Wheelie bars, weight brackets, custom bull gears, hubs, brake rotors, axle shafts, light weight WC centers, aluminum transmission cover, Porsche rack and pinion aluminum front end including wheels, all made complete in house Pankey, including broaching, gear cutting, and heat treating, please keep in mind that this stuff is sideline work, not our main stream business, but I'm not going there because this is a tractor forum, not about race cars, chainsaws, minibikes, tonka trucks, or anything else you care to brag about. I really don't need to defend my position to a Clown like you, but here is a fair sample of my work, and from this point on, I'm done responding to your 3rd grade behavior.

As for the Oliver real shops do work for others gesh! Not to worry Plink as you dont need to make a living welding, or figuring out simple things like the Oliver picture as the royalties from your Gleason cloaking devise should allow you to live high on the hog. 

Yessir you can weld Alum with a correctly set up MIG, where did you see me say ya couldn't? LOL.  Point is/was the welds are clearly TIG, and the site's self proclaimed smartest person doesn't know the difference.

  

O yea nice parts

You may be right Ken, NOS? But he did post a picture of a car fender he painted, wonder if he wore a mask? ISO will cause brain fade.  Around here every  1 stop light town has a shop that paints fenders, sometimes two or three.

All in all I think Marty has had it right on his sig line since way back.

AND where is the Gleason??

Whoa! Something else for Plinky to Google and play expert, Key word "water jet machine" Be careful Plink that you don't come up with soda fountain equipment! that could be embarrassing if you posted about making a rootbeer float.  I don't blame ya for being totally jealous of Ken's work Plink but somes got it some dont.

 But I think he is more like a Parrot than a comedian. 

 

Ken also asked another question and so have I

What is that supposed to mean? Speak english! I want to know where YOUR Gleason is, The one YOU own and YOU operate.

 

I've logged a few thousand hours of helmet time and can just about tell you what machine Ken was useing.....nice design and fabrication work on the parts.  It makes a difference when a professional builds things, the ameturers and apprentices really show their jealousy.

 

Ken issued the challenge to have pics by monday.  All weekend to grind and shine plinko and you have avoided Ken's challenge.  So I've decided to help my simple minded southern buddy meet Ken's demands.

 

Straight from plinko's shop, to your computer screen

 

 

 

 

Though we've seen this pic before it illustrates what some feel is proper welding technique.  Others feel it's "been victamized by a low flying flock of geese"

 

 

 

 

 

 

 You need to get control of your bowels Plinky. Ken has posted great quality machine and fab work while we have memories of your wheelie bars that look to have been chewed out by an alligator and chit on by a chicken to hold them together. Then the same (or another?) chicken dropped a load on your front pulley and you werent even ashamed to post a picture of it, was all that prior to your new found education?  Just a question. 

Edit, Marty posted some pics while I was typen. Too bad we dont have a close up of that mounting Marty, LOL Of course it is hard to have good control of the weld bead when you cables are 2/3 chopped in two, LOL.

Which machine was it you used to make your lightweight WD wheel centers? Ken has posted that he used his CNC water jet table to build his. I posted that I guessed that you used a broad axe to make yours but you never responded. Could you take a close up of those for us and explain?

 Picture of John's machine was to show I am honest, and a joke,,,but then again I never claimed to own a Gleason,, you did,, where is it?  

So when you showed up at the pulls with Rice and Cane tires on your tractor that was prior to your 3rd hook I take it?

Ken, Spose plink would cough and spit when he seen you shove the shifter all the way to the right and pull down??? LOL

Good grief slow down, take a deep breath and wipe the tears out of your eyes and the slobber off your mouth. Your like a toddler who just got told to put the cookies back in the cupboard as supper is in the oven.  Wheneveryougetallworkedupthewordsallruntogetherlikethis.

 The reason your hitch is not allowed is if it breaks loose at the bottom the adjusting link then becomes the pulling point and being above the center of the rear tires, or axle as they say it, this means instant back flip before the cutoff cable can work or you can get off the throttle.  This is why NATPA and a whole host of other pulling organisations require the adjusting devise to be located BELOW the axle centerline. 

What this has to do with somebody who has water in the oil you need to further explain as you lost me somewhere?

Where is the Gleason?.

You forgot about the liars,, where is the Gleason??

That I believe.

You right for once Plinky, Its all laid out here over the years for all to see and critique. 

"You can fool a few people part of the time but you cant fool all of the people all of the time"

unknown

You have been judged  F.O.S.,,,entertainment value only,,

Where is the Gleason??

 

 

I knew there was no way stock main caps were going to stay on a block any length of time with a non weighted crank whipping around at high RPM. 

 

I was pretty tight with the $$$ so I used a lot of what was laying around and free.  Case oil pump with an Allis cam gear, pickup screen from a broken John Deere pump, GM HEI ignition.  Oil filter base and regulater from the dumpster off a burned John Deere engine.  Fluid dampner from a small block GM fit to the nose of a Leroi crank.  Our rules at the time dictated that I couldn't use a later D-17 type block so I used a W201 block and welded the sleeves top and bottom to keep the deck intact for any of the "outlaw" stuff where a guy could shoot a dose of NOS at it.

 

 

I scrapped out a rear axil and used the spindles from a IH combine and built a wide front.

The block is filled, but I run some water in the cylinder head.  There's 4 tubes threaded in by the exhaust ports and water fed in front and rear of head.  I cut holes in the head where I could blast clean around the intake port and intake valve bowls and filled those areas and cut in a new larger port with a long radius rather than that sharp T shaped port and I built dividers in the intake to cancel out the overlap signals.

 

Built a twin disc clutch setup and a steel flywheel.  A few times the engine would rev to about 6500 RPM mid track.  Kept a dumb farm kid busy for a while and still makes a jealous old man out of plink0.

 

I'll post a few pictures of last winters work building a light super stock when I get more time.