{"id":652,"date":"2012-01-13T17:00:59","date_gmt":"2012-01-13T17:00:59","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2017-12-11T16:25:50","modified_gmt":"2017-12-11T16:25:50","slug":"worked-on-baffle-connecting-rod","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/2012\/01\/13\/worked-on-baffle-connecting-rod\/","title":{"rendered":"Worked on Baffle Connecting Rods"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The bottom of the baffles need to be tied together to keep them tight against the cylinder fins. \u00a0You can either do this by using safety wire through some washers (to keep the safety wire from sawing through the aluminum baffles) and a piece of plastic tubing (to keep the safety wire from sawing through the cylinder head oil return lines. \u00a0I&#8217;m sure this works fine, but it seems pretty cheesy. \u00a0The other suggested approach is to use some stainless steel rod, bent to clear the cylinder head oil return lines and threaded for 6-32 nuts on each end. \u00a0I got started by fabricating the left outboard connecting rod. \u00a0This needed to be a little longer than the plans specified, and the angle of the bends at each end differs from the plans to make the threaded ends sit perpendicular to the baffle flanges. \u00a0I installed the optional plastic tubing to ensure that there would be no abrasion if this contacted the oil return line. \u00a0I tried threading the end, but the shitty Harbor Freight tap and die set I have is really junk. \u00a0I basically stripped the threads on the 6-32 die. \u00a0This junk is okay for creating threads on aluminum, but I need a decent tap and die set to do stainless steel.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/rv7pictures\/Originals\/20120113\/IMG_0162.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/IMG_0162.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The bottom of the baffles need to be tied together to keep them tight against the cylinder fins. \u00a0You can either do this by using safety wire through some washers (to keep the safety wire from sawing through the aluminum baffles) and a piece of plastic tubing (to keep the safety wire from sawing through &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/2012\/01\/13\/worked-on-baffle-connecting-rod\/\" class=\"excerpt-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-firewall-forward"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=652"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3332,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652\/revisions\/3332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}