Manky's Pop.

[Manky Monkey]

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[Manky Monkey]

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[stinkey]

For your first time it's rather good mate 👍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿😎

[Manky Monkey]

If it works I'll be happy

[Archie]

Is there a bit of room under the bars? Don’t want the lines to get squished with the axle going up and down

[Tony oily bike]

"Do not eat"! -seriously, who'd be stupid enough to ...eurgh, bleurgh, that's horrible. That's not raspberry flavoured at all.
There ought to be a warning on that stuff

I nearly choked on my coffee reading that!!!!   

[terry t]

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Andy there should be about 1/8" gap between union and the tee. you may have the short union!

[minimutly]

Defo a gap, otherwise even if it doen't leak now, if you remove and replace....

[Manky Monkey]

Yeah I'll re-check the connection on the union. I used a brass female connector, basically because it looks nice & won't corrode like the plated ones, but they seem quite deep. There's a washer between the mouting tab & the union that I could remove.
Yes Archie, plenty of clearance for suspension travel. The back end sits lower than I remember it but they're the same shocks, same locating bars etc, just doesn't seem a lot of suspension travel there. I kept a note of how far the springs were wound up on the adjustable shocks, but might adjust them a bit more.
Never eat the grease, that's my advice

[Manky Monkey]

What a change in the weather -cold & grey & windy here today. I enjoy pottering on the Pop when the sun's out, even though the garage is in permanent shadow, but just couldn't get motivated today.
I noticed the 2 moisture traps were full of water, (those plastic boxes full of crystals that attract the damp out of the air). Paint spraying seems to create more moisture than normal. So I ended up walking to the local "Home Bargains" & queueing for almost an hour to buy replacements, (£2.50 each).
By the time I got back I'd lost my motivation completely. I keep telling myself this is a hobby, not a job & I don't have to do it every day, then feel guilty if I don't.
I did manage to fix the brake pipe union before locking up & heading home though.
Just swapping the 2 flat washers on the chassis mount for thinner ones was enough to increase the available thread & now it screws together nicely with the required 1/8" clearance. Sorted.

[Manky Monkey]

So.
This'll sound like a stoopid question -which usually means it is stoopid.
The next job is the rigid fuel pipe, joining the 2 tanks together via 2 electric pumps, 2 filters, 2 one-way valves & a T piece & running down the chassis to the engine bay. I've used double plastic pipe clips that have one leg for brake pipe & one for fuel pipe, so they'll run side by side.
The fuel pipe appears to be copper with a light galvanised or possibly sprayed/dipped coating on it. It's a dull grey colour. Because I'm leaving the pick-up bed off, at least temporarily, the pipes will be on show. I thought about lacquering it to brighten it up a bit, then found it virtually wipes off with 400 wet n dry, leaving a shiny copper finish.
So is there a reason for keeping the grey coating, other than adding an extra layer of corrosion protection? Would it do any harm to run it as just copper to match the brake pipe? (obviously the inside of the pipe that the fuel actually contacts, is copper).

[Manky Monkey]

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[Manky Monkey]

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[stinkey]

I'm sure you will be underneath polishing the fuel pipe every weekend come next hotrod season 👍😂