jblueridge
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Hair dryer held at a safe distance?
Spray with contact cleaner?
Spray with contact cleaner?
What did you do on your 70 series today? (5 Viewers)
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Prepping this 1HDFT block for paint.
Cheers
Cheers
Looks great! I need to get my butt in gear so I'll be ready to drop it in!
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I was skeptical going into it on this one with such heavy corrosion but it is cleaning up nicely.
Once painted and ARPs in hand it will come together fairly quickly. Although I do got to move shop in the next 30-days too!
Cheers
I pulled the steering wheel and contact cleaned/dissassembled the headlight switch and dried everything with a heat gun to no avail. The twist switch on the stalk was activating a relay directly above the glovebox when the headlights were turned on. I removed the high/lo beam switch and cleaned but couldn't find the problem. ...It's going on the road tomorrow so I tapped the line from the relay that goes hot when you turn on the headlights and sent it to a old school universal hi/lo beam foot switch that a sheet metal screwed to the floor up and to the left of clutch pedal and then new lines to the headlights. They're LED's so the amperage is quite low. It all works now.
... Also on this post is a picture of my cross member rear motor mount. Rubber separated on the original mount from a hard bottoming last year. A diagnosed and confirmed the separated mount less than a week from the relic run so it wasn't feasible to order a new factory mount. I managed to get a pair of Cadillac hydraulic motor mounts and make them work. Cutting and welding and modifying but I made it work. Would rather have done the factory setup if I had time.
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Had I know I would have brought a spare transmission mount for you. Pretty quick swap at camp with a bottle jack.
First arrival’s at the Relic Run…
It will be interesting to see how many 70 Series make this years lineup.
Yeah but a loaded down troopy is over 6,000lbs. I'm happy with the economy numbers.
Ya know, I thought my reply might been taken slightly different than i meant it, I'm in agreement.
Indestructible 47
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Installed these lovely shocks..... custom ordered for lengths and valving, super happy with the results.
How thick and what type of steel, welder and weld wire did you use please? Fantastic job.
Thanks
It's a 5 mm thick standard steel plate, S355 quality, if I remember correctly. The welder is 250 amp MIG with 1 mm wire.
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New boots!
Also fabbed up a way to shuttle my bike until the SET tray is installed in May! Finally spring here!
Also fabbed up a way to shuttle my bike until the SET tray is installed in May! Finally spring here!
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beautiful, shielded or core flux?Thanks
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jblueridge
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New boots!
What tires and do you use spacers with those wheels?
What tires and do you use spacers with those wheels?
I use CO2/argon shield gas.
Filled up in Barstow and made it to Kingman, AZ and got 30mpg... Best economy thus far. The next tank was 28.5 mpg but I got sleepy and pressed the skinny pedal more. Drove 16 hours straight from Monterrey, CA back to Santa Fe.
What's your fuel capacity? Dual tanks? Bet that fill-up was painful.
Single tank for now. Installing the aux tank this summer hopefully.
