After foraging for parts all day Saturday (got another 7 1/4 W/ a 3.23 in it
, 3.55 currently in the car) and yard work for Mom most of Sunday I finally got the shield tubes secured (almost) today. Naturally I went back and didn't like one of the tubes so I fabbed a new one, and then had exactly enough screws -1 (1/4 20 button heads, so the heads won't gouge you if you rub up against them Ill get another plus a few spares today).
I have 3 more hose clamps to put on and the fuel plumbing will be finished (one of these days I have got to get more pictures
).
I installed the studs I got to mount the injector assembly to the head, the ones along the top are too short.
I'll get some longer ones today. I already have some snazzy nuts for them, they are the ones that have the captured washers on the nuts already (keeps me form dropping just the one
).
I realised that I haven't been regularly posting Pop's progress, I didn't mean to make this sound like a 1 man 'team'.
He so far has gotten the new SFI 45.1 roll bar padding installed, the new seat belts are in with the new anchor for the non 'Y' type shoulder belts (only a few minor adjustments left, on what we have). We are waiting on a 2 point sub belt as we got to looking at the rule book and we think that when I'm in the car it looks more like the picture that says we have to have a 6 point belt, so as soon as that gets here we can do final adjustment on all that.
He has the driveshaft back in, with fresh grease in the U joints.
He also has the new fuel cell cap assembly installed (it had the 'aircraft' style flush cap, too big a PITB to work with, replaced it with a 'D' ring or 'bail' style cap, much better
).
I did help, I cleaned out the roll over vent valve, and found a shiny new ball bearing that fit the valve to replace the rusty and heavily pitted old one, I tried it with the old check ball and it didn't seal with just a tablespoon or so of fluid at the bench
(just the top of the valve upside down, no head pressure and it didn't slow it down very much) it works good now
. I reinstalled that too.
So we have progress, just not as much as we would like (go figure
).
So as soon as the new nozzle hoses get here we can fire it back up to do the oil change. We have 10W40 and a fresh filter on it now we plan to flush it with that, maybe twice, then put the race oil in, leaning towards 40Wt Mobil 1 race oil.