This is a tool I've made for the floor on the 42, but it
came to good use when building a gas tank for the V12. The dimple will be
the outlet for the gas.
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The tank will be a mirror of the Oil tank. |
| Here I've "Photo shopped" my project with some wire wheels,
and a radiator sort off.. I think it can be something nice. |
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Here I've loaded my "car" ,to go to a small, boys meeting. |
Flatlanders Hot Rod Club arranged a small meeting a couple of miles
from home, and asked me if i could come, and run my V12 a bit. At the place
there was some nice tractors.
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Alex my grandson is testing the Allis Chalmer tractor.
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| Four cylinders 6 litre Diesel engine! |
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This is a landsverk wire digger machine is awesome. Its owned by Björn
and a couple of his friend. |
After some digging and V12 listening , it was time for some burger's
and some beer.
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Can there be a better place to eat a burger , than in a Roadster, gunning
the engine at the same time :-) |
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Another Sunday this summer, there was some friends visiting my garage,
to listen to the "monster".
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And i was more than willing to share the pleasure, of 27 litre
V12, without headers.
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Me in Action. |
| The smoke is settling. |
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Enough with fun and games, back to work. I got a 6 mm steel plate for
the gearbox mount. Had to cut out a hole for the PTO.
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Then I clamped it to the gearbox. And drilled the appropriate holes.
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On the PTO i have mounted a Chevy flywheel.
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| All the power is taken out thru this "Gear". |
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First try to mount the gearbox. |
| I had to cut of some parts of the PTO mount. |
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After some fiddling i finally got it in. |
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It looks like it was meant to be, Chevy meets Rolls Royce Merlin (Rover
meteor). |
I also made a gearbox mount, things where looking good.
I could almost see myself driving down the road.
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DISASTER When building the props haft, i
found out that the angle between the gearbox and rear axle was to steep.
And the props haft was to "short" for the angle. I mounted the engine flush
with the upper side of the frame, it was easy that way ( i thought). |
| After some days of depression i had to bite the apple and lower the
engine four inches in the rear and two inches in the front. major work
since the engine weights around 600 kilo. |
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Now the props haft fits, the angle is quite step on this picture but
i still have to rotate the rear axle upwards a bit, And that will improve
the situation. |
| Now the box sits lower in the frame, and that will make the manufacturing
of the floor easier. Still have to build a new gearbox mount, and reroute
the oil pipes. |
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Its a bad picture but the engines sits lower now, and it looks a bit
better. |
| Here is a picture captured from a MPG movie taken on my first test
start.
By the way if you want to see the "movie" here is the link.
3.9 MB so it takes a while with a Modem.
Its Alive |
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