Looking For A Balance Tube...

[rossiz]

euro style would be ideal - otherwise, one that i can grind down to get to the euro style appearance.

 

anyone got one they'd like to part with?

[rossiz]

mark maras kindly provided a donor balance tube for me to strip down and clean up. i decided to re-locate the brake booster to the firewall end of the log and save one vacuum tap at the front top and keep the pcv at the center horizontal position. 

 

started off with a sawzall and hacked off the big lumps, then angle grinder with cutoff wheel to bring it down to rough shape, then a flap wheel to smooth it out, hand file to blend contours, 100 grit up to 320 hand sanding, scotchbrite then a bit of buffing. next i'll weld in the deleted holes, grind those down to match and she should be done.

 

not show-quality work, but i'm happy with the improvement.

 

starting point:

 

cut, ground, filed:

 

buffed:

[Mark Maras]

 It's beautiful now. Definitely was an ugly duckling. Can't wait to see it completed.

[Patcon]

Rossiz

What's your mailing address? You made that one so pretty, I thought you know...

Charles

Seriously, beautiful work.

[rossiz]

thanks for the kind words guys - it isn't done yet, but i'm pleased with an afternoon's work.

i'll post up after it's welded and finished.

[rossiz]

got the holes welded up, ground them down and buffed up the finished product. buffed up the linkage too just for fun. then i hit one of the carb domes - will do the other too and clean up the innards a little. put the balance tube on and discovered a huge problem... the manifolds (which used to look just fine) now look like a$$ next to the polished bits. looks like a little more cleanup is necessary...

 

4 holes gone, 4 new belly-buttons

 

all cleaned up

 

new "euro-style" compared to egr style

[Mark Maras]

 It looks great. You took the ugly duckling & transformed it into a swan. Good job. Give yourself a pat on the back.

 As far as the polishing goes, This is what I see coming & you probably have already considered-The cyl. head "(which used look just fine) now looks like a$$ next to the polished bits,  Looks like a little more clean up is necessary."  

[rossiz]

Not funny - not even close to funny.

Once the head is done, it'll be: "the trans bell housing looks like a$$ next to the head..." Before I know it I'll be polishing the moustache bar.

Gonna have to join polish-aholics anonymous...

[Mark Maras]

 Mustache wax! I've heard of that. Let us all know how it works!

[rossiz]

intake manifolds cleaned up - carbs will get some love when i rebuild them...

 

[Patcon]

That's great. I can't wait to see what that mustache bar looks like...

Charles

[Captain Obvious]

Hahahaha!!!! ::  ::