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Paul fairall
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mmm I'll have to look into that, may be some twin su's and manifolds for sale if that is the case. Life is busy enough without drilling new holes in the sump and welding tubes in.
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GARAGE HERMIT
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few more thing's done, fitted the SU's, old style HT lead's, radiator fan, breather catch can (cocktail shaker), dismanteled the front leaf spring's and refurbed, refurbed both front brake hub actuator's, one had no rubber shroud on, and the other side was torn, gave the brake light switch a good clean and made a gasket for it, started sorting the brake linkage's out, they are all out of adjustment and dry as a bone, the compression tube was seized solid, took two day's soaking in penetrating fluid, and a hammer and drift to free it off,, still a lot to do, but think the list is down to only four page's, lol,
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GARAGE HERMIT
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Paul fairall
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Coming along nicely, did you move the dipstick. I was talking to someone about it and he suggested cutting a square of metal around the dipstick so as not to disturb the brazing and weld it in the other side of the sump and then weld a pkayeplayed over the hokey or butt weld a piece in.
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GARAGE HERMIT
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| Rick wrote: | Thanks for the update. Is the dynamo bracket one you made or are these available? I was looking at my old Superhead the other day, and I assumed that "back in the day" you had to buy a bracket to fit the dynamo on, hanging off the side of the engine perhaps.
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i made the dynamo bracket's myself, a bit of a faf on, but they worked out fine, i could have taken the easy option and bought the SFS kit (£90.), but i had the bit's of 1/4" flat bar in the garage, and i like making stuff, so i did,
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GARAGE HERMIT
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| Paul fairall wrote: | | Coming along nicely, did you move the dipstick. I was talking to someone about it and he suggested cutting a square of metal around the dipstick so as not to disturb the brazing and weld it in the other side of the sump and then weld a pkayeplayed over the hokey or butt weld a piece in. |
sorry paul, you've lost me with the "weld a pkayeplayed over the hokey or butt weld a piece in."
not moved the dipstick yet, still trying to think of another way to do it, maybe a sight tube, we'll see,
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Paul fairall
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| GARAGE HERMIT wrote: | | Paul fairall wrote: | | Coming along nicely, did you move the dipstick. I was talking to someone about it and he suggested cutting a square of metal around the dipstick so as not to disturb the brazing and weld it in the other side of the sump and then weld a pkayeplayed over the hokey or butt weld a piece in. |
sorry paul, you've lost me with the "weld a pkayeplayed over the hokey or butt weld a piece in."
not moved the dipstick yet, still trying to think of another way to do it, maybe a sight tube, we'll see, |
whats wrong with you, don't you understand predictive jibberish? Cut a square around the dipstick to avoid welding near the brazed in dipstick tube. It should be weld a plate over the hole where the dipstick was before. Weld the dipstick tube with its square of sump plate on the other side of the sump.
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GARAGE HERMIT
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| alastairq wrote: | | Huge photos..nearly banged my head! |
yes, sorry, i'll have to try and reduce them, before posting, 
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GARAGE HERMIT
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| Paul fairall wrote: | | whats wrong with you, don't you understand predictive jibberish? Cut a square around the dipstick to avoid welding near the brazed in dipstick tube. It should be weld a plate over the hole where the dipstick was before. Weld the dipstick tube with its square of sump plate on the other side of the sump. |
the original dipstick hole in the block is 3/8" unf, just screw an allen bolt in to blank it off, or, what i did was cut the D/S tube down to about an inch, then thread the I.D. of it and put an 8mm bolt in,
you'd be putting more heat into the sump welding a plate on, instead of just welding the dipstick tube on, jmpo,
ps, i think, you think the D/S is on the sump pan, original position is threded into the block,
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| GARAGE HERMIT wrote: | | Paul fairall wrote: | | whats wrong with you, don't you understand predictive jibberish? Cut a square around the dipstick to avoid welding near the brazed in dipstick tube. It should be weld a plate over the hole where the dipstick was before. Weld the dipstick tube with its square of sump plate on the other side of the sump. |
the original dipstick hole in the block is 3/8" unf, just screw an allen bolt in to blank it off, or, what i did was cut the D/S tube down to about an inch, then thread the I.D. of it and put an 8mm bolt in,
you'd be putting more heat into the sump welding a plate on, instead of just welding the dipstick tube on, jmpo,
ps, i think, you think the D/S is on the sump pan, original position is threded into the block, |
have to admit I haven't looked into it yet.
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GARAGE HERMIT
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instead of a dip-stick, i'm going to use a level gauge,
sump drain plug with two 1/4" x 1/2" magnet's areldite'd in, not that they needed to be glued in, just belt and braces,
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Richard H
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That looks seriously lovely. Top work so far.
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