THE PORTAL HUB - Pinzgauers, Haflingers, Volvo 303s and more!

Gads !! Sold for $6900, not a bargain but a STEAL.

I can tell ya, don't use Nitrile gloves when using the JASCO stripper -- eat right through them
with my hands still in the glove

Ended up using tongs to pick the parts up and move them to wash and rinse...

My turn to strip and refinish the Symbols. No luck with TSP, all I could find locally was TSP powder, mixed that over 10X the recommend dosage and no luck, even put the symbols in that broth over the coleman -- just would not cut into that tough paint. Went back to Home Depot and bought some JASCO P...

First phase of restoration done. Just completed a face lift. Could not source a Drivers door replacement soon enough, ended up playing tin knocker. Cut rust out, fabricate replacement panel via the British tin knocker way -- angle iron hammer and planising. Came out far better than I expected. I rat...

As it so happens I just did two more doors with my
Miter and the SAV material. I had to read my old
Posting as I forgot the details still comes out
Nice and square.

SAV

You got hat right.

I now have two spares sets of window glass both K and M.
For anyone interested, the M set is up for sale $100 plus shipping.
Located in NorCal. I do have a shipping box designed for shipping
this glass but it's glass so no guarantees it arrives in one piece.

I was considering this conversion in the past, decided not to go this route for a number of reasons, one being it is somewhat boutique. I don't know what choice he made w.r.t. the steel grade. A36 is structural, bridges, buildings etc etc. somewhere in the ballpark of 500 MPa, is that good enough? I...

BTW I do know that Kledgewerks used high tensile strength steel for all parts, for sure
they are NOT mild steel, I don't know if the stock was 8.8 or harder. All fasteners are 12.9.

Mild steel will not hold from braking sheer forces. It's the brakes after all -- Just saying

Between 40mph to 60mph, the front driveshaft rotates at 45 to 68 Hertz -- cycles/sec. Hmmm, that's like a power hum. But an unbalanced shaft will worsen with higher rpm does it? Or, as pointed out before, the centering bearings may be a culprit here, which with higher rpm "self-center" and stop the ...

It's all a matter of material science. Pinz stud and nut is M14 x 1.5mm 8.8 hardness. Standard recommended max torque is 100 ft-lbs dry, 80 ft-lbs lubricated (anti-seize). If the studs are 12.9 then your up in the range of 150 ft-lbs (dry). Puch pushed several bolts beyond the max. e.g. Limit strap ...

What tires did you get installed on the Transit wheels? Some of the more aggressive styles and particular brands are notoriously difficult to balance. Incidentally, I believe the Transit wheels are hub centric, of course the stock Pinz wheels are lug centric. I also flipped over to Dynabeads, and us...

Recommendation even for the stock Pinz bolts is to back down to 100 ft-lbs.
However, after a 30 mile drive re-torque to be safe.

Good luck with that one.\ Agree with Vince. Even if you had a Solar conversion
efficiency of 100% the best y'd do is 13KW off the roof of a 712. That's not gonna
cut it. And the best panels on the market today are less than 20% efficient or 2600W,
hairdryer power.