The Jalopy Journal
I decided to crack on with shortening the driveshaft. This is what I started with. Not sure if someone has been here before, but that weld doesn't...
Thanks for the feedback - it means a lot :) @Mart I did watch you videos way before I started. I will have to rewatch, but surely if the torque...
Shortening the torque was a scary thing for me, so I tried to be scientific. The original 3-speed gearbox was 327mm long flange <-> flange The...
Sorry for the slow updates, life and work always gets it the way. and actually doing this stuff takes ages too. But I seem to have got to a point...
Alas the uj was slightly smaller that the internal Volvo piece. My cunning plan was to make a shim out of thin (0.7mm) aluminium, that would give...
Now to make the custom nut to hold on the propshaft flange. There wasn't enough space to get a socket onto a hex head. So I fired up my el-cheapo...
Progress on this has been slow for many reasons, but now I've got a bunch of parts - so full steam ahead. Laser cut parts, a tube to cut up, and...
2) The adapter from Volvo spline to Ford UJ. Seems machining splines is tricky - I thought that might have been the case. Finding a spare output...
With my Volvo <-> Flathead bellhousing winging its way to me from Sweden. Time to pick up some of the pieces ahead of its arrive. 1) Can I...
The level of bodgery was equal on the drivers side, if not worse. As I had a period hydraulic pedal conversion too. [ATTACH] Wary of preoject...
Been pretty busy with travel, and a subsequent virus that still hasn't fully disappeared after 3-4 weeks :eek: I've also been patiently waiting...
To those that like what I'm doing with the 3D prints, and you are thinking to yourself - that is something you'd like to get it to. I'll give one...
@Mart so happy to have you along for the ride. It was your YouTube videos that made me realise that things like this were even possible. Welding...
I'm in pretty deep with the Volvo gearbox now, but I'm sure the Transit box will work for some. I had a word with my machinist buddy yesterday,...
I had a little time on my hands, so I decided to do a version, which was as short as possible. Space for the shifter rod is my primary limitation,...
I've been busy, and I've been shopping, I've also bought the worlds dirtiest M47 gearbox. [ATTACH] It was cheap-ish, and local-ish, but it the...
M47 was my original thought, but a very complete M46 came up for sale cheap, just 30 mins away. The M47 appears to have the extra gear bolted onto...
Thanks for the comments and suggestions. Chrisp - not given it too much thought yet, but I can probably get a rotary oil seal, in a similar place...
Torque tube adapter. I'll try and tell a complete story here, so I'll start at the very beginning.... The back of my 3-speed gearbox looks like...
Yep - GPS speedo already installed and working.
The Volvo gearbox..... Before I pulled the 3-speed from the vehicle, I made a simple and rough jig, so show where the old gearbox sat. That will...
Last job before the engine got shipped off, was to get a timing mark for TDC. Many have done this before, so this is an amalgamation of what I've...
Thanks RodStRace - I love the 3D print stuff - there is more to come..... A huge hidden benefit, is I can design and prototype stuff in my PJs...
I was using a chaser tap - bought them specifically, but there were 2-3 which wouldn't clean up with a chaser. I've pointed those out to the...
But I wasn't happy with my efforts. Had I managed to keep all the muck out of the oil and water galleries ? Wouldn't 3 of those head studs be...
Head studs, I largely followed the process in the Bishop and Tardel book, but I was trying to avoid a full rebuild at this stage. First off was to...
That is two strong votes for the Sealey AK718 :)
Aluminium heads are going back on, that means the head studs need to come out. I don't have oxy-acetelene, and they certainly were in there. I had...
Engine then, I had a ticking noise I wanted to get to the bottom of. Really tricky to find, sounded like the rear of the engine, and I was...
I always hated the exhaust, it had been bodged through the chassis, was covered in loose rust, and didn't have any joints in it. The manifolds...
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