Just a minor upgrade

[Justin Pollard]

Hello Colin,
The mortar carrier is looking brilliant,are you planning on taking it to Corowa next year?.

Justin.

[colin jones]

Hi Justin, I will be making every attempt to take the carrier to corowa next year. That will give me plenty of time to iron out all the bugs I hope.
regards
Colin.

[phoenix]

Excellent, I can have a look at it in the flesh then

[Justin Pollard]

Good stuff Colin,it would be nice to see it.
I dont think i would have any chance of having mine there though!.

[colin jones]

I finished my tailshaft last night and put it in position. It is an old ford truck tailshaft. I machined an adapter plate with a centre hole to take the female spline and welded it in. (transmission end). I also machined a big plate with a 6mm recess so the original 8 bolt plate sits in (for centralization). That plate is welded to the other end of the tailshaft. Also the engine is in as well.
Colin.

[Tony Smith]

Strewth, Col, this project just get's Sexier by the minute! I like how you've used a C4 auto, because there are adapter kits to mate a Sidevalve to the C4, although you may need to re-fabricate mounts for the Flatty. (Nothing sounds as good as a Sidevalve!)

[Alex Blair (RIP)]

Originally Posted by colin jones

I finished my tailshaft last night and put it in position. It is an old ford truck tailshaft. I machined an adapter plate with a centre hole to take the female spline and welded it in. (transmission end). I also machined a big plate with a 6mm recess so the original 8 bolt plate sits in (for centralization). That plate is welded to the other end of the tailshaft. Also the engine is in as well.
Colin.

Col..being a mechanic/welder/electrician/gas fitter/and general wrench,I know good work when I see it..The only improvement I could comment on would to be offsetting your motormounts to reduce the drive angle on your drive shaft..
At 200MPH that old drive shaft will be under quite an axis load..
Reminds me of my youth,trying to come up with a transmission that would stand up to my 361 CI 1959 Edsel V-8..normal Ford transmissions would clean the cluster gears off like butter..Finally mated it up with a '54 Mercury truck transmission..four speed..
Taking off in second gear or even third gear in a cloud of smoke was normal...Had the .'54 yoke on one end of the driveshaft and a '59 Ford rear end matching yoke on the other end....so anything is possible..
Keep at 'er..I'm following your thread with great interest..

[Ledsel]

Hey Alex. Just thought you might like this. www.arvimotors.com

[colin jones]

Hi and thanks Tony, as much as it would be nice to have a wonderful underpowered great sounding side valve, a couple of extra horses would be really handy. I'm a bit excited cause its gettin' close to trials but I'm busier than a one legged arse kicker at the moment. If I had full dedicated time on it, I reckon I would be driving it within a week but work comes first. Also I don't mind the sound of a well tuned, tuned length exhaust, good old 351ci. But I know where you're comin' from.
Colin.


G'day Alex, I did look at offsetting the engine and trans, but its only 9deg and there's been a few friday nights that i've been on greater angles that that and still operated without breakin' my uni joints so I have great confidence it will be o.k. There's not much room in the engine bay either, but hell it's great fun achieving something like this and thanks for your comments
Colin.