Australian Belly Tank

[Nexxussian]

Hmmm . . .

That absolute stillness and quiet we're hearing on line must be the sound of a thrash in progress.

Go, Sunshine!

Methinks you're right.

[Dr Goggles]

......well kind of, haven't laid a finger on it since the weekend but in my mind we're nearly there...all the individual tasks and items are floating around in space(yeah, in my head) and the sequencing of it is coming together.....

As it stands there are some imperatives.....the chute doors have been debated ,at this point we are probably just going to use a sturdier version of the catch we already have, we need to finish the fuel tank mods and we have to improve the canopy hinge. We have to get the motor back together and do a trial reassemble if we have time we'd like to dyno the new motor...if we have time. Speaking of which , if we have time there's a bunch of other stuff we'd like to do...methinks that'll be waitingThis year looks like it'll be a good one for tanks with at least five looking like starters

[Dr Goggles]

here's the poster for this year's meet, it will of course be available as a T-shirt as well, pride of place is Norm and Oggies '34 which some of you may have seen at Bonneville this year.....if you look closely you may well notice something else....

I will once again be taking orders for shirts , I expect they will be available in women's sizes as well.

[Rchop]

hmmmm, the tank in the middle looks familiar 

[Milwaukee Midget]

.....if you look closely you may well notice something else....

Of course - I can't remember their names, but I think I dated those girls . . .

[Reverend Hedgash]

they have red hair... nature's warning sign.



Stoked to be on the poster.
Now we have a reason to not repaint the car too!

rH+
Speed Deacon

[Milwaukee Midget]

Will the shirt include velcro tabs for the Morris Minor fenders?

[Dr Goggles]

Fender?, did someone say Fender.....I've got few of those... I lie ,it's more than a few..............

OK my answers to the BIG four questions in life .....its
1./ Stones
2./Keith
3./ Fender
4./Telecaster

have a good day

[landsendlynda]

Beautiful, Dr. Goggles, just Beeutiful!!

Lynda

[Seldom Seen Slim]

Speaking of shirts, Dr. G - you never got back to me afterr I reported that I do have both M and L Salt Talks '09 shirts still available.  Want one or two (or maybe more)?  Lemme know.

[Glen]

Cool Poster

[gearheadeh]

Fender?, did someone say Fender.....I've got few of those... I lie ,it's more than a few..............

OK my answers to the BIG four questions in life .....its
1./ Stones
2./Keith
3./ Fender
4./Telecaster

have a good day

How does it go..... a Rolling Stone gathers no moss?

[Milwaukee Midget]

Fender?, did someone say Fender.....I've got few of those... I lie ,it's more than a few..............

OK my answers to the BIG four questions in life .....its
1./ Stones
2./Keith
3./ Fender
4./Telecaster

have a good day

If you start me up, I'll never stop . . .

[Dr Goggles]

"I wasn't looking too good but I was feeling real well "

now, off the stones and back to the Tank. We had /have an issue with the new camshaft hjaving a smaller base circle than the former and thus the push-rods are too short.Rather than machine the rocker pivots we have elected to buy longer rods.This was decided because if we machine the rocker pivots we can only use those heads with that cam. The cam grinder said that the average amount to take off is 55 thou . we have decided to buy longer push-rods . The Cam grinder seemed to think we'd be okay....I am concerned about whether we may have too much pre-load on the lifters?...We've done some rough sums and aimed for the closest rod length we can get, no time for customs ones....so , here's the question.

I was wondering whether when dealing with this problem anyone has shimmed the rocker pivots?

Are we asking for it?

[SPARKY]

We had to shim one last year between the stand and the head because we didn't discover we had one valve too long untill after the heads were back on and we didn't have time to pull it.