What did you do to your non-G Body project today [2024 edition]
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The 2025 Calendars are HERE. Two different editions, two different sizes, and a digital package!! Starting at $12.97US
they changed the discount. car has to be registered to the employee. cant bring in loose wheels either. there is a friends and family ordeal, but i think its even less than the 35. and for all i know you might have to be a blood relative lol
Bridgestone is oddly accommodating and sinister/alienating at the same time. happily walk out 18 supervisors/hr staff due to "budget issues" but then have all plant meetings about how much money they just made.
Just a few shots of the progress on adding a lifting winch for the movable press deck on my press
So the feet, you can call them trunnions if you want, were made from 1.5 inch pressed angle iron. Unlike the extruded stuff, you get a round corner instead of a sharp one. On top of them I welded two sections of light wall square tube and bridged them with the two straps that have the mounting holed for the winch chassis drilled into them. Like I mentioned sometime else, being bolted on lets me drop the winch off if I have to work on it or replace it.
And how it all goes together. In these pictures the subframe is ready to be burned in permanently. The winch is positioned atop it to give a better sense of how it all come together. It also lets you see how the crank arm has been extended out and away from the top frame of the press so that it can be swung without smashing knuckles on it.
This is the basic crank assembly that, as delivered, bolts directly to the crankshaft on the winch that turns the cable reel.
And here is the extension that i dreamed up to gain the clearance for the crank once the winch was mounted on top of it. Not so oddly enough, the thread on the crankshaft turned out to be metric, 14mm. And, of course, no one local carries 14mm coupling nuts, which is wanted I originally wanted to work with. (They are available on line) So I decided to make a coupling nut, using 14mm nuts like the two sitting beside the finished item and used a 14mm bolt as a spindle on which to stack the nuts so I could line up the flats and tack them together while still being able to turn the bolt; meaning that the threads had lined up and not gone into bind. To faciliate the welds, I chamferred the edges of the nuts where they met each other to get a deeper pass and a stronger joint. That also let me finish the welded faces down to smooth for a better final look.
And this is how the crank arm assembly all goes together. To keep the arm from just sitting there and slipping when turns are applied, the stud section showing, has flats carefully ground into it to accept the squared off hole in the crank mounting tab.
Still to be done: Lacing on the lifting cable and fabricating rollers for each end to allow the cable to roll and slide as it transitions from being on the winch reel to meeting the chain yokes that were attached to the press deck lifting points made from 3/16ths angle that I welded to the rails of the press deck (Not sure if I posted pics of them; maybe when I show how the cable gets strung.)
Nick
So the feet, you can call them trunnions if you want, were made from 1.5 inch pressed angle iron. Unlike the extruded stuff, you get a round corner instead of a sharp one. On top of them I welded two sections of light wall square tube and bridged them with the two straps that have the mounting holed for the winch chassis drilled into them. Like I mentioned sometime else, being bolted on lets me drop the winch off if I have to work on it or replace it.
And how it all goes together. In these pictures the subframe is ready to be burned in permanently. The winch is positioned atop it to give a better sense of how it all come together. It also lets you see how the crank arm has been extended out and away from the top frame of the press so that it can be swung without smashing knuckles on it.
This is the basic crank assembly that, as delivered, bolts directly to the crankshaft on the winch that turns the cable reel.
And here is the extension that i dreamed up to gain the clearance for the crank once the winch was mounted on top of it. Not so oddly enough, the thread on the crankshaft turned out to be metric, 14mm. And, of course, no one local carries 14mm coupling nuts, which is wanted I originally wanted to work with. (They are available on line) So I decided to make a coupling nut, using 14mm nuts like the two sitting beside the finished item and used a 14mm bolt as a spindle on which to stack the nuts so I could line up the flats and tack them together while still being able to turn the bolt; meaning that the threads had lined up and not gone into bind. To faciliate the welds, I chamferred the edges of the nuts where they met each other to get a deeper pass and a stronger joint. That also let me finish the welded faces down to smooth for a better final look.
And this is how the crank arm assembly all goes together. To keep the arm from just sitting there and slipping when turns are applied, the stud section showing, has flats carefully ground into it to accept the squared off hole in the crank mounting tab.
Still to be done: Lacing on the lifting cable and fabricating rollers for each end to allow the cable to roll and slide as it transitions from being on the winch reel to meeting the chain yokes that were attached to the press deck lifting points made from 3/16ths angle that I welded to the rails of the press deck (Not sure if I posted pics of them; maybe when I show how the cable gets strung.)
Nick
I don't want to sound too forward, but nice nuts. Making that coupler was probably cheaper as well as faster than buying one from a store.
Have a couple of calls out to sewer jet specific companies to have them price me what it would be to try that first, while waiting on my buddy to price me for him to do it all and a price for me to use one of our machines and then have him pipe it.
Helped a fellow GTO brethen do a clutch replacement, which should help out when I need to do mine. Got the transmission out and back in pretty good time, the longest wait was actually having the guy run back home to get his one piece driveshaft since we realized how spent his carrier bearing was and the waste of putting it back together as it was. Turned out to need a good bit more of modification to get the one piece to fit
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You need to buy that firebird and just throw a poncho 400 in it, rock it as is bad paint/primer and all.
Perfect time to install a speed bleeder if there's not one already.
The 2025 Calendars are HERE. Two different editions, two different sizes, and a digital package!! Starting at $12.97US
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