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rusty_tlc said:
No worries. I was a little out of it from only getting 3 hrs of sleep the night before, so I wasn't my chipper self.
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No worries. I was a little out of it from only getting 3 hrs of sleep the night before, so I wasn't my chipper self.
No pictures of the liner 
. It looks good, just keep up the good work it will be worth it knowing it wasn't short cutted. You should have used the Raptor Liner, could have tinted it to match the color your painting and all. See you at the meeting tomorrow.
. It looks good, just keep up the good work it will be worth it knowing it wasn't short cutted. You should have used the Raptor Liner, could have tinted it to match the color your painting and all. See you at the meeting tomorrow.
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camomog said:No pictures of the liner
I had to re do some of the under carriage. There were pics a million years ago of it. Ill be lining the inside of the tub and using a color match of the paint.
Honestly, not much could be worse than the herculiner. Sorry I used it.
Hurculiner is terrible. Had I discovered Raptor liner prior to using the Herculiner I would have switched. That said, I now have a box of Raptor Liner and no current use for it.
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Slowerthanu said:
Lookin for someone to take it off your hands? Is it tintable?
ok, however I will probably follow it with do it anyhow cause I need to live vicariously since I cannot afford my own cruiser habit.
On a more serious and related note. You gonna run a fan on that trans cooler or just leave it back there all by its lonesome? doesnt look like it will get much airflow at lower speeds and even at speed not a whole lot due to the way and location it is mounted. Dont get me wrong it WILL help just having it as it WILL dissipate heat, just askin.
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i'm still happy with the monstaliner
That is in consideration too IF they come up with the colors they have listed on their page. Otherwise, I have to go with something that I CAN color for the inner tub. As much as I like the black, an open top rig (bikini top) in the sun with black liner will be HOT.
sweet rig. lots of thought and prep going into it.
oh yea can't go wrong with raptor liner used it before an gonna use it on mine too.
LOL...Your no slouch either on yours. Really HOOKING IT UP!
There is a fan on it. Its the Derale hyper cool. I suppose you cant really see it in the pic.
In my research on trans coolers, this one came up A LOT. Checked the web site and this one has the highest rated temp drop of the whole line up. The "Atomic cool" was their "top of the line/ EXTREME DUTY" fan/ cooler unit, but the cooling effect was less than this hyper cool unit. It was SPENDY!!!!! About 200 bones, BUT....the trans was about a grand with the re build, so I really didnt wanna take any chances. Ill be wiring in a trans temp gauge into the dash to keep a close eye on it too.
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Here's a link to the summit racing page on this cooler...Only I think I have the 6AN fan, and not the 8AN.
Derale Cooling Products 15960 - Derale Performance Hyper-Cool Remote Fluid Coolers with Fan - Overview - SummitRacing.com
Derale Cooling Products 15960 - Derale Performance Hyper-Cool Remote Fluid Coolers with Fan - Overview - SummitRacing.com
I like that, pretty slick with fan and all.
You live in Vegas, what's 25 or 30 degrees one way or the other down there?
You live in Vegas, what's 25 or 30 degrees one way or the other down there?
No kidding, once you have reached blast furnace level heat, it doesn't really matter.
I had the interior of my Jeep, lined in black and I don't think it was that big of a deal other than after the first trail run, it looked dirty...
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So I added a 1/2 in steel block to the rear most body mount (one that I made) and cut a thicker rubber mount. That gave me about 3/8 of clearance above the fuel lines on the tank. Once its sinched down, the figure Ill be about 1/4 in (there abouts) for clearance.
Stopped at summit and picked up a double flare tool, some steel line for the brakes and a new tubing bender. Screwed around with the bender and flaring tool last night. Never done that before....there's a trick to getting that double flare right, for sure.
I found that you really have to prep the edge of the tubing, clamp the **** out of the tubing in the tool and oil the flare adapter surfaces. Otherwise, the tubing wants to back out of the tool. Once that happens...it done. You have to re cut and start over.
Stopped at summit and picked up a double flare tool, some steel line for the brakes and a new tubing bender. Screwed around with the bender and flaring tool last night. Never done that before....there's a trick to getting that double flare right, for sure.
I found that you really have to prep the edge of the tubing, clamp the **** out of the tubing in the tool and oil the flare adapter surfaces. Otherwise, the tubing wants to back out of the tool. Once that happens...it done. You have to re cut and start over.
I had to practice on the flaring tool a couple times before mine started turning out decent too. The small wheel type tube cutters that you spin around the tube make a nice straight cut which I found helped my flaring experience.
Yeah, tight was not nearly enough clamping force on those tools (NOTE: just to clarify I'm referring to the flaring tool). I had to apply some "additional forces" with some long handle pliers.
Yeah, tight was not nearly enough clamping force on those tools (NOTE: just to clarify I'm referring to the flaring tool). I had to apply some "additional forces" with some long handle pliers.
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Don't go cheap on the tubing cutter, go with Rigid or Greenlee.
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boots4 said:
Boots, did you bend up wire, or just free hand the bends, when you did your lines?
I'm planning on using some wire to do a mock routing and using that as a template.
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rusty_tlc said:
What's gonna be the difference? I'm using a cheapie roll cutter and it's doing fine. The de burr blad could use some improvement though.
I don't remember using anything so it must have been free-handed. But I was just changing fittings on existing lines for the most part. If you are setting up new line then a mock up is always a better idea.