Australian Belly Tank

[grumm441]

   I like the idea. Maybe fenders off a 49 Chevy pickup. Hmmm? Fat fendered. Could work.
  Doug 

That's a cracking idea Grommit
Although if they are anything like the size of the fenders on my 41 Chev pickup, he will need to lengthen the the thing about two feet
G

[Dr Goggles]

Got a coat of color on the frame/cage today after knocking over a few jobs. I hate spraying enamel, it makes everything  tacky. I ended up with the same Golden Yellow that it was last time, yes Colonel it looks like a tractor......

Tomorrow I'll get the rest of it on and start cleaning up the last of the parts I'm reusing, then, then the refit starts proper like.

[Reverend Hedgash]

Excellent work Dr G, back on topic too.

Tomorrow morning the two chaps building a uk Canberra tank are dropping in, looking forward to hearing of their progress after recently picking up their tank. I now know one of the guys who is active of the air museum with the runway most used for Landspeed trials (the one Hammond tipped on Top Gear) so maybe can start thinking about a test day!

Dik

[grumm441]

I'm not towing it to the UK
G

[Dr Goggles]

ee-by-gum Grumm,

I got another coat on the frame yesterday after I went to the trouble of buying a disposable suit, It looks reasonable. A clean up of a lot of the bolt in parts , new lines and tubing will also improve the appearance of the interior, after the last five years of changes here and there and brushcoating touch ups it was starting to look a bit like a fishing boat in there...

The Colonel turned up yesterday in his avatar car, i heard the 327 and thought hmmmm, that doesn't live around here... We got a list of money-do's together, it ain't too long. He has reported back that the battery isn't goosed, I thought it was as it wouldn't show charge on my charger, it has only started the car a handful of times, that's $200 didn't want to shell out.

The list isn't too long, but some of the items are going to take a long time so I really have to get my A into G.

[Jon]

Sounds like some good progress, did you send Sparky the batteries out of your camera?

Do you have a front off a Sunshine Harvester on your wall?
I saw the remains of one when I was out in the field a couple weeks ago, can track down the landowner if you want.
Cheers
jon

[Dr Goggles]

Hey smarty-pants, you're right though....it's part of this thing where I now have so many devices that can access the net but some won't do everything so it's a kind of lowest common denominator deal...I'll get some up soon. Grumm was seemingly impressed with the new steering column arrangement. We discussed the problem I've been talking about with the steering box, I have a feeling that when I got the car airborne at the end of a run in 2010 that upon landing the steering box may have moved giving us toe out, which would explain the way the car behaved on the last run. Just for those who don't want to go searching  the car needed about a quarter turn to keep it running straight and only needed the slightest cross gust to send it right across the course. I have built a bracket that it just rests againt from 1/4 plate, that will support it in a similar situation and give it a reference point to be checked when the lid is up.

As for the Sunshine Harvester stuff, it's a great story and HV McKay was a great character, that's why we called it that....sounds better than the Braybrook Barnstormer... If you get a chance though I'd love one of them.

[Dr Goggles]

New column arrangement....a pair of pad bearings and a piece of 3/4 bar, ridiculous overkill


pinned at the knuckle end , not welded so it can be removed.



welded and pinned at the wheel end



added a backing plate for the brake master, it used to mount from a cross piece at the top, it was a bad way to do it....



new tube gusset in the top of the cage, why didn't I go to the junction at the top? you work it out....

[Seldom Seen Slim]

On the subject of yellow -- I just wanted to mention that yesterday I was probably the only person in Michigan's Upper Peninsula that was wearing a yellow "Spirit of Sunshine" t-shirt.  I got no comments from onlookers, though.

[SPARKY]

Forgive them SSS  their brains were numbed by the cold---as must yours for wearing a T shirt in DEC on the UP   

[Jon]

New steering looks good, how is Colnel's clutch?

In the bottom pic, are the two yellow bits sticking forward inside the cage your helmet lateral restraints?
I take a guess at the diagonal brace is to let you see over it?

Cheers.
jon

[grumm441]

I keep expecting to hear that we are sponsored by Cat and we are fitting a diesel
G

[Dr Goggles]

Full points to the bright bloke from Queensland, the laterals were there from the word go, but they used to have round padding, now I've made a full flat shield that goes 180 degrees and will have a piece of SFI flat sheet in it. I have a herniated C4/C5 and the rules as they were when we built the car made me think that if I ever rolled the car I'd be a vegetable anyway so that why they were there to restrict side movement, now I might as well be set in concrete.

Now Bright Sparks...it was 100 here on Saturday.

After saying the steering is overkill I will say compared to the sloppy roller bearing and flimsy outside column arrangement we had this thing feels great.....then again it not like I spend 10 or twenty hours a week sitting in it driving, like my crap work car....

Yes SSS I do something about the shirts, the bloody shirts, hey....don't do a first wash with white stuff with them yeller ones, the color comes out, and the black ones? the printing comes off.....Chinese precision.

Hey Graham, what ? sponsored by Cohen?

[Seldom Seen Slim]

Unh, too late -- but then -- this way I have very haute coture pale yellow undies.  Things could be worse. . .

[SPARKY]

here in AZ sheriff Joe makes the cons wear pink!!