delrazor's (derek's) LWB '80 cf

[delrazor]

update -
rwc passed today.
new brake fluid, shockies all round, front shoes, rehung spare, steering coupling, bit of bog etc.
picked up jelly beans today (god I love jelly beans) and ordered some wheel nuts.
will move tyres across to mags next week and hopefully have it looking satisfactory by the following week, when baby2 is born.

Anyone know an engineer for adding seats? I have a good double seat with compliant belts.

cheers
derek

[Allan]

  Cheers derek glad to see you made it. Allan

[Dano]

Well done big fella.....TOP EFFORT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! congrats on da bub tooooooooooo

[delrazor]

Well I started the process of putting in a trimaic, as well as the process of getting the rear seats engineered in.
Today on the way to the engineer I got pulled over by a dude in an FJ saying my rear left wheel was buckled. Bloody hell, (I thought to myself) just what i need.

I jacked it up and roughly measured the runout at the side of the rim (jellybean) at 5-7mm.
I then removed the wheel and got less than a mm runout on the drum. It looks like I may have a buckled alloy rim. does this happen? often? I hope not, but it is better than a bent axle.

Tomorrow Ill swap the wheels around and know for sure.
There's always something isn't there.

derek

[ben]

a mate of mine found he has a buckled wheel and i think it may have been buckled for 15 years..

ben

[delrazor]

the good news is that all the jellybeans are perfectly balanced.
The bad new is that means my hub is probably bent.

Today I will attempt to learn what my rear driveline consists of.

It is definitely around 3.3 diff (hwy) and there are welds halfway along the axles.
It is a single wheel axle on a LWB but the wheel arches are DEFINITELY for one wheel and look original.
The stud pattern is bedford, so I assume that the whole inner axle is stock.

dereks questions for the day....

1) can the hub  be straightened?

2) could the drum surface be buckled?

3) can I driveit for a while (the lateral movement is around 5mm at the rim)

4) Is this because of me bumping over intersections in the first few trips as I grew accustomed to the LWB?

5) Who has a spare bedford axle?

6) can it be caused by anything else?


cheers
derek

[ben]

i have have spare axels..  just tried to call.

[delrazor]

Thanks Ben.. was trying to feed the angry mob so I couldn't get the phone.
Today I made a static pionter and found the hub to be running out around .5mm.
This is around halfway out the radius to where the wheel rim measured 4mm runout.

Before taking drastic action, I think I'll get the rear brake drums machined (I need it done anyway). The dude should be able to tell me if the face is warped at all before he sorts it out.

If that isn't the problem I'll pull the axle out.

cheers
derek

[delrazor]

Rear seats
Yesterday i got engineer approval on the rear seats (lwb)
I bought the seats on ebay for a hundred ish. 80 bucks freight.
They had their own seatbelts and a standards sticker so i went to the engineer BEFORE installing to get his instructions.

i refabricated the bottom (to lower them 50mm) and made up all the kooky backplates for underneath that would provide flex and strength, etc etc.

The good thing is i was able to add to my motorcycle carrier and install child restraints to that (pics later) and get that certified on the same invoice/document. Now I must go (unannounced is ok) to vicroads and hand in the cert within 28 days OR 1000 kms.

seats - 120
freight 80
engineer - 427
vicroads - dunno
fabrication - DIY  probably would have charged 400-600 for the work i did.

Now I can carry the kids if and when the magna/wife breaks down.

In other breaking news, it seemd the jellybean mags arent sitting on the hub nicely making the spigot nuts take all the force. I read somewhere on here that was no good, so will try and find out what can be done about it.

derek

[jimsvan]

hey delrazor just wondering mate do u have the number for the engineer in whiched you used i need my van engineered for the v8, what is he like is he fairly strict on stuff or what?