Ray,
Thanks for sharing. I call those my "partzheimers" moments, not to be
confused with alzheimer's as it happens only
part of the time. Perhaps we should make some kind of trophy out of
your new tool and present it each year to the
restorer with the most amazing moment of "creativity". Did I ever tell
you about the upside down swing arms? hehehe
Great to hear of the progress on the 100. Are we still on the the
Monterey Historics again this year?
Regards,
Tracy
Ray Juncal wrote:
> I'm striping down my dif for a total rebuild and new Lempert gears.
>Everything is going along great till I get to the hub carrier. I have
>fraction, metric, whitworth, and British standard wrenches but nothing that
>big. I'm on a roll, I figure I have this rear end, one for another car and
>there's my brothers car too, so I'll just make a nice wrench to fit and we'll
>build at least three rear ends with it. So I carefully measure 2 3/16" across
>the flats on the big nut and then I carefully scribe the lay out with my 60
>degree angle on some 3/16" plate put it on the mill and carefully machine a
>perfect hex. Next I neatly cut a nice circle around the hex and welded on a
>handle. I figured it might need just a little filing to get a perfect fit so
>I tried it up to the nut and you know I was in the twilight zone some
>alternate reality where nuts have eight sides and not six. Who knew? The
>joke was on me. Hope you got a laugh out of my look before you leap story.
> I had to do the whole exercise over using the 45 degree angle. I'm
>cruising now. The dif case is ready to go to the stripper and the pumpkin to
>the gear guy.
>Healey on!
>Ray Juncal
>Toot toot.
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