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Yeah a number would be nice please. Also I was curious about the shape of it. I'm not a machinist's arsehole. But the old man has been doing it for overy fifty years. Hes shortening some BW axles for his Val diff. He reckoned that the tool his mate loaned him had a very sharp point. Where as (so he told me) the bottom of the spline wasnt such a sharp point. The diff shop guy said that's what people use. And he loaned him a brand new taper cone (never been used) as a test piece. Talking to people who have done it before can make save a lot of hassle.

I actually meant of the actual cutter tip itself.

Post spline cutting the axle will be hardened, then annealed back to the hardness at which it will enjoy peak tensile strength.

Nor is jacked suspension

@johnny.race do you have a picture of the cutter you use to cut the 28 spline spline with?

Theyll work better because a greater surface area of rotor passes across the pad per revolution. Using my old datsun clutch as an example. Stock disc was 180mm. I had the flywheel modified to take a 200mm clutch disc/cover etc. that 20mm difference in O.D. increased the total friction area by 36%. (I don't remember what the minor diameter of the two discs was) obviously because you're going to keep your stock pads, you'll know the height of the pad. So Pi×R^2 subtract Pi×R^2 (where R is rotor OD less pad height) Then do it again with the larger rotor. Express the difference as a percentage and you'll see how much more friction is happening. Plus more rotor mass to dissipate heat.

Nah the Chathams is more.remote than that. 750kms of water between there and timaru. You can't even drive to another town to buy anything. Two planes a week (cost me $750 return in 1999) and I don't know how infrequent the boat is. (IM long overdue to go back actually ) Ling/ I was thinking though @Unclejake before you even order that stuff sit the motor on the ground, fill the cooling system with water, apply compressed air to the cooling system, and remove the glow plugs, and the rocker covers. Then have a listen. The fact it's seized might mean a few things. Fact is my mate told me most fol down there are incapable of maintaining anything. Add the harsh environment, and it's a perfect storm. Did it run when parked? If you do a bit of due diligence pre tear down you might get an idea where to focus your inspections.

Before you strip it, Could you pressurise the water jacket with Air? I realise that where you are the resourses we take for granted here dont exist. (Took us half a day to find a nut once.)

Maybe inside an old heat pump unit?

How much space is in front of the engine? Can you rip the heads off first, and try turn the motor over with a big fucking bar on the crank bolt? (Slip a bit of pipe over the power bar, and jack the truck off the ground off the end of the bar.

I actually thought they'd begun enforcing wofs over there? My mate always told.me.it.was because the roads were so rough. My mate had a ruff as.front tug Toyota. (It died it's final death halfway through my stay there) none of the seat belts would pull out. My mate reckoned the jiggling of the grave roads fucked the inertia reel mechanisms. And all.cars did it after a while out there.

Jay is a GC. He and I did a lot of really dumb shit back in the day. He's fairly mechanical too. It's suprised when he said many people down there had no clue about motors. I would have thought it'd be a neccesity if you lived somewhere like that. What's your mates name?

I wonder if my mate would have some shed space you could use? I've actually been meaning to ring him.up for a yarn for a while now.

Which heads were you thinking of running? I've been reading good things about the new trick flow 190's.

Never say never Ben! Winkface.Jpeg.

Those magnums are 1.755 from memory. And depending on the year of the engine, stock is 1.725

KB167 are a flat top piston with fairly tall compression height. (maybe 1.8 inches?) They say you get zero deck with just a clean up of the decks. They're hyperutectics though. so they love extra ring gap. And the frequency of vibration of a nitrous oxide detonation will shatter them.

Ive driven a digger. And ive worked with guys who know how to operate. There's a long way between where I am, and where an operator would sit.

I'm not an experienced operator. I eat cornflakes. And got my R, W, T endorsement from the bottom of the packet. But an operator make me.that does not.

Let's face it. The writing is on the wall for for the mighty and venerable ICE. (Luckily I've only got about thirty ish years left. So it won't effect me) in the coming decades we'regoing to see more.and more hybrids/EV being modified. Old man KK can be the ultimate hipster and say yeah man, I was doing that before it was cool.

That's what I mean.

I don't mind using rust converter on super cunty areas. Getting it as clean as poss and giving it too coats. Followed by two coats of brush on Body sealer. Has to be better than doing nothing. And creates a waterproof barrier between the steel and any moisture. I saw a ute chassis that had been done in rust converter. It lasted close to ten years outside, with only a shit tarp partly covering it.

Belt driven inlet manifold pleez

I dont know if anyone does that type of coating. I've always used the VHT one in a can. Maybe hit it with two pack clear afterwards? You can get hammertone powder coating. I've often wondered if there might be a wrinkle powder caot too? Middy's B16A needs the wrinkle finish on that redoing too. So I'm all ears if someone knows.

For him or me? My next project is getting an Eaton blower. Will's has been off the road too long.