WELL !
Good news is my wide band retro digi Display work blimmen well , and i went for a drive and gloried in my new data stream telling me whats was going on .noice.
Worked away last week , but this week i have been mostly eating pears ...again .
On the car i had a bit of a fit , and tried buffing it up a bit , it was all manky after the wet trip to the scramble so tried wire wool and cutting paste on the pipes ...it worked well..
then i had a bit of a go at the bonnet..
and the batcowl..
i had not realised how oxidised it all was .
i tried the body compound on the sides ,but they just went black and manky so i need some other product , a bit of petrol took the black off.
Then did another little job , the filler piece in the middle of the seat was all wonky and green and rough , so i took it off ,filled and sanded it , and found a nice matching screw for it ..
much better ,and follows the line of the tail ridge now too.
Next i attacked the rear suspension .
The problem here was , its too soft for a full load of driver , passenger , and a full 11 gallons of lpg .
I found i had a old pair of shocks , so took them apart ,and re machined some tops to take thin mini springs , these springs are a 70 to 90 lbs/inch variable rate ,and i am using them to bolster my leaf springs ,and also the shocks are adjustable ...when i took off the taxi shock i found it has NO damping on compression , and lots on rebound ....so as the car hit bumps the wheel would gradually end up in the high position .
old shock ..
cut mini spring ..
i have to make a turret for the axle for the shock to mount on , then i can paint it all.
experimentation shows me this give a 3/4 " higher ride height , and the shock compresses 1" with the car weight on it, this is a little less than i would like , but i can assemble ,test , then buy springs to suit , or just run the leaf spring with no spring on the shock and use the adjustable damping to get better axle control.
via con dios
regards
robert
Good news is my wide band retro digi Display work blimmen well , and i went for a drive and gloried in my new data stream telling me whats was going on .noice.
Worked away last week , but this week i have been mostly eating pears ...again .
On the car i had a bit of a fit , and tried buffing it up a bit , it was all manky after the wet trip to the scramble so tried wire wool and cutting paste on the pipes ...it worked well..
then i had a bit of a go at the bonnet..
and the batcowl..
i had not realised how oxidised it all was .
i tried the body compound on the sides ,but they just went black and manky so i need some other product , a bit of petrol took the black off.
Then did another little job , the filler piece in the middle of the seat was all wonky and green and rough , so i took it off ,filled and sanded it , and found a nice matching screw for it ..
much better ,and follows the line of the tail ridge now too.
Next i attacked the rear suspension .
The problem here was , its too soft for a full load of driver , passenger , and a full 11 gallons of lpg .
I found i had a old pair of shocks , so took them apart ,and re machined some tops to take thin mini springs , these springs are a 70 to 90 lbs/inch variable rate ,and i am using them to bolster my leaf springs ,and also the shocks are adjustable ...when i took off the taxi shock i found it has NO damping on compression , and lots on rebound ....so as the car hit bumps the wheel would gradually end up in the high position .
old shock ..
cut mini spring ..
i have to make a turret for the axle for the shock to mount on , then i can paint it all.
experimentation shows me this give a 3/4 " higher ride height , and the shock compresses 1" with the car weight on it, this is a little less than i would like , but i can assemble ,test , then buy springs to suit , or just run the leaf spring with no spring on the shock and use the adjustable damping to get better axle control.
via con dios
regards
robert
