{FORGED?} Re: Hornet -- RUNS! DRIVES! Retains all parts.

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On June 3, 2005 Tom Jennings wrote:

> First, thanks to everyone on this list that helped me out with
> answers to my often stupid questions.
> 
> 
> Drove the damn thing today! What a relief!
> 
> Engine started right up -- water did NOT shoot out all the holes
> -- had timing off one tooth, fixed that quick enough, Pretty much
> everything worked fine. It's not idling very well, and I didn't
> find the ported-vacuum spigot on the DGEV 32/36 Weber carb after a
> thorough 30 seconds of looking, but I'll just add that to the 1000
> To Do list.
> 
> I did make a big mess by overfilling the P.S. pump, which vomited
> foamy pink goo over the engine, hood, fender, and nearby fence.
> Seems happy now.
> 
> Didn't even have to move the radiator, after shifting the engine
> forward yesterday. I've got one inch between the blades and clutch
> and the radiator fins, just enough margin of safety.  No shroud
> installed since I have the wrong (short) radiator, but that's 1
> out of 1000 remaining; cooling is adequate (only).
> 
> Trans no problem, though I have the cable shifter off one detent.
> 
> Started right up on 2+ year old gasoline. The brand new tires,
> Nittos, that have been sitting for a year, thumped for five
> minutes but seem fine now.
> 
> The brakes however... I've got one leaking line (stupid coupler,
> "fixed" twice, of course it lives under the master cylinder) I'll
> replace with a one-piece line this weekend. The front rotors,
> brand new, had rusted over the winter, were very grindy and
> grabby, after the mainden voyage I took the wheels and calipers
> off and sanded them to metal, and scuffed the shoes. I'll try it
> tomorrow.
> 
> The Hansen's soda can holding the exhaust together (junk exhaust
> saved for the initial trip to the muffler shop) tore, so I wrapped
> it with folder-over aluminum foil! wrapped that with rusty bailing
> wire!  (it was actually fun to make such a spectacularly crappy
> fix), it'll live long enough.
> 
> My biggest problem now are the seats. I've got 64 Classic two-door
> seats. They fit fine, the problem is the seat is too high after
> being reupholstered. It's two factors: one, I didn't compensate
> for the fact that during the trial fit, the seat weas blown out!
> duh! and two, the upholsterer made them quite comfortably full. My
> head hits the roof!
> 
> 
> The worst thing, if I can't re-do the cushions to lower them, is
> to reupholster the 73 split-bench (my favorite seat config), which
> will certainly work.
> 
> TOmorrow I'm gonna see if I can get an exhaust system installed,
> and Monday I'll go to Spence Wheel ALignment, they're worth
> waiting for.
> 
> Only drove about 15 minutes total -- first stop the car wash,
> where I squirt off all the P.S. fluid and the thousand black-widow
> webs. (I should have photographed this: we live in a heavy spider
> area, so many that I have a special stick I used to clear the webs
> out every car-work day. On the rare times I'd look under the
> chassis at night all the black widows, big huge shiny nasties,
> would be out, all with red houglasses underneath.) Up to about
> 40mph no bad noises, filled the tank (14 gal) with high test,
> stopped for coffee.
> 
> 
> It's a relief that the thing is intact end to end and no big parts
> fell off or changed shape. When I spun up the oil pressure again
> this morning, there was a bit of mayonaise on the tool end, but
> after 15 minutes running the dipstick was normal. I'll change out
> the cheap oil and good filter in there this weekend (hopefully
> taking out accumulated storage dust and grit) and put in the
> decent dinosaur oil, change that after 500 - 1000 miles then
> switch to fake oil.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> .
Glad to see things are starting to work out for you.
"Doc"












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