i decided over the xmas i wanted a new project to keep the old head busy,so i set about making my own h/d front suspension.Its not complete yet but i thought i would share some pics of where im at with it,still have the tcas to make and i hope to take pics of this as i go.
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nice
thanks eric, hopefully all the hours stood in front of the mill and lathe will be worth it btw i forgot to mention the brakes are 280x25 and fit under a 13inch wheel.
Looks great more pics
i will do my best over the next few weeks to upload pics of the tca build,also planning on making an adj blade type anti roll bar once i get the materials for it.
Looks very nice
took some more pics of second strut assembly sorry about quality my phone is crap.IMG00129.jpgIMG00130.jpgIMG00131.jpgIMG00133.jpgIMG00134.jpgIMG00135.jpgIMG00149.jpgIMG00152.jpgIMG00153.jpg
nice
i did a bit more machining to the uprights and removed 6mm from the stub axle face,it required a bit of a tricky setup on the mill with the rotary table.IMG00154.jpgIMG00155.jpgIMG00156.jpgIMG00157.jpgIMG00158.jpgIMG00159.jpgIMG00160.jpgIMG00161.jpgIMG00162.jpgIMG00163.jpgIMG00166.jpg
Looks good, keep up the good work. Out of curiosity how is the stub axle fitted into the hub?
Keep her lit
thank you, the stub axle is held in by an interference fit of 2thou pressed into the upright and the back of the stub is threaded and held with a lock nut,its how the other makers of this kit do it.
Cheers mate, I'd love to have the skills and the equipment to make my own parts....maybe one day
Keep her lit
thanks again,just one word of warning if you ever buy machine tools they are expensive and tooling costs a fortune but for me they are ten times more addictive than cars im always on the look out for my next tool fix and what body part i need to sell to get it.
I wish I had those sort of skills on the mill and lathe, awesome work
been busy for last few weeks but managed to get the tca,s made up here are some pictures i took of the second one forgot to take pics of the first one.
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Great job, there is some work and thought gone into all that!
Any pictures of the car they are on, are the parts for rallying?
Where did you get the large rose bearing for the TCA? Is it just interference fit, or does it use with a circlip also?
mcgill motorsport for the bearings,and they are an interference fit also retained by 2 grub screws for added security but the shoulder for the bearing is on the thrust side so they are,nt coming out without a big press.
I have loads of ideas but not the facilities to do stuff like that. You ask engineering companies and they aren't interested in one off's.
Great stuff.
thanks wildo i am a one man engineering/fab outfit i do alot of quirky one off stuff and bits other engineering companies would not touch.But i,l never get rich at it,the reason i decided to make all this stuff is to prove to myself that i can and to use the best materials regardless of cost example in the stub axle which is made from en24t steel and then hardened and tempered to 40rockwell,also the wheel studs which are made from en24 and all manually machined very time consuming and expensive.I RECKON I have well over 100 hours in it so far and at least 500euro in materials.If like pm me about your ideas.
decided to make a new set of insitu adjusters as i was not happy with to look of the first ones i think these are much nicer and stronger.
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Spectacular...
Originally Posted by wildo105e
I have neither the ideas or facilities and skills to make stuff like this...
It's good to see the skills of an old School machinist at work using their talents to good affect. It's nice that quality materials are being used unlike a lot of the mass market components for the old Escort. Look forward to seeing more of your work Mick32.
thank thats a very humbling comment ,plan for next week is another set of these h/d tcas for a friend and im going to build a fully floating atlas as in make hubs stub axles and wheel studs from scratch.if the peole like i can post up pics of that build as well.
Mick don't hesitate to post it up. Plenty of people will be interested to see it although many won't post to say so...sad but true
Keep her lit
Looking forward to seeing your axle ... Great work so far and it's good to see one man bands still cracking away at it ..... It's where the real talent lies
post more pic's i love looking at stuff like this.
I decided to post up some pics of me making some ff atlas hubs today.the material im using is 6086 t6 alloy billet 150mm dia icut off 4 slugs in the band saw so im going to make 2 kits.each slug is machined to its final size and rough bored,final bore size for the bearings will be done in a 4 jaw chuck for zero run out.IMG00202.jpgIMG00203.jpgIMG00206.jpgIMG00207.jpgIMG00208.jpgIMG00209.jpgIMG00211.jpgIMG00212.jpgIMG00213.jpgIMG00214.jpgIMG00215.jpgIMG00217.jpgIMG00218.jpgIMG00219.jpgIMG00220.jpg
One word... Awesome
been busy last couple of days,made two ff stub axles and some ff wheel studs which are a pain to machine metal tends to work harden a bit in the smaller diameters.I know this stuff is not relevant to the original thread and i hope im not boring you with my others stuff.IMG00224.jpgIMG00225.jpgIMG00226.jpgIMG00227.jpgIMG00229.jpgIMG00230.jpgIMG00231.jpgIMG00233.jpgIMG00234.jpgIMG00235.jpgIMG00236.jpgIMG00238.jpgIMG00239.jpgIMG00240.jpg
love the post keep them coming...cheers mark
Nice work .... Keep the pics coming
thanks guys,i should be doing final boring on the hubs tomorrow which means swapping the lathe chuck over to the 4 jaw which is nearly a days work by itself its 16 inch dia and weighs about 8 stone my back is getting sore a the thought of it.
utterly amazing, wish I had half your skills
pulled out the 4 jaw chuck today to start final boring on the wheel hubs,the hubs have to be clocked up both radially and axially,you be surprised when you measure up some cnc mass produced stuff and find runout between front and back faces im only talking tenths of a mm but hey im rambling.IMG00241.jpgIMG00242.jpgIMG00243.jpgIMG00244.jpgIMG00245.jpgIMG00246.jpgIMG00247.jpgIMG00248.jpgIMG00249.jpgIMG00250.jpg
mounted the rotary table on the mill today,centered the hub on the table with a dial gauge then centered the hub with the mill table.then off set the rotary table by 54mm and drill and hand reamed the 4 stud holes every 90deg.final step was to put in a 3mm deep x 19mm wide slot on the wheel mounting face.
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Fock me that chuck is giant..... Loving the work
ya its a big one pain to swap over but can hold flywheels etc up to 22inches very handy bit of kit.
skill in large proportions. please keep pics coming.
Hi Mick,
Do you have any pictures of the back of the stub axle and lock nut?
Cheers
Been a bit slack with updates for last week or so but trying to catch up on regular stuff.Last week was possibly the most hectic i had in years on monday i purchased a lathe on tue went in to hospital to have a piece of metal surgically removed from my leg(LONG STORY)on wed had to make a jig for transporting the lathe on thur went to the uk to pick up the machine and got back home on sat.This mon past spent the day moving the machine into my workshop not any easy task it weighs 3500kg once it was in place had a bit of a play with it only to discover it sounded like a washing machine full of rocks went digging into it and found the headstock bearings are knackered.Anyway went and picked up cds tubing for atlas axles so finished the final bore size on the stub axles and started to set up the pigs head for boring to take the heavy wall tubing.
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