@Rwb , this was the biggest part of it . I got rid of the plastic gibs and lapped in these metal gibs. Huge improvement.
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@Rwb , this was the biggest part of it . I got rid of the plastic gibs and lapped in these metal gibs. Huge improvement.
was gonna say take long time getting gibs worked down to perfection. Yes usage will seat them in better.
Looked at a new mini lathe at harbor freight plastic gears not good. Then i read somewhere a guy is now making steel gears to fit harbor freight lathes.
Im not sold on chinese built tolerances ,but i could use a lathe today if i had 1.
Machinist auction near me coming up,might find what im looking for
My last two came by way of craigslist when I least expected.
I'd bypass Chineseium and hold out for a 9-10" with a gearbox.
I'd bypass Chineseium and hold out for a 9-10" with a gearbox.
messed up let a south bend get away, 3 jaw and 4 jaw chuck,full set of tools lots of extra carbide cutters center rest .seen it 1 nite should of hit buy,thought ok in the mornin.
Morning hit n it sold 5 minutes after i shut pc down.
Homer simpson DOUGH DOUGH DOUGH
No pics this time.
The 2004 Volvo XC70 spit a P305 code this weekend.
Figured I'd start with sparkplugs.
Fsck'n plastic, fsck'n meatbrain at Grease Phucky spilled oil all over the top end and it near filled the spark plug tunnels, fack'n Volvo covered the torx heads with the strut tower support where they didn't cover two of them with the compressor outlet to the intercooler.
#5 destroyed, insulator burned off and gap at 1/4" +++
#4 also
#3 also a mess
#2 finger tight
#1 again , destroyed and YUUUUGE gap.
Start up was a smoke cloud that ordinarily would have brought the fire department but who could tell the difference.
Initial smoke cloud dissipated only to be replaced by the second cloud as the catastrophic perverter lit off. Finally the dead hole that had collected all the crud donated it's fair share smoke and the show was over.
Prognosis? Volvo is happy, girl is happy, and I'm going back to Grease Phucky and fill Jose Jimenez's shorts with full synthetic.
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The 2004 Volvo XC70 spit a P305 code this weekend.
Figured I'd start with sparkplugs.
Fsck'n plastic, fsck'n meatbrain at Grease Phucky spilled oil all over the top end and it near filled the spark plug tunnels, fack'n Volvo covered the torx heads with the strut tower support where they didn't cover two of them with the compressor outlet to the intercooler.
#5 destroyed, insulator burned off and gap at 1/4" +++
#4 also
#3 also a mess
#2 finger tight
#1 again , destroyed and YUUUUGE gap.
Start up was a smoke cloud that ordinarily would have brought the fire department but who could tell the difference.
Initial smoke cloud dissipated only to be replaced by the second cloud as the catastrophic perverter lit off. Finally the dead hole that had collected all the crud donated it's fair share smoke and the show was over.
Prognosis? Volvo is happy, girl is happy, and I'm going back to Grease Phucky and fill Jose Jimenez's shorts with full synthetic.
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wife had a s 80 t6 90 model. 4 coil packs went down 1 cold morning. Every torex screw was almost stripped out by previous owner.dremmel cut slot in every screw,used my hammer impct screw driver. Each 1 popped real loud,screwed out ok.
Went to town n bought 6 new coil packs and set of plugs.then went to hardware store and got hex head screws put all bavk in n ran fine.
I enjoyed gettin to them charge cooler lines come off, another line had to be pulled back n tied away. The coil pack cover came off to show a nasty disgusting mess my air hose removed.
Volvos are great cars but hell to work on
Man! Why do people let thier cars get this far bad before they find the hood latch and discover where all the noise is coming from?
ours made no noise the coil packs just died.
If 4 out of 6 are bad replace all,and sparkplugs were still good but while its that far apart replace them too or soon be doing the dismantle thing again
...to review. This is the device in it's natural but very rare state of clean and ready for the next project.
I've been doing quite a bit of work out of the spindle taper. This makes me nervous as the spindle threads and register are exposed to damage and stupidity.
"Never underestimate he power of human stupidity, this includes your own".
The tool on the left just wasn't rigid enough and no amount of spring passes would complete the threading. That and curiously enough the "tune" via chatter that the overhang was playing tended to make the tool holder rotate on top of the compound no matter how tight the post bolt was.
The tool on the right was a close relative of some sort of stainless. More likely a 41xx variety. A total PITA to machine. In the end I got the tooth profile in. Without hardening it took and kept an edge and appears to have changed it's tune (resonance).
Once I got it to begin threading I ran maybe 6-8 spring passes with naphtha (zippo fluid) for cutting fluid. The counter bores are 1" to clear the register and 1.63xx" to clear the shoulder so that the threads, register and shoulder are protected.
I feel a whole lot better now when a chuck isn't protecting the threads.
Oh yeah. A few shameless plugs for those that contributed to the project.
Joel.To a true baseball fan and provider of replacement metal gibs.
http://www.mymachineshop.net/
Rich. Provider of affordable precision cutting tools made in America.
https://www.standardcutting.com/
The whole family at Swift for supplying me with everything from 1/4" HSS blanks to annealed tool steel and putting up with me for 30+ years.
https://www.swifttool.com/
Paul Stoner of Stoner metals for reasonable prices on bits and pieces of stock.
https://www.ebay.com/usr/6061dude?_trksid=p2047675.l2559
Peter Jones for hours of reminding me of everything I'd forgotten about machining over the last five decades.
And last but not least the provider of the all important cutting fluids and coolant.
https://www.futureprimitivebeer.com/