2019 - You Can Keep It

[Fury1630]

It seems it's not just the Queen that has an Anus Horiblis (did I spell that right?). Apart from all the other cr4p this year I was looking for something to tinker with on the Fury when I found rather more than I bargained for:-

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Yes that's a crack in the chassis, it's a known place for the racers to crack (apparently) & they cure it with a chassis brace, which I'm now in the process of making for mine There's an obvious problem in that the racers use bike engines which are shorter than a Zetec, so there's room for it, but I have a plan.

[DJ.]

Sorry to hear you've had yet more bad luck, but in a way it is at least good that you have found it before anything dangerous happened.

I'm sure your repair will make it better than new

[graham b]

As duncan said
You will fix it
And it WILL be better than new.

[Tony B]

That’s not good!! Glad you found it when you did though

Is your cunning plan a quick plan, or will it take a bit longer that you would hope?

[Fury1630]

That’s not good!! Glad you found it when you did though

Is your cunning plan a quick plan, or will it take a bit longer that you would hope?

Longer than I'd hope, as I'd hoped it was just a line in the paint
Apparently it's a known crack zone for the race Furys, they fix it with a link bar between the rear mounts of the front rockers - that's easy if you have a bike engine, it'll take a little more engineering to make it work with a Zetec, but I have the basics built, I'm going to bolt & weld it as I know what my welding is like

Oh, & it's got to be removable or I will have locked the engine in the chassis.

[Fury1630]

Spent most of today making a suspension brace. It's easy on the BEC racers, just bolt a bit of angle between the rear rocker mounts, job done. Not so easy with a Zetec as the line it want's to take passes through the alternator & water pump pulleys. It also needs to come off to change the "fan belt", so mounting it by the rocker bolts is a non starter unless you want to remove the front suspension to change a belt. Anyway, I've made something that will do the job, I just need to modify a few other bits, it's so close to the water pump pulley that I need to get reduced head bolts & I need to put a hole in it so I can get an allen key on the alternator mounting, then I can drive is somewhere to get the original crack welded.

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[graham b]

You dont hang about do you.
Well done.
Maybe someone on here can weld it for you ??

[Fury1630]

You dont hang about do you.

Got sod all else to do

[Wingco]

Bloody hell Tony that is tight in there.Glad you seem to have sorted it.

[Fury1630]

Bloody hell Tony that is tight in there.

Yes, I'm going to have to do some careful testing or one day I'll go for an "ambitious" overtake, there'll be a rending crash & that brace will come up through the bonnet!