A friend of mine just tried to install the drums on his AR tudor and the conical dust cover on the adjusting wedge housings hit the sloped surface out board of the braking surface hard enough so that he could not get the front drum to go on far enough to get the cotter key in the axle nut. When...
Bought a new modern bendix and built a tool to compress the spring to get the set screw out ( duplicating the tool shown in the catalogs), but it wont compress on matter how tight I turn the nuts. What am I doing wrong? Thanks Ed.
Bought a modern bendix and built a compressor tool (copying the one in the catalogs) and tried to compress the bendix to get the set screw out but it wont compress at all. What am I doing wrong. Thanks Ed.
I got a couple of cams at an auction today and based on the gear and dims. they appear to be brand new. The tag on one of them says "B" grind on "A" cam and HARTS AUTO PARTS INC. Cecil, Ohio. Does anyone know anything about this Co. Thanks: ED.
I am in the process of restoring a gen. with the ball bearing in the rear.
I got it in pieces and I cant find out what goes in the bearing pocket in the rear besides the bearing and in what order. Thanks Ed.
I installed new field coils in a generator and tried to check for residual magnetism per the explination in a post from Tom Wesenberg using a compass. When I put the compass on the left side it points to the right and when I put it on the right it points to the left. This is with the terminal...
Picked up a used engine that was running in early spring and tore it down to see that everything was OK for a backup. It had been leaking at the rear main. When I pulled the rear main cap the crank had been machined to remove the rear slinger and a rope seal similar to the front pan seal was in...