Yes, it has a 1/4 elliptical spring on it. See pic above. It has an overload on it so it can have its 1/4 ton rating and still be fast off road. However it is not the typical design. If you want I can take a pic underneath if you want. My son called me last night and is wheeling and dealing on two Mighty Mites. We might have to take a trip this weekend.

 

It never ends does it Steve!!!!!!
2 is always better than 1...
You guys can race each other that way! Just make sure yours is a little faster!

Mike

 

Mine will be. I will be putting more $$$ in mine. Besides, he doesn't have a shop so I will be doing the work. I will have the edge LOL

 

Hey Steve, not to get off topic but do you have a tube bender?
I was looking at building this one... I see RCman and a bunch of other guys over on naxja built this one and seem to like it.

http://www.gottrikes.com/Tube_Bender.htm

I won't hijack your thread anymore!!!! Promise

 

Hey, no problem Mike. No I don't have that type of tube bender. What I have is the pump jack type. If you use steel or aluminum pipe, then that fits the sizes. If you use dom tubing, then the sizes are different and you will need different mandrels that comes with those tube benders.

 

Yep, I definetly need one that can do DOM tubing. I think I'll pick up the drawings and give her a shot.
Did you guys pick up the other Hum Wee!

Mike

 

neat rig man..iv never heard of it until now...looks like lots of work but will be worth it..go for it brother!

 

My son just called me and it looks like we will go to SoCal tomorrow to pick one up for him. Now we will have HUM WEE Jr.

 

After calling for a NorCal meet and greet, I had to miss it. My son called me and said there was another Mighty Mite in SoCal and it sounded promising. So we hooked up the trailer and Sat afternoon drove down to Long Beach and spent the night there. In the morning we looked and haggled and himmed and hawed and ended up getting this one. It is straight and has an engine conversion in it. We started back and had to shift the load on the trailer in the black section of town in front of the pawn shops. The guys there were great and we had lots of fun with them. I think if I asked them to they would have just picked it up and moved it for me.

We started back and had a tire smoking. Lost a center pin in the left rear spring and the tire was rubbing on the fender. We got off I710 in the Hispanic part of town and found a repair shop open on Sunday. I figgered I could have done this in a half hour, but it took him three hours. I am beginning to think that people in that part of Los Angeles are just incompetent. I could not find an auto parts store that knew what a center pin was or where the next auto parts store was. I ordered some food at Taco Bell and that was screwed up too. But $50 later we were back on the road and 13 hours after we started we pulled into the driveway and this is as far as I got. HUM WEE will have a friend in the shop now.

 

The engine will be an EJ55 or 57 Subaru with 5 speed auto with the differential removed. The 55 will make 400 HP and the 57 will make 500 HP.

You plan on running a wheelie bar? LOL

 

No, how about wheels on a roll cage?

 

sick gl

 

My son is coming this weekend and we are going to work on HUM WEE senior and junior. My granddaughter wants to drive junior. We need to clean the gas tanks on both. Senior has not had fresh gas in it for about 30 years and junior for about 2 years, maybe more. Anybody got any great ideas about how to get varnish out of the tank?

 

Awesome project... Good luck with tit though. Glad the tub is aluminum.. no rust.

 

Yeah, rust is not the problem. Finding some parts is a little difficult though