Steve,Quote:
Originally Posted by steveG
The flywheel housing I've got is the 'Army' type one piece housing. I got it through Fred Smith along with other bits and pieces.
Cheers, Murray
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Steve,Quote:
Originally Posted by steveG
The flywheel housing I've got is the 'Army' type one piece housing. I got it through Fred Smith along with other bits and pieces.
Cheers, Murray
Thanks Murray - I didn't know that the Army one was different.
So did the civilian counties have the same housing as the Stage1?
Steve
I guess so, but I'm not sure. I didn't really look into it much.Quote:
Originally Posted by steveG
Murray
Removed the winged sump today to fit the truck one, and to have a quick look at a couple of bearings.
This isn't the sort of thing you like to see when you take a sump off:
https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/im...010/10/614.jpg
Luckily for me they were the bits that were sitting in the sludge at the bottom of the truck sump I bought from a wrecker. No such nasties in the sump from my engine.
I removed one of the big end bearings, and checked the clearance using plastigauge. Clearance is fine (0.051mm/0.002"), but the bearing surface looks like the surface layer is coming off in one area.
I'd be interested in your opinions as to whats caused it, and whether I should be worried.
https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/im...010/10/615.jpg
Here's a photo showing the new 105mm rear main seal, and the separate wear sleeve.
I've fitted the seal to the housing, but need to get a bit of 100mm pipe to fit the wear sleeve to the crank.
https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/im...010/10/616.jpg
Hopefully this week will see some parts turn up for my gearbox so I can continue with that...
Steve
I got the wear sleeve and new seal installed today. I used a piece of 4" exhaust tube as a tool to drive the sleeve on. Its slightly too small, but a quick slit down the side with a cutting disc in the grinder allows it to spring open to almost the perfect size.
Here's the sleeve installed. Its meant to only go on one way, as it has a small lead-in relief in the bore, and also a chamfer on the outer rear edge to make it easier to start the seal. You can also see it sits roughly central fore-aft on the seal section of the crank. The exact position isn't critical, but needs to be positioned so both the seal lip and the dust wiper run on it.
https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/im...010/10/438.jpg
Here's my special tool for installing it - which worked really well
https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/im...010/10/439.jpg
I'd previously installed the seal into the housing, so just had to fit it. Here's the finished job. You can see a couple of mm of sleeve extending past the dust wiper on the seal.
https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/im...010/10/440.jpg
I was planning to have the sump back on today, but the set of big end bearings I ordered had one damaged pair where they had rattled around in packaging that was too big.
I got the other 3 fitted, and the replacement pair should arrive early this week. I was surprised at the price - only $11 per rod.
Steve
I fitted the motor and gearbox today so I can position and weld the engine mounts.
The original transmission was an LT77, so I've used the holes in the chassis from that, and fitted the brackets that came off the stage1.
It all matches up, but I reckon its sitting too high.
Here is a photo of the LH mount:
https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/im...10/11/1510.jpg
And another one showing the height difference between the bottom of the chassis rails (piece of tube is just as reference point), and the transmission.
The RED dimension is about 43mm.
https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/im...10/11/1511.jpg
Can anyone confirm if that looks right for a County LT95?
Steve
Spot on Steve, mine is almost the same measurement at that spot.
Many thanks Brian.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bearman
Mine is sitting up hard against the underside of the seat box on the drivers side so looks like I've got a bit more trimming to do.
Steve
Steve, there is some adjustment available where the rubber gearbox mount bolts into the steel mount. Probably get about 10-15mm movement either way there if you check it. It should fit in pretty well as it was a standard County setup originally wasn't it. Maybe the engine mounts are a little higher than standard.
The VIN decodes to being a V8 with LT95 originally, but the transmission hump panels were definitely 5 speed, and didn't have the "lump" next to the handbrake.
The steel mount is slotted and I've left them slightly loose so they could just settle where they wanted to go, but the trans only sits in one place due to the angle of the steel mounts and the thickness of the rubber mounts.
I've got some LT95 panels, and have already had to trim away part of the seat box flange etc to even get the gearbox to bolt up to the mounts.
The seat box has a flange extending forward for the 5-speed panel to attach to, but the LT95 rear panel mounts flat on the face of the seat box so I need to remove the flange to make it fit.
I think its all going to fit, just needs more trimming etc.
Steve