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Yep, that's what I'm going to try - compressed air. Thanks for the wood block tip.
I'm ready to get back at it. Been away for 3 weeks now.
Build 1st FJ40, '76 - SMOKEY - Puttin’ her Back Together
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Yep, that's what I'm going to try - compressed air. Thanks for the wood block tip.
I'm ready to get back at it. Been away for 3 weeks now.
Always put some sort of block in calipers if blowing them out with compressed air - they can leave the bores quite forcefully , enough to break the piston and anything else than gets in the way . Blocks of different thicknesses works great . Be aware that air pressure works in an odd way on volume areas such as cylinders and hollow calipers - let it build slowly to prevent building up a huge blast and keep in mind there may be media material coming out as well around those dust boots . I've destroyed a lot of eyeglass lenses from doing stuff like this , grinding shields are worth the money .
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Interested in the rationale for rebuilding calipers. I've always just traded them in for me remanufactured ones. Reason being I heard horror stories about persistent leaks from home rebuilt calipers.
Do you hone the cylinders before reassembling?
Do you hone the cylinders before reassembling?
Stump makes a valid point - I think when I turned in the FJ62 caliper cores, the new cores wound up costing something like $30 a piece after the core charge was factored in. Money will spent, if you ask me!
Agreed.
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Hmmm. Well I didn't think about it. I assumed the current ones were hard to source and was just rebuilding what I had. I'll gladly swap them for rebuilds if I can find them (and I now assume I can given these comments). Thanks for pointing that out - though I did order new seals for these.
I've blasted one but one remains. I think I'll rebuild the one and see how it operates, then decide. Famous last words "It's just a couple of seals."
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I have found a commercial blast cabinet and 100# pressure pot right under my nose. My buddy owns a trophy company and they have a Rayzist (similar to this one http://www.rayzist.com/store/Sandcarving_Equipment.php/sandblasting-equipment-2034vxa.php, but not an automatic recycler).
Has a nice vacuum system and dust collector on it. Since they've not used it for 10 years, and have a nicer one now, I think he wants a mere $400 for it.
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Has a nice vacuum system and dust collector on it. Since they've not used it for 10 years, and have a nicer one now, I think he wants a mere $400 for it.
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Good news from the engine guy. He said that the block has been honed, pistons are fine(!) and he is ordering new cam shaft, lifters, rings, etc.
He said done in two weeks, and asked how much of it I want him to put it back together. I said assemble the stuff that a first timer would screw up and leave the rest for me to learn on.
He said parts were at about $600 and labor at about $300 thus far. Nice!
I've spent the past two days (well, about an hour each day), moving parts out of my garage into our storage unit. We have an 8'x24' steel unit storing extra construction material from our finished pool project, and it has lots of room for FJ40 parts. My garage needs to make room for a rolling chassis, as that is my next goal.
On a bright note, we met with our architect and builder yesterday to plan for phase two of our build - garage and workshop buildings. We will start grading in Sept and hopefully construction on those buildings as soon as grading is done. Since princess is managing the construction project, I'm guessing my building will be last. That's cool - I'll just keep working and making $$ to pay for this stuff. Hopefully by this time next year, I'll have a shop.
Hoping to pick up the blast cabinet this weekend. Need a compressor that will let it run for at least 5 minutes between fill ups.
And soon, back to the front knuckles!
He said done in two weeks, and asked how much of it I want him to put it back together. I said assemble the stuff that a first timer would screw up and leave the rest for me to learn on.
He said parts were at about $600 and labor at about $300 thus far. Nice!
I've spent the past two days (well, about an hour each day), moving parts out of my garage into our storage unit. We have an 8'x24' steel unit storing extra construction material from our finished pool project, and it has lots of room for FJ40 parts. My garage needs to make room for a rolling chassis, as that is my next goal.
On a bright note, we met with our architect and builder yesterday to plan for phase two of our build - garage and workshop buildings. We will start grading in Sept and hopefully construction on those buildings as soon as grading is done. Since princess is managing the construction project, I'm guessing my building will be last. That's cool - I'll just keep working and making $$ to pay for this stuff. Hopefully by this time next year, I'll have a shop.
Hoping to pick up the blast cabinet this weekend. Need a compressor that will let it run for at least 5 minutes between fill ups.
And soon, back to the front knuckles!
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It all depends on the cabinet's gun and air jet size/nozzle setup . Most common "shop" level cabinets will require a 20+cfm pump and at least an 80 gallon tank . I just serviced and installed a new sight glass into my old SpeedAir unit , never have been able to outrun it completely . Upgrading to synthetic Royal Purple made for recip compressors trying to lower running temps in the summer when using the pot blaster outside . Also fitted up another 60 gallon tank outside on my work trailer to help add volume - this allows the pump to cool a bit between cycles longer . Finishing up blasting all the front axle parts today and get started on them in paint . Most stuff will be black , the brake backing plates will be stainless steel welder's paint to prevent rusting in the future . May topcoat them with industrial gloss black so they don't stick out too much . Also have to start the cut n turn today if weather permits .
Get the numbers off that cabinet when you get it home , do a search online and find out what parts fit it , make a list and keep it for later . There are wear parts , just fyi besides nozzles , ect ...
Sarge
Get the numbers off that cabinet when you get it home , do a search online and find out what parts fit it , make a list and keep it for later . There are wear parts , just fyi besides nozzles , ect ...
Sarge
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Spent around half the day reading through your thread. Thought we could be best friends until I saw the auburn fan part.... We can talk in December I guess (i didn't watch the iron bowl this year and still haven't seen the game or highlights knowing ahead of time auburn would win by a hair and by dumb luck esp after that ga game), and I've been to probably 50% of home and away games of bama for more than the last decade.
I'm actually having to force myself away from football for a while, I keep telling myself not to get so bent out of shape for something I can't control so this year I have blacked out Espn and all of my bama sites and recruiting junk to make me focus on other things. ... I could not sleep a full night for weeks after that cam comeback.... I still can't stand him or think about that game, hence why i didn't watch this years and never will .
Anyway back to 40s your threads have been great to read and I relate to you some with not being a professional mechanic and working on the 40 between life and work when the moons align the right way,(work for family owned business with 6 locations and 3 more coming within 24 months across two states doesn't leave much cruiser time). I'm lucky if my workday is less than 10 hours and Sundays working 8 hours feels like a half day but life is good, though lately I have to watch myself or "just 5 minutes" will turn into a few hours on mud. People saying owning your own business and being your own boss sounds great... Thousands of customers are my boss with new ones coming in everyday if things are going good, what are those dreamers talking about, I'm sure you know more than me about pleasing customers in the food industry I don't envy you in that cutthroat environment where only the strongest of the strong survive.
I don't know why but your paper towels stuck with me.
I save paper towels as well for my projects, I quit buying at them at home probably going off of how they disappear at our stores so fast ,they usually get wasted or stolen from us enough to go through two of the SAMs club boxes a month at each location.
I've been looking at some of those things like the harbor freight media blaster or the Eastwood bucket gun. Like you until I get a garage or workshop I am limited on tools I can use, but in the hopefully short future a home shop full of Toyota projects is in the works.
Anyways I am way off topic on my post but I really enjoyed reading through your thread and your 40 adventure. Thanks for posting the details
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I'm actually having to force myself away from football for a while, I keep telling myself not to get so bent out of shape for something I can't control so this year I have blacked out Espn and all of my bama sites and recruiting junk to make me focus on other things. ... I could not sleep a full night for weeks after that cam comeback.... I still can't stand him or think about that game, hence why i didn't watch this years and never will .
Anyway back to 40s your threads have been great to read and I relate to you some with not being a professional mechanic and working on the 40 between life and work when the moons align the right way,(work for family owned business with 6 locations and 3 more coming within 24 months across two states doesn't leave much cruiser time). I'm lucky if my workday is less than 10 hours and Sundays working 8 hours feels like a half day but life is good, though lately I have to watch myself or "just 5 minutes" will turn into a few hours on mud. People saying owning your own business and being your own boss sounds great... Thousands of customers are my boss with new ones coming in everyday if things are going good, what are those dreamers talking about, I'm sure you know more than me about pleasing customers in the food industry I don't envy you in that cutthroat environment where only the strongest of the strong survive.
I don't know why but your paper towels stuck with me.
I save paper towels as well for my projects, I quit buying at them at home probably going off of how they disappear at our stores so fast ,they usually get wasted or stolen from us enough to go through two of the SAMs club boxes a month at each location.
I've been looking at some of those things like the harbor freight media blaster or the Eastwood bucket gun. Like you until I get a garage or workshop I am limited on tools I can use, but in the hopefully short future a home shop full of Toyota projects is in the works.
Anyways I am way off topic on my post but I really enjoyed reading through your thread and your 40 adventure. Thanks for posting the details
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Well, I waited almost a week to reply out of disgust at having to actually write to an Alabama fan. But, you do like 40s, so what the heck. I was at AU when Bo was there, and fell in love with football as a freshman. I'd never really watched much college ball until then, and being from TN, not much pro either. Heck, I played in high school as a Jr, and had to learn a few of the rules at that time! I like the parts of the Alabama / Auburn rivalry where the fans actually come together to help each other (Nice outpouring of sympathy from AL fans after the poisoning of the live oaks at Toomer's corner, help from auburn folks in the aftermath of the tornado in Tuscaloosa). Those things are what has made the rivalry more friendly recently.
Anywho, thanks for the compliments. I'll check out your build thread too. I love to learn from others.
I'm trying to decide how much to spend on a compressor right now. I've been eyeballing a 2stage Ingersoll Rand 7.5 HP that runs about $2500 fully outfitted. I'll probably not need that much compressor - ever, but I'm afraid if I buy a $1500 5 HP that I'll regret it when I try to do a lot of 90PSI media blasting in this used cabinet I just obtained.
I know for sure that I need to have a way to dry the air coming thru the compressor. Right now, with the little compressor, the spray nozzle on the bucket blaster put out water spray after about 7 minutes of on again, off again blasting.
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Rayzist.com has been very helpful in getting me parts for my cabinet and pressure pot. Now I just have to decide on the compressor. My tendency is to over-buy and underuse. I can't decide if, with my use being limited to some smaller outside blasting, plus the cabinet blasting, maybe a few air tools, and maybe an HPLV paint gun, the 5 HP/80 gal will be plenty of compressor for me. But 7.5 looks awful nice.
Im sure you have a portable air compressor buy the 5 hp if one time you need more put them in tandem thats what i do with two 4.5 scfm compressors to paint and media blast.
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Yea, you keep saying that. Show me how to do this please. I needs PIX!
Here is a pick of where the tie in was made. I went to my local true value in Carmi and bought a galvanize tee and a water check valve to keep the bigger compressor from pushing air out of the lower safety valve. When in a bigger town i would have bought two matching pressure relief valves. But installing a check valve s on both air compressors would have been what I wanted but they only had one.
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So you have two different size units. Does the upstream (and larger I assume) unit treat the downstream, smaller unit as a storage tank, or do they simply run together, losing air and cycling whenever they reach their lower limits? I don't understand the basic concept of how this is working.
V V I am as confused as you are and that pic just confused me more.
If I were you I would get the IR because when you have it you will find uses for it. Either one you will use it more than you think.
Each air compressor cycles when it reaches its lower limit and shuts off on it upper limit. Each compressor has its own air regulator and shut off valve and separater like you would use them if the were alone. I install a check valve so the flow is blocked from going back into its own tank. Then install a tee after the rugulator and separator on one of the air compressors. With this method i can use each compressor independently or in tandem as the need arises. It works to get the total cfm available add thw two outputs of the compressors and you get the total air available. So if one air compressor is rated at 4.5 scfm and the other is 4 then the total air available is 8.5 Scfm. When I get the time I will label the photo attached above. In the past I have borrowed a friends air compressor and put the two in tandem because I didnt have te power or room for a big air compressor. If you get a big air compressor get a 220 volt to save the cost of operation.
here is the set up with descriptions of each component. This setup only had one check valve but worked. let me know if this is clear enough to understand.
