On or around Fri, 12 May 2006 16:07:54 +0100, Ian Rawlings
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>On 2006-05-12, Austin Shackles <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> nah. can't get enough seats in 'em - I've had one; 7 forward facing pax is
>> about all you can credibly get in and that's a pain, as you end up folding
>> up back ones to get ain and you have to use the centre front seat.
>
>I mentioned something about you wanting to put a transit body on a
>landy, and I was asked "Why", and I have to confess to not knowing,
>what's it all about in the first place?
Regulations about carrying children mean that you have to have
forward-facing seats and seat belts. I used to use a 110 and I've also used
a disco with a specially made rear bench seat, but neither are ideal and
access to either is not good. The interior space of the tranny body is
about twice that of the disco and almost twice the 110, plus the access is
better. I'm currently operating with 8 passenger seats, but the transit can
easily go to 11 (which would entail being PCV licensed which is why I don't
do it) which is impossible in a 110 within the regulations, and cramped at
best even if you could use the sideways benches.
But the principle reasons are a) it's a fun challenge and b) if it works
well, I might be able to sell 'em...
>> buggrem. why do people do stupid stuff like that? I mean, I'm all in
>> favour of bodging things, but use summat like silicon sealer, not loctite,
>> if you want to bodge seals.
>
>It's not the seal they were trying to fix, the wheel shaft of the
>portal axle has a large gear pressed onto it with the inside collar of
>a needle bearing pressed on after it, at least the collar has been
>loctited onto the shaft, meaning that I can't shift the bleeder. Once
>I get that off I have to remove the gear wheel, which may also be
>loctited, then I can get at the seal. >There's no need for the loctite
>as it takes several tons of pressure to get the gear and collars off,
>and there's a large lipped retaining plate that is bolted to the end
>of the shaft that keeps it all in place too.
Only reason for loctiting that I can imagine is wear on the shaft making the
bearing a loose fit. Not a good solution but one that I could understand.
loctite will undo if you heat it, I assume you know that? the bearing race
might end up scrap, but I assume that can be replaced. It doesn't have to
get all that hot, though.
--
Austin Shackles.
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"Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; and
therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for thee"
John Donne (1571? - 1631) Devotions, XVII
