I want to make a new post for my mailbox. I'm sure one of you has a random crankshaft or something else awesome laying around. I will send you money if you ship it to me.
I want to make a new post for my mailbox. I'm sure one of you has a random crankshaft or something else awesome laying around. I will send you money if you ship it to me.
I have a straight 6 laying around. Let me check tonight once home.
Its quite heavy though.
I have it here at work. Its the one on the left.
PM me your address and I will see what it costs to ship.
Pm sent
Just replied to your PM.
Holy crap, its 55lbs!
Damn, and I was just about to say I have a crank for an AMC 199 I6 in the garage that I have zero need for.
In reply to hhaase:
My shipping quote came in at $56!! Its going to be difficult unless its local.
Evan, if this doesn't pan out, I can get you a flywheel and a couple NFG eccentric shafts. That would be probably tall enough to make a mailbox post. I'm not sure how you'd secure it to the ground, but I don't know how you'd secure a crankshaft either so I figure you know what you're doing there.
If this post was made a couple months ago, I coulda got you a free 5 cylinder crank.
Go to any local machine shop or performance engine builder and they will have something laying around that you can more than likely pick up for a few bucks(scrap value). A junkyard or scrap yard will have junk(partially disassembled/stripped/seized/open to the elements) motors everywhere that you can probably disassemble to grab the crank.
In reply to Knurled:
The current post is sunk into concrete. I was thinking of cutting it down to a few inches tall and using lag screws into the wood post. Or grind the concrete flat and use concrete screws.
In reply to lotusseven7:
I have realized that local is probably better. I misjudged what shipping a crank would cost.
Group trip to the Pick n Pull.
FWIW, Straight 6 crank shafts are perfect for grinder stands. This is mine.
I know it's probably too short, being from a v8, but I have a 3uzfe crank you're welcome to have. Came from the hydrolocked parts motor I bought off CL and I've been too nervous about its condition to try to sell it.
In reply to dculberson:
Yea that might be a bit short, although if I could source another from a v8 it could work doubled up.
The eccentric shafts might be a good plan.
EvanB wrote: I want to make a new post for my mailbox....
I like the idea! Can you find two of anything closer/cheaper and weld them together?
Andy (my co driver in the beretta) i believe has a 258 amc crank or two sitting around. I will check, if he wants to get rid of one we could bring it along to the next rallycross we attend. Ill let you know.
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