Australian Belly Tank

[SPARKY]

you are not drinking NEAR enough if you are still peeing yellow 

[Dr Goggles]

     
    Belly up ta da cash machine Dr. cause if your comin to Americian salt you'll need 500 ponies.

 http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=170627407218&fromMakeTrack=true&ssPageName=VIP:watchlink:top:en

Anything less then 2 HP per C.I. is a wheezer!! You have three days to to convince the PM and her mate to give you a government performance grant in order to "whip the yanks"  

right motor, sort of......... right bellhousing , wrong crank(although according to my rules of engagement it looks like it comes with a multiplate clutch), and wtf is that thing poking out of the timing cover?

Mmmmmmm Kinsler

Anyway George...I'm not entirely sure I should take everything you say as gospel coz when I leave Bonneville I'm hoping to do it with a pat on the back not a slipper in the coit*.

no offense


* http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=coit

[Milwaukee Midget]

[/i] Bonneville I'm hoping to do it with a pat on the back not a slipper in the coit*.

Coit? 

Always sending me to the dictionary, these Aussies.

Okay, so if I extrapolate, from the Latin, into Aussie English, "Coitus Interruptus" would be making an idiot shut up?

[SPARKY]

naw me thinks  he is looking for a pat on the back  :-)instead of a kick to his backside

[Milwaukee Midget]

Not calling ANYONE an idiot - just grappling with the language, and hoping to properly catalogue this idiom for further use . . .

[racergeo]

   Der good Dr., if you don't come with enough ammo (H.P.) your liable to leave with an Isky 404 JR in the sphincter. (over heard from Stroker McGurk when he thought his mic was off)

[Dr Goggles]

Nah, I was having a crack at George who went faster by accident than we'll ever go........

[grumm441]

Speaking of Coits'
Russell Coit

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XWEU1A0qmI&NR=1

[racergeo]

  Grummy, thanks for that. They say laughter is the best medicine and I'm sick of this weather in western Washington. Record rain and 10* F below average temp. Keep that coming and I'll be all better!

[Dr Goggles]

Sorry to disappoint anyone but this is a post about the Australian Bellytank....

I pulled the motor a few weeks back and took it round to the Colonel's....intact, unmolested.I managed to break an 02 sensor when the header it was in fell over slowly and landed with a quiet but distinct "crack"......that left me with the inanimate body and frame........

Today I jacked it up onto the stands and started thinking how I'm going to chop the Borg-Warner pumpkin out and install the 10 bolt. At times I've thought I might take the whole rear superstructure off as the frame is bolted to it at the rear bulk-head....nah, that means there's even less support when I have the pumpkin out.....it seems it will be best to do it all in-situ...I'll politely ask the Colonel to turn some aluminium bushes for the radius rods and then I think I'll just weld some half inch rod spars to support the axles tubes at as many locations as possible. I will also have to make some new way of supporting the rear of the car to take the weight off the axle stands....just to remind yers, we are cutting out the pumpkin because we want to keep the Ford axle tubes,axles( we're changing to 28's)and brakes

I took the wheels off to store them and found two lug-nuts that could have been tighter, I was certain I did every single one to the click with the torque wrench.....obviously not....just goes to show precision and rushed preparation aren't necessarily happy bedfellows.

[grumm441]

Sorry to disappoint anyone but this is a post about the Australian Bellytank....

I pulled the motor a few weeks back and took it round to the Colonel's....intact, unmolested.

My Dad was just here to tell me he had the parts for the track tensioner for his Cat D8
I think he was hinting at something. And I think I know what I am doing over Easter
While he was here, he was doing his usual wonder around the crap that was in the yard looking for his ladder, that I don't have.
As I had all the bikes out of the shed, he could get in there and fiddle with stuff. Amongst other things he hinted at, like fitting the new engine to his DC welder and fixing the sliding gate i put up at his house 20 is years ago. He pointed out to me that the inlet manifold bolts were loose on the tank motor! Unmolested?
He also pointed out that I had an awful lot of motorcycles and car engines and that I should get rid of a few. This is me hinting at something.
I told him they were not all this stuff was mine
And Goggles, if you want some homebrew. I have ten 1.25 liter bottles of 2011LG special brew. oops, make that nine and three 2 liter bottles of ginger beer you can take, when you come to pickup the alloytech
G


I wonder how the alloytech would go hooked up to the Lincoln DC welder

[Dr Goggles]

You're losin' ya mind.........


I told you I took the manifold off L,S&B because as you may remember we swung the motor sideways to get the car under it....couldn't quite manage that by meself, had to hoist it higher to get the car out from underneath it..., that means with the TB's or the whole lot off ......

Unmolested meant I didn't pull the heads off and fill the valley with blasting sand

Small mercies.....

The Alloytec on the welder?.....they've already finished the Westgate bridge........anyway why does your septuagenarian father have a D8?...struth, lucky he's away from built up areas........I might have a buyer for the Alloytec same folks might want to take the tow-truck too...they've hired it the last two weeks and it's just what they're after......... I'll come over this week and get the motor....

As you were men.

[grumm441]

He's an Octogenarian
If he was a Septuagenarian he would have a D7
And I know what you told me, but it's still molested

Have you got the UHF out of the truck, that's of course if it made it in the truck
G

[Dr Goggles]

I'm bored.

I went to see Bill my friendly wrecker here in Sunshine....he's a hot-rodder , he's kind of fond of me ...I exploit that as much as possible. I have been itching to do something with the other little tank we've got here and I figure the "Chopped" show is just the place with it's 1/8th mile dirt drags.....



 A short-cut to a simple set up would be to use the 250cc v-twin I got hit on as it has all the necessary devices I'd need, motor, gearbox,clutch.....so anyway I go and see Bill ,once he shuts up and gets the swing of what I need ( I want a little diff/axle assembly  , I already have a largely complete Prefect front end) he says "this is what you want.....Morris Oxford!........ I can have the rear end and four wheels  for $150, the spoked Dodge wheels in the above pic went to Norm Hardinge for his V12 34 coupe...and sadly I don't have that complete piece that's sitting atop it in the pic either but we'll figure something out.......the diff is tiny and there's four 14x4 inch full disc steel wheels with nice cross plies on 'em ..." it's period correct James...1949!"....I'm figuring there'll be some other neat little pieces I can lift  too........we'll need to knock up some kingpins,a drag link and  split the wishbones to get the front end happening ,the Colonel thinks go kart style steering , then it's a case of arranging a driveshaft off the secondary.........yeah ,sounds like a piece of cake.......

[Stainless1]

250cc    Try a 650 to 1000, they include a trans, turn it sideways, weld a u-joint on a cut down sprocket and you are ready to bolt to a rearend.  Get the wiring harness with the bike and it should almost be ready to rock.

If you require a "period correct" motor and trans an old Morris or Crosley would be cool