Australian Belly Tank

[grumm441]

Dialling cams
Sometimes it's easy and then some times it's a Ducati with four cams that are all in the wrong spots and you spend\waste a whole day on it

This was one of the easy ones
Put the bottom gear on the crank on the centre keyway
Fit the degree wheel
Find TDC with a positive stop
check cam timing and find it needs to go +6°

take gear off crank
move it to the +6° keyway
Fit the degree wheel again
Find TDC with a positive stop again
Check cam timing again
Say Woo Hoo
Mark the gear

Look at the clock. That took about 30 minutes
Go and have a beer 

Tomorrow I have to make a oil pressure primer out of an old gas bottle so that I can prime the engine thru the oil pressure sender
It's so much easier with a chev
G

[Dr Goggles]

Look at the clock. That took about 30 minutes

If it takes you that long to tell the time get a digital clock, or ring up the talking clock, good value at that rate.......

[Dr Goggles]

Sometimes inspiration comes from the most unlikely sources...............

One of the women I share an office with  heard me talking about "paint, and my truck"......she asked why I was painting it...I said because I didn't want to drive a truck with a small black cab in 110F heat....I said " I'm painting it the same cream as we use on the car, I might even paint the roof silver".....she said..." are you going to use that silver sparkly flakey stuff that is on your ute?"...

.....
......
...........

You betcha!

So , add to the "list"

flake roof of tow-truck.....

[ol38y]

If you use aluminium foil that woman in your office can't hear what you're thinking!!!   

[Dr Goggles]

If you use aluminium foil that woman in your office can't hear what you're thinking!!!   

top tip Larry , thanks.

maybe I could just wear one of these with an earth ...

[Ron Gibson]

For pre-oiling, I use a 5lb fire extinguisher bottle with valve that I cleaned out. Works great. I have an external filter, so I tapped into the pump side so all the oil is ran through the filter before the engine.

Ron

[grumm441]

For pre-oiling, I use a 5lb fire extinguisher bottle with valve that I cleaned out. Works great. I have an external filter, so I tapped into the pump side so all the oil is ran through the filter before the engine.

Ron

Ron

I did think about using a fire extinguisher. but I will be going with the gas bottle, with a filter
because all the fittings on it are the right size
G

[Dr Goggles]

I did think about using a fire extinguisher. but I will be going with the gas bottle, with a filter
because all the fittings on it are the right size
G

and you weren't going to be offered the 5lb'er at my place as it is still in service as the "cat discourager".... 

[Freud]

She made a mistake in her observation         flake roof of your tow-truck

I'd say     "roof of the flakes tow truck."

She'll get a better  grade on her paper if she alters it.

FREUD

[Dr Goggles]

Flake huh?

Flake.


 I'll add that to the loooooong list of things I've been called.........

[Milwaukee Midget]

She made a mistake in her observation         flake roof of your tow-truck

I'd say     "roof of the flakes tow truck."

She'll get a better  grade on her paper if she alters it.

FREUD

Now, Freud, if we're GRADING papers - "flakes" is not a proper possessive form, and I'm unfamiliar with the flakes tow truck of which you speak. 

Is that like Sonja Hennie's two too?

[grumm441]

Jims Towing

G

[Elmo Rodge]

She made a mistake in her observation         flake roof of your tow-truck

I'd say     "roof of the flakes tow truck."

She'll get a better  grade on her paper if she alters it.

FREUD

Now, Freud, if we're GRADING papers - "flakes" is not a proper possessive form, and I'm unfamiliar with the flakes tow truck of which you speak. 

Is that like Sonja Hennie's two too?

Chris, there is but one "N" in Henie. Not two, too.  Wayno

[Milwaukee Midget]

2 shay, Wayno! 
 

[Dr Goggles]

I painted the truck on Saturday, in my long and illustrious career of high end auto-finishing this was a significant landmark.......

It started raining as I was finishing the back of the cab, I was standing on the motor with the cab tilted....... the passengers side had about 18 inches between it and the fence.Then it began caning down...... I'd elected not to repair the areas at the back of the cab where rust had perforated the seam at the bottom....I went inside , I'd been at it all day and had located the cab release lever three times positively with my head, my patience was at a low ebb.

I woke up in the middle of the night and with a certain clarity that had evaded me earlier thought...."hmmmm, that seam, with the flat lip under it...and the cab tilted up....that's gonna collect water that is"....it was raining cats and dogs and I could hear the spouting overflowing out the front...

I was right.

There was a gallon or three in the cab by the time I got there.... with any luck it might have soaked up the intense pot-pourri smell from air-freshener sachets that it was full of when I got it.....I think the last owner may have been a very ,very smelly man.....

Anyway BOT. I managed to fab up a cover for the new parachute door catch....it's important because the force from the drone spring tends to foul any moving parts. I fashioned a piece of 1/16th SS plate and then set the cable up, I'm yet to rig the cable to the cab , but I feel a little more confident about the whole thing now.

The Colonel sent me a message last night " I just broke a head bolt, full set of ARP studs tomorrow ,send money, wish you were here"

So that means the short is together and the heads are going on so the valves can be introduced to the piston tops...... I'm sure he'll fill us in soon.

Oh yeah, I sat in front of the TV on Saturday night and bent up a bellytank shaped aerial from a coathanger for the truck, nothing but the best here.