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Originally Posted by bluestang67
Cheers Bobby.
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Originally Posted by bluestang67
Cheers Bobby.
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Got a call from my mate the chromer today to say my axle was done
I only gave it to him on friday as an emergency job so has done a brilliant job. Don't know why but the metal is incredibly hard to polish, I know its forged, Anyone know why its so hard to work ???
I did the roughing out polishing and he finished it off, Its bl00dy heavy and he said he wouldn't want to do another one ever !!!
Hopefully get it bolted on tomorrow evening.
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Well i started to refit the frontend last night but it started to rain :( so knocked off work a bit earlier today and got it more or less back on the car :D
Came across a couple of small problems though :( , my mate Allan kindly milled a couple of castor wedges, It would appear that the taxi only had 1 degree of castor and i wanted 7, the problem was the stainless U bolts i got were a bit short once the wedge was in place, solution was to ditch the nylok nuts (didn't like them anyway) they came with and make up some barrel nuts :D , I only had enough material to make 4 :( so if anyone has a bit of 3/4" hexagon stainless bar i could put it to good use :D
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The other small problem was the locating stud on the springs was a different size to the hole in the axle, axle was 5/8" and spring was 1/2", solved this by turning up a piece of stainless bar with the size on either end, worked a treat :LOL:
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Heres the progress so far, hope its dry tomorrow as i want to fit the front calipers and rear drums.
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That frame is looking real cool and sort of makes your firewall tag obsolete I think.
Man it's looks nice with all the new paint chrome and stainless parts! The red shocks really jump out too. Nice looking tyres too!
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Originally Posted by Whiplash23T
Honestly Whip its not to my usual standard, everything looks good in pictures :LOL:
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Originally Posted by stovens
Cheers Steve, Its finally started coming together.
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Looks pretty kool from where I'm sitting,too,Steve..Love it..Quote:
Originally Posted by roadster32
P1ssing down again yesterday :( so I decided to put my rear brakes together in the workshop, I have a stash of 11" Ford drum parts and a new pair of drums so it looked an easy job :LOL:
First problem I came across was I have New big ford axle ends but out of the 5 pairs of backplates I had all were old ford fitting Only thing to do was to modify them to fit.
I had a pair of new ford bearing axle end housings so turned up a mandrel from a lump of aluminium to align the backplate with the housing, then I scribed the holes as they are slightly different.
Once the holes lined up I clamped it all together and ran a drill through each hole to clean them up.
I now had elongated holes in the backplates, answer was to weld on some large diameter thick washers.
Everything was going very smoothly until I started to assemble the brakes then I suddenly realised I was missing the parking brake levers Couldn't find any in my stash so I've asked my mates to have a look and see if they have any laying around otherwise its order from the states which is gonna hold me up yet again :rolleyes:
Oh well 2 steps forward and one step back :mad:
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This is the parts i'm missing just incase any one has a pair hanging around, they are for 11" diameter brakes
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I'm starting to think they are out to get me !!! :LOL:
Finally sorted the backplate bits and pieces and pulled the drums out of the boxes and guess what ? Wrong stud pattern :mad:
Anyway I decided to use them and just redrill, heres how the job went.
First I turned up a spigot from a lump of aluminium round bar to align the centre hole of the drum, then a aluminium spacer I had was fitted to it, everything clamped up and then I drilled through the stud holes in the spacer, Fairly straight forward job but I could of done without it to be honest.
I cleaned off the very thin coat factory paint with a zip wheel and epoxy primed them and then gave them 2 coats of 2K Jedi black.
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:LOL::LOL:I know the feeling!! Are you quite sure that Sue's not slipping out to the shop and swapping stuff in the boxes, just to see your reaction??Quote:
Originally Posted by roadster32
In all seriousness, another problem solved in a unique way, and yet another push for me to look for a metal lathe!! Thanks for posting!!
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Originally Posted by rspears
You got me wondering now Roger :LOL:
Yeah a lathe is invaluable :D
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Well ain't gonna make the Hotrod Drags so decided not to rush the build now, will just plod on and get it done.
Decided to sort a couple of modifications I had planned for the winter.
First I have decided to go with solid motor mounts but wanted it to still look ordinary so I machined up some copies of the rubber mounts in aluminium, I'm going to paint them satin black so they will still look like rubber.
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Next modification was to the ladder bars, The installation of double adjusters will allow me to preload the suspension and plant both tyres equally on launch, Out of interest i played with the adjustment to see what it would do and found 1 complete turn on the adjuster moves 1" at the end of the bar.
I thought about doing this when I initially made them but decided against it, don't know why because it makes a lot of sense really and makes it all adjustable.
I had to shorten the bar to accomodate the double adjusters which meant making up a couple new thread bungs, These were made from 1" steel bar, the ends are turned down to fit inside the tube snugly and rosette welded on all 4 sides.
Normally the double adjusters would be in the lower leg of the ladder bar but i didn't want them to show, they will do the same job.
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Sorry to see you miss the drags, but now the decision is made and the pressure is off so you concentrate on all these things at your own pace. Great work on both the mounts and the adjustable links. Bought from a specialty vendor would probably not be nearly as good!
Steve, is having a rigid mount engine on a dragster, anything like a rigid mount engine on a Harley? I imagine you will get a ton of vibration through the frame if it is?
Roger here in England we don't get a choice so we have to make stuff especially speciality parts, I would say 99% of hotrod parts have to come from the USAQuote:
Originally Posted by rspears
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Not quite the same thing Steve as the Harley is a V twin isn't it ???Quote:
Originally Posted by stovens
I have run solid mounts before and not noticed any big difference really.
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Well what a brilliant sunny day we have had here today, real hotrod working weather :D
First job was to rebuild my Land Rover steering box, you can get any small part for these and for peanuts too, armed with £12 ($19) worth of gaskets, shims & bearings the rebuild commenced, 1 hour later it was done & mounted.
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Next up was to sort out the pitman arm, I had sorted these bits previously but now there is no rush i decided to get them chromed, the track rod end goes in from the other side on the LR box and I needed it the other way around, the answer was to drill out the arm and weld in a bung I had turned up earlier, this puts the rose joint i'm using back in the same plane as the trackrod end but on the other side, Pics of stock arm and my modified arm, I also removed the big lumps off it ready for chroming.
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Next job was to make the drag link arm up in stainless tube, 2 threaded bungs were turned up in 316L S/S and threaded. Then they were seam welded and rosette welded into the tube, finally it got a quick polish.
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Next I needed a steering arm, I've used a Speedway hoop arm and modified it to suit, as I have 32 spindles and the arm is designed for 37-41 spindles the arms needed to be slightly closer together, I warmed them up and tweaked them to suit, The threaded ends were cut off and holes were carefully drilled in the centre of each leg and threaded to take 10mm Hi Tensile countersunk bolts. Also added 2 small pieces of tube to the legs to give them more stability, i.e. larger area.
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Made an infill panel to weld in next time the steering arm is off for chroming, this is where I got a bit carried away and forgot to allow for the thickness of the caliper bracket :o so a small shortening modification was done to the offending leg :LOL:
Put it right quickly though :D
While the pitman arm and steering arm are being chromed I will paint the calipers etc etc.
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Very nice work, Steve!!!! Sure is good to see someone making their parts and modifying what others make rather then just opening the boxes and putting the 'bolt on' in place!!!!! Looks good on you!!!!! Well done!
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Originally Posted by Dave Severson
Cheers Dave, I make stuff for 3 main reasons, firstly I don't like paying exorbinate rates for stuff you can easily make. Secondly I can't afford them anyway, and thirdly and most important to me that I have parts unique to my build and get the gratification of having made them.
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Somebody asked for a pic of how my discs are mounted on my spindle mount wheels, so here it is. Sorry can't remember who asked for it now :o
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Nuts holding the disc to the adaptor are metal locking nuts.
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Steve have any luck with the E brake levers ?? I am not sure but I think all 9 inch have the same diameter drum on them . I should have have checked , there under the shelf .
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Originally Posted by bluestang67
I found one of my mates had one Bobby but never found the other side so last night I ordered a new pair from Currie axles, I thought $50 was a lot of money for them but at least I have them on the way.
I was surprised how difficult they were to find, I thought with everyone changing to discs there would be lots of them available.
Apparently there are 2 sizes for 10" & 11" drums
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Yeah now thinking of it they may be 10 inch diameter coming from a car .
Decided to give the drags a miss as the weather was going to be good this weekend and I could get a lot done on the car :3dSMILE:
One thing thats been bugging me was the underside of the body, its just finished in fibreglass and originally I was just gonna paint it black and call it done but its just been bugging me that it would look better with a half decent finish on it :cool:
The body is fairly light and easily turned by 2 people so Gomez popped over and we flipped the body onto its roof on an old mattress to protect it :)
Out with the DA and some 60 grit discs and the highs were knocked off the fibreglass, Next a thin skim of filler was put on and this was buzzed down with 80 grit discs then 240 grit discs, Next i put on 3 coats of satin black Epoxy primer and allowed it to tack off for an hour while i thought about which topcoat I would use :HMMM:
I had a choice of gloss black or gloss white, thought about it and the black was out as I hadnt been that fussy about the quality of finish on the floor and the black would show any defect, Thought about the white and thought that would be a bitch to keep clean :(
Thats when I remembered I had some Gravitex satin black stonechip laying around , This would give me a decent finish and would look tidy and be fairly easily cleaned and is very durable :cool:
I put on 2 coats of the Gravitex as the first wasn't very textured, Not a bad days work but took from early in the morning to 9pm in the evening to finish but i'm happy how it turned out :cool:
Epoxied
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Here finished in the stonechip, the camera flash has made it look grey but its actually black :confused:
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That should be a good, durable finish and it looks great too!
No area left undone! Came out looking like a nice undercoating! Almost like what we call Rhinoliner! It does look gray!
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Originally Posted by Dave Severson
Yeah i'm pretty happy with it Dave, should last well.
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Originally Posted by stovens
Yes Steve its very much like that.
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:cool:Looks good,Steve..Should hold back the stones from chipping the underside..:cool: Looking forward to the next instalment..;)
Great idea. I am firmly planting that idea in the memory banks!
Got the body back on last night, once it was bolted down I blew out all the dust that had acumalated, once it was all clean i brushed and rollered a coat of blue epoxy on the inside to seal it, this is something i do with all my cars as it gives a nice clean finish when your working inside the car.
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Great to see it going back together with the shiny parts! I like that epoxy idea as opposed to my bare fiberglass. Wish I had seen this idea about two years back.... Oh well, on the next one, right?
This is getting to the exciting phase!
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Originally Posted by rspears
Yes Lynn this is the nice bit, cheersQuote:
Originally Posted by rumrumm
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Weather great again today so more fitting up, It amazing how a bit of nice weather lets you get so much done.
First job was to get the cage back in the car, I knew I had to cut holes for the rear legs and they had to be big as they have a stub with a flange on them. A hole was cut and the legs put through and loosly bolted in, then some cover plates were made up to cover the holes, they will be sealed when i get some more sealer, rear bulkhead has to be sealed for regs.
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While I was there I decided to bond in some ply around the rear windows for the trimmer to attach the headliner too, This will have a full interior like a gasser should have.
Unfortunately I ran out of ply to do the other side :(, its bonded in with fibreglass paste
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Cage all back in and bolted up.
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on the down hill side
I don't know Charlie..........................you know how fond of shiny brother Steve is. Looks to me like he's got a LOT of color sanding ahead to get that underside and inside buffer ready.;):LOL:
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At last Charlie, I like this bit the best :LOL:
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