When the weatherman starts talking about temps on the "Kelvin" scale, it's time to start drinking.
Stuck to iced tea up until now - but Kate took off to hang with her friends, grabbed the cooler, and took all of the ice!
This is why God made canned beer.
Picked up the fittings for the fuel regulator today, and placed an order for a AN -10 90 for the Accusump. Should be here Tuesday.
Speaking of which - I cleaned it up last week, and pumped it up to 82 lbs, and low and behold, it's still holding. Thanks again, Rex!
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Plumbing this in is proving to be a challenge - it's a space issue, but one thing I've wanted to do was reinforce the front portion of the inner fender wells, and by using another piece of the old Rauland rack, I was able to provide a place that I can hang the oil filter, and shroud some salt from kicking up into the engine compartment -
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By routing the hose in front of the radiator and behind the grill, it keeps things tidy and out-of-the-way -
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A concern brought up by Neil - and vehementaly reinforced by Mark - was that the strut mounts for the motor mounts were inadequate. As I needed to stop at work anyway to pick up the van for a 4th of July set-up I'm doing tomorrow, I grabbed all of the components and reworked the attachment. The shop is nominally air conditioned, we've got an adequate drill press, and if I'd have tried this at home in the garage with a hand drill, I'd likely have suffered heat stroke.
Yes, I DO feel better about this arrangement, and thank you both for needling me on this -
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