Beaver's 120y coupe

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yeh I know a few people running them as an alternative to sidedrafts. I think the price is a big factor, much much cheaper than twin sidys. Realtively straight forward to set up as well. There are plenty of debates about them but Im not too bothered, just a bit of fun an make some more noise haha
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more progres!

Big thanks to KK for helping out/telling me what to do and Shaz for yelling abuse

Pulled engine and box out. Took off auto and associated crap.

Located fucked frost plug in back of block, ripped out. Engine shat all over the bench. yum yum

Tomorrow, clean engine bay, clean motor, flush block good and proper, and fingers crossed Repco will have a
plug for me.

Pic dump. (All out of order, fuck it)

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spent another few hours in the shed (again, huuuuuge thanks to KK)

Cleaned engine bay and motor

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Replaced frost plug
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Put shit together
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Put in the hole
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And carbs on to keep up motivation
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Need to get some extractors (factory exhaust manfoold is gay and has an open port which bolts to factory intake which is now in the bin)

Need to get longer throttle cable to reach new carbs (Bike cable should work)

Need to make up litle adaptors for gbox xmember. Have this sussed out so pretty straight forward.

Then fill everything back up with fluids and (try) do a skid
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Re: Beaver's 120y coupe

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Sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet! Looking good man.
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cheers Greg!

Cant wait to get it back on the road....still a few cunty jobs but the end is in sight!
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Nice work. :thumbsup:

What size pipe your planning on using?
I really need to get a extractor made for my datto.Do you mind sharing the specs?
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Il just be buying premade ones.
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Re: Beaver's 120y coupe

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Great work, really looking good
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Got gearbox all mounted up today. HAd to make two adaptor plates as the manual x-member sits forward for the holes in the body. No photos as I got sick of being under the car and its pretty boring.

Just need to round of the edges and cover in underseal to make them look factory.....
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Re: Beaver's 120y coupe

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Right, question time.

Went to chuck the driveshaft in and an into a bit of a speedbump.

It doesnt slide very far onto the gbox spline (around 2/3 to half of what it can). WHen it stops it feels like its just jamming (and then takes a bit of persuiasion to remove) rather than hitting something.

I chucked it on another gbox and it slides all the way home until the flange on the driveshaft actualy hits the gbox.

So i figured it must just be a bit of crap/build up on the splines stopping it from sliding all the way on? I cleaned out the driveshaft spline and lightly greased it but didnt really make a difference.

Any ideas on what to try next? Or should I just man up and try harder? Im 99% confident its no fouling on anything and its defintly not sliding on as much as it should.
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