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re: Building a "real" mudboat **UPDATE
Posted on 3/11/25 at 2:02 pm to Bama and Beer
Posted on 3/11/25 at 2:02 pm to Bama and Beer
it does look awesome but i think i'd have use a more comfortable seat 
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Posted on 3/11/25 at 2:16 pm to CaptJJ
Badass boat and truck
Posted on 3/11/25 at 4:35 pm to CaptJJ
I see the cooling built in, great job
Posted on 3/11/25 at 6:23 pm to CaptJJ
Can somebody post the picture, my company will not allow me to open that website!
Thanks!
Thanks!
Posted on 3/11/25 at 8:56 pm to CaptJJ
That’s Killer!!!
Posted on 3/11/25 at 10:47 pm to CaptJJ
Man, I haven’t seen one of those boats in nearly 40 years! Thanks for posting this…it brings back a flood of memories! 
Posted on 3/12/25 at 7:57 am to CaptJJ
Well i walked into this message thinking i was a half arse functional talented contributing member of society. Turns out I don't know how to do shite.
Posted on 3/12/25 at 8:40 am to Themicah86
Well, I can't hardly make the most basic of spreadsheets in Excel, we all have our different strong points lol
Posted on 3/12/25 at 9:49 am to CaptJJ
How does that truck run?
Posted on 3/12/25 at 11:15 am to Splackavellie
Old truck runs like a top. Doesn't burn or leak a drop of anything surprisingly and drives straight down the road at 70. The ac has had a leak on the old r12, and as soon as I can find the time gonna finally swap that over to 134 and get it back going. I had originally had plans to build a rig truck from it, but use the flat bed too much. Drive that and a 1st gen 4wd Tundra. Both of then have a ton of miles, but I take pretty good care of them and they really aren't very problematic, as much as I'd like to drive something newer, I was able to get a used 10k two post lift for what just one payment would be on a new one.
Posted on 3/12/25 at 11:35 am to CaptJJ
Reading and seeing these pictures brings back memories. My best friends dad and his buddy had one like this built. I think it had a 357 chevy in it. Would go like 60-70 mph and just open up some trenasses with ease.
Great work! 
Great work!
Posted on 3/12/25 at 12:52 pm to CaptJJ
Quick question on bilge draining. Maybe I am missing something, but is there a way for water to drain side to side through the longitudinal bracing? They all appear to be fully welded at the transom with no way for water to pass through to the drain plug or bilge pump.
Posted on 3/12/25 at 1:53 pm to Antib551
I tried to see if I had a real clear picture on my phone, but I did not. They are all notched at the transom, 1" up and 1" foreword so there is clear pass thouhg for the bilge.
I had planned to do the hull just like I do all my surface drive hulls, with zero of the transverse frames/structure touching the bottom. Have the two that run over the top of the stringers under the back deck, then there are 3 @ 1 3/4" heavy wall tubes notched into the 2" stringers that fit below the double bottom/floor ( if that makes sense), that do not actually make contact with the bottom. The guy I'm building it for was concerned with crap and blood being able to wash up under the double bottom and wanted to seal it, so I boxed it in at the bench/bulkhead just foeword of the motor. Would be a big no no on a surface drive rig, but with the 1/4 bottom and being there is close to 400hp avaible to push, I don't see it being an issue like it is on airboat or surface drive hulls. Looked at how a lot of other builders build aluminum inboard mudboat hulls, and plenty of them run cross members in contact with the bottom, so apparently it is not much of a problem.
I had planned to do the hull just like I do all my surface drive hulls, with zero of the transverse frames/structure touching the bottom. Have the two that run over the top of the stringers under the back deck, then there are 3 @ 1 3/4" heavy wall tubes notched into the 2" stringers that fit below the double bottom/floor ( if that makes sense), that do not actually make contact with the bottom. The guy I'm building it for was concerned with crap and blood being able to wash up under the double bottom and wanted to seal it, so I boxed it in at the bench/bulkhead just foeword of the motor. Would be a big no no on a surface drive rig, but with the 1/4 bottom and being there is close to 400hp avaible to push, I don't see it being an issue like it is on airboat or surface drive hulls. Looked at how a lot of other builders build aluminum inboard mudboat hulls, and plenty of them run cross members in contact with the bottom, so apparently it is not much of a problem.
Posted on 3/12/25 at 2:28 pm to CaptJJ
Nice. I thought I saw the notches in the early pictures but couldn't quite tell if they closed up in the end. Either way, beautiful work all around.
Need a new project? I'll take a surface drive rig.
Need a new project? I'll take a surface drive rig.
Posted on 3/12/25 at 3:15 pm to Antib551
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Need a new project? I'll take a surface drive rig.
I might. My day job is with the Dept. of the Navy, as a civilian fed employee, doing something unrelated to welding/fab. I refused all covid vaccine stuff, had my ducks in a row to go out on my own welding if they would have saw it through and actually fired me, but they caved at the end.
They cut loose some of our probationary people yesterday. Waiting to see what Trump's going to do with me, might be building plenty more boats and anything else for that matter here soon.
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