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  1. 5 hours ago, 87creepin said:

    So you’re telling me anyone who is half capable and can drill concrete, bolt it in, will be able to install a hoist and it’ll be safe? Mean 

    Spend some time with a tape measure getting it square. Measure the base width, top width, and diagonal measurements to make sure its square.

    Once you have the width correct, drill and bolt it. Then do the diagonal measurements and add shims to get it square.

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  2. 48 minutes ago, sheepers said:

    Shall I do a thread on this thing it just chuck it in here?

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    Those things are pretty good compared to most other stuff.

    A quick panel beat on the fan cowling and some D1NZ cable tie repairs to the plastic cooling shroud/belt guard, and a bit of electrickery and your away

  3. Spent the last few nights in the shed on the premise of getting a datsun ready to go to nats, but got a bit sidetracked on this.

    Speedo fixed

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    Then I removed the driveshaft to swap for the less 2nd hand one I have in stock. While I was in there I noticed the rear diff cover had been leaking and was covered in shit and thought I better do something about it now rather than later when it runs out of oil.

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    I whipped the back cover off and spent hours with a Stanley blade shaving the original paper gasket that had set like rock.

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    The drain plug magnet was broken into a few bits so that got replaced with a donor from a smashed gearbox.

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    Then I needed to replace the centre bearing on the driveshaft. It's a cnut of a job.

     

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  4. Dad went through a few 185's.

    He got a new one roughly every 2 years as they would be fucked.

    I remember his excitement of swapping the tow bar and 100L drum off the carrier to the new bike each time.

     

    Probably explains why they were fucked in 2 years, towing a causmag spreader around for a few months of the year.

    Also thinking he was Ivan Mauger in the speedway world cup finals on the way back up the farm track after shutting the cows away..

     

    I think the tow bar is still leaning up against the wall in one of the sheds. He couldnt part with it haha

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  5. 5 hours ago, RUNAMUCK said:

    Spend too much time wound off the end of the speedo?

    It goes past 180 and keeps going to the zero stop. Maybe that one time I went to Mexico and spent some time there, it loaded up the cable too much.

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  6. 7 minutes ago, zep said:

    Quite keen on one of these also. I don't have a huge garage but I think one of these Motorex 2PFP45s could fit...

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    Any thoughts? Is this thing single phase?

    4.5t usually 3 phase, the single phase pump is usually around 4t

     

    Edit- is a single phase motor in the photos. Can see the capacitors on the motor

  7. Do you have many other high speed inputs on the link? I think I read that that while they can read up to 10khz, if you have have a few high speed inputs, the max frequency each input can process drops.

    Could have my wires crossed, I was doing some research into which ecu to run and read it somewhere. Was to do with people trying to run all 4 abs sensors to digital inputs and maxing out the processing ability of the ecu

  8. On 02/12/2023 at 23:30, Grumpy said:

    Lots if not all automatic transmissions from around the mid 90s are semi or fully controlled by an ECU of some sort.

    Who has had experience with getting them to work when doing a conversion.

    For example, I'm thinking of fitting a VK45DE with its factory auto trans to a different vehicle.

    How easy is it to get the trans to operate?

     

    Chairs

    is it the 5 speed trans? look up compushift. they make a controller for it but it only works with the trans that has the external computer. Some of them are internal and they are the shit ones

  9. 2 steps forward, 3 backwards today.

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    It's too tight

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    I'll have to modify the cooling line which is ok, but the compressor is only a few mm off the strut tower.

    I believe I have the correct manifold so further investigation is required

    Dammit

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  10. New clutch bearing. The old one was for my old Japanese twin plate and was for really long clutch plate fingers.

    I'm not sure where the new one came from, I found it on the shelf

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    Then, since I was on a roll I put the box on the motor, set up the subframe on stands under the car and balanced the motor on top.

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    Not dodgy at all

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  11. Finished the fuel lines.

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    Extended the factory brackets to make it all fit nicely.

    Ignore the tube that shoots off into space. I'll trim it once the motor is in.

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    Next up was the flywheel and clutch. I replaced the sandwich plate as the manual ones come with a rubber seal that keeps the leaky rear main oil off the flywheel

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    I have a folded piece of scrap still that I didn't take a photo of that jams the flywheel nicely. Looks like I forgot to take a few pics.

    I also did up the crank pulley bolt to FT. It needs 240ftlb which was tricky when you are also trying to not tip the motor over!

     

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  12. Just re-read what ya said.

    Yea just jam your rcd lead into the inverter. It will give you rcd protection, and the the pdf for that inverter says it has ground fault protection, so your double protected.

    I would bond the inverter to the frame of the hut and your all good.

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