Australian Belly Tank

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Dr Goggles

Quote from: grumm441 on May 03, 2016, 02:00:20 AM
Quote from: salt27 on May 02, 2016, 05:39:00 PM
Grumm, what flywheel and clutch are you planning on using?

depends who you talk to
I would like to use a multi plate clutch but I'll see how our budget looks
the only consideration for the flywheel at this stage is that it's steel
I will have to have a further look thru the reciepts and see if it indicates anything
so I don't know if its 153 or 168 yet or if it's internal or external balance
Also I need to check the pattern on the crank and see if it's got one offset bolt
In the middle of which, I am renovating my house. I'm not much of a house renovating type guy
What I need is Goggles and Hotnuts here. I'll supply the beer
Those guys are always doing stuff with timber
G


Happy to help although some of my solutions can be a little "agricultural"............

Few understand what I'm trying to do but they vastly outnumber those who understand why...................

http://thespiritofsunshine.blogspot.com/

Current Australian E/GL record holder at 215.041mph

THE LUCKIEST MAN IN SLOW BUSINESS.

kiwi belly tank

Holy $hit Goggs, what year is it down there? :-D
Grumm, can you go back to the sauce of the engine to get the info you need?
Considering the load or lack of it, you might not want to complicate things with a multi disc. 
  Sid.

Dr Goggles

You may see I have a set of ancient floor dogs behind that arrangement there, up against the wall there aren't many ways of cramping the boards, that method there works pretty well......... back to our usual programming......
Few understand what I'm trying to do but they vastly outnumber those who understand why...................

http://thespiritofsunshine.blogspot.com/

Current Australian E/GL record holder at 215.041mph

THE LUCKIEST MAN IN SLOW BUSINESS.

Geo

Love you are all back and working with that extraordinary engine.  Looking forward to the build and run.

Now about the carpentry... Using snow as insulation is not a good idea no matter how hot it gets. And using the floor to move the wall is inefficient no matter how many levers you daisy chain together. Let me know if you need help, I have a BFH here somewhere.

Geo

Milwaukee Midget

Quote from: Dr Goggles on May 11, 2016, 04:25:45 PM

Happy to help although some of my solutions can be a little "agricultural"............



Okay, I've built a Soapbox Derby car, managed and maintained an apartment building, bought, remodeled and flipped a house during the worst downward spiral of the US housing market since the Great Depression, have been involved in countless home repair schemes - for pity's sake, I work on MGs - but I am absolutely flummoxed as to what on earth you are trying to accomplish with this Rube Goldgerg arrangement of implements. 
"Problems are almost always a sign of progress."  Harold Bettes
Well, I guess we're making a LOT of progress . . .  :roll:

Milwaukee Midget

Wait - I just figured it out.

You're doing it wrong.
"Problems are almost always a sign of progress."  Harold Bettes
Well, I guess we're making a LOT of progress . . .  :roll:

Dr Goggles

you people have no idea. :roll:

I am laying reclaimed floorboards

A short end, close to the wall can't be cramped up, thus it'll leave an uneven gap ......what you're looking at there is a small piece of board used as a spacer, another piece behind the mattock (against the wall) the bottle jack is pumped up just enough to cramp those last two boards up, getting an even result.....


doesn't matter...............
Few understand what I'm trying to do but they vastly outnumber those who understand why...................

http://thespiritofsunshine.blogspot.com/

Current Australian E/GL record holder at 215.041mph

THE LUCKIEST MAN IN SLOW BUSINESS.

Geo

doesn't matter...............

Apparently not as you do not have the chain hooked up.  Oh well, you have almost made it out the door. Wait, have you only begun  :-o  :?

salt27

Goggs, I knew what you were doing.   :wink:

I should be home in a couple of weeks and will send a picture of a scatter shield if you are still in the hunt.

 Don

Dr Goggles

Don, the voice of reason.

Put it in that Corvette and ship the whole thing over here, that's your retirement taken care of.

Now, the rest of you...

Next you people will people will be telling me to secret nail. :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll:
Few understand what I'm trying to do but they vastly outnumber those who understand why...................

http://thespiritofsunshine.blogspot.com/

Current Australian E/GL record holder at 215.041mph

THE LUCKIEST MAN IN SLOW BUSINESS.

salt27

Quote from: Dr Goggles on May 13, 2016, 03:18:12 PM
Don, the voice of reason.

Put it in that Corvette and ship the whole thing over here, that's your retirement taken care of.

Yeah, but then what will you use to fill in the void between the block and tranny in the SOS?

Dr Goggles

Quote from: salt27 on May 13, 2016, 04:56:45 PM
Quote from: Dr Goggles on May 13, 2016, 03:18:12 PM
Don, the voice of reason.

Put it in that Corvette and ship the whole thing over here, that's your retirement taken care of.

Yeah, but then what will you use to fill in the void between the block and tranny in the SOS?

I meant in the trunk.

Quote from: kiwi belly tank on May 11, 2016, 07:35:32 PM
Holy $hit Goggs, what year is it down there? :-D
Grumm, can you go back to the sauce of the engine to get the info you need?
Considering the load or lack of it, you might not want to complicate things with a multi disc. 
  Sid.

Speaking of agricultural. I tired of borrowing the FIL's mulcher ( almost as fast as he did) and I'd seen one at a rust shop beside the highway, not any old one but the exact same model he had which is actually a good design, as opposed to most of them that make noise, smoke, propel items at dangerous speed and then jam, in that order. It was cheap, upon closer examination it had no compression, a suspected stuck valve,

"OK, $130"

So I bought it..... how hard could it be.

Milwaukee's finest, cutting edge flat head incorporating a plastic toothed governor..........I took the head off, turned it over, the valves seemed to work fine but I could help but notice the significant dwell-time of the piston.

I can't impress upon you any more forcefully my lack of interest in dismantling small engines, my favorite way of changing the plug in the mower is going to the shop and buying a new mower. I have about a million things I have to do, why I started doing this? I don't know....... :|

Few understand what I'm trying to do but they vastly outnumber those who understand why...................

http://thespiritofsunshine.blogspot.com/

Current Australian E/GL record holder at 215.041mph

THE LUCKIEST MAN IN SLOW BUSINESS.

tauruck

The last time I saw something like that was when my brother and his friend filled the mower with methanol and a race plug to get a laugh.
The gardener bolted and we never saw him again. :-D :-D :-D :-D

Seldom Seen Slim

Goggs said:   "...the significant dwell-time of the piston."

How elegantly stated.  Did you, in a previous incarnation, perhaps write ad copy? :roll:
Jon E. Wennerberg
a/k/a Seldom Seen Slim
Skandia, Michigan
(that's way up north)
2 Club member x2
Owner of landracing.com

Milwaukee Midget

Quote from: Dr Goggles on May 13, 2016, 06:46:38 PM

Milwaukee's finest, cutting edge flat head incorporating a plastic toothed governor..........I took the head off, turned it over, the valves seemed to work fine but I could help but notice the significant dwell-time of the piston.



Rod to stroke ratio of 1:∞.
"Problems are almost always a sign of progress."  Harold Bettes
Well, I guess we're making a LOT of progress . . .  :roll: