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Had a run around day, so sorted braided hose and dropped front wheels off to have tyres fitted. Mate is a tyre fitter and I got a good price on a pair of maxxis tyres (which means we have a couple of spare wheels that hold air!) Then had to drop into the Farm and sort a light in the chicken sheds... so brought the rear wheels home to polish..... wife wasn’t home so cracked on and gave them a fairly quick polish, cleared up and washed my arms and face of all the grey... then got questioned as to why I was wearing eyeliner  So had to admit to playing when I should have been out earning! but think she was relieved  Anyway they look more like the fronts now... but can’t compare until I get them back  |
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Wow what a difference, nice work.
Dan
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jamesd1972
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You saw the eyeliner ?
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No, not sure it was my colour, it made me look a bit emo goth |
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A while back we got a Acewell speedo... which had better features than the cheap ebay one we already had (moved that on to a mate for his bike)  It came with a oil temp sensor and speedo fitting to work with a beetle speedo cable  But won’t fit into the dash area, as it’s bigger than the old one. Don’t want to move the 25mm tube down as we’ll lose leg room, so wanted to bend a bit of tube just for the centre of the dash where the clock will go. Was Wondering how to do it, but being a sparky I’ve got an old conduit bender...  So we bent a bit of tube up tonight, which we can weld into the Fug at the weekend  |
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I've got one of those acewell Speedos, was going to use the magnetic pickup for the speed. Which adapter do you have that allows it to work with a standard beetle cable?
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Last Edit: Mar 7, 2018 5:52:43 GMT by SamJ
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I've got one of those acewell Speedos, was going to use the magnetic pickup for the speed. Which adapter do you have that allows it to work with a standard beetle cable?  They do a range of them for bike speedos, but this one is the universal one. I haven’t actually checked it works though.... having said that! Thought it’d be easier to work with a cable than trying to fix sensors to the front end though |
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Got a cheap 944 handbrake cable from eBay, it was £20! and is both the long and short cables complete   We can convert the 944 handbrake pivots for beetle cables (for 50-60 quid for the swans and longer tubes) but beetle cables are designed to run in a conduit inside the tunnel, and obviously we don’t have the tubes on the frame we may only need mounts to retain the outer sheath and run the cables straight to the handbrake.... But since the Porsche cable is sheathed all the way to the lever, we thought we’d try that... Being cheap, obviously it’s rusted up... which doesn’t help with me getting my head round it, there is a long cable that runs from the lever to one brake and the other cable tensions using the outer sheath of the long cable (I think, but struggling to fully get my head round it) I did think worst case, I could just use the long cable and get another long cable and run both to the handbrake like the beetle cables, but the cables are 40-50 quid new... Not desperate to get the handbrake on at the minute, so basically trying to decide which option to throw our money at |
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I just drilled the beetle ends for the Porsche swans  |
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Not at all Fugitive related.... but put a bit of a dampener on the day!   Some bits did turn up today though.... but I think I’ll go drink beer instead  |
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jamesd1972
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Ah rats bits!
Not your fault ? If so At least you have details and the van didn’t drive off.
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Ah rats bits! Not your fault ? If so At least you have details and the van didn’t drive off. No, not my fault.... it was a tight gap (you can see how far over I am by the white lines) but rather than waiting she turned left and caught me in the swept path. Just hoping they accept liability though rather than arguing |
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Well the courier company have admitted liability.... so just need to get the van fixed (if I wait long enough @grumpynorthener can do a thread van is 2 years old so there’s a way to go until it’s retro anyway!) moving on to more important things.... Collected the wheels  So we went to collect the Fug, and Tom started to fit them whilst I loaded the car  But they hit the calipers  So we fitted the steelies again, and we’ll need some spacers  And some touch up paint! I know it may not go yet.... but we’ve got a fibre flare!!  We’ll get some stuff done over the weekend, but mate who was sorting the clutch pedal for us, didn’t get it finished... so we’ll see how far we get |
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Mar 10, 2018 19:11:07 GMT
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It was raining on and off, so we built a lean to  Did some welding, welded the bent tube for the speedo  And battery mount   Cut the old mounts holding the bonnet on, and looked at lining it up, Like everything else on the Fug, nothing fits or lines up very well... We got the front of the bonnet square to the beam and the back end is not square... though it doesn’t look that bad in the photo  But think we’ll have to trim and re-GRP bits of the bonnet as it doesn’t fit well at the sides Then worked out what spacers we need for the front wheels, and had a look  And fitted the fibre flare  Tomorrow we need to sort the clutch |
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Mar 14, 2018 21:10:52 GMT
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Well that didn’t happen... Mother’s Day happened so we didn’t get any time on the Fug, but it’s still at home, so we’ve done a few bits. Made a bracket for the slave cylinder, did a CAD template, transferred it to some 3mm sheet and cut it out, but I can’t bend sheet that thick, so we cut some material out of the back and then could fold the sheet (it’s a kerf cut in wood, is it the same in steel?) Then welded inside the bends. We welded a couple of captive nuts on and painted it    We fitted it and disaster!!  It was getting dark, so we took it off and packed up. Had a bit of time after work tonight, so had another look, and the radius where the engine bolt holds it was pushing it out of square, a moment with a flap wheel and it fits, so we ran some hard line in   And the clutch pedal is ready to go back on  So hopefully get a bit of time on it over the next couple of evenings... and if it doesn’t snow get the clutch working on Sunday |
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I assume the slave cylinder is held solid? How does that work with the clutch arm moving through a radius? Most (all?) of the aftermarket kits I have seen use a cylinder that can rotate on a pivot with a flexible line connecting it all up.
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I assume the slave cylinder is held solid? How does that work with the clutch arm moving through a radius? Most (all?) of the aftermarket kits I have seen use a cylinder that can rotate on a pivot with a flexible line connecting it all up. The cylinder is solid but the arm slots into the piston afterwards and has a fair bit of movement (you can see how much when it wouldn’t line up) so hopefully it will work (it might wear the slave cylinder out sooner if it loads one side of the piston more I suppose?) |
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Rich
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I assume the slave cylinder is held solid? How does that work with the clutch arm moving through a radius? Most (all?) of the aftermarket kits I have seen use a cylinder that can rotate on a pivot with a flexible line connecting it all up. I'm fairly sure it'll be fine, the clutch arm on pretty much most OE applications doesn't travel completely linearly, the pushrods on clutch slaves are usually a floating non-captive ball and socket to counter this. |
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ok, cool. Be interesting to see how you get on. I looked at converting to hydraulic with one of the CNC pull-type slave cylinders that use a heim joint to allow the cylinder to rotate around it's mount point, but decided to wait until I get the 1914cc engine built and upgrade the clutch at the same time.
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Mar 15, 2018 18:48:58 GMT
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Bits turned up! Spacers, wheel studs and wheel nuts. (and a speedo cable)  And got a reproduction carb.... I have had carb problems in the past caused by wear on both cars and bikes, and as I sold an old eberspacher on eBay for good money... Itreated us  So we shouldn’t have to worry about it being set up right, and we can strip the old one down the line and play with it at leisure Also picked up a couple of bits of ally, one for a dash panel, the other to mount the regulator onto.... Mark is waiting for the scrap man to empty his bins... so we were lucky  Need to weld some tabs on before it snows |
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