Setting up my portable vise to do some more deburring work on those stock LS manifolds. To the right you can see the victim awaiting its fate. My air motor is waiting and loaded with a tungsten carbide burr. The cute little bottle is air tool oil. The air motor likes to get its oil "fix" just a drop or two, on a daily basis.
A before shot of the victim. Most of what is going to get ground away is the flash on the tubes in the spaces between them. This is metal left over after the casting process and the factory only removes what it has to in order to make the part ready for use. As many of us have cause to appreciate, casting flash can be razor sharp and you almost always end up with your hands wrapped around some when you are trying to dismount a manifold or similar part.
After about an hour or so, this was where I stopped for the day. The number three pipe is going to need a little welding to build up the outer surface before i can do any more shaping. I also need to score a fine toothed burr to finish off the seams and edges that I ground down.
And no, these are not headers. These are just a pair of stock exhaust manifolds that will be returned to service if'/when my Orphan LS finds a home.
And now for something completely different, this is the Chummee seat suspension assembly that Indian offered for its Chiefs if you wanted to bring a passenger along. The keen eyed will have noticed that the seat Tee shows some signs of having met up with my air motor and burr as well. This happened because the Tee came to me as a sem-finished casting that had only been deburred to the minimum. I started the deburring process on it with my Dremel Tool but quickly decided that air power was the way to go.
Add one seat pan and you have the raw components for another ongoing project. This pan was a cast off that showed up on E-Bay. Vendor was located in Texas and thought he was selling a piece of junk. Nah, not even close. i did have to repair some damage but that was just time with the MIg. It still needs to be bead blasted and then repainted before I set out to score some seat foam and a cover.
Back to the deburring job again for just a picture or two. In shot one you see the ear muffs, dust mask, and full face shield. For doing the grinding and deburring on those manifolds they all got worn by way of me staying safe.
When is a bunny suit not a bunny suit,? When the occupant has spent some time rolling around under his truck, working an air motor to remove casting flash and smooth out some metal, engaging in some heavy metal love with a DA to strip multiple layers of paint off a quarter panel, plus a few other exercises in having fun in a garage. Bunny suits, more properly named painters coveralls, come fresh out of the bag ias snowy white garments; around me they don't stay that way much beyond the first hour of fun.
Finally, I found a place and installed a pair of hangers to support and store my floor jack attachment for lifting and adjusting Car Doors, specifically ones like are found on my G-Body. Since the average G-Door weighs somewhere near 50-75 pounds fully loaded, and even the bare inner skin or shell is around 30 or so, they are not something you want to try to manipulate all by your lonesome unless you have no choice in the matter. To add to the problem, the weight is not evenly balanced and the door is about 60 inches wide at its widest point.
So I scored this attachment that bolts to a floor jack when you remove the frame pad and which bolts up to my jack Number 2 quite nicely. Jack 2 is also the jack that i have modified to be able to lift transmissions so it has the outrigger front axle that spreads the load over a greater foot print and lessens the chance of the jack spilling or tipping over. I so did Not want to wake up and find that I had somehow managed to end up with a t-mission in my lap and squashing my nuts!
So that is about if for the every picture tells a story seminar for today.
Nick
