- Joined
- Mar 10, 2005
- Location
- Hooterville (24171)
Old news, but @Tater came up weekend before last and we banged it out!
Armed with 7 ea.: ARP 7/16"-14 × 7/16"-20 × 2.5" studs (2.25"-2.375" would've been better), 7/16"-20 flange nuts and flatwashers... A pile of ancient taper taps & a home ground bottom tap, drill/tap guide, and a few other bits...
Started by giving the 6 holes a touch with a countersink before centering the guide with shank of a 3/8" bit, drilled 1/64" smaller that tap drill, tapped with plenty of PB, finish countersink, checked final fit and gave it ALL a brakeclean spritz & blow.
Studs slathered in red 271 and twisted in... had to punch the 7/16" holes another 64th before sliding it home, blue sticking the nuts.
Topped off the ATF, fired up easily like it wasn't 60+ days, and went both directions.. then shut it off and went on to 1000 other balls being juggled
I've vowed to leave it IN the shop until warmer/dryer to actually log a couple runs for my tuner...
Armed with 7 ea.: ARP 7/16"-14 × 7/16"-20 × 2.5" studs (2.25"-2.375" would've been better), 7/16"-20 flange nuts and flatwashers... A pile of ancient taper taps & a home ground bottom tap, drill/tap guide, and a few other bits...
Started by giving the 6 holes a touch with a countersink before centering the guide with shank of a 3/8" bit, drilled 1/64" smaller that tap drill, tapped with plenty of PB, finish countersink, checked final fit and gave it ALL a brakeclean spritz & blow.
Studs slathered in red 271 and twisted in... had to punch the 7/16" holes another 64th before sliding it home, blue sticking the nuts.
Topped off the ATF, fired up easily like it wasn't 60+ days, and went both directions.. then shut it off and went on to 1000 other balls being juggled
I've vowed to leave it IN the shop until warmer/dryer to actually log a couple runs for my tuner...
