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Ok, now
for today’s update on progress and we did make progress!
Tom went
through the pile of boxes that has been growing by the garage door
and organized the parts that have been arriving to be bolted on to
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Don
Goodman and Tom Deyle stopped by to lend a hand and brought some
good luck along with them.
Don
removed the tape that has covered the intake for over a year,
cleaned the surface and bolted on the carburetor.
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Tom bolted the starter back in
(the shims from Jegs has not arrived yet so the starter will have to
come out again) and put the rod catcher pan back on. The pan
requires no modification. It fits like a glove around the starter. |
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Both Tom and Don collaborated and installed
the transmission dip stick. |
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I started blowing out the fuel lines. This
meant removing all the fittings. I doped up all the treads of the
fittings that screw into the fuel filter, fuel pump, and fuel
regulator. This caused another problem in that with the Teflon pipe
dope on the treads lubricated the treads which caused the fittings
to screw deeper into the fuel filter, fuel pump, and fuel regulator.
When I went to put the lines back in place they were short by a ¼
inch. I was able to fix this by carefully straightening out some of
the bends in the pipes gaining back the ¼ inch needed to make the
lines fit snugly. |
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All the wiring that had been threaded through
the chassis has been pulled back out, as we are now going to run the
wiring down the right side of the dragster. |
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The new battery has been set in place (up to
this time we have been using the battery out of the trailer to mock
things in place |
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I spent
most of the rest of the day running for parts.
I picked
up the hoses and clamps needed to put the coolant system together
and I think that will be one of the projects for the Official
gathering of the car nuts this Saturday at 9:00 AM.
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blower engine may be hard blocked tomorrow (that is a whole other
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