Pressure of the van going to the paint shop was enough to kick me to try and make the inlet side air tight so I don’t end up with an engine full of filler dust!
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Fuel breather pipe adapter fabricated.
We’ve used a pick up tank on the syncro, all well and good but the breather stub at the top of the tank is a different diameter to the van tank. The van tank has a stub size of 12mm however the pick up tank is 15mm.
It’s not something we stock so we had to make one, 12mm OD aluminium tube and some 15mm OD tube pressed into each other then the ends swaged. Tig welded together, etch primed then powder coated, all in house in about
30 mins. Well happy!
Squeezed it in! Happy bunny.
More donuts
After the earlier post about the do-nuts I received a few questions about them, so I’ve taken a few more pictures to illustrate the procedure for welding them up.
These do-nuts can give you nice, tight radius bends that you can’t achieve with mandrel bent tubes.
oh, and yeas yes, my TIG welding isn’t the tidiest, I know, I’m a learner!
Started on the boost pipes.
Welding donuts.
Started on the air inlet to the turbo today, first job was to weld the ally donut halves together with the TIG. Seems a shame to grind them off afterwards!