Ha! I never even thought of squeezing the two halves of the shaft
together!!! Live and learn!
Well, I stayed up all night last night doing this and got it back on
the truck. I didn't have time to get the thing looking like glass
(had to have it together by this afternoon) and there's a hacksaw nick
in it here and there, but I got my desired effect. The thing felt
like it had wrapped to 5000-5200 - a normal performance shift for me,
and that was when the motor was only at 4400-4500!!! Just my initial
impression, but I'll do more "testing" after I get off work ; ). I
haven't even made an "s" bolt yet, didn't touch the shaft or blades
(except to get the shaft out - ha!), didn't remove much material from
the upper bore - none from the bottom, and the top would be called
ugly by some, but there is a helluva difference - my main goal was to
eliminate the "obstacle course" that CC saw fit to put the air through
on it's way to the bore. I thought the bearings were sealed too, but
unfortunately, they're not. You can see the grease packed ball
bearings from the inside upon close inspection. I used gun scrubber
to clean em out and repacked em. Polish it up and add an "s" bolt
later. BTW, I nearly couldn't get one of the blade screws back in -
frustrating - played with the tip with a grinding stone and finally
got it.
Thanks again for all the help.
Tate
At 03:55 AM 7/11/98 -0500, you wrote:
>Thanks, Eric. Do you know if those shaft bearings need to be pulled
(if they even come out)? The shaft isn't gorgeous after you grind the
bolt holes to get the shaft out, but it's not an abomination either
(at least not to me). Are we going with mother's on the protective
coating? Wonder how durable/heat resistant it is? One more question
(for now ; ) ) - what do the bearings, shaft get lubed with?
Anything?
>
>Thanks ahead of time.
>
I didn't grind the bolt/screw holes at all to remove the shaft; it
pulled out without a lot of hassle. (One thing that helped was to
take a pair of long nosed pliers and squeeze the shaft together; slips
through really easy then.) As far as the looks go, I sanded the
paint
off the shaft, and polished it up too. Looks better now, IMHO. (And
flows better than the rough paint I'm sure.)
I wouldn't lube anything; I didn't pay a whole lot of attention to
them, but the bearings looked sealed to me; not much you could do
anyway.
Also, you don't want any junk in there that could get sucked into
your
intake and valves. Keep it as clean as possible! :-)
As far as Mothers' heat resistance goes; I'm not too sure about
that.
Never even occured to me, to tell you the truth! :-) I just went
outside
and took a look at the can of Mothers. It says not to freeze it, but
it
doesn't say anything about heat. (For whatever that's worth.) :-)
-Jon-
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