She won't let me drive!

[tones2SS]

Looks great Ed. Good job.

[pokey64]

Thanks Tones!

Originally Posted by tones2SS

Looks great Ed. Good job.

Was out in the garage by 630 this morning. Other than stopping to mow the lawn it was a productive day on the car. Wiring is over half done and I got most of the fuel lines flushed and pressure tested. Should have time this weekend to keep plugging away.

Here’s pics of the pressure testing setup. I flushed the hoses with water then attached the valve side and blew them out with air. After that I attached the gauge and pressurized the hose. I let it sit a couple minutes listening for leaks and watching the gauge then bled off the pressure. So far no leaks.

[waynieZ]

Ed it looks nice and neat, and that's a nice test setup.

[pokey64]

This certainly isn’t as big of a deal as others are experiencing for weather or flooding this year. I just thought I’d share the “excitement” we had this morning. A crazy thunderstorm rolled thru last night. It was nonstop high winds, down pouring rain, lightning and thunder for 3-4 hours. When I got up this morning I hopped in my truck to go see if anything blew away at our office and was met by our friendly law enforcement on our washed out road.



We have approx 1/3 mile of gravel from the concrete road of our development to the city street. It crosses a small creek about halfway. (normally 2' wide) There is a pasture on one side and backyards of another development on the other. The barbwire fence of pasture caught debris and created a dam which backed up the water enough to top the road and wash out more than half the road width. I can tell from the knocked over grass that the flow was over 100’ wide at one point last night. This road is our only way in or out.




With it being a holiday weekend only one of the city maintenance guys were in town. Thankfully he was kind enough to come lend a hand. I spent over an hour pulling/digging away the debris on both sides to open up flow. It started raining again when I was out there so I got thoroughly soaked and covered in mud. I clipped the bottom 3 runs of barbwire covering the culvert to help prevent this from happening again. The cattle aren’t going to fit through the 24” culvert anyways…

The maintenance guy grabbed the city’s pay loader and made trips through town to bring 5 bucket loads of gravel to get us temporarily fixed up. We removed the big rocks around the gas line and backfilled around it by hand after it was inspected for damage.


The city has plans to pave this road when the pasture gets developed for housing. Hope that day comes soon since it'd be much nicer to drive the Camaro on.

[pokey64]

Thanks Wayne, I appreciate the compliments!

Originally Posted by waynieZ

Ed it looks nice and neat, and that's a nice test setup.

Spent all of yesterday working on the car. All fuels lines are done and pressure tested. The supply line off the tank leaked during the pressure test. I mixed up some soapy water and found it coming from the swivel nut portion. I reassembled with a dab of thread sealant and that did the trick. Until that point I had left the male/female AN threads dry during testing.. I also got the II Much Fab fuel tank vent installed and plumbed and a few more electrical connections completed. Hope to work more on the car tonight or tomorrow. We have some misc remaining parts arriving on Tuesday so I’m hoping next week brings a more exciting update to this thread.



Between lat-g, google and you tube I’m starting to feel like I could rule the world! J/K But I have been learning a lot as I go with this project. Pretty much everything I’m doing is a first for me. Yesterday I did find TDC for the first time in my life after some reading and watching a video. I gutted an old spark plug, drilled it out, ran a piece of all thread thru it, then ground down a jamb nut so it would fit into the head threads. Our old cast iron heads are laying around yet so I had something to test fit before trying on our aluminum RHS heads. I verified I was on the compression stroke by holding my finger over the #1 plug hole as I manually turned the crank. Then I inserted the piston stop into cylinder 1, placed a piece of tape on the balancer, turned the crank slowly until it stopped and marked the 0 location on the tape. Then I spun it the opposite direction until it stopped and marked the 0 location on the tape again. Wrapped a small piece of paper around the balancer, transferred both marks to it, matched up the two marks while folding in half to find the center point, then wrapped it back around the balancer and marked the center point on the tape. Not too surprising but it matched perfectly to the original line on the balancer.



Took some time but since we bought the engine preassembled and I was not around the shop when it was installed I would have been making an assumption that it was right. I’ve learned the hard way on this car that ASSumptions only cost us more money and time later. Time to get the distributor installed and verify the plug wires still fit.

[waynieZ]

Better safe than sorry!