damn damn DAMN
damn damn DAMN Prepping for test and tune Wendsday:
Oil change, check
Trans fluid, check
Rear end fluid change, check
Standalone fuel pump, check
Fuel 'noid operation, check
N2O 'noid operation, check
Install first jet into N2O plate jet fitting, SNAP!
Great, now if I can't get that little part out, I have to order more tubing and sleeves/b-nuts too.
Time for a rush parts order........
Oil change, check
Trans fluid, check
Rear end fluid change, check
Standalone fuel pump, check
Fuel 'noid operation, check
N2O 'noid operation, check
Install first jet into N2O plate jet fitting, SNAP!
Great, now if I can't get that little part out, I have to order more tubing and sleeves/b-nuts too.
Time for a rush parts order........
Thanks Dave, I'll try to track down a good extracter set. I just checked Sears this morning and only saw the $40 and $50 sets. I've broken quite a few of that kind at work so I'm not wasting my own money on those.
Man this ordeal is starting to kick my @$$. Ever have those days where every thing you try to fix breaks the thing next to it...
I ordered a new plate jet. When it showed up, it was smaller than the one that came out and wouldn't fit. So I ordered another (set) from the manufacturer of the plate. Got it installed today, went to put the jet in, and the point where you put the jet was too small! So I take it back out and drill the fitting out deep enough to install the jet. While doing so I notice that the threads are looking kind of galled up. Aluminum's soft so it's easy to do. I try very gently to reinstall the fitting, but with just a little pressure on the wrench, it screws up the threads in the plate, and on the fitting! Now I gotta pull the plate out so I can chase the threads and make sure I don't get any shavings down into the plate flow channels I don't own the right tap yet, anyone know what thread pattern that is (threads per inch)?
And to top it all off, around 4-5 days ago I installed a new liquid filled fuel pressure gauge on my standalone fuel system regulator for troubleshooting.
Today, there's no liquid left in the gauge, it sprayed out all over the radiator support and airlid. The gauge doesn't look bent or anything. I guess it must have come in contact with the hood or something, I don't know
Anybody have some spare Killians Red, I could really use one right now...
I ordered a new plate jet. When it showed up, it was smaller than the one that came out and wouldn't fit. So I ordered another (set) from the manufacturer of the plate. Got it installed today, went to put the jet in, and the point where you put the jet was too small! So I take it back out and drill the fitting out deep enough to install the jet. While doing so I notice that the threads are looking kind of galled up. Aluminum's soft so it's easy to do. I try very gently to reinstall the fitting, but with just a little pressure on the wrench, it screws up the threads in the plate, and on the fitting! Now I gotta pull the plate out so I can chase the threads and make sure I don't get any shavings down into the plate flow channels
I don't own the right tap yet, anyone know what thread pattern that is (threads per inch)? And to top it all off, around 4-5 days ago I installed a new liquid filled fuel pressure gauge on my standalone fuel system regulator for troubleshooting.
Today, there's no liquid left in the gauge, it sprayed out all over the radiator support and airlid. The gauge doesn't look bent or anything. I guess it must have come in contact with the hood or something, I don't know
Anybody have some spare Killians Red, I could really use one right now...
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Verdad Gallardo Man this ordeal is starting to kick my @$$. Ever have those days where every thing you try to fix breaks the thing next to it...
I ordered a new plate jet. When it showed up, it was smaller than the one that came out and wouldn't fit. So I ordered another (set) from the manufacturer of the plate. Got it installed today, went to put the jet in, and the point where you put the jet was too small! So I take it back out and drill the fitting out deep enough to install the jet. While doing so I notice that the threads are looking kind of galled up. Aluminum's soft so it's easy to do. I try very gently to reinstall the fitting, but with just a little pressure on the wrench, it screws up the threads in the plate, and on the fitting! Now I gotta pull the plate out so I can chase the threads and make sure I don't get any shavings down into the plate flow channels I don't own the right tap yet, anyone know what thread pattern that is (threads per inch)?
And to top it all off, around 4-5 days ago I installed a new liquid filled fuel pressure gauge on my standalone fuel system regulator for troubleshooting.
Today, there's no liquid left in the gauge, it sprayed out all over the radiator support and airlid. The gauge doesn't look bent or anything. I guess it must have come in contact with the hood or something, I don't know
Anybody have some spare Killians Red, I could really use one right now...
I ordered a new plate jet. When it showed up, it was smaller than the one that came out and wouldn't fit. So I ordered another (set) from the manufacturer of the plate. Got it installed today, went to put the jet in, and the point where you put the jet was too small! So I take it back out and drill the fitting out deep enough to install the jet. While doing so I notice that the threads are looking kind of galled up. Aluminum's soft so it's easy to do. I try very gently to reinstall the fitting, but with just a little pressure on the wrench, it screws up the threads in the plate, and on the fitting! Now I gotta pull the plate out so I can chase the threads and make sure I don't get any shavings down into the plate flow channels
I don't own the right tap yet, anyone know what thread pattern that is (threads per inch)? And to top it all off, around 4-5 days ago I installed a new liquid filled fuel pressure gauge on my standalone fuel system regulator for troubleshooting.
Today, there's no liquid left in the gauge, it sprayed out all over the radiator support and airlid. The gauge doesn't look bent or anything. I guess it must have come in contact with the hood or something, I don't know
Anybody have some spare Killians Red, I could really use one right now...
The liquid from the gauge could be do to the gauge getting to hot and over pressuring. We have been seeing alont of that out of the liquid filled gauges these days. That is why our new gauges we are about to release are no longer liquid filled.
Dave
Yeah, it's understandable. As far as the liquid sprayed, it looked like a catastrophic failure. Those liquid filled NOS n20 gauges I had blew too, but with the windows up in a black car in the summer, you know how hot it can get. I'm avoiding liquid filled gauges in the future at all costs.
That plate fitting is definately 1/8" NPT, it's the same size/thread pattern as the 1/8 plugs in bottle ports. You know what they say about assuming.
I actually wouldn't feel bad if I broke something at the track, but I'm breaking stuff parked in the garage without even getting to beat on it lol
That plate fitting is definately 1/8" NPT, it's the same size/thread pattern as the 1/8 plugs in bottle ports. You know what they say about assuming.
I actually wouldn't feel bad if I broke something at the track, but I'm breaking stuff parked in the garage without even getting to beat on it lol