Delancy's NEW 76 PIGGY ???

[Pighead]

but have no clue what's involved in swapping the OE spiders back in.

I had to do that once, on one of Gorge's FJ45 runs, when trail leader Mudrak took a wrong turn and led us up a bridal path...My LokRite let go and started making really, really bad sounds. I made it back to camp and spent the next morning swapping my spiders back in. When one runs a lokrite or Aussie locker, one ALWAYS carries one's spiders, just in case.
It's been a few years, and I don't have a third here in front of me, but as I recall, it was fairly straightforward. The hard part was synching the gears up so they meshed correctly when pushed into the housing. Took me 4 or 5 (maybe more) tries to get everything to fit right. This will all make more sense when you try to do it.

 

[Pighead]

Not sure about this....but it isn't heat resistant.

That was a warm air delivery tube that the lower end used to be attached to a a shroud around the stock exhaust manifold..

 

[Delancy]

took a wrong turn and led us up a bridal path..

To highlight the depths to which my brain functions, yet my conditional ignorance or ability to complicate simplicity, at the same time.

When I read this line at 2:30-3:00am after lying awake concerned about many of life's conundrums, disguised as the impending concern of acquiring this Pig's title which is eating me up, I mentally dissected the "bridal path" as being human husbandry as it relates to marriage and equated or analogized to varying off road maladies, coupled with general troubles of restorations.

Then, the simplicity of the actual two words hit me like a 2x4 after realizing that it's nothing more than a horse trail.

This will all make more sense when you try to do it.

Haha.

Are you sure about that, sir?

All things considered?

"When you look directly at an insane man, all you really see is the reflection of your own knowledge that he's insane, which is to not see him at all."

-Phaedrus

Back to sanity.

I see no reason to maintain the Locker, considering the intended usage as a part-time DD.

Do you agree?

I can feel engagement in the steering when turning corners, or I think I can, which should be the case, I don't believe.

Does that indicate anything to you?

That was a warm air delivery tube that the lower end used to be attached to a a shroud around the stock exhaust manifold..

My inevitable goal will be to clean the engine bay up, removing any residual smog equipment or indications, along with anything that serves no purpose, which I'm assuming this now does not.

As simple as plugging the port?

 

[Pighead]

Oops. Bridle path...
You'll notice the rear locker in parking lots and sometimes they make a very loud bang, which is sort of normal.
Looks like your engine is plumbed for a hot water heat riser under the intake manifold...

 

[PabloCruise]

My favorite freeborn of all time, it was a '76 or '77 IIRC -

Tucker

Is that Steve H's Pig?

Aussie locker install: https://forum.ih8mud.com/40-55-series-tech/58648-aussie-locker-clearances.html

In my 40, I found it best to take tight turns (like in the parking lot, etc) w/ clutch in, or tranny in neutral. Then listen to it click-click-click as it ratchets w/o trying to lock the faster outer wheel to the slower inner.

 

[Delancy]

You'll notice the rear locker in parking lots and sometimes they make a very loud bang, which is sort of normal.

Then listen to it click-click-click as it ratchets w/o trying to lock the faster outer wheel to the slower inner.

If I can round up what I need or missing, I'm gonna pull it and listen to it rattle in the box.

This Pig won't utilize enough to warrant keeping it.

Wheelers year in the future, I hope.

Looks like your engine is plumbed for a hot water heat riser under the intake manifold...

I'd love to say,

"Why, yes. Yes it is, Pighead"

with authority, then proceed to explain that it also has a Jim C-ish inlet duct to the air cleaner to compliment the riser.

Then I'd love to tell you to what carb the riser is servicing, what headers it was added for, where the air rail plugs were from, along with whatever smog delete parts are there, and what the dizzy scenario was.....but as we all know, I lack the aptitude at this point, which sucks.

But I'm working on it.....

Took me all day, in between working in the cold ass flooding rains, atypical to an Oklahoma August, to even know what the heat riser scenario was.

 

[Pighead]

know what the heat riser scenario was.

Well, if you want to clean up the engine bay, you can un-plumb it and lose all those hoses...

 

[Delancy]

Well, if you want to clean up the engine bay, you can un-plumb it and lose all those hoses...

Are you saying unnecessary for the climate and intended application?

Or just that it'd just clean up the bay?

Would it be foolish to consider the 2F manifold instead of the headers, from a conservative, functional perspective?

 

[Delancy]

Growing ever agitated about the speed at which title replacement is occurring, but trying to keep a good attitude.

When you screw up, nothing stops correcting that issue, and I really don't care what it is that was erred on.

Not work, not play, not anything.

You make an egregious mistake, it becomes all purpose in life until its rectified. Period.

That said, trying to keep a good attitude about the future of the Pig, but have stopped short of ordering anything but steering components.

One thing I want to do is replace the steering wheel.

This is in parts Pig.






Would this be correct for the 76?

Any means to restore the padding and cover on the wheel itself, or save center and trash rest?





Prefer the blue, since it'll go with red and white, but have in one hand, want on another...

 

[nuclearlemon]

Would this be correct for the 76?

the blue emblem center would be correct for 76

 

[scrapdaddy]

Practice on your old steering wheel, epoxying and sanding, while you look for a better one. That's what I'm doing, Boss Hog is sending me one and I'm going to patch my old one.

 

[Pighead]

Are you saying unnecessary for the climate and intended application?

Probably unnecessary. I've never found the need for a heat riser on mine...

 

[Delancy]

the blue emblem center would be correct for 76

Thank you. I'd prefer, so that made the decision very easy.

 

[Delancy]

Practice on your old steering wheel, epoxying and sanding, while you look for a better one. That's what I'm doing, Boss Hog is sending me one and I'm going to patch my old one.

The one depicted is on parts Pig, but since blue is correct, this one will go to another Pig in need.

I'd like pristine on the 72.

 

[nuclearlemon]

Any means to restore the padding and cover on the wheel itself, or save center and trash rest?
...

confused by "padding and cover on the wheel itself" as there is no padding or cover factory on the wheel. yes, you can restore the steering wheel itself. i just did the steering wheel on our 1962. epoxy, sand paper, spray paint and patience are all you need.

 

[Delancy]

Probably unnecessary. I've never found the need for a heat riser on mine...

Thanks.

I have a lot of questions concerning a total smog removal in a similar effort to clean up the engine bay, but if it ain't necessary, it ain't staying.

What are your thoughts on headers?

Keep, or OE?

 

[Delancy]

confused by "padding and cover on the wheel itself" as there is no padding or cover factory on the wheel. yes, you can restore the steering wheel itself. i just did the steering wheel on our 1962. epoxy, sand paper, spray paint and patience are all you need.

This pic doesn't show, but the plastic (?) portion of the wheel is separated in two spots, exposing the inner steel ring.

There's a significant amount of some type of eating adhesive that's pitted the plastic (?) too.

I have honestly forgotten what the steering wheel on the 72 looks like, but believe its in much better shape than this one.

Will remove and store for 72 potential, though, since I think I have a line on a minty wheel with blue center for this Pig.

 

[nuclearlemon]

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This pic doesn't show, but the plastic (?) portion of the wheel is separated in two spots, exposing the inner steel ring.

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that's insignificant. you have to sand the cracks down to that ring anyways before you epoxy them

 

[PabloCruise]

Eating adhesive?

 

[Delancy]

that's insignificant. you have to sand the cracks down to that ring anyways before you epoxy them

Gotcha. More thread searching.

Eating adhesive?

Haha. Best I could describe.

Ever see how some porous plastics look like Swiss cheese after super gluing?

That's what it looks like, with a grainy, fibrous layer of crap stuck to it.