Australian Belly Tank

[SPARKY]

it all begins with a curiosity, that evolves:

much like the 9 stages of drinking---but it is the dream stage that is a MUST
Until it is an evolving dream that will not go away---nothing happens
 Here's to DREAM TIME    {with styled hair--- read hair dryers} lol

[grumm441]

I still can't believe it

Paragraph 2 " oil is stored in the pan and squeezed between two gears to create both pressure and volume."

G

[Dr Goggles]

 OK I can't see any fins poking out of the water so i'm in......

Paragraph 2 " oil is stored in the pan and squeezed between two gears to create both pressure and volume."
G

Has this got something to do with PVT....and pressure and volume being inversely related?

After last weeks prattle about not working on "production stuff" I strode bravely into the weekend.....and spent six hours working on the clutch mechanism in a 72 VW. If I'd spent six hours on MY car I probably could have saved $200 on the radiator refit, but no, I'll save that time for squeezing myself into a sardine can working on a crazy cable set-up, in a car I don't drive and fear being a passenger in.

After that was done I was left alone to work on the bellytank, which as far as this thread is concerned is the main game.I made preparations for getting the rotisserie out of the shed, while it is a great thing to have the car mounted on there is little I can do with the front end of the car because so many parts are attached or related to the axle/steering/pedal arrangement and they need the axle fitted properly.  I hoisted the frame  and took out the huge H section that supports each end of the rotisserie, that made it a heap safer and more pleasant getting around in the shed.I refitted the front axle. I remade the thick rubber pads that are sandwiched between the perches and the axle mounts. Once I'd mounted it I thought , "I'll just measure that up"and took a tape from the front radius rod mount to the rear axle tube........2925mm right..... 2937 left??. I took the perches off, and cleaned them up a little as they were some of the bits that got left behind when the blasting was done.... then I noticed they were not quite identical, so I reversed them, I put it all back together and did it up tight .......2930mm right, 2931mm left ...near enough for shedgineering.

I scoped out the second new set of bars for the top of the cab, I'm going to make them but I'll leave them out until the last minute as they are going to make doing any other work in the cab difficult once they are in.

I had a long stare at the steering shaft arrangement, and then I had a bit of a think about making more internal cladding for the cab.

Feelin good about this thing......

[Freud]

I hope you can survive if you ever get a beer with a twist top and it's a left hand thread..........

FREUD

[Dr Goggles]

I hope you can survive if you ever get a beer with a twist top and it's a left hand thread..........

FREUD

Pa, where there is a will there is a way.........I'm ill-willed and way-ward.....is that enough???

It's 11am here , Monday morning and I obviously didn't drink enough on the weekend because as soon as i saw "Twist-top" I thought ...."hmmmmm, wouldn't mind a beer"......

[Glen]

Freud, don't forget they are up side down as well, may still twist it the wrong way

[Dr Goggles]

Freud, don't forget they are up side down as well, may still twist it the wrong way

˙˙˙˙˙˙˙ʎɐʍ ǝɥʇ ʎq sɹǝǝɥɔ 'ɥʇnoɯ ʎɯ ɹǝʌo ʎןʇɔǝɹıp ɹǝǝq ʎɹǝʌǝ ǝuǝdo ı ןןǝʍ sɐ ʇsnظ s,ʇı ʇɐɥʇ uʍop ǝpısdn 'pɐǝɹɥʇ puɐɥ ʇɟǝן ɐ ɥʇıʍ ,uıɹnbıɟ ɯ,ı 'ʍou '¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿sıɥʇ pɐǝɹ noʎ uɐɔ 'uuǝןb ʎǝɥ

[Freud]

I've met my match but if it burns long enough for me to unzip I’ll put him out.

G'Pa FERD

[Dr Goggles]

Careful with that zip there Pa, they've been known to smart..........I think it's called a Circum-zip-sion.

Is it raining?

[rgn]

I still can't believe it

Paragraph 2 " oil is stored in the pan and squeezed between two gears to create both pressure and volume."

G

pressure yes... volume?  I much prefer it when my mind is in the gutter though...

[Dr Goggles]

Got some more bars for the cab sorted out on the weekend but spent most of the time working on a fender for a friend....welded in a gill vent, did a little rust repair , welded up an aerial hole and some badge holes ....oh and I almost forgot.....I took a huge chunk out of the back of my right index finger with the back of a new flap disc.......and scored a beaut blood blister.When asked how much the job was going to cost him I told my friend ,"when we are putting the bellytank back together I own you for two days"....I used to work in a bike workshop with him and he's real good on the tools.....

[Milwaukee Midget]

It’s kind of nice having an indentured servant in the wings.  I worked a similar deal with my electromusical buddy Tim today, but in reverse.  The engine is out of the Midget, but now I’ve got to trailer up and haul his vintage Neve console and plate reverb out of storage . . . into his flat.

Grummy – it won’t break 200 without an engine . . .

[Dr Goggles]

I wish I had a buddy with a Nieve console in his flat, FMD and a plate reverb . I had someone hassling me to build a plate recently "you can weld can't ya?"....I thought there are a whole bunch of reasons that this could go badly, the least attractive of all was the possibility it got used a lot, and then someone who knew what they were talking about deemed it to sound like shit.....

[grumm441]

Grummy – it won’t break 200 without an engine . . .

I'll pack it up and send it over to you
G

[Milwaukee Midget]

I'll pack it up and send it over to you
G

Given the near catastrophes and dodged bullets I've encountered with my donk, it might be a tad safer in Preston.

I could try to hunt down a Menard Indy engine for you - probably bolt right up.