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We had a great turn out of the Car Nuts this
week. We had two meetings this week. Even with that I did not make
opening day. The car is close, but I will be gone all next week so
there will be not progress to report, unless the little elves come
an finish the car while I am gone.
The weather was nice and it was a little difficult to get the worker
bees to come in and work
Don Goodman, George Nick,
Vince Falco, Frank Serafine, and Tom Deyle.
We got the rear end sealed up and oil added,
Radiator and electric fan installed, Exhaust system build and
installed, Throttle cable routed so as not to bend the cable,
shifter installed, started the engine. |
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Don Goodman was
our rear end man this week. he pulled the rear axle yet again,
sealed the "C" clip eliminator, installed the emergency brake
hardware for another spare backing plate and put it all back
together. Then added both Limited slip additive and rear end gear
oil. The rear is ready to GO! |
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This only the third time he has taken this
apart and put it back together, and it is not an easy job. The bolts
that hold the "C" clip eliminator are between the backing plate and
the rear spring and you can only get about a 1/4 turn at best at a
time on the bolts. What a pain. |
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Next task is to install the radiator for good,
and attach the electric fan. |
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We had to create new mounts for both the
radiator and the fan as the stock mounts are part of the shroud and
that is long gone. |
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The bolt heads had to be ground down a little
to create clearance for the rubber cushions for the radiator. |
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Next
Vince Falco,
Tom Deyle, and that guy in the red shirt (who doesn't do much and
must only own one shirt) worked on making mounts for the electric
fan |
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Well in order to run this car we need to
install an exhaust system. I certainly do not want to make a lot of
noise and disturb the peace.
Tom Deyle are
coolant man also was the exhaust expert. He was responsible for
building the quit exhaust system
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Tom has asured me that this complicated
exhaust system will be nice and quite. |
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Next on the list was to take some of the bend
out of the throttle cable. This was caused by installing the one
inch spacer under the carburetor. It was decided to create a one
inch spacer under the stock throttle cable mount. |
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Who ever designed the routing of the lower
radiator hose and the coolant lines for the transmission should be
shot. Why would you run the coolant lines so that the run on either
side of the lower radiator hose?
And why would you rout the lower radiator hose so that the bolts
that hold the idler arm rub against it. The solution for the rubbing
was to turn the bolts around. |
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We then went inside and located and bolted the
shifter in place. Now that might seem like a simple thing, but you
have to also wire in the neutral safety switch. The inspectors at
the trace get all upset if you do not have one. |
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The wiring to the dash was completed, and the
dash was bolted in. If you look close at the picture below on the
right side you will note a line of red right below the brake pedale.
This is because the brake master cylinder is leaking from the front
seal and eating the gray paint up. |
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So we had to go back an redo the master. |
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Although the wiring in the das was complete,
we had to finish wiring the rest of the car. Here what you see if
the wiring need to make sure the fuel pump shuts down in case of an
emergency. That switch has three poles, an normally open, and
normally closed and a common. |
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Wiring for the fan and water pump |
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Spark plug wires were just clipped on so we
could START THE ENGINE.
CLICK HERE FOR A SHORT MOVIE ON THAT SUBJECT
(ENGINE STARTING)
Video was done by Tom Deyle |
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Here is Ton Deyle as the detail man, boy he
does it all. That is when he is in New York and not traveling the
world. |
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Here is George Nick doing touch up. |
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What do you think of the recovery bottle. |
