rattle_snake's random shop projects v0.1

[rattle_snake]

Last guy that worked on these headers threw a tantrum and beat the **** out of one of the primary tubes with a large hammer. With steering box gone, no need for that.


Don't have a torch hot enough to try to heat/cool the dents out, so cut out part of the offending section of metal for repair.


Used a piece of pipe with OD just under the tube ID to hammer the tubing back into shape. Pounded the piece up into the bend and got most of the dent out. The piece I cut out was the perfect scab, so I worked it back into a round shape with a hammer and right sized pipe.


Welded it up and slicked it out. Not too shabby.


Sent it out for coating, good enough.

 

[ntsqd]

When I made a new dip-stick for Patch I used a compression to NPT adapter fitting. Screwed the fitting into the block (in this case, could've been an NPT bung), stuck the 3/8" Bundy tubing in it, bent the tubing to clear things (in one plane only), and then tightened the compression fitting. Used a compression by compression fitting to seal the dipstick into the tube. Set both ferrules and then backed the top nut loose to finger tight.

I poured one quart short of full into the engine and let it sit unstarted overnight, and marked that on the dipstick. Poured the last quart and let it sit overnight again, then marked that on the dipstick. I was making a bunch of different changes and didn't need to start it anyway, so letting it sit over a couple of days wasn't a problem.

Water is easy for leak-checking, but terrible about it. Mineral spirits, diesel, and ATF are far, far better. All three will go thru holes that water won't.