Clarke CSA20F 20 tonne hydraulic press
AA Performance air-cooled VW long cylinder kit n Speed isn’ t the word that comes to mind when you think of aircooled Volkswagen Beetles. Still, there’ s a huge market for upgraded parts to get the classic VWs to shoot down drag strips faster than their bug shape has any right.
Laser portable endoscope
Clarke CSA20F 20 tonne hydraulic press
AA Performance air-cooled VW long cylinder kit n Speed isn’ t the word that comes to mind when you think of aircooled Volkswagen Beetles. Still, there’ s a huge market for upgraded parts to get the classic VWs to shoot down drag strips faster than their bug shape has any right.
The very modular design of the engine means that some of these go-faster parts make for quite radical changes to the engines. These new cylinder barrels, with a bore of 94mm, are 23.5mm taller than the ones found in a standard 1300cc air-cooled engine and are designed to suit longer 87mm stroke cranks. The new dimensions, up from a 77mm bore and 69mm stroke, result in a capacity of 2276cc. The kit comes with pistons, piston rings, gudgeon pins and clips.
n Sometimes brute force and a hammer won’ t do. Often the sheer power and control of a proper hydraulic press is what you need for a job. Clarke’ s substantial press is really all you’ ll ever need when working on engines, or even car transmissions and suspension. Its 510mmwide, and 1025mm-height at its maximum setting, working space is big enough for most components. The ram’ s travel distance is a decent 189mm and its 20 tonne capacity is plenty strong, too.
Laser portable endoscope
n It might be checking bores down a must-have in any workshop. spark plug hole, peeking at camshafts Laser’ s latest inspection camera through oil fill holes or trying to locate comes with a 1-metre-long semi-rigid that forever-going-missing 10mm probe that is just 3.9mm in diameter socket down a chassis rail. Whatever to get into the tightest of places. At the situation, there are few things the end of the probe are six LEDs and more satisfying than inspecting a a camera with a 70 ° viewing angle. hard-to-get spot on an engine or car The images are fed to a five-inch without having to dismantle anything( 110mm x 65mm) screen with a unnecessarily. An endoscope is a resolution of 1280 x 720 pixels.
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