Wilma FB project
Re: Wilma FB project
Just acrylic black, Clay. I may yet put a smear of clear on it but would prefer not to if it polishes up well enough. Order of events: open up cracks with dremel, use araldite- like epoxy resin, smooth off and touch up with resin again where needed, sand all repairs with 100 grit, sand whole wheel with 240 grit, spray with plastic primer, spray with acrylic hi fill primer, sand with 600 grit w&d, prime again, sand with 800, spray with black acrylic, sand with 800, spray 3 coats acrylic black. Later in week I'll rub it with 2000 w&d and then finish with cutting compound. That's the plan anyway. Hope it lasts.
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Cheers Brett. Should look nice and last well.
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Nothing of particular interest on Wilma for last few days, just getting on with a bit of spanner work over winter. Brakes now back on rear and drivers side front. Brakes should be good as new; with new lines, hoses, cylinders, and as-new linings and freshly machined drums. And of course a clean up and paint.
Master cylinders now stainless steel sleeved (Power Brakes, SA) and tins tidied up ready to go back on (once steering column is back in). Did Project 2's ones at same time. It was cheaper to buy new slaves than re-sleave, and they should last for yonks: managed to get new Girlock ones in Fyshwick. Using silicon brake (and clutch) fluid, mainly because if there is a disaster I don't want paint coming off my firewall.
Diff has all new bearings and seals and pinion reset done by the Diff Doctor in Fyshwick. Hope the work is better than the corny name. Springs and shackles cleaned, painted and new shackle and spring bolts, bushes and nylon leaf spacers used.
Steering column now back together waiting for a buff. Can't put it back in until final paint is on dash and interior bits. It's starting to warm up a bit so might get a couple of days early next week to do that. Hope so, as getting bored with spanner stuff.
Tomorrows task is to reco passenger side steering knuckle/ king pin and if all goes well, reassemble passenger side suspension. The drivers side feels just as it should, so not expecting any rego issues there, when the time comes.
Rob, I swapped the pin around
. Thanks for letting me know. I'll try not to do it again on passenger side.
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Master cylinders now stainless steel sleeved (Power Brakes, SA) and tins tidied up ready to go back on (once steering column is back in). Did Project 2's ones at same time. It was cheaper to buy new slaves than re-sleave, and they should last for yonks: managed to get new Girlock ones in Fyshwick. Using silicon brake (and clutch) fluid, mainly because if there is a disaster I don't want paint coming off my firewall.
Diff has all new bearings and seals and pinion reset done by the Diff Doctor in Fyshwick. Hope the work is better than the corny name. Springs and shackles cleaned, painted and new shackle and spring bolts, bushes and nylon leaf spacers used.
Steering column now back together waiting for a buff. Can't put it back in until final paint is on dash and interior bits. It's starting to warm up a bit so might get a couple of days early next week to do that. Hope so, as getting bored with spanner stuff.
Tomorrows task is to reco passenger side steering knuckle/ king pin and if all goes well, reassemble passenger side suspension. The drivers side feels just as it should, so not expecting any rego issues there, when the time comes.
Rob, I swapped the pin around
. Thanks for letting me know. I'll try not to do it again on passenger side.
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Jeez you’ve been busy mate. Wilma should be a quiet maintainence free ride. No blaring stereo or sports exhaust required. Warming up here Saturday.
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Yes Clay, like new is the plan. Pity I'm going to sell it as soon as its finished. Project 2 is the dream!
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King pin day. Quite a bit of fiddly stuff, not the least of which is getting the plugs off the ends. Used a nice little grinding wheel on the Dremel to tidy up the punch marks and lift them out. Knocked out the pin ( you can only do this one way- see picture
) and then the tricky bit of getting the old bushes out. I cheated a bit and used a die to almost cut through them to make it easier. Jammed a screw driver in the back of the cut edge and levered then out. If I had a press I would have used that.
New bushes into the freezer for an hour or two before start and after that they tap in pretty easy. Marked the top so I could ensure grease hole lined up with nipple point.
Bushes tapped in with nylon faced hammer as punch until level with hole, then socket as punch.
Reaming is tedious and slow, I've learnt lessons previously on rushing reaming and then suddenly being oversize, so many small steps and lots of measuring.
Final fit up and then a coat of paint. Pictures tell the story.
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) and then the tricky bit of getting the old bushes out. I cheated a bit and used a die to almost cut through them to make it easier. Jammed a screw driver in the back of the cut edge and levered then out. If I had a press I would have used that. New bushes into the freezer for an hour or two before start and after that they tap in pretty easy. Marked the top so I could ensure grease hole lined up with nipple point.
Bushes tapped in with nylon faced hammer as punch until level with hole, then socket as punch.
Reaming is tedious and slow, I've learnt lessons previously on rushing reaming and then suddenly being oversize, so many small steps and lots of measuring.
Final fit up and then a coat of paint. Pictures tell the story.
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Great work. I'll have a go at mine one day if I don't go to ball joint.
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Brett,
Is your reamer adjustable, or fixed-size? If you had to sneak up on the correct size, then I'm guessing it's adjustable. And also, I believe the king pin kits that Rare Spares sells are oversize, so that if your original bushes are not too badly worn, they can be reamed out to suit the new king pin without replacement.
The one I have is a Warren and Brown reamer to suit FX-FC. It has a single cutting edge.
The old-timers also recommend reaming close to the finished size, and then using a wheel cylinder hone to achieve the final fit. (Which I did when I replaced the sector shaft bushes in my Humpy's steering box) It's time-consuming, though.
Rob
Is your reamer adjustable, or fixed-size? If you had to sneak up on the correct size, then I'm guessing it's adjustable. And also, I believe the king pin kits that Rare Spares sells are oversize, so that if your original bushes are not too badly worn, they can be reamed out to suit the new king pin without replacement.
The one I have is a Warren and Brown reamer to suit FX-FC. It has a single cutting edge.
The old-timers also recommend reaming close to the finished size, and then using a wheel cylinder hone to achieve the final fit. (Which I did when I replaced the sector shaft bushes in my Humpy's steering box) It's time-consuming, though.
Rob
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Hi Rob, fully adjustable reamer with 8 cutting blades. Can get it down to a few thou increments so no need to hone as well. Nice smooth finish, but softly, softly. I wasn't using Rare's pin kit, but yes, if bushes are ok it can make job much simpler to ream old bushes. In this case the grease channels had worn off so not an option. Good info for others.
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Just a follow up to Rob's good point about oversize pins. What time you may save in bush replacement becomes problematic when it comes to fitting an oversize pin into the cast iron hole in the wheel bearing shaft piece. It's quite difficult to make the pin hole larger in this piece as you can't ream it and the shape of the arm gets in the way of machining it. I used a rotary sanding drum on my dremel today but it was fidly and risky. I would much prefer to have had a standard size bush in hindsight.
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Brett,
I don't know what clearance the king pin is supposed to have in the steering knuckle support; but I hear that an 0.004" oversize pin will fit. But what often happens is that the cotter pin gets loose, and then the king pin rocks in the steering knuckle support and flogs the hole out.
I remember this, because as a youngster the family EK needed to have the king pins replaced. Normally you'd get exchange steering knuckle and support assemblies; but I persuaded my father to buy a kit and we (well, he, with me looking on) did the work. It took a lot of patient work with a Dremel inside the steering knuckle support for the new pin to sit in the support without rocking.
Rob
I don't know what clearance the king pin is supposed to have in the steering knuckle support; but I hear that an 0.004" oversize pin will fit. But what often happens is that the cotter pin gets loose, and then the king pin rocks in the steering knuckle support and flogs the hole out.
I remember this, because as a youngster the family EK needed to have the king pins replaced. Normally you'd get exchange steering knuckle and support assemblies; but I persuaded my father to buy a kit and we (well, he, with me looking on) did the work. It took a lot of patient work with a Dremel inside the steering knuckle support for the new pin to sit in the support without rocking.
Rob
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Bit more brake and suspension work today- front passenger side. Took a photo of inside of the brake hose that came off. Would have required a bit of pedal pressure.
Rubber looked perfect on the outside.
Looking forward to a couple of paint spraying days in the coming week.
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Rubber looked perfect on the outside. Looking forward to a couple of paint spraying days in the coming week.
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Yes painting
The early Holden spares ones are good Brett. About a ton on eBay for the three. Left right and rear are identical. Think this is Dr Terrys on line store. Nice graphics with an EH poanno and lass in overalls can't miss it.
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The early Holden spares ones are good Brett. About a ton on eBay for the three. Left right and rear are identical. Think this is Dr Terrys on line store. Nice graphics with an EH poanno and lass in overalls can't miss it.
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All good thanks Clay. New one ready to go on. I had to buy all the copper washers yesterday as none of the flexible lines came with them. My brake fellow was saying that there was going to be real difficulty getting brake parts soon as many companies no longer in brake parts production. Bosch was one he named. More of an issue for 10 year old cars than 60 year old though I think
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Ah yes . . . perishing brake hoses. The brakes apply OK, but take ages to release.
I (ahem) have on occasion reamed hoses out with coathanger wire and followed up with compressed air as an emergency/too-miserly-to-buy-new measure. The last time was when I needed to make the brakes in "Found Object" work. Now that the car's in pieces they'll go in the bin.
My local brake place makes hoses to measure, for example, the FE-EK clutch hose.
Rob
I (ahem) have on occasion reamed hoses out with coathanger wire and followed up with compressed air as an emergency/too-miserly-to-buy-new measure. The last time was when I needed to make the brakes in "Found Object" work. Now that the car's in pieces they'll go in the bin.
My local brake place makes hoses to measure, for example, the FE-EK clutch hose.
Rob