In the end, the second pan was an extra day of prep and 40 minutes of powder coat and cure. I got to go visit Jim and hand pick one of the multiple pans he had sitting out for me to choose from and spend some time in the emporium.
I get smarter every time I visit him...
Time well spent.

So after a year and a half waiting for Dave at AZC to finish making the rear brake bracket with integrated park brake, I have moved on. Dave has been promising me it would be ready “in two more weeks” for 18 months.

I have installed the rear bearings and seals and have decided to move ahead with a solution from Silvermine Motors. Edan and I have been in discussion as to how to solve the park brake issue for all the AZC customers out there. I am going to create a separate thread and detail the process of adapting the Silvermine kit to the AZC kit. I will be keeping all the rotors and calipers from AZC, but will be using the park brakes, adapter plate and custom emergency brake cable from Silvermine.

In the meantime I put the hubs together as, unlike AZC, the hubs don’t need to be split in order to install the Silvermine adapter plates.

 

I have the push button hydraulic brake - wish I could trust it -lol

Just got buzzed by an air jockey in a CF18 Hornet, 30 feet over my tank park.
I should be pissed, but it was kinda cool...!

2 hours ago, wheee! said:

Just got buzzed by an air jockey in a CF18 Hornet, 30 feet over my tank park.
I should be pissed, but it was kinda cool...!

I bet you can feel that!

That and the 120mm artillery firing a couple km’s away mixed in with 120mm leopard 2 tank rounds running level five ranges on top of 500lb jdams being dropped by jets....
...it’s a noisy place!

3 hours ago, wheee! said:

Just got buzzed by an air jockey in a CF18 Hornet, 30 feet over my tank park.
I should be pissed, but it was kinda cool...!

I hear you, I spent a year working for Husky Oil in the Cold Lake area and during Maple Leaf days they would come over just above the tree top, one chasing another and just scare the *#$@ out of us.

Buzzed out school in 1973!  Teacher hit the floor.

 

109’s?

Kinda looks like the old starfighter, they have one at the Hamilton war plane museum,  me in my 1st Z

 

That’s exactly what it is an F-104 Star fighter. A rocket with wings...dangerous airplane.


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