Australian Belly Tank

[grumm441]

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

B1 has moved

I haven't seen Cohen for a while. found out you can only have 5000 friends on facebook and moved on

G

[kiwi belly tank]

OMFG Dik!    Ya bought a bloody Morrie. Have you learned to get out of the way of other traffic yet? Or has somebody fed it a 1275 to give it a chance?
  Sid.

[Milwaukee Midget]

OMFG Dik!    Ya bought a bloody Morrie. Have you learned to get out of the way of other traffic yet? Or has somebody fed it a 1275 to give it a chance?
  Sid.

Sid, I'm getting worried.  He buys a car made out of trees and now we haven't heard from him in a week.

Can a 948 Morris outrun termites?

[PJQ]

Being the son of an Agricultural Engineer researcher type, I can throw-in a bit of trivia about Yellow farm machinery. For journal publications in the 60s & 70s everything was painted yellow, coz it translates perfectly to black and white for printing. See:


Not the case anymore, but tradition sticks.

[grumm441]

I still hate it , and I think thtat's why he did it
G

[Queeziryder]

OMFG Dik!    Ya bought a bloody Morrie. Have you learned to get out of the way of other traffic yet? Or has somebody fed it a 1275 to give it a chance?
  Sid.

Sid, I'm getting worried.  He buys a car made out of trees and now we haven't heard from him in a week.

Can a 948 Morris outrun termites?

Only when you drop the Rover/Buick 3.5l V8 in   

[kiwi belly tank]

It looks like he was doing the Museum tours thing, he might have become an exibit... "Ozzy goes walkabout with wooden Morrie".
  Sid.

[Dr Goggles]

OMFG Dik!    Ya bought a bloody Morrie. Have you learned to get out of the way of other traffic yet? Or has somebody fed it a 1275 to give it a chance?
  Sid.

Sid, I'm getting worried.  He buys a car made out of trees and now we haven't heard from him in a week.

Can a 948 Morris outrun termites?

Only when you drop the Rover/Buick 3.5l V8 in   

for one fearful moment there I thought the Rover comment was about the bellytank, I went into cardiac arrest, refer to the hsitorical section of this thread for my deep love of Brit iron.......

[Reverend Hedgash]

I am still alive, thanks for the concern. Only concern for me though is the amount of fuel this thing leaks at top of the fuel tank and around the engine which I am fixing this weekend... both seem like common problems but need to jump on them quick. Trick is I have moved to another country and my tools have not so I am on the hunt for everything again.... plus whitworth spanners!

Seem to some reasonable job lots of tools on ebay, and I also have my eye on a nice lincoln 170 mig welder... lookout!

That said, the morrie goes, it has no trouble  whatsoever keeping up with the traffic, it is a refurbed silver seal 1098 engine and I have no problem with it. Braking is slow though with the old 8 inch drums but it does have new pads.
 
Dik

[kiwi belly tank]

Metric & SAE tools should cover you ok Dik. I have some customers that bring me their early sports cars & I get by ok. Morgan, TR's, Jag's, MG's & Healey's. One thing about them is they're as simple as a Model A & easy to work on.
We only give you crap cause we like ya.
  Sid.

[Dr Goggles]

We only give you crap cause we like ya.
  Sid.

Wow, that should be the sign-off line for this whole thread........... an odd-ball bunch have assembled themselves around this car and Sid, I'm pretty sure you explained why with the least number of words possible.

I've done it once, but I often want to share the email conversations that happen in the background, but that would diminish the point of them.....this week there have been some beauties.

As you were............

[Speed Limit 1000]

It is a good thing they are "easy to work on", they are like women, you really have to love them to keep them.
 I  have whitworth spanners and sockets  thank god I don't have to use them too often.

[Dr Goggles]

 Got the floor on after a struggle, it's 1/4 plate so it acts to stiffen the frame , with 1/2 inch studs welded to it it is hard to understand why it was hard to get on.....in the end I had a jack under the front of it trying to bow it slightly, yep got it, then as I was tightening it there was an almighty BANG! as it settled finally into place.....dunno if it was the beer or the tequila at the rehearsal last night but it was just as well i'd just been to the toilet cause it scared the living shite outa me, heart rate took a couple of minutes to return to acceptable levels.....



I got the axles, drums and rear radius rods on yesterday and fitted up the pedal set...



Yesterdays triumph was fitting a belt to my wamily fagon which is an enigma wrapped in a conundrum phrased as a riddle with a part number not related to it's length....it had siezed an idler pulley bearing, completely melted off the plastic pulley and mangled the belt, looks like it got pretty hot too.....no, I wasn't driving it, somebody who's car has to have some work on it was , go figure.

 

[grumm441]

Yesterdays triumph

 

I would like to take that out of context and run with it, however.......     Sid?

I have just been standing and staring at the engine and trying to work out how to fix the valve geometry
It would seem that the slots in the rockers were not really designed for the amount of lift we have
I have thought lash caps, those Manley Loc caps look pretty good,  which would seem to be the easy option but it would seem they all require ".250 of valve tip poking out we have ".125
The other option would be longer valves which may be the easy option because the Chev length seems about just right
But it doesn't look like I can get the same diameter in an inlet

I might go to the hot rod show at custom lane and have a think about , and then get my hair cut short, so I can't pull anymore out
G

[SPARKY]

you can all ways grind them down or slot the rockers---or both --posted by a simple mind with too much vino--that right vino---not ceverza---imagine that!!