What have you done to your square lately??

[Turbo4whl]

Whoops.

You would have done much better if you moved the trailer coupler up higher and just put a ball on the bumper. Or, turn the hitch adapter around, you added a big lever.

 

[Jrgunn5150]

Did you remove the bypass valve doohickey under the filter stud?

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No. You can if you want to, but it'll just stay in bypass if you don't because item basically sees the cooler as plugged now.

Nice! Can you print a spread bore carb spacer?

I'm sure I could once I get it worked out, somehow I misjudged the hole sizes or spacing on this iteration and they bound up on the carb.

 

[Turbo4whl]

I'm sure I could once I get it worked out, somehow I misjudged the hole sizes or spacing on this iteration and they bound up on the carb.

Please let me know if you decide to try the spread bore

 

[gilby959798]

Oil cooler delete on the 454.

Also test fit a carb spacer I printed

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What filament are you planning to use, or is it just for mock up?

 

[legopnuematic]

Last night's work, boring out the stud holes in the rotors and hubs to accept some 1/2-20 studs instead of the original 7/16 studs.

If my DRO on the mill was trustworthy, I would have just swept the center bore in, one hole, done the trig to determine my start angle, and go hole to hole by trig. The DRO however likes to reset itself so I decided to just indicate each bore and bore it, then repeat for each hole. Not the fastest way but worked fine.

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Going to .615 for the new studs.

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And onto the hubs.

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Have to finish the other hub and then they will be ready to reassemble and hopefully have the 10 bolt done by the end of the week.

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[Jrgunn5150]

What filament are you planning to use, or is it just for mock up?

When I have something that works, I'll print it in PA12 CF, but throwaways are PLA at 8% infill.

 

[gilby959798]

When I have something that works, I'll print it in PA12 CF, but throwaways are PLA at 8% infill.

Yep makes senses, gotta love quick prototyping.

 

[Jrgunn5150]

Yep makes senses, gotta love quick prototyping.

The ability to quickly iterate without real cost or even time consequences is the biggest benefit to printers.

When we got one at work, my director had to retrain his brain lol, what if it doesn't fit, what if it breaks? Throw it away and print another man, it's 12 cents. We used to pay hundreds of dollars for SLA's and thousands for laser cut parts, just to have something to develop fixturing for assembly and painting.

Now we just poop the parts out, poop the nest, fixturing, all of it out until we have what we want, right in our metrology lab.

 

[Sad Sack]

When I have something that works, I'll print it in PA12 CF, but throwaways are PLA at 8% infill.

Just curious but what infill pattern would you employ in a "working" model?

 

[Jrgunn5150]

Just curious but what infill pattern would you employ in a "working" model?

Depends wildly, on if it matters, what the print orientation is, etc etc. When I print 2A stuff, for instance, it's all walls. If I needed strength from all directions, gyroid. For this, where it's basically just sitting there, rectilinear.

Walls add a ton of strength, people tend to not thing of that, but this will be 6 walls/layers.

 

[gilby959798]

The ability to quickly iterate without real cost or even time consequences is the biggest benefit to printers.

When we got one at work, my director had to retrain his brain lol, what if it doesn't fit, what if it breaks? Throw it away and print another man, it's 12 cents. We used to pay hundreds of dollars for SLA's and thousands for laser cut parts, just to have something to develop fixturing for assembly and painting.

Now we just poop the parts out, poop the nest, fixturing, all of it out until we have what we want, right in our metrology lab.

Yep, its cheap to print, people just don't value the time it takes to design stuff like that though. I haven't done PA6 yet, but I will need to add it to my list. I have done a lot in ASA and PETG though. plenty of functional parts running around on various vehicles.

 

[aasleson]

Finished getting the interior back together

 

[bucket]

You would have done much better if you moved the trailer coupler up higher and just put a ball on the bumper. Or, turn the hitch adapter around, you added a big lever.

Yeah, I know. But the ball height was already too high.

It wasn't planned out at all. Just one of those "hey, I need to do this real quick, it should be fine" type of situations.

 

[73 cheySuper]

FINALLY, set the body and bed on the waiting chassis. Overlooked the '77 frame not being drilled for the 2nd line of bed bolt holes. So had to go in reverse for a bit. So far, I'm liking it. Fired up the fresh 468 monday and broke in the cam. That went very well except I had to bend the flexplate back into spec. I used a standard turbo 400 converter on the '89 version 400, and it didn't slip on the trans pump, so after bolting up the trans, I had shifted the starter ring gear roughly 3/16" forward where the starter wouldn't release. Destroyed the factory starter, then attempted to eat a powermaster before I caught the issue.

 

[Bloodhound1981]

Now that the snow is gone, I brought her out of hibernation and finally installed the Tonno Pro cover I've had laying in the bed since Christmas. I'm very impressed with the quality, especially for just $300.

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