P.S. I believe there's a mob in Brisbane near Sandgate/Zillmere that do head gaskets also, via CNC.
Thanks for the contacts, though, I appreciate that.
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- Mon Sep 26, 2011 1:38 pm
- Forum: Dozers
- Topic: Fiat 50 c crawler info
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- Mon Sep 26, 2011 1:36 pm
- Forum: Dozers
- Topic: Fiat 50 c crawler info
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Re: Fiat 50 c crawler info
Thank you once again, Deas. The broken head bolts all have a bit of their steel poking up- none are in a hole as it were, but all are way down the bottom of the water jacket part of the ' engine block. Access is pitiful. The cylinders are a kind-of cast sleeve which sits on the bottom. If we could e...
- Mon Sep 26, 2011 9:58 am
- Forum: Dozers
- Topic: Fiat 50 c crawler info
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Re: Fiat 50 c crawler info
P.S. four head bolts have broken off down 'inside'...
They tried welding a nut to one, but it was too close to the edge, or to the sylinder sleeve (I haven't checked) to get a socket over it.
They tried welding a nut to one, but it was too close to the edge, or to the sylinder sleeve (I haven't checked) to get a socket over it.
- Mon Sep 26, 2011 9:48 am
- Forum: Dozers
- Topic: Fiat 50 c crawler info
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Re: Fiat 50 c crawler info
Thanks for the extra help. Nick has the pistons out-there are two broken oil rings, and one broken compression rings across the four pistons. The vrankshaft is still on/in, at the moment. The engine/block is off the crawler now, and standing up on a pallet, sitting on the flywheel end. We're trying ...
- Tue Aug 02, 2011 2:34 pm
- Forum: Dozers
- Topic: Fiat 50 c crawler info
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Re: Fiat 50 c crawler info
Thanks, I'll do that.
- Tue Aug 02, 2011 11:48 am
- Forum: Dozers
- Topic: Fiat 50 c crawler info
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Re: Fiat 50 c crawler info
Thanks, Jeremy - but these particular ones have thread at BOTH ends, and no head. The bottom end is a M16, 2mm pitch thread, which goes into the bottom of the block, and the top end is an M14, 2mm pitch, onto which the brass 'acorn' nut is done up. They look like they were turned on a lathe, actuall...
- Tue Aug 02, 2011 9:17 am
- Forum: Dozers
- Topic: Fiat 50 c crawler info
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Re: Fiat 50 c crawler info
Interesting day... The fellow from South Burnett Machinery, the gurus for Fiat parts rang back to say he'd called all over Australia, and there just aren't any parts available that we'd like in the head bolt & head gasket department - in fact no one had parts that would suit it. Nick managed to ...
- Mon Aug 01, 2011 11:36 pm
- Forum: Dozers
- Topic: Fiat 50 c crawler info
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Re: Fiat 50 c crawler info
Thanks, Deas. We appreciate the comments. What is special about using a spring washer, rather than a plain mild steel washer, in this case, for the welding up to attach a nut? At the moment, the broken studs have WD40 soaking over them & some of the muck has been vacuumed out, but we can try ace...
- Sun Jul 31, 2011 5:51 am
- Forum: Dozers
- Topic: Fiat 50 c crawler info
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Re: Fiat 50 c crawler info
These pictures are looking down on top of the remnants of the broken head bolts This is the one to the right of cylinder #1, as seen topside: http://www.classicmachinery.net/forum/images/post_img/8369161284e80302dde49d.JPG URL of the original image: http://www.aussieheavyhorses.com/ASSETS/Fiat-50L-5...
- Sun Jul 31, 2011 4:45 am
- Forum: Dozers
- Topic: Fiat 50 c crawler info
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Re: Fiat 50 c crawler info
I'll upload a few more pictures, from underneath, in a little while.
Any and all opinions greatly appreciated!
Any and all opinions greatly appreciated!