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Matthew Balkwell
Senior Member
Username: matt
Post Number: 55
Registered: 04-2006
| | Posted on Friday, July 04, 2008 - 12:44 am: | 
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I know that these things are rare as hens teeth to come across, but does anyone have a spare expansion cover plate?
The one from our P55MRE restoration project is that blocked with rust and this black rock hard substance, that i think it is unrepairable, some cast iron has already broken away from the bottom of the plate and more looks likely to follow.
I hope someone can help.
Matt and Ron. |
David Myers
Advanced Member
Username: dave_myers
Post Number: 43
Registered: 11-2006
| | Posted on Friday, July 04, 2008 - 01:05 am: |
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G'Day Matt & Ron,
Give Jim at Diablo Motors a ring. He bought all of Tims spares for the Stuarts. He has heaps of parts.
His workshop is at......
212 Haldon Street
Lakemba (in Sydney)
Phone: 97591328
Cheers,
Dave Myers
Lake Macquarie |
Roger DiRuscio
Senior Member
Username: solarrog
Post Number: 302
Registered: 03-2002
| | Posted on Friday, July 04, 2008 - 01:07 am: |
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can you email a picture, I parted one of these out a couple years ago, and I know there are still some pieces somewhere in the shop |
Matthew Balkwell
Senior Member
Username: matt
Post Number: 56
Registered: 04-2006
| | Posted on Friday, July 04, 2008 - 01:14 am: |
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Dave, it must be the only part that Jim does not have.
Roger here is a pic of the plate |
Roger DiRuscio
Senior Member
Username: solarrog
Post Number: 303
Registered: 03-2002
| | Posted on Friday, July 04, 2008 - 01:24 am: |
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ok, I will look over the week end.
Do not be afraid to remind me, I have alot happening around here compounded by brain damage I think!! |
Todd Vidgen
Senior Member
Username: todd_vidgen
Post Number: 51
Registered: 03-2008
| | Posted on Sunday, July 06, 2008 - 04:46 am: |
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Hi Dave and Matt ,Boyd is selling his Stuart because
I'm sick of stepping around it to cart parts of
superior motors past it,give him a ring(but call him
Walter>re "The odd couple")I love to see the expression on his grumpy old dial when this happens.
But seriously the man has heart of gold and generosity to match. |
Matthew Balkwell
Senior Member
Username: matt
Post Number: 57
Registered: 04-2006
| | Posted on Sunday, July 06, 2008 - 06:02 am: |
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Todd, the news that another Stuart may be on the market is great , but alas we only need the cover plate to finish our MRE.
My mother and wife are constantly whinging about how much time and money we are spending on our Stuarts and the RubyToo.
My dad and i want to get our latest Stuart up and running and possibly break even on its sale.
I would really like to have another as i have the bug big time, i lie awake in bed at night thinking of fitting my job and family life around our current Stuart restoration.
But on a serious note my youngest daughter Ruby, whom the RubyToo was named after has a genetic disorder called Rett syndrome, Ruby is severely disabled and at the age of five needs a wheel chair more than i need another Stuart.
So, someone must have a expansion cover plate. I have attached a pic of the old man and Ruby in the RUBYTOO.
Regards Matt  |
Roger DiRuscio
Senior Member
Username: solarrog
Post Number: 304
Registered: 03-2002
| | Posted on Sunday, July 06, 2008 - 12:54 pm: |
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I checked my engine parts and do not have the cover plate, I do have a cylinder head, water pump. many nuts and bolts, a core starter generator, flywheel, some gears, chain, and some other bits |
Matthew Balkwell
Senior Member
Username: matt
Post Number: 58
Registered: 04-2006
| | Posted on Monday, July 07, 2008 - 06:46 am: |
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Thanks for having a look Roger, i will continue on with a few leads on spare plates and ideas for repairing the original one.
its just frustrating that a engine such as the P55 is so well engineered except for the cooling system.
Matt and Ron. |
Matthew Balkwell
Senior Member
Username: matt
Post Number: 59
Registered: 04-2006
| | Posted on Thursday, July 10, 2008 - 06:09 am: |
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Last chance everyone, final call for a cover plate, even if it is attached to a engine, any scenario will be considered.
If our search comes to a unhappy conclusion we will probably look at making one from stainlesss, as work on clearing the original is just resulting in chunks of iron breaking off.
Matt and Ron. |
Malcolm Russell Ward
Member
Username: russell
Post Number: 22
Registered: 08-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, July 10, 2008 - 06:25 am: |
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Before you wreck it, can you not use your cover plate as a pattern and get one cast in iron but of lesser thickness. You could then mill out a hollow in it and use your stainless plate as a spacer with mating holes to allow water into the hollow? We do the same sort thing when doing steam engine ports -saves making core patterns. Just a thought. For that matter, you could face off what you have until it exposes the water area and mill that out. (I could explain this better with a pencil and paper) |
Peter Ogborne
Senior Member
Username: peterogborne
Post Number: 266
Registered: 09-2002
| | Posted on Sunday, July 13, 2008 - 07:00 am: |
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Mathew.....I may well be able to help you. Not sure where you are ?
I will have a look tomorrow morning
In case I forget ask me again off list .Got a lot on my plate at the moment ,cleaning up after a 110 KPH winds came through while we were away .Came home to find a shed door had been ripped off and had hit the back of my wifes NEW car!!! |
Matthew Balkwell
Senior Member
Username: matt
Post Number: 61
Registered: 04-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, July 22, 2008 - 05:05 am: |
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Peter, any luck on the p55/66 expansion cover plate.?
Matt and Ron |
Peter Ogborne
Senior Member
Username: peterogborne
Post Number: 268
Registered: 09-2002
| | Posted on Wednesday, July 23, 2008 - 01:01 am: |
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Matt ,I have not given up yet ,still looking >I will net you know the outcome. |
Peter Ogborne
Senior Member
Username: peterogborne
Post Number: 270
Registered: 09-2002
| | Posted on Thursday, July 24, 2008 - 12:19 am: |
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Matt.....I have found it ,in fact found two of them.
I will send an image latter today so as to be sure we are both talking about the same thing.
If it what you want let me know .I will also put in the lathe and clean up the face ,,,I have done this in the past and it ensures a good sealing surface
We had better work out how to get it to you. |
Matthew Balkwell
Senior Member
Username: matt
Post Number: 62
Registered: 04-2006
| | Posted on Thursday, July 24, 2008 - 06:05 am: |
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Peter thats great news, there is a pic of the plate on this thread, i will run to WA if i have to.
Matt and Ron. |
