Screwed
Well that’s meant to be a servo saver, 15 days i waited and all i got was a screw?! it’s the screw’s fault it fell out of the package!. waiting for the ebay seller M.K.Models to get back to me, fingers crossed.
37!
No broken bits this time not even any skin, extremely bruised back though, bit tough to breath, sitting on couch with a board behind my back to ease the pain.
ejit made an illegal u-turn across my lane, alwell least i took a big chunk of it.
bit cold the other day! clocks need setting straight they were always a bit bent looks a lot worse now with the screen to align them with.
125cc racer, note foldable pegs, large 90 tank, sticky rear tyre, can’t race this because its breaks the rules, but we might as well finish it now. Will bring it to watergrasshill to test it along side with my rxs100 probably next month since the race is feburary
It looks like a katana!
well i hope it does, some ejit will say it looks like a bmw
noticed my tak welds were good enough to support me hanging off the subframe, so i welded it a bit more and left it at that.
Sprayed it black
That too, cleanest it’s even been.
quick and dirty
was thinking reverse paint scheme, but that’s not gonna work, magnolia with black stripe all the way
bonus! clocks fit, might use em.
best looking angle, and the most important.
cbr6 get a new nose
Garage was a bit blocked up so i did some work outside.
Not too bad, can’t decide weather to shorten the nose or lower it, want it to have a hint of 80′s suzuki katana, might chop off the nose of old front mudguard.
tak welded together
Bit of adjustment todo, gonna be painted magnolia again, with a black stripe down the middle (or maybe another colour…..)
Jago axle
Got the axle off the jeep to weld up that tiny crack.
Struggled with the welder for a hour, trip blows if I turn it up to max (4) so at 3 I did the weld and it wasn’t pretty but it should do the job
Axle back in, lads at irishescortclub.com pointed out that a few vans didn’t have the spring pads either, there only there for comfort, so I chucked em. Not much comfort when you don’t have roof doors or a windscreen.
bout -1 this morning so after i knocked off the ice I used an old fourstar shirt to keep my arse from shattering, stayed in place great tucked under the strap, finally a use for seat straps!
ebay seller classicandmoderncarparts got back to me about the wheel cylinders, the sliding clips that hold the cylinder are no longer made, now i gotta find out if all 8″ drums use the same style cylinder or should i upgrade to a 9″ drum set.
The clips in question.
More english axle woes
Even I’m sick of it now.
Took for ever to wind on those nuts, but i didn’t want to chop the bolts until i have seen the ride height.
That piece on the bottom is meant to go above the spring and below the axle, it’s too thick meant for a multi leaf spring and I’m skipping the leaf mount pads anyway, hope the spring don’t crack. If it does it’s 5-link time! also in the pic you can see the ominous bit of oil on the axle….
Man wheels! hairy chested too!
Matt black rustoleum not so chip resistant as a gloss.
Couldn’t find an axle location pin (perhaps because i kept searching for a location bolt) it matters not since im not bothering with the leaf pads. the bolts edges would tear up the rubber.
It’s cracked, you can’t quite see it in the pic, it’s a hairline, and i would never has seen it except for when the axle was on it’s end in the garage getting painted, it leaked a tiny bit showing it up. (sorry bout the crap pic).
saw an atlas axle in Donegal for €220, maybe i should just redo the spring mount on that and slip it in, how hard can it be?
Oh fired off and email to an ebay seller about anglia wheel cylinders, if he has what i need i’ll just fit anglia bits, or maybe i really should get that atlas.
RC meccano
Feelin rusty sitting here waiting out the crap weather, needed to build something.
Suspension? we don’t need no stinkin suspension!.
needs a few bits:
hi-tec servo saver
better motor (locked diff needs power)
velco
gotta find ma fast battery’s (there red don’t know how i have missed ‘em)
better get on the bay of e and sort it!
actually maybe i should clean up the room first swmbo will be back soon…
One more thing, nascar fiberglass bodies are cheap, bit long at 108″ wheelbase but might do the job over the jago chassis.
Measurements
No pics this time, dead phone again, mostly did measuring today anyway.
quite accurate:
1034mm outer width of spring mounts(includeing 6mm jago frame)
88mm leaf bush width
934mm leaf/spring sadle center
485mm leaf eye to axle
m12 front bolts
quite dodgy:
1346mm wide axle (53″)
1220mm back plate to back plate (48″)
This stuff is from a guy named boswell, who is looking for axle info for his datsun.
the standard 120y axle is 51.5 inches (1308mm) [114.3 pcd]
MGB axle is 52 inches (1320mm) [114.3 pcd]
Ford Capri Atlas is 58 inches (1473mm) [108pcd]
Ford escort English axle is 54 inches (1371mm) [108pcd]
Ford Anglia van std axle is 50 inches (1270mm) [108pcd]
Reliant Scimitar is 53 inches (1346mm) [114.3pcd]
Axle was doing my head in until i saw his info, it must be an escort axle, with an anglia 4.44:1 diff, the brakes however are still annoying me,
Are all 8″ drums the same? I don’t like the single piston sliding thing, but if it were just that i’d live with it, it’s the imperial vs metric thats tripping me up now, are they anglia drums (imperial) or escort (metric)?
English Axle
I’m working my way through getting the rear end up off the ground, degreased the axle three times and finally painted it the other day (dead phone so no pics)
Now I’m trying to sort the brakes, staying with the 8″ drums because there the lightest, but I need to find out where the axle came from to sort what kinda wheel cylinders I need. 4.44:1 ratio indicates an anglia van axle and pictures on the net of anglia wheel cylinders bear this out, that makes it an imperial set-up? also the anglia cylinders are weird having a sort of one piston sliding set-up that doesn’t look like a good idea, sierra’s also use 8″ drums, but I haven’t found out if there backing plates will fit or not, keeping the eyes peeled for escort back plates on ebay.
The brother going raceing again and has taken out the cr250, looks quite well since it’s been stood for 5 years now, started and all with no special work needed.
This is what interested me, one day I’ll 4 or 5 or 6 link the rear of the jago and in the bargain add 16.8 inchs to the wheelbase (up to the 94.8 escort length) second hand motocross shocks are cheap and fully rebuild able mounted a little way up on the link arms should give the right travel, roll centers are bothering me now, low is best but then the shocks are going to be mounted high on the the upper links, would be better on the lower ones, think I’ll four link the axle and make the top ones into a A frame of sorts to control lateral movement. decisions decisions decisions.
