New Update:
Since my last post of progress was back on September 28 things have been moving very slowly for many different reasons. I needed some time alone tonight so I headed out to the shed and left the rest of the world behind me! I am so close to starting this thing up! I am hoping next week is the time! I still have to install an oil filter, then prime the oil pump, install the distributor, hook up cap wires, run a temporary hot wire for the electric fans so they run the entire breakin, add fuel, add trans fluid, crank the switch and off it should go! I plan on using a temporary oil gauge and temp gauge during the breakin. Just a double gauge unit sitting out under the hood for now. I dont have the console in place yet so I guess I will start it without the volt meter hooked up. I also have to put the old exhaust back on for this 25 minute run. Then it comes off so I can install the headers and a custom exhaust system. I think I'll wait to have the top done until the spring sometime. Who needs a top on a convertible anyhow!
Hopefully there will be no leaks, however everything is new including the fuel lines that I changed over to the braided line with A N fittings! Thats probably my biggest worry since I have no way to check that out unless I temporarily find an old 8 PSI electric fuel pump an hook that up to check for leaks. Oh yea, I also have a brand new holley that I have no idea if it will give me any problems. So many things to worry about!
Well once it gets fired up I will need to get moving on the interior which I am hoping EBO has completed his assembly of the how to install an interior CD by then. (No pressure there Ebo!)
I'll let you know if I stay on schedule or get sidetracked in my attempt to get this running next week.
Rodney
|UPDATED|12/8/2011 9:05:47 PM (AZT)|/UPDATED|
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