took to the hills today for brake testing, all seemed to work well
with one exception. Wheel bearing oil seals had dried and stiffened causing
unwanted friction/drag. Didn't have the CRC with me to enable correction,
so will roll it out again later today, it could help with the pushing up hill too.
The new sail arrangement is still not ready, coming soon May need
small wear pads on underside of driving platform as it catches when one does
wheely, makes disconcerting scraping noise on contact with bitumen

series two updated to motor cycle wheels with a drum
brake to the rear wheels, was a great improvement,
but not the best result, so to the present up grade

spot on Hiko, I have a heap of stuff sitting waiting to be installed,
however it needs to be in sequence, waiting on my sail, waiting,
waiting, waiting, now mixed by the draw down of xmas cash which
will put things back again, i can see the finish of this rebuild. But
not the end of experimentation.
It seems to me that to gain credence in this forum I will have to build my interpretation of the LLM. That is the yardstick for homeapathick builders
I have been watching closely the progression of all, in a nice way.
Believe you me i have some very interesting and radical thoughts and I
ask the question............why not?????

Every now and again a little bit of forgotten magic reappears,

like this one prepared earlier, August 2002



Australian 4WD monthly Awards Edition Nov 2002

Half way between Wentworth and Pooncarie, 1st time out

Joe
So good to see you having fun with it. Can't wait to see you out and about (on the national news???)
I myself have just disassembled my mini and painted it today. As many have said the end of the project is not coming yet, just the start of actually using it. Then rebuild, then modify, then tweak..... repeat.
All part fo the fun!
Brett

A small problem of/with rolling resistance [poor design by me]



In early trials I found some rolling resistance, upon checking I found that

the oil seal on the stubb axles had cut a relief in the ID of the seal where it

runs. So carefully I cut /eased the seal out and went back out on the test track

there was some improvement, but still some resistance so had to do some

more testing.

If as with a bike front wheel when held off the ground, and given a spin

it seems to roll forever and i would have to class that as 9.5/10

As in the photo you can see where the oil seal has been running, on a

metal spacer that is attached to form the wheel track width, it is fixed to

the axle with a compression pin. However the OD has never been trued

in a lathe.

So I summarize that by running it in a lathe and trimming/truing it up a

micky whisker i should increase the rolling performance to about 85-90o/o

or make it an 8.5-9.5 effective. I have had a go with a file on the one in the

background, but a lathe would give best results

thanks for that Hiko,,,a rough drawing would be good

think you be correct about the sail, I know he as Luke

A good comment about the grease. mine is fairly heavy.

hopefully it comes into it;s own with increase in temp.

I have roller caged ball bearings running on inside,

and tapered roller on outside ....cheers

A overseas tourist bloke I met on the road a couple of years ago nth of

Quorn, tracked me down in this forum today and sent this old photi in




edit....large green bottle is eco fly trap ...a must for outdoor enjoyment

.....they are a bit smelly thou....very effective

Good news for me, managed to get my trailer today,so will be at Pt Gawler

Easter Saturday for a bit of a tryout and general muck about. Anyone who

wants a looksee is welcome, wont be hard too find......joe

Not great news Jo, but as you know (and demonstrate) the journey is what matters most. Thanks for keeping us in the loop, hope your one step closer to getting out on the open road mate