De-stinking Penelope

[rustybronco]

Time to remove the gunk and corrosion from the cases.
It's going to take a while.

[rustybronco]

Not the best work I've ever done, but considering I'm using a 35 year old cheap A.C. buzz box and not a professional welder, I'm pleased with the way it came out. I did have to knock down a little excess weld in order to try to maintain balance.

[Nessism]

Drum roll.......
(waiting on photos)

[rustybronco]

At the point of no return...

[rustybronco]

Tried running some Crown E309L-16 electrode tonight. It gave me fits. I tried holding a short arc, long arcing it, different amprages between 55 and 110 amps, different rod angles but all the arc wanted to do was extinguish because of the slag. I could run a series of tack welds that looked acceptable but couldn't get acceptable penetration. The weld just crowned to much. Tomorrow I'll see if someone else has some Excaliber electrode which supposedly has considerably less slag than this Crown does. Then maybe the old buzz box will maintain an arc and make me feel a bit more confident at welding up the clutch basket.

Not too pretty...



I've got some Cronatron 333 that works with dissimilar metals. Might use that instead if the rod isn't larger than an 1/8".

[rustybronco]

I'll try my best.

Cleaning up and stripping the engine cases along with welding up the clutch basket are on the agenda for this weekend. Maybe I'll even get a chance to do a wee bit of work on the fuel tank if life doesn't get in the way.

Please build faster Rusty lol. I have been following Penelope since long before I registered here. Absolutely gorgeous work.

Nice score!It wasn't points,didn't look anything like my Martec.Sort of left Dyna-tec.

[rustybronco]

Yes siree Bob!, I mean Greg. A Dyna DS3-2 for the paultry sum of $15.99 shipped including the mechanical advance mechanism.

Dyna

[rustybronco]

Once in a while things just go your way...

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[rustybronco]

I drilled out all three bushings but one ended up getting drilled off center. I friend of mine made a few replacement bushings to replace the one I fudged up. I got the use of a drill press tonight and drilled the 3/8" holes in the basket out to the 7/16" necessary for installing the HD rivets. Assembled the basket and I will be picking up some Excalibur 309/309L-16 this week so I can weld it back together.

[rustybronco]

Yes they are. I suspect that HD kit should cure any clutch rattle that it had beforehand.

[Nessism]

Those rivets are beefy! Nice!

[rustybronco]

Tried the biggest hammer I had!

The old rivets that came in the clutch were 3/8" the new ones in the kit are 7/16". Drilling the aluminium basket is the easy part. Fixturing and drilling the metal sleeves are not. Now if I had that old Southbend I passed on years ago...

I might try drilling a 7/16" hole through two metal plates then centering and clamping the bushings between them in order to keep the drill bit centered properly in the bush.