flyingbrick

Thanks mate. Turns out the hobby car manual is actually pretty good (lol)...I wish I'd bought it earlier (being able to spend 10$ per relevant chapter makes it much easier!!!) I was even more impressed to see things like suggested tube and heim joint sizes... Really really important for someone like myself who genuinely has no clue and tends to oversize everything.

EDIT. NM just bought the book. Stepping out of my comfort zone a little. From my time with 4wds I'm fairly sure you can make new rear trailing arms/panhard bars etc without much trouble (well..Compared to trying to weld a master cylinder pushrod lol) What if you are making the trailing arms from chromolly? What if you are changing from leaf to 3 link ;one link each side (from diff to forward leaf mount) + central tq arm. Will I need to provide crack test certificates (there will be threaded spuds welded into ends of control arms and lots of welding on tq arm) Will I need to provide material certs? A weld procedure? Sit a welding test? Etc etc etc Thanks

Hahaha. Yup that's a fail. You will have to grab a new master cylinder and start again.

It was me that was chatting about it with Clint . Your only option really is to cut off the original end of the pushrod and then run a die over the pushrod so that it can screw into your new fitting..I did this on mine. PS, have a look at all the information online (freely available on the lvvta website)

How do they even cut copper on their machines? I always thought they used something like a scalpel blade

not much to worry about then haha. Keep it up, enjoying the build!

I don't have a huge amount of experience with rivnuts but I get some anxiety about their strength and suitability in situations like this- keen to hear other people's thoughts. Nice design though, they fit really nicely up there out of the way!

I had one degassed and I think it was free (or atleast extremely cheap). You don't need recommendations..Just pop into any Aircon place and ask

I'm so confused about why you'd want to sit on the very front of it.... it'd be good for making it do wheelies in reverse but that's probably not the goal haha. You should take the springs out so it looks cool/ you can claim it's to make it easier to get on and off

Not as epic as the kids table up there but I got epic satisfaction from this little project. We have a tiny home and it's important to free up pockets of space and remove clutter when possible (I'm not good at this) Greg popped in the other day and suggested I put TV on wall..It's been on the to-do list for ages. Measured wall and tv angles Had bracket laser cut Bend along dotted lines Draw corner of lounge and TV on table and use to get angles for steel (ends are not 45s) and weld Paint and screw onto wall Now just gotta add a power point and white cable so they exit walls higher. @flyingbrick Please rehost images on OS

Just call them and ask mate. They do this stuff every day

What Tori said- take it to some professionals and they will get it perfect

I wouldn't recommend any sort of super glue because its vapor can fog/mark plastics really quickly.

I also am too cheap to spend $8 per pin for the door hinges so machined some high tensile bolts to the right length and diameter and grooved them to take a tiny c-clip. Then heated them up really hot and dipped into waste oil to blacken em. No idea how well this will last or protect from rust but YOLO it was cheap.

To continue with the theme of not finishing any of the utes sub- projects before moving on to another, today I decided to clean up and repair the leather Audi seats so they are ready for installation (even though the rest of the vehicle isn't, lol) Research was done and I did my best while also being extremely cheap. Firstly the seats were given an extremely through cleaning using an old toothbrush and soapy water to get human filth out of all the stitching, seams and cracks. Just this made a huge difference which is hard to show via pics. Before After Next I got a $6 bottle of liquid shoe polish. It is NOT like shoe nugget- this is a thin black liquid that dries and will not rub off- more of a dye. Multiple layers of this were applied to each cracked area- allowed to soak for a short while and then rubbed off with a rag (so it pretty much only remains in the cracks and damage) Before After So the cracks in the color layer are still there- they just don't stick out like they used to. Next up was this hole in the driver's side bolster. This side is pretty fucked and I always said I'd get it replaced properly....But reality says NO right now. Here's the hole. So I copied some instructional videos for $100 repair kits and made a backing patch out of vinyl. I trimmed the hole up a bit cleaner and stuffed the vinyl in there with the cloth surface facing out so the adhesive had a nice surface to bond. Next I grabbed a tube of trusty simpson panel/chassis adhesive and squeezed some out onto cardboard. I agree this is a strange choice of poo BUT in my defence- I know it sticks to EVERYTHING extremely well, it remains flexible when cured AND it is easily painted. I used a flat blade screwdriver to push glue between the vinyl and leather and pushed the leather down as hard as I could. Then I filled the depression with adhesive and smoothed it out as best I could using a rag soaked in thinners. I tried to stipple the surface so it wasn't glossy smooth. Once that was cured I used my finger to apply some cheap black paint. This was WAY WAY WAY WAY more effective than I expected and after a damn good rubbing have established it's pretty durable too! Not perfect but you wouldn't know it's there unless you look really closely! So after a through coating with leather conditioner cream here's the end result.. I'm EXTREMELY happy with how they came out

Has anyone on OS ever had this issue (a car that won't turn off) before? Usually it's the other way round, hahs

I hear that a lot.

professional street bike performance colorful single steel 25 T BMX bike chain wheel http://s.aliexpress.com/umi6VF36 (from AliExpress Android)

Wow $$$$ for the last one. Maybe better of just drawing one up and having it laser cut..Atleast then ya get exactly what you need

Could use a strip of aluminium can with gasket poo to jam it in there tightly

Not lame at all. I drew up some simple dies on Friday for the CNC to pop out on Monday.. simple dies are something I have wanted for bloody YEARS. I see you made yours with 45s, I have done mine with a 7mm radius... Hopefully the outcome is as good

I only mention it because I have seen some for sale (on diy autotune I think) that are even pointier than bike sprockets. Never used any of em myself so learning. You could get one laser cut pretty easily.

...So is it fast?!

That looks so professional! Where did ya get your peg board from?

Why don't people use bike sprockets as their trigger wheels? Some of the available wheels look juuuust like bike sprockets