castor rods

[jay70]

Car - e7/ae86

motor -

use -

problem - hey lads just a quick question, is it possible to get more thread tapped onto stock castor rods? and where should i go to get it done?

cheers

[takai]

Fairly easy, cheapest way is to probably just go out and buy a decent quality die of the correct size and go to town.
Might be 40-50 for the die though.
But then you can sell your services to your mates.

[Jonny Rochester]

I have this die and die holder, and put heaps of thread on when I had a KE55/TE37. On an AE86 I don't find as much need for extra thread.

Unless you get the most expensive die, it will still take a fair bit of effort to cut the thread. You obviously have to have the rod out of the car, and clamped in the vice. When cutting external threads, I almost always end up cutting the thread in the lathe. You have to set the lathe up with correct gears, and use a 60 degree tool. Then once the thread is mostly done, the die is just used to clean it up, and the die is not loaded up too much.

[bigm]

mate if your on the gold coast i can give you details of the place that did mine. cost me 40-50 i think.. as much as you need cut in
in arundel.

but yes you can, i did.

[jay70]

cheers man but yeah i dropped mine off at an engineers today