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[seapotato]

For the front shaft I have a fancy little double cardan shaft I had made yeeeearrs ago for the rear when I had a SOA 42, so I'll probably hack the dc end off and add it to a front shaft. should get me the right amount of length and help the shaft clear the crossmember...

 

[slowandsteady BJ]

Nice work Ryan.

I used to be scared of driveshafts, in fact once upon a time I paid Victoria Automatic to build me some. That hurt the bung hole.

After some initial trial and error I can rattle of a straight and true shaft in about an hour.

Also, when is Moutard ever going to get into 5th? The beer store run must only top out third at best.....

 

[Rigpig]

lookin' good! Throw a couple self-tapping screws(teck screws) in the front cage mounts while you're at it... just thinking...

 

[seapotato]

Nice work Ryan.

I used to be scared of driveshafts, in fact once upon a time I paid Victoria Automatic to build me some. That hurt the bung hole.

After some initial trial and error I can rattle of a straight and true shaft in about an hour.

Also, when is Moutard ever going to get into 5th? The beer store run must only top out third at best.....

Yeah, me too, cept it was that place in chase river that did it for me.

they aren't as scary as they used to be. You can get them perfect at home if you're careful and take your time...course, I'm not that careful, and I did it in 10 minutes...

On a longer shaft I'd be tempted to add atf to the inside for a little dynamic balancing, but this ones so short, I doubt enough would fit to make much difference.

If I had a dial guage I'd check the factory shaft just out of curiosity , just to see what sorta level of perfection we're starting with.

As for the 5th gear,you see, young lochinvar, it's all part of the grand master plan. Are you sitting comfortably? Then I'll begin...

I want to put that fuel tank under the rear of the truck, because the under seat one is gay, takes up useful storage space, and is in the way of removing the tranny hump, which is a colossal pain in the snapper.
So in order to do this it means rerouting the exhaust, which means I need a turbo, cuz I aint doing exhaust twice, because exhaust is right behind doing knuckles on my least favourite jobs.

and turbo means I need a 5 speed, cuz a 4 speed and turbo is kinda pointless, which is a large part of why I added the full cage...makes changing trannies 100% easier...

Dirk Gently would call it the fundamental interconnectedness of all things...

course it could also be because I got sick of tripping over that ******* 5 speed...

lookin' good! Throw a couple self-tapping screws(teck screws) in the front cage mounts while you're at it... just thinking...

Hey, there's one bolt in each...

Actually have a plan for them, but I'm waiting till I get a hold of the big man's plasma cutter again.

I want to make backing plates for them, and then tie the backing plates into my side step slider dealios.

Should serve to make the whole structure as rigid as a frenchman at a fort mac justin bieber concert.

 

[seapotato]

Discovered something cool today, a factory bj70 skid plate fits onto a 42 with 5speed with very minor modifications, as in, hardly any.

Had to redrill the mounting holes,trim off two little tabs up front, and bob's yer uncle.

goat barn strikes again...

course, factory skidplates are about as useless as hen**** on a pump handle, but we won't go into that now.

That little bonus made up for the heinous fxxxery that ensued when I went to put some oil in the tcase. After failed attempts with wrench, socket, grips, large pipewrench, cold chisel + BMFH, maledictions and rage, I ended up having to weld a piece of flatbar to the fill plug in order to get it out...

Most upsetting.


I went to the pub shortly thereafter.

And now I gather there's a pissup at Abel's...jeeeeeebus...think my liver's in for a long night if I don't pace myself

 

[Toshi38]

If I had a dial guage I'd check the factory shaft just out of curiosity , just to see what sorta level of perfection we're starting with.


exhaust is right behind doing knuckles on my least favourite jobs.

Christ.... a plan

funny... me and cam threw a dial gauge on one... maybe he remembers...

Also ... you forgot oil plan dropping...

and turbo rebuilding ... since thats on my list now...

 

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Christ.... a plan

funny... me and cam threw a dial gauge on one... maybe he remembers...

Also ... you forgot oil plan dropping...

and turbo rebuilding ... since thats on my list now...

Yeah I know, I usually try to avoid planning...much to mel's delight.



And yes, I did forget oil pan dropping...not sure if that's before or after exhaust on the shyte job list tho. I always end up getting a welding cherry in a personal area when I do exhaust.

Plus I knocked myself out doing it once and woke up in the driveway half covered in snow. That kinda sucked too.

I rebuilt my turbo a couple years ago, or at lease threw a couple new bushings into it, and did some mix and matching in my turbo bin to find healthy bits, wasn't that bad.

On that note, I put the first foot on the turbo path today, ordered a pyro from Auber, they have a 24v version of the little digital gauge now

contemplating building a manifold like the second one posted in the drew megacheap turbo thread....bout as simple as it gets...

 

[slowandsteady BJ]

Did you just say digital?? In a 42? Nooooo!

 

[seapotato]

Did you just say digital?? In a 42? Nooooo!

This from the young Chachi who's honorary Icy Hot Stuntaz flat bill and key chain are in the mail after his day of disassembling a glowshift gauge to paint inside?


Auber's are good little gauges , no they ain't handsome, but had one before in my 70 and it worked.

at that time I don't think they offered the 24v version, which was the tipping point this time around.

I'd been tempted by the Westach double gauge but kinda spendy...


I may have a go at hiding it in the ashtray space. Seeing as the little spring on my ashtray is broken it falls out all the time so I can't even use it as a change holder.

 

[seapotato]

another point in the auber's favour...

ordered yesterday(sunday), and got an email at 7am saying it's been shipped.

better than those ratbastards I ordered my connectors for the radio from..."ships in 24 hours" yet, here I am 6 days later...."orders being processed"

 

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So, being bored out of my freaking mind at work, I figgered I'd ad some equally boring details that no one really gives a s*** about and try to spread the boredom...

1) Put in a new shifter seat bushing. 5 speed now shifts smooth as a gravy sammich, ( with the occasional peppercorn).
If your 5 speed is a little tough to shift into first and second, give it a shot. Tho, how mr.t has the GALL to charge 40 bucks for that little piece of plastic is beyond me. The fires of rage will keep the bunghole smoldering on that one for a while yet.

2) Gave seafoam a try. Smoothed out the engine quite a bit, I imagine it would have worked better when I first started driving the 42 ( after sitting for 10 years) but still quite noticeable.
I just pulled off the fuel line and stuck it in the can, let it idle until the can was almost empty.
Interestingly, I haven't had to bleed the air out of this engine...I've had the fuel lines off repeatedly, changed tanks, even changed the filter a couple times( I did fill the filters with diesel tho) and every time I've just stuck the hose back on, and away she goes....I suspect it has to do with the fuel line coming out from near the bottom of the old style tank so it gravity feeds much of the fuel line..but who knows.

3) Heater fan was really loud and kinda useless. So I poked around and discovered the big plastic duct that goes from fan to heater core wasn't sealed against firewall, and tons of air was leaking out from the joint.
The factory foam weatherstrip in there was crushed and perished, so I stuck some foamy peel and stick in there and it's amazing how much quieter it is, not to mention it blows 10x more air.
Worth waving your hand around that joint with the fan on high if you have a 40 series and check for a draft. 5 minute,cheap fix that made a huge difference.

Might take it for a highway burn up island this weekend ( real up island...not shawnigan for you vic people.) eyballing a small lathe and mill....imagine the trouble I could cause with one of those...

 

[slowandsteady BJ]

You know Ryan, I have to Google half the names you call me so I can figure out what the h*ll you are on about. None the less, buy the lathe. I need to use it.

 

[seapotato]

You know Ryan, I have to Google half the names you call me so I can figure out what the h*ll you are on about. None the less, buy the lathe. I need to use it.

aww, if I'd known it was giving you trouble I'd have stepped it back to easier insults for next time...


for the lathe, I'm a bit torn on it. The one I'm pondering is one of those sorta 3in1 mill & lathe kinda deals, so it doesn't do anything terribly large. (or if you're a machinist snob type, it doesn't do anything terribly well either, tho for me it'd be fine)

Actually ok with the swing and the mill part, just the distance between centres is s***ty on the little machines. little under 2 feet.


good for most of the stuff I'd use it for, bushings spacers and such. I'd prefer longer, but then you're looking into buying both a mill AND a lathe, and I don't really have the room or enough use for both. (or $)

I have a bit of a project looming ahead ( and I may have to borrow your ginsu master welding skills for some of it)
I'm planning to make a lifting and canting keel for the boat in the shop...just out of simple wrong-headedness and a masochistic need to do everything the hard way
So there'll be pivots and bushings in there, that if I had to pay someone to make, would eat up the cost of buying a machine pretty quick.
I may just let the machine wait a while until buddy is a little more flexible on price..

Be nice if the money tree wasn't having an off year...

 

[seapotato]

cue the mad scientist mua-haha cackle....

4 dollars in connectors and such later, it works!

That's some High Fidelity Audio right there...

 

[bikersmurf]

$4 Awesome.

Will it fit? I'm sure it'll be close enough.

 

[seapotato]

$4 Awesome.

Will it fit? I'm sure it'll be close enough.

Yep fits. Minor pain in the ass that it has to go in from the back, (corner radius in way)but the mounting screws in the side even match up.

Coily wire is mp3 player jack....

Just have to figger out speakers now.

 

[slowandsteady BJ]

Digital deck would be better. You know, to match that fancy gauge.

 

[seapotato]

Digital deck would be better. You know, to match that fancy gauge.

Oh Margaret, so concerned, but there's no need to rend the bodice, it'll be ok.


All gauges look kindof out of place on a 40 series, fortunately the Aubers have an alarm function so you can wire up an led to flash or a buzzer when you hit the max temp you've set...

 

[bikersmurf]

Yep fits. Minor pain in the ass that it has to go in from the back, (corner radius in way)but the mounting screws in the side even match up.

Coily wire is mp3 player jack....

Just have to figger out speakers now.
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And no one will ever notice the "Datsun" label on it.

 

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And no one will ever notice the "Datsun" label on it.

Haha yeah, you know there was a brief instant where I considered taking the little cover off and blacking out the "datsun" but then I thought, " what, am I Cam now?"

So I didn't...Now if it said Nissan, well, then things might be different...

I threw some 5.5" speakers in the doors which I got from the mighty Crusty before he fled the country after indecent public dealings with a goat (checking if he's reading...if so, thanks for the speakers dude....)

there were already butt ugly holes in the doors from old speakers that I'd have to do something about either way, so what the hell.

Actually sounds pretty good with the mp3 player, much to my amazement...



And something amusing, I was in crappy tire yesterday morning, wanted to grab a cig lighter plug for a power point ( and to fill the cig lighter hole in the dash) when The Cheapness took hold.

a s***ty bare little socket, no wires or cig lighter, cover or anything $15.99

Fancy Ass Socket, with light, purty decorative green plastic ring which glows when light is on, and actual cigarrette lighter dealio that gets hot to light cigarettes ,recreational drugs, etc... $10.99. Seriously, wtf?

So anyway, chucked the light and purty decorative green plastic ring over my shoulder into the dark recesses of the garage, installed rest of plug and all good. even looks a lot like the factory cig lighter.

here endeth the update.