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Jul 22, 2021 10:44:33 GMT
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Ooooooohhhhh- I'll soon have a spare k11 auto starter motor too. I'll have a look at it!
Although thinking about it, considering we've just removed the engines out of two of our Marches is it possible that UK k11s are different because the starter is on the gearbox side on our manual equipped 1.3 Marches. I'll look at the auto tomorrow.
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Jul 21, 2021 23:32:15 GMT
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I'd go for the reverse rotation starter in the original position ( over the transmission I know yours is a street car, but "free" extra handling is always good... Yes definitely true this. I'm also leaning towards the orginal position because its more hidden from view and I really want to aim for a flat six looking as clean as possible- just a (tiny, lightweight) alternator and 3 itbs on each side, K&N filter above. Maximum engine doort! which direction do you need the starter to spin? Clockwise? Counter? What tooth count are you looking for on the gear? I went through this with my Fiat 850 trying to avoid the old Marelli starter. I found a few databases that listed rotation direction and gears. That was a long time ago. link to Denso starters and rotationsVery handy link. Cheers! I've probably got this wrong but given the saburu one comes in from the rear of the flywheel wouldn't almost any starter designed to go on the engine side (mx5 looks similar but there must be hundreds of them) turn the direction you need? You are indeed correct. You win yet another piece of my finest swarf for that. How simple and obvious yet I missed that fact. Opens up a whole load of various starters I can look at. I might have to pop to the wreckers and rummage through their shelves :-) I do have a friend who's into Hondas and he might have a suitable starter for me. I'll be doing an update soon because I have worked out an even simpler way to deal with my oil pump chain tensions.
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electrically it can be relatively easy to change the direction of the starter however you will still have a clutched pinion that wont work unless changed over too.
I've a friend who's a rep at our local Repco and he has sent through details of various Honda starters. Luckily two are almost the same as my subaru unit- just a smaller flange on the honda items which I can work with.
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Yep that's it.
If I mount the Subaru starter in its stock position I'll be turning the motor the wrong way.
Didn't even think about that. Whoops.
However I have a couple of options. Either use a Honda starter from a counter clockwise civic/accord etc. These rotate opposite to most starters. But I need to check the pinion tooth pitch. From what I can see via rock auto pics they are the same tooth count , 9, and look about the same diameter. I am guessing that most Japanese cars share the same pitch teeth on ring gears?
Or I can mount one of my Subaru starters from the front, over the engine. I have just checked and there's loads of room and will be easy to mount. It would also look more symmetrical and the Subaru starter was going to be pretty close to the parcel shelf if mounted above the box as originally planned.
However if I do this I'll need to turn the ring gear around. Probably add some welds to stop it potentially getting nudged off because the flywheel retaining lip I had machined will now be on the wrong side.
Nothing too drastic or insurmountable in the grand scheme of this project and I'm lucky someone spotted it at this point!
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Jul 20, 2021 21:10:04 GMT
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So a fella on another forum has pointed out an issue I had not thought about and has put me in a mild pickle. I have a couple of solutions, one of which could improve other things at the same time.
Lets see if anyone can guess my error. I'll give you all a clue.
Starter motor.
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Jul 20, 2021 19:52:14 GMT
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Great updates. I'm super happy to see you're back onto this project. So cool!
I'll have to read back through it to see what drive shafts and rear brakes you're using because I'll be beefing up mine.
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Jul 12, 2021 21:37:34 GMT
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You would have passed about 6 km from us Heaphy track is lovely eh. Did you get good weather for it? In and out from this end is the way we did it too. No mucking about getting shuttles/twice as much riding fun!
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Jul 10, 2021 20:35:21 GMT
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Cool. That's great to read. Yeah they are such a neat simple tensioner that just seems to be made for retro fitting into anything eh! I'm glad I nabbed them from the split down duratec engines before I flicked those off. I thought they might come in handy
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Last Edit: Jul 10, 2021 20:35:57 GMT by yoeddynz
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Jul 10, 2021 11:17:18 GMT
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Stay strong Grizz!
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Jul 10, 2021 10:06:31 GMT
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Far out! November last year was the last time I had tinkered away on this project. Time flies!!! Well both Hannah and I have been pretty busy with various things like having to get the housetruck finished off and road legal for sale and with that gone we had to build a place to live. The mezzanine build took a fair whack of time. That's all pretty much done, well at least to a point that we can happily live up there. I started losing a feel for time over summer with all that going on. Then a Micra/March turned up. A simple, cheap run about while the Imp is off the road eh. Then another Micra... and another. Oh - so now these are projects are they? FFS. Oh hey...what's that? Is that a Bedford TK truck in the yard. But hang on.. you've already got 4 other vehicles to play with, not to mention the old 4wd Hiace van that's getting bit rusty around the edges. Well screw all them. I just needed to get my 'flat six fix' so I dug out all the bits that had been hibernating under the bench and had some fun piecing them together in a sort of organised fashion on the table... Now where does this bit go?.... After having some fun taking photos I stashed some of the parts like the heads, cam gear, pistons etc that I wont need for a while back under the bench until needed. I had to confront a mini stumbling block I had with the oil pump drive sprockets. There is one small sprocket that slides onto the hub of a larger one and needed to be fixed in place. My initial thoughts were to weld it but I was worried that it would warp and cup. I sized it up for possibly bolting it in place using small cap screws but there just wasn't enough room between the chain and the hub, even for small 4mm screws. Welding it was going to have to be. I would get some advice though beforehand. But first I wanted to add a very slight taper to the teeth so there would be no sharp square edges that could potentially catch and rub against the inside of the chain plates. 3 of the sprockets were easy enough to pop in the lathe and give them a tickle with a flap disc. But the smallest I had to whip up a little hub to clamp it on... Trying to take a photo with one hand while holding an angle grinder in the other... Then sitting in front of the fire and cleaning off any sharp edges... Now I had sprockets I was happy with I had to confront my welding issue. I popped over the hill and chatted to another engineer I know who has a lot more experience with welding of such things than me. He pretty much told me what I had already guessed and I decided to just go for it. But just to be sure I thought it prudent to machine up a fake sprocket and hub to see how they faired when welded. There was no cupping evident so I went ahead with the sprocket. First thing though was to heat both parts up gently. Not too hot. Just hot enough that I could touch them but not get burnt... This way the welding could be quick and light without a mass of steel sucking the heat. But not so hot that shrinkage could be an issue either. I used the little tig welding table I had built ages ago for more comfort when doing such jobs... I'm certainly not a super neat tig welder like some artists out there (and never will be with only having decent sight out of one eye so judging the distance can be an issue) so I was very happy with the result and super happy that nothing pulled.. With this part finished I could concentrate on the chain tensioner design. I had a few ideas and had amassed a few bits to tinker with.... Being that the chains are under constant load and only turning a pump the tensioners are really only needed to stop excessive slap. Nothing to do with timing changes like a cam chain. I had two Datsun A12 tensioners to try out but no matter how I arranged them they conflicted with each other and there was no room for mounting bolts where I needed them.. So I tried out some Mazda/ford 2.0 duratec tensioners and they show great promise... I will make mounting blocks to suit and knock this part of the build on the head! Then onto finishing the bellhousing. Hopefully some more updates soon although we have also started pulling one of the Micras down for the big swapsie game but that is mainly Hannah's project so I can keep working on this as I can.
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Jun 26, 2021 19:44:30 GMT
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PS So is it Colon Elk or Colonel K? I guess the Elk name was picked up due to a previous misunderstanding? I've always read it as Colonel K... Haha, it was supposed to be Colonel K of Dangermouse fame, but I didn't include the space or capitalise the K on various forums, which lead to many people thinking my name was colon elk. Thankfully Colon was mostly dropped save a few die hards, and now most people know me as Elk, including my entire work 🤣 Forum names eh. Soooo many times I get called Eddy in pms or at gatherings. I've always read your name as colonel k. But now I see colon Alex.
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Cool. I'll check that link out! Thanks. Hello back from hannah. Now she's telling me to pull finger and get back into my Imp project
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Jun 25, 2021 23:51:58 GMT
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Oh also- I admire your sensible thinking when you decide enough is enough and to move on rather then strive for perfection because it can be very easy to get carried away and muck it all up............
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Jun 25, 2021 23:36:10 GMT
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Not sure my wife will be happy with the idea of there being another car around, but we'll cross that bridge when we come to it. Ha ha- wait till you end up with 3 of them! They breed I can tell ya. But as you have found out- such small car fun and like you with your mini I have found them to be very similar to my Imp in little car fun.
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Jun 25, 2021 23:31:18 GMT
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Wow- what a fantastic thread!!! I have not been on RR for while and have somehow missed this. These are the sort of builds and write ups I love the most. Hard to stop reading until finished. My wife Hannah is now enjoying reading it through. Its of particular interest to us both because my dream build for the future is to build my own car styled as a LMP type race car, but not as ridiculously wide. It will be started with a Lancia Stratos screen and built out from there and a mix of steel frame with alloy cladding. Hence your thread is gold for us! Question time. I'd be tig welding too and wondered if you can anneal the welds afterwards to make the shaping/filing and smoothing easier without cracking? Link time- there is this outfit in NZ that build stunning replicas from the confines of an old chicken farm. All way above my pay grade .... www.rodtempero.com/Thanks so much for the time you are taking to share your project with us. Alex
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Last Edit: Jun 25, 2021 23:31:34 GMT by yoeddynz
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Jun 13, 2021 20:14:29 GMT
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Looking great. Very tidy fabrication. Love them wheels!
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Kevin really loves his new house we've created for him!!! Lots of cosy spots to curl up in and its safe up here.
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May 18, 2021 20:37:11 GMT
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I guess now you have more potential to set that up as a great living and travel vehicle - looking forward to seeing it progress some day! Just don't make it too comfortable or that future dream may never get started [/quote] Yep - I'm hearing (well, reading) you both. The housetruck project will still happen. We have a budget set aside for it too. But now we can take our time and build it with no stress to get it ready to move into. It will be designed as a much easier house to take on holiday too. It will also be designed to sell on in the future because the tiny house/housetruck thing has become big money here. The housing crisis in nz is pretty bad, similar to the uk in that young folk cannot afford to buy property. Alternative, cheaper housing is a reality that our govt is starting to slowly embrace. We now know we could have sold the last housetruck for a lot more but not upset. It went to a great home, easy sale and we are both excited about future sales prospects. We do love the little bedford so its likely it will be the removable house bit we might sell on, then build another if it works out as a viable side business. Getting paid to build fun things is a good way to earn a coin eh!
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May 17, 2021 20:22:28 GMT
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Yep I'm looking forward to getting back into my project. Sort of building up to it
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May 16, 2021 21:00:53 GMT
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The notches on my garden shed are pretty complex. Not only is a chunck machined out of the top and bottom... See these: I do love how this all went together, was really a joy to do, but I had a complete unit to build so everything I needed was in the kit. Wow! How do you manage to stop your umbrella from falling out into the sky? And your house - it must be a mess inside, what with all your belongings scattered all over the ceilings!?
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