I reckon the spacers are a great idea, as long as blokes who fit them have
some idea of what they are doing. The gentleman I was referring to simply
had the attitude that "I only need the spacers why should I use new bolts if
they wind in". Luckily no-one was hurt when he went off. The same bloke
got picked up for not having a diagonal cross brace in the main hoop of his
cage, so he went home and put in a poly pipe brace and used silastic to look
like welds, and painted it to suit the cage. Believe it or not it got
through scrutineering as no-one grabbed the brace they just looked at it.
At the end of the event his navigator at parc ferme put his helmet in the
back and knocked the brace out. Needless to say this bloke doesn't race
anymore hehehehe
Regards
Brad HALLETT
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Errol Smith
Sent: Saturday, September 23, 2000 6:21 AM
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Subject: Re: fun and games
Brad,
If you use Grade 8 bolts that are 45 mm longer than original (for 30 mm
spacers) there is an extra 15mm of thread protruding up past the lugs on
the base of the strut. This provides a good safety margin if the bolts ever
did come loose because of insufficient torqueing.
I liked the idea of resin injecting the block on a drag engine. Hell of a
way to stop bore flex!!!!
Cheers
Feral Errol
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From: Brad HALLETT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: RE: fun and games
Date: Saturday, September 23, 2000 3:38
Andrew
I think you will find that the blokes whose bolts came loose, had used the
original length bolts. I have ony heard of it happening once and that
peanut had used the old bolts and suprise suprise they fell out and he
crashed. Must have had only had three or four threads in.
Regards
Brad HALLETT
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Andrew Schultz
Sent: Friday, September 22, 2000 10:10 PM
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Subject: Re: fun and games
Errol,
Yeah, too true. Are you making yours out of good, hi-grade (read,
'hard'), alluminium? How high are yours buy the way?
I first heard of the bolts coming loose on the bluebirds list. I reckon
if you used soft aluminium, and didn't machine things flat enough you
could run into problems.
Andrew.
Errol Smith wrote:
>
> Andrew,
> No offense taken, and no conflict. I agree, Loctite is OK (good) to use
on
> suspension bits
> I can see the engineering reasons for worrying about side loadings to a
> complex strut assembly. The practicality is that the distances are quite
> small and the applied clamping force so high relatively that I have not
had
> a problem. The strut spacers also have a top and bottom lip that match
the
> steering arm and strut base lips. These are designed to take all the side
> loadings.
> Cheers
> Feral Errol
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