Chevy1925 (James) Truck/motor build

[Chevy1925]

Posted some of this in the oil cooling thread but I’ll finish it out here.

Decided I’d make an adapter to run my sandwich plate on the new oil cooler so I can put my external back on. Figured I might as well use it.

Made an adapter plate from 7075 4” solid stock. Initially it didn’t have a way to self center so today I made a press on ring that now centers the adapter plate to the sandwich plate. Then cut a groove for an old oil filter o-ring and started in the center stud that is now tapped for 22x1.5 female threads to go into the 2020 oil cooler and I just need to cut the excess off and cut some external threads to go back to the old 13/16-16 threads and oil filter. So far it’s coming out great!

 

[gmduramax]

Put some damn hood vents in that thing, that is all :thumb:

 

[Chevy1925]

Can’t make those on a lathe

 

[Burn Down]

Some well placed hatchet strikes should put in some nice vents:happy2:


The adapter is coming out nice.

 

[Chevy1925]

Ha!

Had a little time this morning to practice threading on the lathe. Never done it before and wanted to play with it from what I’ve learned reading and watching a few videos. I played on some mild steel tube. Also realized after I was done the insert had a positive rake to it and it was below centerline of the tube. Hence it didn’t cut the cleanest but an old style filter threads right on

If it stays cool in the morning tomorrow I’ll see if I can finish the center stud

 

[Chevy1925]

Finished cutting the threads on the filter side. Nice 1/8” radius between the hex and threads and the filter threads on nicely. By no means is it professional quality but for my first part to thread with the lathe (did two practice deals before this), I think it came out nice. Really didn’t have a nice finishing insert for the hardened 4140 but it won’t see much daily light lol

Then bolted the cooler/sandwich adapter and my adapter back in. It’s tight as hell between the oil cooler and the adapter but it fits and tightens down nice. She’s all ready for two weeks from now

 

[DAVe3283]

Sweet!

Pretty cool having a lathe to do that yourself. I have a really old lathe (circa 1910) that I picked up for a song, but as far as I can tell, it only does American threads. You have to swap gears on the side of it to change threads per inch, and I only have the 2 that were on it, so really, I can only cut one particular American thread lol

Hopefully you'll see nice low oil temps on your trip. Really curious to hear how it performs.

 

[Chevy1925]

It really is. Before I had one, there was few things I could think of I’d could use one for, now I use the damn thing all the time! I need to go through it and fix a couple things but I just keep it oiled up well for now. Been watching a ton of machining videos on YouTube, mostly because it’s cool to watch but I pick up on a ton of little things. The whole threading deal was interesting. Guys seem to range around .700-.750 and you divide it by your thread pitch. That gives you an approx amount of compound feed for the desired thread. So in my case for a 13/16 - 16, I went off the .75/16=.046875 compound in feed. The first thread I tried, I realized that compound feed had to be doubled as my cross feed and compound feed read based off diameter and not radius (so if my part needs to have .010 taken off, I turn the cross feed in .010, not .005 like others). Really I had to in feed .09375. Then it just took a few thou more to have the filter roll on nicely.

I hope she stays cool too but I’m not holding my breath. She’s gunna be loaded heavy with the tracker in there so I’m not going to push it.

 

[Burn Down]

Nice work James! Your a true craftsman :thumb:

 

[1TRIKHD]

Nice James good work man!

 

[Chevy1925]

Thanks guys .

 

[JoshH]

You suck, James! (Don’t want you to get a big head) oke:

 

[Chevy1925]

You suck, James! (Don’t want you to get a big head) oke:

It’s too late for that

 

[Chevy1925]

Got my cp3 wheel from Waid, threw a little polish on it. Man is that some man jewelry!

Mr Waid does a damn good job (he paid me to say that)

 

[Burn Down]

Wow, those are sharp looking:thumb:

 

[JoshH]

Fancy!

 

[TheBac]

So when are you going to put it on a chain and wear it around your neck, ala Flavor Flav?

 

[Chevy1925]

So when are you going to put it on a chain and wear it around your neck, ala Flavor Flav?

Ill do that tonight for ya, Tom :roflmao:

 

[N2BRK]

didn't know Harley was in the Limo business. Hmm.:roflmao:

 

[TheBac]

Ill do that tonight for ya, Tom

I can just see it now.....:hehe: