Australian Belly Tank

[grumm441]

lose 20?¿?
I need to lose 20 as well. 20 kgs. That's about 44 lbs. if by some crazy turn of fate Goggs gets me into the car
oh, and change the clutch pedal so that I can push f ing thing in
G

[Jon]

Sounding promising Grumm

I recon he knows someone that could help with the clutch, I think he does the motor work for him.

Colonel someone......

jon

[grumm441]

Colonel something
sounds like some sort of knob
G

[Jon]

So Bob and Knob are brothers, this is confusing..

jon

[Dr Goggles]

Jeez you're a sook.

Is that why you want a hydraulic throw-out? . . . . .turn up with a fire suit and we'll make sure you can press the clutch pedal in. Trust me they are mere trifles when you're sitting on the line, after you've had a run I'll say "how did the clutch go ?" . . .  and you'll just stare at me with a weird glazed look on your face and say "huh?"

If that's the best reason you can come up with for not driving it you've got some big surprises ahead of you.......wait till you get some grey out, that'll refocus your priorities.

[grumm441]

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[Dr Goggles]

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even for the driest, conundrumatic wisester that has ever quipped across the face of this build diary and indeed forum ,that was really something.


Last night I continued with the housework. Having changed the steering column arrangement there are a few little changes to be made to the placement and fixation of the brake pedal assembly and the steering box.I have also been cleaning up some of the bits and pieces involved.....

I stripped and honed the clutch master and gave it a shot of paint, and have finally sorted out a way of indexing where the steering box locates. The steering box is from a Kombi and clamps around the axle, it needs to positively locate as any movement obviously affects the toe in/out, in removing it for whatever reason means the alignment has to be redone, I have finally worked out a practical way of doing that.

Onward landspeed soldiers............

[Glen]

Hey, Dr. G just made # 2000 post, congrats Dr.

[Dr Goggles]

Thanks Glen, this place has been a real savior for me and you are one of the mainstays it means a lot . To everyone else, sorry, I could have said the same in 200.

Today I went to Race Brakes, a local business who do , um, brakes and stuff....I went there for some brake unions and a piece of 1/4" tube, I left with a fistful of fittings, a piece of 1/4"tube and four feet of braided hose......crikey mate we're getting a bit flash here.

[Kiwi Paul]

Hey Doc---post your Kombi box location Tech, would you? I have the same setup on the Stillborn Special....I`ll need to address it, probably sooner rather than later....

[Dr Goggles]

Hey Doc---post your Kombi box location Tech, would you? I have the same setup on the Stillborn Special....I`ll need to address it, probably sooner rather than later....

Hey Paul, the issue for us is that EVERYTHING is jammed in together at the pointy end of the car and if for some reason we need to get in there it all has to do the hokey cokey...........with that long pitman it only has to move a degree or so to flick everything up.
I'm going to weld a "biscuit" of 5mm plate to the axle tube that the top cast section of the box will rest against ,I had considered welding an eyelet there that the front bolt would go through but am addicted the K.I.S.S principle.

Reinforced my feeling that I am a genius last night. I was sitting there doing some intense R&D.....well ,staring at it, when it occurred to me that there were about three better routes for the clutch line than the tortuous one it used to take..all shorter, all better hidden....seriously ,sometimes 

[grumm441]

Yep. Genius.
And it's not a kombi box.
It's just a steering box off a torsion bar front end vw
G

[Dr Goggles]

well I never, I'm even more of a DH than even I thought

On a positive note I'm sitting right in front of it as we speak devoting all of my brain power to it,the light is burning, not terribly brightly but it's burning and the prospect of getting the car sorted in time for Gairdner seems remote now which is way better than impossible which I was afraid to admit a few weeks back, next week it may well improve again to unlikely.

[SPARKY]

As LtCG (Larry the cable guy) says  "Gitter done"!!!

[Dr Goggles]

Bill, you get up too early, or you go to bed too late, either way thanks for the encouragement, It is going to look a lot neater than it has before on the inside...you may notice there's plenty of shots of the outside and ......not many of the inside ..the new head restraint stuff will change it a bit, the new steering column looks good, the change to the hydraulic lines will be a big improve and the paint will be better on it all, so yeah that takes care of the important stuff.....