Technical What are you working on?

Finished fabing up my alternator and idler pulley brackets for my olds rocket.

 

Nice work. That's a little alternator!

 

Tuff stuff out of Ohio.

 

three-dimensional fabrication. Tricky stuff. Nice work!

 

Still in AOD purgatory. Not leaking, so that hurdle is in the past, but testing the four ports for pressure prior to setting the throttle velocity cable has yielded alarming results.
The driver's side port - system pressure, shows 60 under cruising speed (around 2,500 rpm). I think it should be probably three times as high. When I rev it up in Drive, pressure can climb as high as 80 and the driveline/rear axle spins just fine.
On the p***enger's side, the ports are showing:
Front - 55 in Drive or One, and zero pressure otherwise, with the driveline running just fine in both forward gears, but not in reverse.
Middle (throttle velocity port) - zero and DRY, no fluid coming into this vital port.
Back - Zero pressure but wet.
Regardless of what I do, Reverse doesn't engage.
I interpret the dry middle port and no pressure at the back port to indicate there are obstructions in the transmission case, not down in the valve body. That means pulling the transmission yet again (third time's charm? I wish!) and taking it completely apart to chase the obstruction in the hydraulic system.
When running through the gears, the transmission pumps fluid in Park, strains a bit in Reverse but doesn't move the driveline/rear axle, eases a bit in Neutral but still pumps fluid, then engages the driveline/rear axle in Drive and One.
I think I'll turn my attention to getting gl*** installed and start the long process to get it ***led and licensed, just to take a break from this nasty, challenging transmission.

 

Well that’s not good! That looks like a Mopar service manual, what transmission is it?

 

AOD for @osage orange

 

I'll follow the manual to the letter and "repair as required."

 

Lumpy63 is working on rehab after knee surgery, but it has only slowed him down. He still goes to the shop to supervise his Camaro build.

 

Here's hoping Colin recovers quickly and is fully mobile sooner than later. Thanks to him, my cooling system fits together perfectly.

 

Thank you

 

Seat inserts are done for the bottom cushion. I was planning to do tops***ch horizontal pleats but really struggled with keeping the lines perfectly straight. To avoid wasting expensive materials I opted for a simpler design. The inserts are slightly oversized, but it’s a lot easier to trim some material off than it is to add more material.

 

Our Chrysler 354 is line bored and line honed for the 4-bolt mains. The crank is grinded .010

 

Currently going through the absolute misery of rebuilding the rear ends of the rockers including the door opening step on my 51 Styleline.

I see repair panels are available but the cost of getting them shipped to Scotland makes them out of the question!

Need to take a 'mechanical break' and get the transmission out for a clean and reseal and get on Okie Bush fitted to the torque tube.

 

More stuff that isn’t going together as expected.
Before
After Was thinking of buying these and transform them into a c style retainer / spacer that would fit between the axle flange and backing plate. Instead l had these washers that a .070” thick. So hmm?, an idea was born. A little v notching on the edge and a few zap’s with the mig and some shaping. Call it good.

 

I got around to fixing someone else's over zealous use of a torch on the 57 pickup, I'll never understand the caveman like thinking of these people. They torched out the trans crossmember and bumper bracket bolts blowing holes in the frame along the way.



Then I had to figure out what to do with these crossmember fragments left behind under the rivits that holds the spring perch. I used a variety of tools to dress them down to a spacer/washer type thing, then eventually welded the rivit head to it.

 

The upholstery project continues, the rest of the pieces for the bottom cushion are cut and sewn so I should be able to install it yet this weekend…

 

Working on our 33-34 Ford frame. Made a jigg to bolt the rails level and square. We first measured the jigg on a flat table. Side-to-side it's very close to an original frame. We are thinking of doing the x-member in cromolly or docol r8 and bolted to the frame. Next we will be doing the bends in the front part of the rails.

 

Down, beside, under, along, up, zig zag…

 

a pictorial follow up

 

Seat bottom is done, on to the backrest…

 

Done bending up lines and making tabs for the tee block and brake hose. You like the Tri-Five Chevy tee block and brake hose on the 9”?

 

Made some weld on brake line clip’s for the rear end. Kind of like the factory one’s that get pressed/hammered against the brake line.

 

It’s about 95% complete . Water pump is out getting a new bearing and seal installed . Core core plug wires are on the track down list next .

 

Put a new master cylinder on waiting for brake shoes

 

Pulled it to the painter today

 

Seats are finished (see previous post) and I decided it is time to do a bit of noise reduction and make the 34 more comfortable for my lady as she complained about the noise (of the blown engine ). So I bought self adhesive insulation and paved the floor with it. Next step was getting a suitable carpet to try and cover the floor. Its my first try at this and of course it could be done way better but it looks okay. Found some carpet in a home depot store nearby. As I don´t have a suitable sewing machine, I ordered some border tape that sticks once heated with an electric iron to suround the cut pieces. Floor is now almost finished and enough of that carpet left to make some removeable floor mats. The rear seat is now back in the car and looks the part. Have to make a cover for the access hole of the master cylinder. The little slings open the covers of battery and toolbox but will be covered with floor mats. Front seats will be back in the car when all the other small stuff is finished. Madame has 4 fused vertebraes in her neck so she insisted on a seat with head rest - this got the search for suitable seats started to replace the Volvo Amazon seats. Once I found the Rover seats I knew that oldschool design would look good in the 34.