Originally Posted by ivanhoew

hoke a kokay ,


well struggling to get a bit of work done in the christmas melee,you may remember in the last episode we were investigating a way to support the shaft of steeringness.


i had a hunt in the crystal cave of wonderment (spares shed/greenhouse) and found a shaft with a pulley on it and a couple of plummer blocks . this came from a old huge compressor i scavenged ,and then changed motors and stuff on , and i was left with this jackshaft spare .

now the amazing thing is , the id of the bearings ,was the same as a ) the od of the minor column ,and b) the od of the section of the taxi shaft i wanted to use .

eg ...

Robert

Sorry to bother moi ...

Those bearings ? are they now trapped on the shaft by the U/J's/welding ? or are they free to slide off one end ?

regards Paul

Love the profile of that hood - something Cruella DeVille about it.

verily much productivityness

THank you Phil , so far so good .

gosh i got a lot done !


first off , i decided to approach the pump problem in my customary left handed way .

I had a think and a measure , and decided something that may help my cranking speed, and therefore make it possible to have the pump on all the time , was to increase the battery lead amp carrying capability .

the cable at the moment is off the jag xj40 the 4.0 litre came from ... and its about 7mm diameter , and i think it may be ally too .blergh.

I hunted the Ali babas cave of wonderment , and found this cable ...





fairly hunky ,but just not long enough ...

had enough of this one ..




but bit thinner , so i thought hey , i have about 289 amps cranking , so if i double up on the 7mm cables that might help .

took the ends off the red cable ..





and snarfled them onto the blue lead of power..






noice !



threaded it into the chassis , and i do believe its a lot better on the maximost cranktabulousnosity ...ness .


Now on to a more long term bit of develoment..


work on the hood has started , i got ot the frame from graham (bully) and cleaned it up ,made a piece to fit the screen top , then wedges two bits of ally into place and taped it up to get an idea of the height of it all...




Have a dekko ...
















maybe a bit lower , and then it fabrication time , oh , and hood making on the freegle sewing machine .



Then Today i popped the old girl outside on the drive , fired up ,and while warming up , i balanced the throttles with one of those gunson carb things , boy they were a fair way out , it got to 75 c ,and rad pressure looked good , so maybe it's all ok dokay .




bouyed up by this i had a fit of little jobs , no, not too much fruit in my diet , but things that i have wanted to do ..eg , a bit of a polish of the grill and copper pipes and the screen bits ..
















one last thing was the little strip behind the seat did not line up with the body side panel , so i took it off and filed it to match betterererererer.






At some point i will make a new set of strips with an overhang so the tube can be continuous round the seat area .



tomorrow i am hoping to do a 80 miles round trip and see how the mpg is now ,with my new wide bands.




regards
robert

Glad that you got away with that Robert - Aluminium blocks can be quite forgiving though, on both my straight six Alfa and Rover V8 Comp Altereds I ran with just water in the block, but that was drag racing. The Alfa V6 engine did also survive a severe "Loss of Coolant" event!

Originally Posted by Magman

A steam whistle for when it gets too hot? I reckon that’d fit in nicely with the style of Medusa

now that's another good idea .magman .,,,you're on fire !

A steam whistle for when it gets too hot? I reckon that’d fit in nicely with the style of Medusa

Or a big GOON light that's on when the pump is off and off when its on

A standard relay to operate the light using the switched power on to switch the relay off

Or one of your inventive solutions

Originally Posted by ivanhoew

yes i think i must rig up something , i have the pump off to help the battery crank it over , , maybe a relay in the pump feed , that switches off during cranking .

that'd work, of a timed relay that powers the pump a preset time after the ignition is switched on.
neil.

Originally Posted by budetta

I fitted a thermostatic switch on my race car just in case I forgot to turn fan and pump on, works!!

yes i think i must rig up something , i have the pump off to help the battery crank it over , , maybe a relay in the pump feed , that switches off during cranking .