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Originally posted by dirtdobber
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LOL oh she was all over the place with it. That was just a short clip. -
The saga continues with this little guy!
It's been parked for a little while because of one of the control levers. The brakes got rusty and stiff, and from the past few times operating it, a little too much force was being applied to the left control lever... So it began to bend pretty bad where the roll pin goes through for the parking brake latch.
Before it bent back and forth so much that it snapped from metal fatigue, I pulled the control levers off. I tried a couple places around town and no one seems to have the right equipment to bend and weld the tubing... which I think is bogus, but whatever... So I borrowed a simple tubing bender from a buddy, and with that and a Harbor Freight 90 amp flux core welder, I'm just going to make new levers my dang self!
Right one is bent just a little too. Not as bad as the left. But I'll probably end up remaking both of them.
Will end up having to cut the portion at the bottom off and welding it to the new control levers after they're bent into shape.
The new tubing is a little thicker walled, but maybe that'll just make them just a little stronger
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your doing a great job ...glad you enjoy those challenges . you may want to add a little seafoam to the gas . many of us have had great results with it really keeping the carb clean . j.b.Comment
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Yeah I thought about that, two months after I parked it lol, wow it won't fire... I only turned it over for a couple seconds but it didn't even try to start, so looks like the carb is going to come off again for a cleaning. But I'll worry about that after I get the control levers sorted out...
I attempted to bend the bars this weekend, absolutely butchered it lol. Have never used a tubing/pipe bender before, so it was really just a trial. The bender just kinked the pipe... If I can't get it to arch them like the original ones, I might end up just cutting the tubing at a 45 degree angle and welding them together to create a 90. It would be squared off instead of the nice curve that the original levers have, but I could at least get them to match...Comment
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thall...the best way to get a clean bend is heat up the tubing at the bend point and roll it slowly to the angle your going for . i've also heard of taping up one end , fill with water , tape the other end then freeze it and bend ...then thaw . never tried that, but who knows ! the heat way is better i think and some will even fill the tube with sand first . just a couple of ideas . j.b.Comment
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I've heard of packing the tube with sand then bending also.sigpicComment
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Yeah the sand method I've heard talked about before. Pool filter sand is pretty cheap, I use to have bags of it laying around as I used it for the substrate sand in my 120 gallon aquarium. I may give that a go
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