No diff work. #2 can fit the new bearings and he is tied up with end of semester assignments and exams coming up. The dead duratec is providing some material for his stress analysis assignments with main bolts analysis and gearbox shafts.
Raining today so I set about making strut brace. No one makes one that suits the duratec though I was always intending to make my own which will brace strut to strut and also back to the firewall. I will use some cold drawn steel tube either 1" od or 28.something depends on the dies that suit my mate's mandrel bender.
#1 is making a rack for his motorbike so I stole a bit of an offcut off that. 150x75x4 RHS. The other bits were left overs cut to size after I made the anti dive frame.
Hacked the bits off with the cordless bandsaw.
Some more cutting and grinding later. I drilled the holes on size at 8mm and bolted the pieces together and did the grinding thing and then spun one around and did it again so they should be symmetrical.
Welded the tie mounts together 35mm apart which will allow me to put a piece of pipe across the lateral pipe. Probably go to a 12nb pipe and weld that to the ends like a T at each end. Will use an M12 stud and nylock nuts each side for pretty.
And here they are installed.
Thinking of welding some 50x50x4 angle about 150mm long on the scuttle and the vee parts of the brace can bolt on top of that. Anyway ran out of day. The lower hole is just for pretty and is a 1/2" dimple! Quelle surprise!!
And speaking of rain as I was, if it doesn't rain tomorrow I should be able to post up something in what does you day look like...