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Re: Red Rattler Revamp
Posted: Sun Feb 25, 2024 2:15 am
by Blacky
FbSTDwagon wrote: ↑Sat Feb 24, 2024 9:45 pm
Only 20mins? I spend an hours thinking my way into a 10 minute fix. No wonder I don’t go anywhere but my shed
I normally just charge in without thinking much at all - then do it again after I realise I have cocked it up .........
Re: Red Rattler Revamp
Posted: Sun Feb 25, 2024 10:35 am
by FireKraka
Blacky have you checked the oil level in your supercharger or changed it yet????
Re: Red Rattler Revamp
Posted: Sun Feb 25, 2024 10:46 am
by Blacky
FireKraka wrote: ↑Sun Feb 25, 2024 10:35 am
Blacky have you checked the oil level in your supercharger or changed it yet????
It had fresh oil in it when it was reconditioned, I did check the level before first fire up
Re: Red Rattler Revamp
Posted: Tue Feb 27, 2024 1:01 am
by Blacky
Re: Red Rattler Revamp
Posted: Tue Feb 27, 2024 7:55 am
by Errol62
Bit of clearencing here and there with the grinder?
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Re: Red Rattler Revamp
Posted: Tue Feb 27, 2024 9:36 am
by 60Special
Haha, welcome to 12 volt electrics, much more interesting and unpredictable than that 240v stuff you’re used to.
Some of that barn dust on the dash might be interfering with it.
Re: Red Rattler Revamp
Posted: Tue Feb 27, 2024 10:43 am
by Harv
60Special wrote: ↑Tue Feb 27, 2024 9:36 am
Haha, welcome to 12 volt electrics, much more interesting and unpredictable than that 240v stuff you’re used to.
Some of that barn dust on the dash might be interfering with it.
I have a sneaking suspicion that Mr Black is a big-wire sparky.
Cheers,
Harv
Re: Red Rattler Revamp
Posted: Tue Feb 27, 2024 11:37 am
by Blacky
Harv wrote: ↑Tue Feb 27, 2024 10:43 am
I have a sneaking suspicion that Mr Black is a big-wire sparky.
Cheers,
Harv
correct - nothing under 1000V or smaller diameter than your thumb for me please
Re: Red Rattler Revamp
Posted: Wed Feb 28, 2024 12:53 am
by Blacky
Had enough of wires - did a bit on replacing the lower control arms instead. Haven’t been happy with the ones on it as the lower ball joints were not a very tight fit in the control arm so sourced another pair and started again.
Had to cut the old sway bar mount off them plus move the steering stop as the steering arms foul both of these due to the front mounted rack.
Off with the stops and sway bar mounts, this is one of the old ones you can see the centre punch marks where I tried to get the ball joints to fit better
Then remove off the new ones and modify to sit further outboard
Then weld old one to new one and put a bit of round bar in there to strengthen it up
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Re: Red Rattler Revamp
Posted: Wed Feb 28, 2024 12:56 am
by Blacky
It’s longer then it needs to be, tomorrow night I will trim the bottom of them , cut the top to length and weld the stops and sway bar mounts on to the new lower control arms ready for powder coating
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Re: Red Rattler Revamp
Posted: Sun Mar 03, 2024 9:19 am
by Blacky
Not much to report - lower arms are done and off to the powder coaters on Tuesday - it’s a long weekend over here - and I scored a new front seat, another BT-50 Mazda seat the same as the one in the ute
now need a seatcover made for it and have to modify the mounts , will do the same thing as the ute setup so I don’t need to pull all the carpet out and chop the floor up again
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Re: Red Rattler Revamp
Posted: Tue Mar 05, 2024 1:28 am
by Blacky
Re: Red Rattler Revamp
Posted: Thu Mar 07, 2024 12:30 pm
by Blacky
Still waiting on lower wishbones to come back from the powdercoaters, finished off dash just waiting for one more red LED
One of the club guys came over on Sunday looking for bits from EKMart for a steering box, wandered up the back and found a column and it had a blanked off honey pot on it so I whipped it off while we were pulling the other bits off the other end and sanded it down and painted it
Forgot to get a pic of it done - just imagine it in satin black
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Re: Red Rattler Revamp
Posted: Thu Mar 07, 2024 12:37 pm
by Blacky
Next job of the night was make a bracket to mount my new fully sik air cleaner - the tuner wasn’t happy with the engine pulling its air from under the bonnet so going to mount this in line and have an air intake behind the grille - of course it’s going to clash with the radiator overflow tank for real estate so need to figure that out.
Made a plan , drilled some holes in a piece of SHS , went to fire the grinder up and realised it was 9:30 so canned that job and wired up the rear speakers instead then called it a night
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Re: Red Rattler Revamp
Posted: Fri Mar 08, 2024 11:50 pm
by Blacky
Tonight’s progress - finished off and painted the bracket for the air cleaner
Fitted the shiny new honey pot
Dash is pretty much 100% done now - even wiped the barn dust off it and polished the chrome on the ashtray lid
Got the wishbones back today so pressed the ball joints in and fitted the bump stops - that will do for tonight, time for a Jacks
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