-----Original Message----- From: AMC74Hornet@xxxxxxxxx [mailto:AMC74Hornet@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Saturday, June 04, 2005 7:01 AM To: mail@xxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: {FORGED?} Re: Hornet -- RUNS! DRIVES! Retains all parts. 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" ============================================================= Posted by wixList Archiver -- http://www.amxfiles.com/wixlist