15×9 weller wheel

Been busy away from garage and abit sick, so nothing done really.

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Just gave it a quick coat of paint, will paint the others with the old tyres on, so that when the new ones are on the jobs done. 195/50 tyres are going on should suit the jago with a little suspension drop.

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C90 racer, I would of went for the super charger but now the race team is full and there’s no room for my idea’s.

Progress! Jago Geep

Stuff came from the man from donegal, also just got news sarge vulcan jets turned up this morning!

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GT webber manifold

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The webber it’s self, it’s got one of those dual stage throttle that I hate.

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Had an idea, teds always complaining about his 195/50/15 tyres being to hard/low profile, so for his birthday (which i only found out about yesterday) I’ll get him some bigger tyres and I’ll get the old ones!

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The tyre is too big to fit in the vice so it had to come off the other way. I smell of burnt rubber now.

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9″ wide rim, 230mm wide from calculation its got a negative offset of 37.5mm, I have no idea how bad it’s gonna handle.

Will 195mm tyres fit on a 230mm rim? don’t know but I’m going to try to get the tyre shop to do it for me coz I ain’t getting the rest of those tyres off, absolute pita.

I said I was going to use 13″ wheels in the last post, but since I can manage low profile tyre’s for these 15″ I’ll try it, anyway I found out that hilux axles are about 59kg and much more available then atlas axles, perfect compromise between weight and durability.

Crossflow and Pinto dizzys

The jagos status at the mo, gonna keep the english axle but swap it for a good 3.54 and run it with 13″ wheels, use the crossflow for as long as possible then if i switch to bike power the 3.54 ought to suit it fine. The full cage idea is gonna wait, just a lowered half cage right now, with the small wheels it much less likely for me to flip it. Low low seats and maybe a floor mounted pedal box, Locost style windscreen would fit lovely on the shuttle, roof and doors can wait.

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Pinto distributor cap on the crossflow, amazed it fit, was all set to find some megajolt stuff (still might if the engine is good) and a 36-1 trigger wheel, the crossflows cranks pulley is a bit bent and it needs an alternator a v belt and a oil cap, not much then. oil, oil filter, fan is broken, have a carb and inlet on the way in the post, need an air filter and a gasket, what else?

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Pinto dizzy, will actually measure up the difference some other day.

Escort suspension painted

Bough a tin of rustoleum matt black paint, I quite like it, should go well with the gloss red.

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Leaves are painted twice., Sarges bike got new front pads, no sign of the jets yet BUT I had a look at a manual for ’em and it seems the b series vulcan had 130/132 jets! maybe those 127’s won’t be enough.

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Bush’s were a piece of piss to put together, had to use red rubber grease, which I hope won’t eat anything as I had no graphite.

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Speakers mounted via duck tape, much tidier. thinking of doing the laptop as well, so it will match my wallet and phone.

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More bits painted, much hammering was needed of the saddle that was used on the 50mm spring, think they tried to squash fit it.

Course over, new bits arrived.

By my reckoning I came second in class at tig welding, only discovered that I was using 10amps more then everyone else 10mins before the exam started..

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New bits, rear leaves, front springs, rear bush’s, u bolts and a pair of grp4 top spring seats, which look like they don’t fit my springs. Anyway rally design only charged 30 for the delivery quite happy with that, not a light or small package. threw a bit of black paint on the leaves but I ran out of paint (though I had more) and this monday I will be sorting sarges vulcan 1500 (more blasted welding) but straight after that the jago chassis will be going back onto it’s wheels.

English axle strip

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Result of some one driving around with out a pingfukit, might get away with reusing it, plenty of meat left on the shoe.

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Looks like I have a 4.441 diff! don’t think anyone would be cruel enough to put a 4.4 tag on a 3.9 diff do ya? Anyway will probably have to rebuild it with new wheel bearings and a nose seal.

Also got the gearbox off the pinto.

The amazing disappearing belt!

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I can’t find any belt at all, none nadda ziltch. and the one i bought on ebay is second hand and only 20.6mm wide when it should be 22mm

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Painted bottom of chassis, next stage is to put springs back onto it and do a dry build of the major parts (body engine) so I can see what bits need chopping and welding for example the engine will need different mounts and i need to mark out the bottom of the A post for the full cage.

Loads of work done,

But not many pics to show for it, first up got Niki’s bike out the way, sorted the chain, rear brake, idle, bent handlebars and wonky head lamp.

Then moved onto the jago.

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Font end finally off, had to angle grind off all the bolts, crossmember is in a poor state, got an oval hole TCA hole on one side and the other seized.

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Rear axle out and filipped the frame, probably gonna rain all day tomorrow so probably no painting.

Then had to answer a call to help from frosty, blasted French car had eaten it’s own gearbox (it would be awesome if it had eaten some other cars box, but i digress) so with a diagnosis of either a wrecked clutch or cwp, we got that box out in about an hour and a half and it looks like the teeth that held onto the cv had disappeared, new gearbox time!

speaking of eating gearbox’s, dinner time!

Jago’s front end off(ish)

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Bit wrecked last two days tried to get something done today, but didn’t get far, some bit’s are quite stuck on.

1600 pinto and type 3 gearbox out!

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1600 pinto and type 3 gearbox from a capri, heavy tank of a thing.

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got 13″ of ground clearance there.

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needs a little tidying up not too bad

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little more oil on the mounts here so it lasted a bit better.

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The leg is bent, think I’ll bend the other one in closer too, that’ll fix the camber.

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