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« Reply #8970 on: October 22, 2016, 08:07:30 PM » |
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I had some work done on the silencers at Torque Technique in Salisbury a few days ago, but as I'd suspected, once in place, the pipes that connect to the rest of the system will foul on the chassis. Not TT's fault -my measurements were a bit vague.
They point directly at the underside of the chassis rails & are too close to add a bend. I'll take them back after work on Monday & see if they can pull them in by a couple of inches.
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« Reply #8971 on: October 22, 2016, 08:08:31 PM » |
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« Reply #8972 on: October 22, 2016, 08:14:06 PM » |
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Continuing to scrub the scaley rust off the chassis. Laying under the truck, looking up at the underside of the pick-up bed & the chassis was truly depressing. Now it's all easily accessible. The engine bay needs cleaning up & a few bits repainting & the interior needs putting back in, but can't until the electrics are sorted out, so I figured I may as well tackle this lot for the time being.
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« Reply #8973 on: October 22, 2016, 08:18:43 PM » |
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The battery box now needs re powder-coating, (exhaust brackets reworked & a slot cut for the Live battery cable to sit in), so I'll take the rear mudguard struts in too. The rear brake pipes pass through them so have to be disconnected to remove the guards -poor design on my part. I'll slot them so they'll fit over the pipes. Several small brackets to be coated as well. Usually only takes a few days for the coating guys to do their thing.
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« Reply #8974 on: October 22, 2016, 08:27:18 PM » |
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I like these secondary pipes cos they're unusual & not what you'd expect under the back of a 50s truck, (everyone assumes they're VW silencers, which just confuses them more). When we SVA'd the Pop the decibel limit was 101 & we were reading 106. Adding a few extra feet of pipe, several bends & another 2 silencers took it down to 85.5 which is quite impressive.
It'll be a tad more now cos the system's all stainless, which reverberates more than mild steel, & it's 2" bore all the way through, instead of stepping down to 1.5 in the middle like it used to, to hook up to the tractor silencers it used to have. I'm hoping it'll still burble, rather than rasp though. I want to drive it as regularly as I can so it needs to be driver friendly.
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« Reply #8975 on: October 22, 2016, 08:31:39 PM » |
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Rolled outside this afternoon for a bit of looking at.
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« Reply #8976 on: October 22, 2016, 10:55:29 PM » |
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Nice to see you got something done after I left you alone. It didn't dawn on me until I got home,you had a Saturday off. We could have gone to the Kempton bike show thing.
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« Reply #8977 on: October 23, 2016, 11:45:30 AM » |
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You need a big moon (type )tank on the back of that mate ?  |
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« Reply #8978 on: October 23, 2016, 06:06:03 PM » |
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Got one. Ran it with the original Ford Pop tank mounted in the pick-up bed, up behind the cab to start with, but it was so old & rusty the fuel literally weeped out through the metal. So I swapped it for a new reproduction model T Ford one, which also has a slightly bigger capacity. Currently sat in the corner of the garage, waiting for me to finish painting it. Spent the day visiting me ol' Mum in Dorset today, but got back in time to measure & mark the 2 silencers that will go under the cab, so I can take them to Salisbury with the others tomorrow & have the mounting flanges welded on each end. I'd thought about asking you if you fancied Kempton Bob, but thought you'd be busy at weekends. Forgot you're a man of leisure now so every day's a Saturday.  |
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« Reply #8979 on: October 23, 2016, 07:34:06 PM » |
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any chance you could give me the size of that tank Andy, I have a plan (roughly) and one like that may just fit in.
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« Reply #8980 on: October 23, 2016, 08:04:28 PM » |
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Roughly 8 gallons. I'll measure it tomorrow. Ordered in from the States, via Miles at Jackhammer hotrod supplies in Farnborough, Hants.
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« Reply #8981 on: October 23, 2016, 08:26:34 PM » |
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Not quite a Moon type,but bung it on and sod the pickup bed..  |
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« Reply #8982 on: October 23, 2016, 09:20:03 PM » |
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Mounting brackets & filler neck already fitted. Cooler & more vintage looking than a spun ali' Moon tank.
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« Reply #8983 on: October 24, 2016, 08:01:34 AM » |
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All it needs is some holes now !
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« Reply #8984 on: October 24, 2016, 06:44:01 PM » |
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Holes in the mounting brackets mate.
Too dark & pouring with rain this evening, so no photos of it, but it measures 28" long & is oval, 12" at the widest point, 8" at the narrowest. There's a 1/2" flange around each end. About 150 quid. Galvanised finish.
Took all the silencers back over to Salisbury after work this afternoon.
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