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General Discussion / Re: transporting a wide guage

« on: January 05, 2012, 07:20:54 am »

Brian,
Here's some information on a steel body with a 251 motor.

Weight................................. 4300 lbs.
Overall length........................ 17' 8"
Width................................... 78"
Height.................................. 79"

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General Discussion / Re: BOMBARDIER RIDES AT TRAPPERS FESTIVAL THE PAS MB

« on: February 17, 2011, 08:54:13 pm »

Come on Kyle, fire up that luxury machine you bought last year and take it down some of those "turkey trails" you know. Just a few of those frozen willows won't hurt. At least not after the first one. Come on, it's for the kids. lol

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Trail Talk / Re: 2011 St. Raymond Bombardier Rally

« on: February 16, 2011, 04:57:59 pm »

Hats off to Oldsledz for taking time to take some pictures and having OT post them for the rest of us to enjoy. Nice to see they had a good turnout, there are sure some nice machines. Hopefuly there will be someone else who attended and we'll have more photos to see. 53 machines.....thats a good turnout.

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Metal Bombardiers / Re: KYLE"S 54 REBUILD

« on: February 12, 2011, 09:19:49 pm »

Well Kyle, it's plain to see what you've been spending your time at this winter. Now I understand why I haven't seen you out wheeling n' dealing on bombers this past few months. lol
You are going to have one fine machine when you are done. Sounds like you are going over it and sparing no shortcuts in her rebuild. Good work and also good job on getting Claude post your progress; otherwise he'd probably get himself into some sort of trouble.
Keep it up there Kyle.

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Metal Bombardiers / Re: Mike's 57 Rebuild

« on: February 12, 2011, 09:07:19 pm »

She's looking great there Mike. Nice job in the motor cubby, looks good with the checker plating. The only suggestion that I would have is to keep the garage door locked to keep Claude out. lol

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Metal Bombardiers / Re: JEFF'S 69 REBUILD !!

« on: February 12, 2011, 08:59:15 pm »

Well Jeff, you are doing a 100% great job. My hats off to you and guys like you that can handle a welder and repair old and fabricate new modifications like you do. Your machine will pop to life once you start the paint flying and adding the glass and rub rail. Keep up the good work and I am looking forward to seeing her through to the finnish line.

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Wooden Bombardiers / Re: Grfishmaker's '47 rebuild

« on: January 09, 2011, 08:30:23 pm »

OT, talk about timing. Just today I took the narrow out of the shealter for the first time this winter. Pretty bad I know, it's January 9th.
I never did the brakes yet (just no time). Due to family reasons, the bombardiers took a back seat to everything this fall. So now as things are slowing down I plan on getting back to the remainder of the work to be done.
Nice to see you are still cracking the whip though.

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Wooden Bombardiers / Re: first talk

« on: January 09, 2011, 08:24:36 pm »

Hello Rattleman and welcome to the NT site. I believe that you are only the second member to join the NT site from Quebec and I look forward to talking with you and sharing any information.
 You say that you have full length slidders on your B-12. Last year when I first saw a picture of this system used on some machines in Quebec, I was very interested in how they work and the advantages and disadvantages that are experienced with this system. I am curious about this setup and I notice that there are a few different styles of slidders used out there. When I tried finding information about these machines from Quebec, I had a hard time due to my inability to speak French. You rattleman certainly don't have to apologize about your writing in English as it is fine.
 If you could, I am sure there are many other members that would like to hear more about the slidders that you use and how they are installed. As they say, "a picture is worth a thousand words". If you are not able to, I will offer to post any pictures for you.

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General Discussion / Re: It just may be one....Dawg !!!!

« on: September 29, 2010, 07:50:41 pm »

OT - Are you sure you newfies aren't using these machines for submarines? Wow, I've never seen a body rust away like that. Over the past year or so, I've noticed that alot of the machines that you have posted have rust problems. I remember wondering if it was from the coastal air. So from now on I will play it safe with my machine and stay this side of the Ontario border.

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V6 or Straight 6 Engines / Re: engine temp

« on: May 10, 2010, 07:54:59 pm »

Fisher - Have you ever seen bombardiers that have electric fans mounted on the motor doors to help expell the hot air? With this setup you can at lest leave your motor doors shut to help stop the swirling snow entering the cubby.

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V6 or Straight 6 Engines / Re: engine temp

« on: May 09, 2010, 08:25:25 am »

I've heard that somewhere before (about reversing the air flow). Is there some other type of machines machines out there that do that? I know that the faster you get the hot air to exit the engine cubby the cooler your temperature will be. Most people simpy tie the motor doors open, but electric fans on the motor doors does the same trick at the flick of a switch and you can quickly turn them off and on as needed.
I see the Hydro has always installed electric exhaust fans on all of its engine doors of their bombers.

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V6 or Straight 6 Engines / Re: engine temp

« on: May 08, 2010, 07:06:20 pm »

Ok there Mr. OT, I'm going to think like an Eastener. The excess heat is being blown off by the fans through the heaters rad. Or am I misuderstanding your question.
I don't know about reversing the air flow through the rad. How does blowing hot air through a hot rad cool the motor. I would think that sucking minus temperature air through a hot rad would be more efficient than what you are suggesting. That is why a exhaust fan on the motor doors works so well; as you are simply getting rid of the hot air as the rad fan sucks in more cold air. There, now I'm getting confused.

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V6 or Straight 6 Engines / Re: engine temp

« on: May 08, 2010, 04:54:22 pm »

I also have a large school bus heater in the front of my machine. So if I turn on all three fans on the heater, you can see the temperature on the gauge drop if you have them all turned on.

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V6 or Straight 6 Engines / Re: engine temp

« on: May 07, 2010, 06:51:45 pm »

   Grfishmaker when your ford engine reaches 200 degrees does the fan cut in automatically do you have it mounted direct to the pulley ??               
                                                                                              OT.

My fan is run direct off the pulley. I was told by someone last year to stay away from the clutch fans. This past winter I installed a new carburator, new maifold, new water pump, stainless steel thermostat and a five blade fan. After I did all this, the snow melted and never got to put her to work. One thing for sure, I now have motor fumes in the cab (never had this problem with the old four blade) and will have to block off the tunnel next fall. So for sure, there is no comparing the air movement with this fan. Now as soon as you open the motor door, the air movement is very noticable.

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Wooden Bombardiers / Re: OT'S 47-51 ??? Rebuild ??

« on: April 28, 2010, 07:18:59 pm »

OT, can't you just cut off some of the pipe on the rad so that you can just use a 90 degree rubber rad hose to tie them together. Or am I maybe missing what you are asking.