Australian Belly Tank

[salt27]

Dr. G,
I'm probably not visualizing the finished push bar correctly but just in case I am.

Will the exhaust be restricted during the shove off?

 Don

[Reverend Hedgash]

Chris, I needed that right now.

Making the push bar
 
1./ rigid enough so it won't flex and damage the rear bodywork when it is loaded.,

2./ strong enough with the few direct sight lines I have to the rear superstructure.

3./ small enough so the tail can be removed..

Don't forget straight!

[Dr Goggles]

The outside tube is about two inches proud and it isn't sealed at the front, so it probably doesn't have the full unrestricted flow it does without the push car there, but it shouldn't be too bad, thinking of a piece of mesh in the middle of the push bar.

It would have been easier making this if I hadn't left my acetylene on a few weeks back ......I had to bend a few things and that was by hand, fine until I wanted to make a few little changed near the end .....

Anyway, it's done now.

Don't forget straight!

Wild times here, send money.

[salt27]

I should have known you had it all figured.

That is one sexy looking tank.

Don't forget your Landracing stickers.

 Don

[grumm441]

 AND, it appears to me, anyway, you guys are 99% done.


Fordboy

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G

[Dr Goggles]

Hungry, thirsty, weld burnt and I have to say feelin a bit sore and p'd off right now......

Doc,

All the last minute trials & tribulations will be forgotten at 321.8688kph!!!

Keeping all my fingers (and eyes) crossed for you guys.  AND, it appears to me, anyway, you guys are 99% done.

I'll save the  for the new record....
Fordboy

Appearances can be deceptive, but thanks for the fillip.

The push bar was a job I hadn't time budgeted for, and it took two days.......I have a gig next weekend, one two weeks after that that is a one off I have to learn the songs for, right now I don't have a trailer sorted, I'm sure there are other things I've forgotten but that's enough to panic about now, it's Monday morning and I have a full weeks work ahead, yippeeeee. Even if we just click off the 200 it WILL all be worth it.

Finished that motor yet Colonel

[grumm441]

Motor...  Haha 
Sorting out this wiring loom is a bit of fun, what with it all wires being yellow
Bit like a Russian tractor
G

[Jon]

Has he painted the loom too?

He must have been bitten by an Aedes aegypti while he was up north.

jon

[grumm441]

Has he painted the loom too?

He must have been bitten by an Aedes aegypti while he was up north.

jon

Yes, the loom too
G

[Stainless1]

So all the wires are yellow, with a color tracer when you scrape a spot with a knife... nice. 
 
oh and good luck

[SPARKY]

must have tried to carry over his artistic bent from music to painting ---so a Picasso he's not 

[Dr Goggles]

Motor...  Haha 
Sorting out this wiring loom is a bit of fun, what with it all wires being yellow
Bit like a Russian tractor
G

You're just blind you fiddly old goat.

If the loom is painted , it wasn't me, but due to the popularity of the event it is something I will keep in mind. If I HAD painted it I would have shot it with the epoxy 2k primer, then you'd need a grinder to get it off, now we've got that settled.

Full marks Bennett.

Hey Bob, Is that you I can hear playing a violin??

So, have ya finished the motor, oh yeah, I just asked yesterday.

[Jon]

Who you calling Bennett Giggles?

[grumm441]

you're the one with the glasses
It's sprayed on so unless you let Dik hold the spray gun?
Motor is currently in bits. waiting for the postie with my valves

[Dr Goggles]

Rattle can.

Now, a crisis has just been averted. When we had the ten bolt diff set up I asked for the Borg-Warner yoke to be put on it. I couldn't help but notice when I put it back in the car that it had the Spicer nine inch style yoke, OK I thought, It mustn't fit....... Today I went to the drive-shaft folk seeking an odd size uni-joint only to be told that there was no part on offer to fit the combination I was after. I was just a little annoyed( the Colonel will attest to this after the phone call he received) as I'd paid top dollar to have the ten bolt set up and when it was returned there were a bunch of bits that were no longer with it, it didn't even come with the crush spacer we need to do a ratio change at the lake.....The options were, 1./ put a nine inch style yoke on the end of the tailshaft, a snip at $350 . I went home, pretty sure that the pinion yoke that came off the Borg-Warner would fit. I just rattled gunned the Spicer yoke off, and rattle gunned the BW yoke on. Done, now I don't even need to buy the new uni. And the dear helpful soul who was going to charge me $350 to put himself out to weld another yoke on and balance it can spend his time having a cup of tea instead.

I just spoke to Simon, he has a series of as he termed them "first world problems", can't decide whether to go for a surf, where to go, or should he just go to a cafe for a lounge around... we're doing it tough down here let me tell you. Personally I had to work from home this morning, hard to do work calls when the birds are going crazy in the backyard, like I said we're toughing it out here........

This afternoon I drop the fire system bottles off, not expecting any surprises.