got an hour or so in tonight. kitted and fitted the brake master. the clutch master i had stainless sleeved but they both bolted up now. went over the old girl and undid every join in the brake lines, blew the lines out individually with compressed air and reinstalled same with a careful application of anti seize on the threads taking care not to get any near the mating flange surfaces. as usual i found careful use of a small amount of heat necessary to undo the old fittings without damage. noticed i neglected to arrange parts for the clutch slave but think i can get away with some random buckets i have laying about. haven't studied this yet but seem to remember having no drama with my 64 fj45. running with the old perished flexible lines for the moment but this will need attention down the track. i need to arrange several sets of these for stablemate, patina and no doubt my next project. another hour or so and hopefully it should all be bled up and adjusted correctly. looking forward to seeing what awaits me when i get the motor watered up and running.
well g'day punters. i declared today sunday and spent most of it tinkering on project stablemate with moderate success. i need to get this out of front centre in the workshop and get some work in its place. so much for my predicted 'hour or so' i wouldnt have thought it would take me half the day to sort and bleed the hydraulics but the best laid plans of mice and men etc. i had a tad of brakeline reassembly to do along the rear axle so while i was at it pulled and cleaned the diff housing breathers. they weren't pretty; a tad worried what i may find when i pull the diff covers for an inspection.
anyways, so far so good, tip some fluid in and bleed up right? i couldnt get the brake master piston to return properly. i rehoned and polished the master with fine emery. i swapped out the loose bucket for a shorter variety and swapped the spring for a more robust example. i pulled apart the little one way valve at the end of the spring and reinstalled and scratched my head and drank lots of strong coffee but nothing seemed to work. i was swimming in brake fluid but i got pretty bloody quick at pulling and disassembling the master cylinder! in the end i gave both buckets a very careful grind on the bench grinder to put a slight bevel on the heel end of the bucket and that did the trick. then i had some lunch and wondered where my day had gone. next mission was to get fluid to the wheel cylinders. eventually i attached an old donor master to the line (using the 25 end piece) and used it a sort of funnel to fill all the lines via gravity. this worked very well. next i pulled the mc for the umpteenth time, filled the resevoir to capacity and tightened the cap then filled the downstrean part or the body to capacity, installed the end piece, connected the brake line and finally installed the mc back to the firewall thus connected. took time to nut it but it worked and was able to do a final bleed up.
you will see from the pics above the po homemade plastic cover for the horn relay. this is one of the few original pieces i am missing for the 25 if anyone has one for sale (or even better the whole relay - this one is a bit corroded and untested as yet). it is a small item and would be easily posted from the usa?...anyone?
anyways i kitted the clutch slave with some odds and sods i had and eventually used the same donor master cyl funnel to get fluid down to the slave. quiet a process in the end and i am sure there are more professional ways of going about it all!
over in my project patina (45) thread i recently introduced parts wreck number 4 that i only retrieved last week. i used this waterpump, a somewhat flaky radiator from parts wreck 3 of ratnest fame and thermostat housings (less thermostat i think) i had laying about, made some rough gaskets and built a cooling system of sorts. i didnt bother installing my beautiful fan shroud as this will all be apart again in the near or immediate future; i just want to drive this old 25 a little and get a feel for the condition of all the mechanicals.
i put the welded fan aside and used an orange one i had. when did the orange fan commence? fj25 supposed to be black fan? didnt get close up pics but noticed this orange donor a different pressing to the original; the reinforcing rib is less 'sharp' or 'pronounced' also my orange one doesnt have the pair of rivets near the centre that the original had.
also noticed the 25 belt pulley is different to the later example i had. 25 is 'shallower' to no doubt compensate for the dinky 25 harmonic balancer so i imagine unique to 25 only. comments anyone?
Good to see you getting it done.
I looked in the parts book and
The balincer is 25 onley
The fan also
The pump pully fits up to engine no243298 so an early 40 should fit.
As for the relay i have a spair one of a early 40, i will compair it to the 25 and let you know, i may have a fan pully.
thanks aussie 25 that is all interesting (and i may take you up on the horn relay!) havent studied this too much myself yet. i am particularly interested in the fan and fan pulley variations; i only noticed this late in the day so will study my junk a little closer tomorrow if i get the chance and try for a few more detailed pics perhaps.
yea its getting close to noise making time now. fab some hoses and a temp fueltank install and see what we find. i can almost smell the flooding untuned carby already haha.
i have some somewhat unfounded faith in this motor so will be fun. somewhere not long before it was parked up was treated to a new lower hose hard piece; and (get this) a new oem muffler. stickers still attached to both
and while i got you aussie 25 (or you fwed) i got another query. my rear cab mounts both sides have a piece of plate welded to the cab floor to strengthen above the cab mount. this has been done since the cab was painted (see pic). wonder how this compares with your cab? am yet to see any other 25 in the flesh apart from my own.
progress today punters. threw another half day at stablemate. fabbed up some roughy radiator hoses, gave the fueltank another rinse and plumbed a battery to the passenger floor. without much further ado we had noise (lots of noise in fact seeing how the exhaust finishes somewhere short of the muffler)
got oil to all the rocker shaft in reasonable time. was somewhat amazed that the carby holds a rough idle; this thing has sat for many many years. also happy with my rough cooling system; all holds water. warmed her up and did an oil change. started the engine with the oil canister apart which made a mess but was something of a rudimentary oil pressure test! plenty of sludge in the oil canister and in the oil filler neck. next oil change in the near future will pull the sump for a little looksee, straighten and clean. sump is dented near the bung so not really possible to drain oil properly. at this stage in my patina refurdishment i dropped the oil and ran the motor on diesel for a minute or 2 with no obvious ill effects. anyone have opinions on this procedure?
dismantled the old air cleaner assembly and wasnt imressed with the obvios dust on the downstream side. is this rotten old air cleaner the one she left thiess yard with in 1960?
anyways couldnt find a replacement filter among my junk. my 64 is currently running an aftermarket aircleaner but couldnt really make the 25 accept this either. a bit of a measure showed the top throat of the 25 carb to be at least half a mm wider than the 64 equivalent. odd? perhaps my 64 carb is worn from years with a loose aircleaner though doesnt look it.
but aircleaner or not (we went not) the temptation was too great so for the first time in many years she rolled out of the shed under her own steam. my brother pictured in the drivers seat.....i mean drivers position!
and so with no aircleaner, no trans cover, so seats and not much exhaust....but with beer and fire extinguisher...... we did the first 2 or 3 miles of test drive. happy days! now a couple poser shots
anyways i kitted the clutch slave with some odds and sods i had and eventually used the same donor master cyl funnel to get fluid down to the slave. quiet a process in the end and i am sure there are more professional ways of going about it all!
i dont quiet follow that procedure nuclearlemon. my problem was getting the master cylinders to operate properly, and force fluid past the loose bucket while i had nothing bt fresh air downstream to the slave and wheel cylinders. i hear one method is to pump the fluid upstream from the bleed screws. anyways followed your great annie thread last year so im sure you and pighead understand the beery smiles attached to the first noise and test drive. she parked back in the corner of the shed now where i can still tinker a little but no more test drives till i source an aircleaner and core plug.
funny ozcruiser. the same thought entered my mind when i doing my poser pics last night. see what i can do. those old door strikers hit your mailbox yet?
stablemate still not running perfect on all cylinders yet and the spark collapses a little under load but i havent even touched the obvious plugs points and leads. or carby. carby can wait till i have a kit in hand. also have a mate who is much better at carb refurb that me so he must be due to visit!
will add she ran a whole lot better once i jammed some aluminium foil over tha manifold vacuum leak where the wiper line attaches. im not used to such things!
and aussie25, if you care to sent me an email sometime with your phone number that would be great, be good to have a proper yarn instead of trying to tap all this out. henry@boogardie.com
this email is different to what i had when i signed up to mud a few years ago. perhaps someone can tell me how to edit that
No not yet WA but should be here early next week. I think I hit a home run this week finding a rust free style side tub with plenty of dents for my project. Fingers crossed it comes through next weekend.
