After some consideration I decided to lower the engine a half inch as it was a bit high in the front and the fan was a bit high too. So I found a piece of half inch metal and cut it to fit.
I then drilled two holes in each piece, starting with a smaller drill first and then followed with a five eights inch bit to allow plenty of room for adjustment.
Here’s the two finished half inch spacers I will use to lower the engine. Just need some paint now.
I installed the new half inch spacers which lowered the mounts a half inch. I didn’t have the right size bolts, so I improvised for now.
Fan blades are looking better
That dropped the fan blades nicely so they fit in the shroud better. But the fan is still a bit too close to the right side, so I will have to adjust that still.
That gas peddle bracket problem
I hadn’t thought of a solution to my gas peddle bracket hitting my transfer case shifter, but this morning, I realized I could make the bracket pull horizontal instead of vertical, so that would clear the transfer case rod.
This is the gas peddle bracket that I cut and welded once, but now I have to cut it again to make it pull in the horizontal direction.
Here’s the gas peddle bracket in place and ready to hook things up to it. I need to hook a cable to it that will run the TBI unit. This bracket changes it from a metal rod to a cable which will be installed on the left on that bar there.
Messing with the transfer case shifting rod
The next thing I worked on was moving the transfer case shifting rod, which is just above the gas bracket. It was hitting the gas bracket and also the exhaust manifold. I really didn’t want to mess with this rod as I remember what a pain it was getting the transfer case to shift properly the first time I built it.
Never the less, I took it off and applied some calculated bends in the rod and put it back on. It looks ok, but I won’t be able to adjust it all the way until I can move the van. Good enough for now.
Taking a long time
It took a lot longer to mess with this stuff today than I thought it would, but I took my time and am trying to do it right so I don’t have any problems later.
Even though today was slow going, I was satisfied with the work I accomplished to get the engine going. It’s taking longer than I thought it would, but that’s pretty normal for this kind of stuff.
I’ll be back at it tomorrow and should get pretty close to engine fire up, I hope, as I’m getting tired of working on this project.
There are over a hundred pictures that are served up randomly every time you visit or change pages. They are of earlier pictures of interest and also some just to remind me of things.
A Sony AX33 4K, a video camera that takes stills too. What am I doing with that? I take pictures from my Kayak a lot. I found I was missing interesting shots, because my pic was being processed in my camera, before it would let me take another pic. Since I like to take what I call action stills, I bought this camera to take videos, that I could make stills out of, but, as a bonus, this camera also came with buttons to just take stills and that's what I mostly do, unless something is real interesting or too far away for my still zooms. My digilat zoom setting for video goes to two hundred x, and sometimes I need that, but usually, I only use the 10x lens zoom. Because this camera is HD and 4K, the quality has to be real good and it has a lot of stabilizers on it which really helps out a lot for taking pics on the water.
The other thing it has that is a must is a view finder and I had to buy Sony's top of the line cam to get it. This is a must for taking pics on the water, as you must hold the camera as still as posible and putting that eye piece to the eye forms a tripod with your arms that helps a lot. The eye piece is also a must as it works way better than a LED screen to see what you are taking a picture of in the daylight as the LED screens wash out easily in sunlight.
I also have another video camera, a Canon VIXIA G30. I use them both to mostly take stills. The Sony takes higher resolution stills than the G30. That was a bit of a disappointment as I bought the G30 to replace an older camera I dunked in the river, but then had to buy the Sony to get higher still picture resolution that the G30 was lacking.
