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Blacky wrote: ↑Thu Jun 01, 2023 4:11 pmVB to be good for anything other than cleaning parts or unblocking drains

It makes a great Harv anaesthetic.

Cheers,
Harv

I miss HQ racing, back when panels and subframes were still in wreckers. Watching that mob throw horribly heavy cars door handle to door handle was very cool.

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Harv

The Low Compression (LC) Green motor was the model between the Red and Blue motors.

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Harv

Lol... you should see my welding. You would not trust me to weld a washer to a bolt head. Thirty years ago I wanted to weld. MIGs were getting cheaper, and sounded like a great idea. My boily brother-in-law convinced me that I needed to learn how to stick weld before MIG... if I couldn't stick weld ...

Try not to perform Harv's stud removal trick: Install double nuts, start to remove stud, get impatient and snap the stud off in the head. Swear. Curse the fact that you can't weld a washer/nut onto the end of the snapped stud. Promise yourself you'll learn to weld one day. Centre punch the stud-end ...

Thanks Melly.

R-1850-2 is a 600cfm 4-barrel... that's a lot of carb for a red motor, more suited to a high-zoot V8.

Had hoped it was the elusive 390 Holley, which it better suited (much smaller venturis).

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Harv

Interesting Holley. What is the List number please?


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Harv

(... though 1650V12 would work if you turn it into Thunderball ).

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Harv

Guessing they don't like the in 321o part, as people might take the o to be an 0 and thus have four consecutive numbers.

Mebbe 210653?

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Harv

They bolt onto the guard.

Work from inside the wheel well (easier with the wheel removed).

Three bolts along the top, and one at the bottom on the end of a piece of round bar.


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Harv

Looks like a knock-off the the Eaton Trutrac. I've got BW78's in the wagon, Number One Son's VL and the Last Daughter's VL. The wagon was a 28 spline, and the VLs were 25 spline. The wagon was initially a VN-VS cone LSD, and the VLs an open centre. The wagon runs 300kW. Snapped the splines at Easter...

What motor are you thinking for this one?

The VS cone LSDs are not bad, but need tightening up if they are still original. They will handle a V8 if driven reasonably, though they shear splines at less than 200kW if thrashed (don't ask me how I know ).

Cheers,
Harv

Errol62 wrote: ↑Wed May 10, 2023 7:07 pm Lucky you had kids already. That Sydney beer will cause mutations you know....

Don't know about mutations, but Resch's sure does lead to a fondness for hi-zoot grey motors

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Harv

The three that hold FB parking lamps in are #10-24UNC. The FC/FB/EK lens screws are #8-32UNC.

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Harv

Feedback from Loctite is that the head was likely commercially "porosity sealed" using Loctite Resinol RTC. It is an anaerobic sealant that has varying resistance to different chemicals. Mechanical cleaning will not affect it, and cleaning the scale out of the water jacket with oxalic acid...