With a blue interior and a white body I'm seeing something like the Ironman Stewart paint scheme, only in blues and grays rather than in reds and oranges.
I guy that I know who was into body work once told me that those guys at Maaco etc. tend to get really good at spraying the paint due to the shear volume of vehicles that they paint. It's their prep work that is done too fast. He did all of the body and prep work, and then had them spray it. Car...
The shrinking that I've seen done was done with small spots. I wonder if you could ideally use a TIG to heat a small spot and then shrink it, repeat ad nauseum? Youtube University has got to have some tutorials on how to do this.
In master cylinders those cones are usually an insert and can be removed by tapping their hole. Sometimes just bottoming the tap and continuing to spin it will pull the insert, but better is to use a screw. Would suck to break a tap off in there.
Not sure that is the case in calipers, they've...
I had a similar leak on one of the V6 calipers that I put on Patch. The AN adapter wouldn't seal in it. Too long ago, don't recall what the fix was. Possibly it was an adapter with longer metric threads.
Another option would be to move the tube flare to the other side of the U-Bend and have the hose make that bend. Could possibly make them the same length if the bend radius is large enough?
The Roll-Flare tool is nice that it is all one piece - no separate parts floating around, but compact it is not.
The thickness of the dies gripping the tube for flaring are an issue for all flaring tools. I find that I'm having to plan out the whole tube if a bend or bends tight to the tube nut...
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I was just today replacing the m/c to prop-valve lines on Snowball that I made in 'get it driving' mode and haven't liked ever since. Had to replace an almost new M/C as it was doing something strange and figured while I'm in there.... Hence the truck's name. I...
This is interesting. I built a PS reservoir for Snowball that wouldn't stop cavitating, so I replaced it with a Lee PS part. I set mine aside with plans to look into why at some later date. When I built the reservoir I built it with a simple vent tube that has no restriction. I am very tempted...
The water pump cavities are pretty distinctive when you know what they are. So about 276 CID? I'd think that will have some grunt.
Sympathetic to long term projects and just wanting to drive them.
Not easily, and I'm sure that I've used them in the past. Could instead go with O-Ring Bump like GM uses in their later PS systems. That might mean crimped hose ends instead of Field Attachables, although inconvenient that's not a huge problem.
The ram doesn't see recirculating flow like the...
I see them too, not widely, but I do see them. I will never use one myself. I suspect that those who do use them either don't know any better or don't care. Like I posted above, I didn't fully grasp the importance of it until I saw the hurricane of PS fluid in the reservoir that I built. When...
Machined 90°'s were something that Tom Lee, former owner (now retired) of Lee Power Steering, told me to specifically avoid. Period. Said that they cause too much cavitation in the fluid. Use formed tube 90°'s only.
I used to think that was pretty extreme, but having built a PS reservoir in the...
Too late, I already told a couple Ford guys about them. Specifically Early Bronco guys. Two of most recognized EB owner's on/near the West Coast will soon be trying them out and another has a set headed into his LS powered J-Truck. I'll link rather than post pics of those. EB's #1 & #2 Center...
Not all Viton o-rings are brown, some are black. But it used to be, and maybe still is true that a brown o-ring is only Viton.
Learned to drive at 12 or 13 in a '50 F1 with a T-Bird 292/Auto and a Pontiac 4.11 rear axle. Grandparents had a ~1/3 mile long driveway and I'll bet that I put 5000...
Use Viton o-rings. They pretty much won't care what the 'fuel' is made from. You'll have to buy way more than you need, but McMaster has a good selection of them. I like o-rings better than flat gaskets any time I can get them. If I can't use them in a O-Ring Boss type of port shape I use a...
It's quite a bit narrower, didn't realize how wide what you have, is. Can measure it, but I'll guess in the 7/8" range.
Thanks! Figuring out how to transport propane on the long dirt trips has definitely taken a few iterations. Realizing that we rarely used even 1/2 of a bbq tank and moving to...
I went with the 4" Lee PS remote reservoir on the Wagoneer. Anything taller wouldn't fit where I wanted to put it. Has about the same fluid volume as the GM remote reservoirs used on some of their 1 ton truck PS systems. Similar to this, but I had an H-B return fitting added: 3" x 4" Nascar...