
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