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Re: Big Motor, Little Truck. The BBR MOVES!!
Been fighting the Ranger's cold start..... It DOES NOT want to start when it's cold. So I messed around and finally flooded it. So I pulled the plugs last night. Black and sooty, and soggy wet. I started looking at plug recommendations this morning and guess what?
I FREAKIN' HAD AUTOLITE 25'S IN IT INSTEAD OF 3924'S!!!!!!!
I had the stinkin' 25's (0.46" reach) in my TFS Street heads when it REALLY needs a 3924 (0.75" reach)!!!!!!
No damn wonder this thing was acting funny!!!!!!
Now onto more fun things:
Fired up the plasma cutter this evening and started making plates for a set of "BBR-tracs". I decided I could make a set far cheaper than caltracs or slide-a-links. I'll detail what I did in the event somebody wants to make some too.
1. I cut out a cardboard template of the plates I needed.
2. I laid it over the 3/16" plate steel and shot it with white paint.
3. I traced around them with a sharpie to better define the edges using a cardboard cutout as a template.
4. I clamped them all together and evened them up with a 4" grinder and a double cut file.
5. I overlaid a paper template to locate the holes and center punched them.
6. I drilled all the holes with the drill press while they were all clamped together.
The rod and pivot holes are not drilled to final size just yet. I wanted to wait so that I get the hole sizes right.
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Worked some more today.
The spring plate on the Ranger is not flat so I decided to add a flat section. So I plasma'd 2 - 5.25" x 2.5" pieces.
Then I cut out 2 chunks of 2' square tube.
Then I drilled a hole for the bolt and plasma'd one side out and welded them to the flat pieces.
This is how it fits in.
This is the final product. The shiny black paint made taking a good pic hard. I should have shot it with flat for the pic.
That's all for now.
Been fighting the Ranger's cold start..... It DOES NOT want to start when it's cold. So I messed around and finally flooded it. So I pulled the plugs last night. Black and sooty, and soggy wet. I started looking at plug recommendations this morning and guess what?
I FREAKIN' HAD AUTOLITE 25'S IN IT INSTEAD OF 3924'S!!!!!!!
I had the stinkin' 25's (0.46" reach) in my TFS Street heads when it REALLY needs a 3924 (0.75" reach)!!!!!!
No damn wonder this thing was acting funny!!!!!!
Now onto more fun things:
Fired up the plasma cutter this evening and started making plates for a set of "BBR-tracs". I decided I could make a set far cheaper than caltracs or slide-a-links. I'll detail what I did in the event somebody wants to make some too.
1. I cut out a cardboard template of the plates I needed.
2. I laid it over the 3/16" plate steel and shot it with white paint.
3. I traced around them with a sharpie to better define the edges using a cardboard cutout as a template.
4. I clamped them all together and evened them up with a 4" grinder and a double cut file.
5. I overlaid a paper template to locate the holes and center punched them.
6. I drilled all the holes with the drill press while they were all clamped together.
The rod and pivot holes are not drilled to final size just yet. I wanted to wait so that I get the hole sizes right.
*****************
Worked some more today.
The spring plate on the Ranger is not flat so I decided to add a flat section. So I plasma'd 2 - 5.25" x 2.5" pieces.
Then I cut out 2 chunks of 2' square tube.
Then I drilled a hole for the bolt and plasma'd one side out and welded them to the flat pieces.
This is how it fits in.
This is the final product. The shiny black paint made taking a good pic hard. I should have shot it with flat for the pic.
That's all for now.
, 2013 LH, 2014 LH
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