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01-29-2005 03:50 PM #1
Hey!!! Got some real work done today.
Temperature finally came up out of the deep freeze today. Went up to 30 Farenheit.----Fired up the garage furnace and had a good day playing mister Hotrod with the roadster pickup.. I installed my new 1" bore dual chamber master cylinder, bent the brake pedal arm to suit my application and installed it, cut the hole in my floor, and now have a pedal arm. I will wait untill I install the column before I figure out what I'm doing for a pedal. I do know that the pedal won't be centered on the arm, it'll have to be offset mostly towards the center of the car to clear the column. It looks like all my left foot is going to do is work the dimmer switch, as the steering column is going to be too close to the floor at the bottom to get my left foot over to the brake pedal side. (don't know how I'm going to load up that 350 turbo for stoplight drags----You know what I mean, watch for orange light, stand on the brake pedal with your left foot while standing on gas feed with right foot, waiting for light to change and launch). I cut the floor and installed my Lokar floor mount parking brake. (I actually did manage to get it between the bucket seats.) I installed a new bottom rad hose, but haven't been able to find one that fits the top yet---(they get kinda ugly down at the auto store when I want to root thru all their stuff on the rack). I measured for a driveshaft today, then proceeded to cut the rear yoke off my 85 Pontiac driveshaft (the engine donor car), and tomorrow I will cut the driveshaft to length (29" eye to eye). I will take the cut off driveshaft and yoke down to the local machine shop this week and get everything squared up on their big lathe before I reassemble and weld it. All in all a very satisfactory day. Whenever I go 2 weeks without doing anything towards completing the car, I worry that maybe I'm losing interest. (That only happened once, about 35 years ago, but I still worry about it.)Old guy hot rodder
Dammit, another good ol boy gone. Condolence to the family. RIP Mike
RIP Mike Frade, aka 34_40