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Tinkerman
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9pm in Tennessee, I'm sitting here having a celebratory drink, happily peeking at my working overdrive.
At the first pressure test I got 360psi. Had some folks tell me that was good but I kept reading and digging in the manuals, the Reidel articles and the manual that a couple of you sent me. Its sitting on the bench, so now is the time to get it right, i figured. Monday I called John Espsito at Quantum Mechanics and he told me that with the small accumulator piston it should measure around 425 to 475 psi. I added two washer shims ala Nelon Reidel. Brought it up to a wiggily 425. Today I added one more and it is now at a steady 450 with cold oil. I feel much more comfortable with that measure.
Final bench test. Try to activate the OD with the activation lever. Couldn't reach the darn thing so I got a buddy of mine to come over and toggle the lever. I spun it up to working pressure and told him to toggle it, nothing happened. I kept the drill running and he fiddled with the activation lever and finally it kicked in. YEA!!!!! more attemps and every time it would kick in. I'm ready for the road test now. Course that might take a little more time, heh.
Goes into the chassis this weekend.
Thanks for listening, so to speak. Most of my friends around here wouldn't understand, but I knew you guys would.
Cheers, Tinkerman
At the first pressure test I got 360psi. Had some folks tell me that was good but I kept reading and digging in the manuals, the Reidel articles and the manual that a couple of you sent me. Its sitting on the bench, so now is the time to get it right, i figured. Monday I called John Espsito at Quantum Mechanics and he told me that with the small accumulator piston it should measure around 425 to 475 psi. I added two washer shims ala Nelon Reidel. Brought it up to a wiggily 425. Today I added one more and it is now at a steady 450 with cold oil. I feel much more comfortable with that measure.
Final bench test. Try to activate the OD with the activation lever. Couldn't reach the darn thing so I got a buddy of mine to come over and toggle the lever. I spun it up to working pressure and told him to toggle it, nothing happened. I kept the drill running and he fiddled with the activation lever and finally it kicked in. YEA!!!!! more attemps and every time it would kick in. I'm ready for the road test now. Course that might take a little more time, heh.
Goes into the chassis this weekend.
Thanks for listening, so to speak. Most of my friends around here wouldn't understand, but I knew you guys would.
Cheers, Tinkerman
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