If you were thinking of doing a tadpole deal with a wide tire in the back like somebody mentioned I think that would be as cool or perhaps cooler than a 4 wheeler. Only thing that made me think that was the pic with two tires in it. Either way it's gonna be cool.
Tadpole is the plan, the quad would be cool though!
Good to see your workspace has improved so less holdups from cold winds etc in the (upside down) summer build off
Oh yeah, loving the little workshop!
Wish I had done it years ago!
I had a big weekend working on my Sister and Brother-in-laws cars, wheel bearings and front brakes on a fairly new Nissan Micra to start with, ended up finding the original drivers front wheel bearing had been badly machined in the inner race, massive ridges that must have been there from new, very unimpressed.
Then on to the probable exhaust manifold leak on an '03 Corolla with 300,000+km on it... Had a quick look and while there was the pulsing/puffing noise that you would expect from a manifold leak, I realised it was only running on three cylinders...
Turned out that the spark plugs were not fully tightened last time they were done, (It wasn't me!) and cylinder 1 had actually destroyed the threads in the alloy head and shot the plug up into the coil pack, the coil pack then melted, the ceramic on the plug cracked and dropped into the cylinder, it was all just a total mess!
Long story short, we tapped a new thread out to 18mm in the head and screwed in a Recoil, probed around down the plug hole into the cylinder with a magnet and then a screwdriver with tacky grease on it, pulled out all the junk, fitted up new plugs and away it went better than it has in a couple of years. (Plugs were changed a couple of years ago, probably been losing compression since then! All the other plugs were loose too, but thankfully the threads were not too damaged and they cleaned up OK.)
Massive win to save the engine, but it did take a toll on me, rather worn out...
So decided today to just sit inside, rewatch some Malcolm in the Middle and build the front wheels so at least I was making progress!
Started with this:
Part way:
Both done!
I really enjoy building wheels, very satisfying!
Decided I may as well knock the old 1/2" wheelchair bearings and axles out and fit the new 15mm ID Go Kart ones:
Of course I didn't have any 15mm crush tubes for between the bearings, so seeing as my new belts for the lathe arrived today from the USA I may as well set it up and make some!
Hmmm, seeing as the lathe is out, I should machine those washers for the back wheel, save me having to unpack it all again:
I suppose should check the sizing is right, so trimmed up some 3" exhaust tube to fit over them and arrange the 5 pipe pieces around it:
That looks good, I should roll that piece of 1/2" square tube to see if that whole plan works:
Cut to size:
Looks good!
Accomplished far more than I set out to do today, sore and tired, but worth it!
