Foden Kit 7

Dean,

Well just send me a free kit as agreed seriously though if there are kits ready for this month then send them i'll always send you a post dated cheque and i'm sure I dont need to say more

Ian

a few more parts made, steering shafts and nuts...



steering wheels now welded together. just need to mill them out for the new "bigger" handle boss...



and we have started turning the new handles. Steve thinks you can retro fit them to an old steering wheel by drilling out the old boss and tapping it to M8, so we will be making extra... PS: this is just a quick mock up

Craig is the steering wheel still the same diameter then? just a better handle


Mark

yes, but we are using a larger handle mounting boss.

nearly finished this now.

all the tanks are done...



front wheel bearing dust caps. we have some "bought in" ones in stock (gold colour in the photo) but decided to make up the quantities by making our own...

this kit is now complete, we are just waiting for the boxes to arrive and then the kit will be packed and sent out

here's the finished steering wheel mod...

This kit went out yesterday, and aparently most of the ashpan kits went last week !!!!

Craig,

My new steering wheel handle turned up today that handle should make a hugeeee differance might actually manage to turn the foden around now whilst on the move.


Mark

after playing around with the control model i can say that it will make it more comfortable, but not necessarily any easier

As long as it stops a lot of swear words coming out of my mouth everytime i try and turn and catch myself on the spike!! should also stop my paint work getting covered in blood stains lol

Mark

Craig

Can we have some pics of the steering assy as the build sheets refer to ISO 2 but looking at this sheet does not show the steering joints at all.

Ian

Vapor wrote:Craig

Can we have some pics of the steering assy as the build sheets refer to ISO 2 but looking at this sheet does not show the steering joints at all.

Ian

OK, i'll see what i can get on Monday

here are some pics of the steering joints. i hope they tell you what you need to know, if not just say and i'll take some more...

Thanks Craig, looks like they'll do nicely, give my thanks to Isobel the replacment bolts I buggered up (cut short) arrived Monday,
Brill service only spoke to her on Friday.

craig@STW wrote:r" handle boss...



and we have started turning the new handles. Steve thinks you can retro fit them to an old steering wheel by drilling out the old boss and tapping it to M8, so we will be making extra... PS: this is just a quick mock up

Steve would be right then

My handle turned up the other day and today i finaly got to the foden to get the steering wheel off!
I bored the old boss out a bit and tapped it M8 and filed the boss a bit to get the handle to fit flush all round, it works very well the only thing i would say is if you are like me and cant drill sqaure and dont have a milling machine just take an extra few minutes to try and get the drill sqaure as my hole went a little bit on the piss and the edge of the boss is now a little thin!

Pic to prove it works on the old steering wheel


Cheers
Mark