1960 Austin A35 van revisited

I’ve been looking for a dividing head for the milling machine for about 5 years now. Cannot really justify a £500 price tag for a good secondhand one, that will get used once or twice a year. Been looking at the inlet manifold I wnt to make for the Suzuki engine, and it dawned on me it would be a lot easier if I did have a dividing head.

So , had a look on eBay yesterday. One that looked pretty grubby for silly low money, with three minutes of auction time to run… and best part, 13 miles from work. Cheeky bid of£50 saw me win it. Turns out it was a scrap dealer that didn’t have the heart to scrap it after someone weighed it in along with all the scrap from a deceased estate house / garage clearance

Bit of love with a rag and some wd40 shows it to be in immaculate condition, hardly used.

You have to love it when fate steps in. Kudos to the dealer who didn't dispose of it.

I have no clue what you're on about and what I'm looking at but I'm sure it'll work wonders for you. ;-)

Got busy with the other three wheel holders for the spoolgun

Mainly so I could take the piece of material out as I needed the Cnc mill for something else. That’s all I needed to do on the first side. Will roughly cut them out of the blank on the bandsaw.

So that’s the forged rods to go with the forged pistons and forged crank. Time to find a suitable asthma pump…

Around the 300hp mark from 1300cc. Jury still out ,but Turbo preferable at the moment 

Not what you would normally associate with an Austin van, but hey,it’s going to be a tough little truck/ van 🤣🤣

Not sure if that’s a good sign 🤣. My lasercutter often puts in extra bits if they think the quality of one of the parts isn’t good enough. Only ordered one blank to dry deck the block, had two supplied. Hopefully it doesn’t mean I will need another block shortly 🤣🤣

It’s a big snail for a dinky engine 🤣