Technical What are you working on?

Whats your taste in road music Jim?

 

Maybe he could borrow a Boston tape from @Moriarity?

 

whatever's playing on my mp3 player....mostly songs from the 60s-80s that are pretty old sounding, now.

 

Van Halen?

 

See if you can see this
https://www.facebook.com/share/p/JbBrEipmgpVDSDhD/?mibextid=xfxF2i

 

Yeah Phil , Iv'e done some reading on that one. Very cool car.

 

Today was rear axle day. I got the 12 bolt set in place on the new, offset axle saddles. I don’t have anything welded up yet, because I’m waiting to set pinion angle in reference to where the transmission output shaft lands. After this I pulled the Muncie 318? 319? out. Compared to the giant Roadrangers I deal with at work, this 3 speed is downright tiny.

 

My friend Mark did some repairs to the Tempest hood. It was all bent and cracked in the hinge area, this seems to be a common problem on early tempests.

 

Replaced yet another rear wheel bearing in the corvette....

 

A local Tempest that used to race at Niagara Drag Strip in the 60's, ran a crossram sbc, don't remember the trans but had an Olds 9.3 out back.
A friend was able to buy it about 10 yrs ago, got it back to roadworthy status with a sbc/automatic then sold it.

 

I know the guy that owns that now. he has two of em, offered to sell em to me.

 

Selling this.

 

Still waiting on pistons so I polished my Wilcap adaptor for my Muncie that's going on my 303. Drove my fairlane on cruise night last Tuesday and had some chatter on the new clutch so yesterday was the day to adjust it. Drove it in your 60 mile an hour wind and was alot better.

 

Heavy duty cross member in place for 350 chevy , set back is 6 1/2 inches more previous from stock location on subframe ..may have to notch firewall for distributor clearance

 

I am working on finding any place within 100-miles that has 15/16" cup-style core plugs in stock, and if so, more than just one.

Blower build weekend is not progressing as I had intended.

Oops.

 

Been cleaning and painting the frame and floor on my 62 Chevy project which made a huge mess. I rolled her out today and did a deep cleaning of the car and the shop.

 

Painting race trailer interior.

 

I didn’t get much time today to have fun in the shop between Church and Birthday party. But I did the hood off and started on engine removal.

 

I revisited my off center steering wheel AGAIN, couple weeks ago I re-clocked it because it was a little off, figured everything finally settled in place so I put it straight.
I'll be damned if it didn't go back somehow, everything felt fine while driving and steering but it was clocked to the left again.
I went under the car to give everything a once over to make sure nothing was loose, turns out the jam nuts on the drag link were loose letting it lengthen and knock the steering wheel off kilter.
When I straightened everything out underneath I had to move the steering wheel back the same amount I had moved it previously. I can only assume I didn't tighten them because the tie-rod jam nuts were still tight.



Someone took this cool shot yesterday of the J at a fundraiser for my friend's shop that burnt.



After straightening the steering wheel on the Henry J I cleaned all the fiberglass sanding dust from the engine on the 41 and let it run a bit, then put another 5 fresh gallons in it.

 

All I can work on is recuperating from my colon cancer surgery, my 3rd cancer so far and I don't want to battle cancer a 4th time!

 

Get well Dick

 

Take care and good healing, Bud. JW

 

Finished installing the headliner on my 53. First bow style headliner Ive worked with in decades and the first one period I did the full install on by myself. Still trip on how much more complete it makes the interior loo

 

Almost ready to drop in the 350..mechanical fuel pump gonna require a notch in the frame just behind the stock motor mount...want to run mechanical pump... View attachment 6205943 View attachment 6205943 View attachment 6205941 View attachment 6205941 View attachment 6205941 View attachment 6205941

 

We are sending you prayers for a complete recovery Dick. Cancer is an evil thing, Laura & I are dealing with (& going to BEAT her) stage 4 every day. Stay positive & think about cars!

God Bless
Bill
https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum...ar-transport-hauling-open-or-enclosed.614419/

 

I hope I'm done working on the car, because we leave tomorrow morning. All packed....even fit in her chair, since she'll be sitting around a lot waiting for me to race.

 

Smart man, packing her chair. Have fun!

 

I only had an hour after work today, so not much got done. The engine is ready to pull, I just have to remove the bolts from the front motor mount. It is so therapeutic to come home and work on something so delightfully uncluttered. Especially after putting the injectors and high pressure fuel pump off of a 2020 F-550! Talk about 10lbs of shit in a 5 lbs bag!!

 

Yes, cancer is a terrible thing, I will keep Laura and you in my prayers. Keeping a positive attitude is the best way to deal with this, IMHO.............at least it has helped me get thru 3 cancers, so far!

 

Working on setting the engine into the 51. I keep thinking about that little SE Aisian dude, Sum Ting Wong. With the block against the fire wall, The lower blower gear sits about half way through the radiator. I held the engine in place with the engine hoist. I can trim the support ribs off the firewall and gain about an inch maybe a hair more. I was going to put the belts on and mount the accessories after I mounted the engine to the frame. Now, I am going to rig the engine and work out if the radiator moves forward and if so how far, or am I trimming the firewall and maybe setting it back some.
I spent some time playing with spacers to get the blower pullies to line up. Found a water pump pully that is 1:1 with the crank pully and I now have blower pullies and crank to water pump pullies in line. I still have to mount the power steering pump, the alternator and decide IF I'm going to put AC in the car. Once it is all dressed, I'll take it back to the car and see how much space I have to work with for the battery radiator, heater core, ect. I'll put the steering column in it and see if it will clear the headers. The regular headers will be tight and my wheel well headers for the pulling truck give hope that the wheel well dump headers will be a viable option. With the front clip off the car, I am struggling with the thought of making it a flip front. And if I go down that rabbit hole, do I cut and weld the metal up or do I make a mold and make a glass front end. And getting squirrelled with possibilities is why it isn't driving already. Well that and I just got the engine back after the guy helping came down with COVID.