Australian Belly Tank

[Dr Goggles]

Now that's an idea.

Didn't throw out a general invite yesterday as it was pretty much grubby grunt work, now we know what we need to do to finish it.

I knew that you had a porta-power.

[grumm441]

I knew that you had a porta-power.

Graham's tool library
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[Dr Goggles]

20 ton?

So you have a low-profile ram?...if you don't I'll buy one....we've only got 150mm in there. I'll need your Copperhead to stitch it up too.....

Geter done so we can find out if we need to bring you another housing or not

Looks like it's a goer Bill,it's just a case of fine tuning , and at the same time making sure we haven't got anything under tension( er, yeah, I know but even if he did lose them they've served their purpose twice).

On another front I have to pull the axle insert out and take it back to the machine shop for a skim, it's all a bit tight which will give me no "shimmy room" for when we try to get the pinion height and alignment right.....

We could have made things a looser fit, but the way it is we KNOW it is aligned and it's not coming apart anytime soon. I'm glad we went back in and dressed up the inside of the tubes, much sounder practice........

Yesterday before the big TWANG we'd been trying to tilt the pumpkin up, had a piece of tube through it( front to back) and I had a little bottle jack under the tube because it didn't want to move.......once the big TWANG happened it was fine, not loose but we could move it with the tube .....it should have been a sign , earlier.

[SPARKY]

gears showed up will count teeth Sunday AM   have not picked up tires yet====

not too many beers yet  16  on  pinion  41  on RG      also whats stamped on RG

you do the math :-P

[Nexxussian]

41/16=2.5625

Or at least that's what the 'puter sez.   

Definetly taller than what I've got.

[Milwaukee Midget]

You certainly didn't take the path of least resistance on this one, guys.  Brilliant and heart stopping bit of adaptation and drama here.  Good show.

[Dr Goggles]

More brutal than brillo but its doing what we want without having to do any micrometer work.

Just in case anyone is scratching their heads or missed the original story....

We are fitting a GM ten-bolt centre section and wanted to keep the Ford axle tubes,axles and brakes. Had we changed the entire rear we would have had to build a new jig to sit the car on so as to get the alignment right, then hoped we kept the axle tubes straight when we welded them again.

The car has run "no hands" straight beyond 160mph, that tells us it was pretty good......this way we don't mess with any of that.

Didn't venture out there yesterday, it was a wild and woolly day here.....Sunshine my a*&^%$%^&^&

[Reverend Hedgash]

...we figure from where it ended up that it went between the Reverends legs.......unseen.

Nothing was broken, the legs had popped back to straight.

I am indeed glad I am slightly bow legged, and tall!

rH+

[Dr Goggles]

I wandered out to the shed this morning and had a good stare at the job. Staring at the job has been an integral part of many things I have done over the years,in fact if it weren't for staring at the job most things I have tried would have reached a conclusion, successful or otherwise , much sooner. So, at that point I decided to do something.

I found a piece of packing that would maintain the distance between the housing and the rear "leg" as it was that gap closing that had caused everything to bind up and ended with the large TWANG mentioned in the last episode....In an uncharacteristic move I wired the piece of packing securely so that if it did let go I wouldn't be on the receiving end. I got a pair of calipers so I'd be able to see how much it was moving......

The first few swings on the pipe that I was using as an extension weren't promising, it didn't have the firm but even feel telling me it was moving....I thought "maybe the thread is a little tortured" so I went to the other end, that felt better...... I should have put the Torque wrench on it so I could give you an exact figure but it felt like close to a hundred pounds on the 12 inch wrench I had on it.

This pic shows from the left , the hole cut in the axle tube to plug weld the insert, the piece of scrap I use to make sure the insert pulled through the housing and the packing washers on the end of the insert....



It's not perfect yet but it looks like we're pretty close....



So I had a crack at fitting the bearing seat.....it's getting there

[Milwaukee Midget]

I wandered out to the shed this morning and had a good stare at the job. Staring at the job has been an integral part of many things I have done over the years,in fact if it weren't for staring at the job most things I have tried would have reached a conclusion, successful or otherwise , much sooner. So, at that point I decided to do something.

The same process here, usually on a Saturday morning with a cup of coffee in my hand.  Then something trips in my head and says, "Ain't gettin' done me standin' here starin' at it".

It's kind of like a mental allegory to Newton's laws of motion.

The effect is further demonstrated when you look up at the clock, it's 1:30 in the morning, you clean up, hop in the rack, and can't fall asleep.

[Dr Goggles]

 Something else I'd like to point out about this transplant job.

The way our rear end is mounted places a lot of stress on the join between the differential housing and the axle tubes because it is supported so narrowly. Rather than being supported at the spring pad as designed where the leverage against the housing would be minimal the support is in against the housing where it has probably twenty times the force at the wheel.Thus the rather heavy duty solution for attaching the housing to the tubes and the tight fit that we have gone with ......just in case.

[Reverend Hedgash]

That weld hole we drilled in photo 2 looks like it is coming good too, yes?

I have had a cold for two months that wont go away. Now my glands are up again, my teeth hurt, my ear and for some reason my left knee has what can only be described as that belonging to a former netballer.

In short I am glad I am not hammering anything.

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[wobblywalrus]

Dik, get that sickness looked at.  Around here we have various parasites that can create those symptoms and prompt treatment is essential to prevent permanent damage.  I am not sure if Australia has versions of what we have here.

[Dr Goggles]

That weld hole we drilled in photo 2 looks like it is coming good too, yes?

Hmmmm, you're sounding German.....

I have had a cold for two months that wont go away. Now my glands are up again, my teeth hurt, my ear ......
d

Oh no, not your wild front ear?

.....Get the tests, before you go back...... I had whooping cough for over three months last year, that was crapolyptic.......

[Reverend Hedgash]

Parasite? I hope it doesn't look like this Hydrothermal worm someone sent me a picture of today...

I think I'll take your advice, I am not worried so much about Australian parasites, I think my body has a handle on those by now, it is all the oddball Chinese food I have been eating...