lil bit of tinkering

[aw12345]

Balance is good on the street, takes more doing to get them rolling. Brakes, I got a plenty

[aw12345]

Since it's been hotter than hades, thee hasn't been much going on in thew garage. Picked up some hose and an fittings to rig up fuel tank and engine vent hoses to keep the juice in, in case of the flippy floppy business.
I kinda like the required setup for Ultra 4. No matter how it gets turned the fluid stays in. Thinking about adding a shutoff valve to the pcv hose also. Kinda nice when oil doesn't get in the intake when the world turns upside down. Hurt pride is enough adding to that taking sparkplugs out and making an oily mess is worse yet. So when things cool down a bit later this afternoon its tinker time. Yeah!

vent by aartjestaartje, on Flickr

[aw12345]

Back to tinkering, has been awhile.

Roof in progress

WIN_20150917_162801 by aartjestaartje, on Flickr



Then going to start on a hood



WIN_20150917_163033 by aartjestaartje, on Flickr

[aw12345]

Progress



WIN_20150917_172957 by aartjestaartje, on Flickr



WIN_20150917_190628 by aartjestaartje, on Flickr

[aw12345]

Well a 4 feet long plate of 1/16" aluminum is officially a pain in the rear to bend without a sheetmetal brake.

Still making progress, painfully slow, but I like it

WIN_20150918_125925 by aartjestaartje, on Flickr



WIN_20150918_125940 by aartjestaartje, on Flickr

[aw12345]

Not to displeased so far, could be nicer, but could be a lot worse too

WIN_20150918_140323 by aartjestaartje, on Flickr

[6spdYJ]

Looks good!
I've used two pieces of angle iron in a vice to extend the jaws, clamped the short side of the workpiece and then pulled/tapped on the long side for an effective hillbilly brake. It's a pain not having the fancy tools.

[aw12345]

At 4 feet long, all that get's somewhat doubtfull

[aw12345]

Making tabs for the roof

roof (1) by aartjestaartje, on Flickr

Bunch of them lil darlings

roof (2) by aartjestaartje, on Flickr

Finished product

roof (5) by aartjestaartje, on Flickr

roof (4) by aartjestaartje, on Flickr

[aw12345]

Tomorrow's project will be light bar mounts and then on to finishing the hood and making hood pins.
Last night I picked up a 10" double ended cylinder, from a good friend, so I can add a lil more steering angle.
Then about all that remains is rear steer

[vwtipeii]

what color are you going to paint the roof and hood?

[aw12345]

Roof will stay bare, hood is going to be red

ightbar mounted, gonna hide from the 100 degrees for a few hours, then on to hood mounting.

Almost looks pretty

lightbar (1) by aartjestaartje, on Flickr

[aw12345]

Hood pins are welded on. Got big washers to pop rivet on the hood.

Need to make some rubber washers out of belt material to keep the whole shebang from rattling like mad.

Pretty happy with it. Gonna clobber some paint on it tomorrow


hood1 (1) by aartjestaartje, on Flickr

[Mike]

Looking good Art. Nice clean lines.

[aw12345]

Thanks Mike, I am pretty happy with it