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« Reply #765 on: September 18, 2008, 09:31:28 PM » |
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 It depends where the 4 inches are Bobbi -so I'm told. The front wheels sit ahead of the grille, so hopefully should contact any ramps & speed bumps before the grille does & roll over them. High cambered roads & debris in the centre of the road, between the wheels, will be another matter though!
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« Reply #766 on: September 18, 2008, 10:28:39 PM » |
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hmm mines only got 4" to the sump  think i'll b fitting a sump guard what with all the sheep we run down  |
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« Reply #767 on: September 18, 2008, 11:35:58 PM » |
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Come to think, I've never measured mine on the trike - but I have terrible trouble with speed bumps - you the ones they call sleeping policemen? I just have to try and scrape the exhaust s l o w l y !
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« Reply #768 on: September 19, 2008, 01:27:49 AM » |
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the sheep i hit are still alive at the time of impact and generally on there side they stand more than 4"... police tend to drive around in cars/vans ....for fear of getting run over |
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« Reply #769 on: September 19, 2008, 09:52:27 AM » |
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I've been told 4.5 inches under the sump is as low as you should go, anything more and you will get stuck.
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« Reply #770 on: September 19, 2008, 10:19:13 AM » |
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We've got nine inches under the sump -the grille's likely to be the problem. Hoping this car's going to be reasonably sensible to drive, despite it's looks. It sits quite low, but we've built the suspension around the car at that height, rather than dropping the body/chassis over standard running gear & ending up with it riding on the bump stops. We've got full suspension travel front & back & maximum turning circle. Our trikes have between 4 & 6 inches of clearance under the sumps. Never really been a problem except one occasion when we had to physically lift Flap's orange trike over a particularly vicious speed hump in the gateway of a show. Not the coolest way to make your entrance. But then, he's only got around 3 inches.  |
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« Reply #771 on: September 19, 2008, 11:19:28 AM » |
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« Reply #772 on: September 21, 2008, 04:27:50 AM » |
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« Reply #773 on: September 21, 2008, 08:11:58 AM » |
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Looking good andy but now the motor's in where do you put your legs?
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« Reply #774 on: September 21, 2008, 08:30:07 AM » |
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I have to fold them behind my ears.
We can't get in the cab yet cos the doors are tack-welded shut so the body doesn't distort & it's full of bracing poles, (it's possible to crawl in from underneath but not to get into a seating position). So we haven't actually tried it for size yet, but there seems to be a suprising amount of space inside. By pushing the front axle further forward than it'd normally be, there's more room for the engine so it doesn't come as far back into the cab as a lot of Pops do.
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« Reply #775 on: September 23, 2008, 11:25:58 PM » |
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A couple of days ago we picked up a length of box section from Valley Gas Speed Shop & welded it across the chassis as a gearbox cross member. Using my bestest Blue Peter skills, I then made up a paper template of the gearbox mounting plates. I cut them out of the offcuts from the front engine mounts, (roughly 6mm steel plate). Tack-welded in place by Mr Lunatic. So now the motor's fully fitted.
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« Reply #776 on: September 23, 2008, 11:26:30 PM » |
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The temporary wooden cross member was tapped out & -woo hoo! The motor didn't crash to the floor. Result.
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« Reply #777 on: September 23, 2008, 11:33:38 PM » |
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Brock paid a visit to the workshop yesterday, (sorry I missed you Steve). He brought with him a set of tubular headers to fit a Rover motor. They'd been kicking round his workshop for ages. Hey, not bad. Prettier than the cast iron RangeRover ones my engine came with -they flow nicely along the side of the Pop body.
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« Reply #778 on: September 23, 2008, 11:37:20 PM » |
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They're only propped in place here. They need spacing out from the cylinder head by a couple of inches.
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« Reply #779 on: September 23, 2008, 11:48:32 PM » |
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So I nipped out to the local tyre & exhaust centre. Help yourself to the scrap exhausts in the skip behind the shop they said. Oh, & did you know the front tyres on your Fiesta are illegally bald?
Bugger. So a couple of assorted sized bits of tube & 119 quid for a new pair of tyres. I knew I needed them & planned to get 'em changed before Taz & I go on holiday in a couple of weeks, so not all that bad really.
I cut the nearest size tube up into 8 equal lengths. They ended up 3 inches long.
Run 'em like that? Yeah, we thought that too, but can't see them getting past the SVA inspector somehow.
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