The 1899 Locomobile Steam Car Replica, known as the Lykamobile is a full scale live steam automobile manufactured in 24 kits. This kit is available from a company called "Steam Traction World" located in Daventry, United Kingdom. Each kit is to be manufactured and sent once a month for 24 months. However for cost considerations I have chosen to have my kits batched and dispatched in larger crates to the United States (Topsail Beach, NC).

Specifications:
• Length 7ft 2.6in • Height 5ft 3in • Width 4ft 7.1in • Weight 904 lbs.• Water Tank Capacity 12 Gallons • Fuel Tank Capacity 7.3 Gallons

Construction:

• CHASSIS Tubular steel fabrication, combination weld, bolted and silver solder.
• STEERING “Ackerman” design tiller steering.
• DIFFERENTIAL & DRIVE Spur gear differential similar to the original Locomobile, drive shaft and bearings.
• WHEELS & TYRES Single tube pneumatic, treaded.
• BREAKING SYSTEM Disc brake system.
• ENGINE 21/4" diameter, 3" stroke modified “Hackworth” valve gear.
• WATER FEED Twin mechanical pump.
• BURNER Fuelled by diesel.
• BOILER Multi Fire Tube, fully constructed and complete with necessary paperwork and inspected by notified body.
• BODYWORK & SEATS Wooden with steel frame, seating capacity of 2 persons, with turned decorative spindles with leather style upholstery.
• Gears: forward and reverse.
• Assemble with hand-tools only
• Step-by-step instructions
• Technical service and help-line backup
• Designed on ‘Solidworks’ CAD
• Manufactured on modern CNC machines for build accuracy and high quality


Sunday, June 10, 2018

Lyka Kit #11 Pedal Ass'y-Brake Lines-Master Cyl. Part 3

The last part of Kit 11 entails the assembly of a pulley system for the parking brake and the mounting of the brake and accelerator pedals. Below is the Steam Traction World isometric drawing showing the two pulleys. The drawing shows the cable that will be attached to a hand operated lever. The cable and lever will be sent in a future kit.
The assembly is pretty straight forward. The Central Pulley Bracket is shown assembled below:
And the Side Pulley Bracket parts:
As you can see below from the test assembly of the parts a little modification is needed due to the bracket weldment interfering with the assembly. The part that holds the small pulley that is bolted to the bracket is at a slight angle.
A little chamfering on the grinding wheel, followed up with some smoothing on the belt sander took care of this issue.
And everything fits just fine -- all of the pulleys rotate freely.


Next was to install the Brake Pedal and Accelerator Pedal. Below is the Isometric Drawing for this assembly.

The assembly was very straight forward. Below are the Pedal Assemblies completed.

Now of course its time to disassemble and paint everything before final assembly.

And one last item for the brake pipe fittings. Included in Kit 11 was a bag of five tube clips. The instructions only mentions the use of one of the clips to secure the brake pipe to the differential surround structural member. So why five clips you may ask? I noticed on the front axle two M6 tapped holes and I inquired to Steam Traction World if these were to be used for fixing the front brake pipes. The answer was affirmative (that takes care of three clips). The extra two clips are just extra.


When's our next kit coming !!!!!
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2 comments:

  1. Grier FleischhauerJune 12, 2018 at 6:33 PM

    Thank You Greg ! I'll look for it tomorrow and make an amendment to my posting.
    Grier

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  2. Grier FleischhauerJune 14, 2018 at 8:07 AM

    As a follow-up, my rear axle does not have another M6 tapped hole for the left rear brake clip. It appears they tapped the hole on the opposite side facing the rear instead of facing forward where the brake lining passes. I will probably tap an M6 hole to use the brake clip and secure the brake line. No big deal.

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