Cheffy
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| posted on 23/6/09 at 07:50 PM |
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Bias Bar alternative for IVA
Evening all,
Following on from big_wasa's recent post here:- Linky
(but not wanting to hi-jack his post  ) what's everybody else doing about replacing the bias bar for IVA?
I haven't got access to milling equipment and just wondered if there was another way round it?
Or is everybody just using a normal bias bar and welding it up?
Mart.
Farts are like Rock'n'Roll. You love your own but you hate everybody else's. Lemmy, Motorhead.
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cd.thomson
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| posted on 23/6/09 at 09:22 PM |
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on speaking to the manufacturer of my kit (dax) who still provide a pedal box with bias bar the current accepted solution is to weld the top of the
securing nut and a significant proportion of the thread.
Craig
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big_wasa
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| posted on 23/6/09 at 09:24 PM |
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what pedal box is it ?
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cd.thomson
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| posted on 23/6/09 at 09:26 PM |
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the dax one?
Craig
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Cheffy
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| posted on 23/6/09 at 09:53 PM |
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I'm using the OBP one. Just seemed a bit of a waste to weld up a perfectly good balance bar worth (IIRC) around £25 if there was a
cheaper/easier option and then fit the bias bar post IVA if necessary.
Mart.
Farts are like Rock'n'Roll. You love your own but you hate everybody else's. Lemmy, Motorhead.
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CaptainJosh
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| posted on 24/6/09 at 08:04 AM |
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If you've got a lathe, machine up a none threaded alternative to the bar, taking measurements from your original adjustable setup.
Then simple swap over when you need to.
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Cheffy
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| posted on 24/6/09 at 09:46 AM |
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quote:
Originally posted by CaptainJosh
If you've got a lathe, machine up a none threaded alternative to the bar, taking measurements from your original adjustable setup.
Then simple swap over when you need to.
Yea, I think that's what it's going to have to be. No lathe hence looking for alternatives, but I've got a very good small
engineering company locally who are very good at doing little one off jobs so might pop over and see them.
Thanks for the replies chaps,
Mart.
[Edited on 24/6/09 by Cheffy]
Farts are like Rock'n'Roll. You love your own but you hate everybody else's. Lemmy, Motorhead.
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Richard Quinn
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| posted on 24/6/09 at 10:38 AM |
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Weld it up and swap it out after. I've just bought another for mine as I wasn't too happy about having the "SVA one" drilled
to take a roll pin. Just seems to be an uneccessary weakening of a critical component!
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MikeRJ
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| posted on 24/6/09 at 05:21 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by Richard Quinn
Weld it up and swap it out after. I've just bought another for mine as I wasn't too happy about having the "SVA one" drilled
to take a roll pin. Just seems to be an uneccessary weakening of a critical component!
That would depend on where you are drilling it. A small hole right in the middle of the outer clevis assemblies isn't going to weaken it much,
if at all.
OTOH welding it will certainly introduce some weakness.
[Edited on 24/6/09 by MikeRJ]
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