G'day Troy, I bought a Lincoln 175 HD, it's on the same site as the one you're looking at, don't know what the one you're looking at is like, but the one I got is an excellent machine. I'm a panel beater by trade & this machine does everything I could ever want it to :D hope this may be of some help ...
Ken, I know little about this, but the photo of your pump looks like what I had to do to a cj3 pump, I couldn't find a kit for it over here so I machined out the housing to fit a ceramic seal kit out of a pool pump, I also had to machine the inside edge of the impeler. And what I put into the cj ...
Yeh, I agree, the centre spoke points down. I was always taught from when I first started in the smash repair business on a three spoke wheel one points straight down, & one is at 10 o'clock & the other at 2 o'clock. The driver grips the wheel above the top two spokes, This gives the driver better ...
G'day Ken, I dont know, but the one on the top right looks like some sort of what we here in west aus call a cicada or a cricket, (a bit different spieces than we get here though) 8O The one on the top right looks like an ant lion. I'm probably completly wrong but thats what they look like to me ...
Hey Thomas you've done a great job there mate, it's a credit to you,
I know what you mean about wishing you'd taken more photos, I do that every time, just to keen to get into it! Anyway be proud mate you did that.
Cheers Ray (BEAR)
WELL ALL I CAN SAY IS "GOOD ON HIM" THATS GREAT I JUST WISH ICOULD BE HALF THAT GOOD AT HIS AGE. FRANK IS A LEGEND.
THANKS FOR TELLING US ABOUT IT. RAY