Re: last weekend's progress.

["amc74hornet" <amc74hornet@xxxx>]

--- In BaadAssGremlins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Davis" <martin-davis@xxxx> wrote:
> Ok,
> during the week I took out the gastank. Sanded it and painted it 
> with SEM rust controll. I emptied it out and let it air out. Saturday 
> I spend most of the day going from store to store to find fittings 
> for my 1/2 inch fuel line and special coated 5/16 tranny line, and 
> the right U joint for my newly shortened driveshaft. couldn't find 
> anything but the U joint, that will be in somtine today. Bill gave me 
> the shortened driveshaft, all welded up looks good. 
> so we got back to the Gremlin and got the starter and header 
> installed, what a pain, and I have the mini starter. I also finished 
> installing the traction bars. We installed the MSD distributor. I had 
> the wrong wire ends so I got new ends and Bill changed them over. 
> Sunday I brought my tank, 1/2" alum. fuel line and my original fuel 
> pick up to Bill's and we looked into where to install the new line. 
> No room on the pickup so I decided to put it in the tank with a bung. 
> Went to home depot, they didn't have the right 1/2" fittings. Went to 
> Nappa they had the correct fittings in a box of fittings not put out 
> yet. We used a 1/2" tubing bender and bent up a piece to go inside 
> the tank. Then I washed the tank out again, drilled the hole for the 
> brass fiting and rinsed it out again. Used red silicone sealer when 
> installing the fitting. Off to my house.
> We put the tranny cross member in and Bill figured out what to 
> fabricate for a mount. It will be a solid 2" chunk of aluminium. 
> I cleaned under the car where the tank goes and painted it SEM rust 
> controll black. I removed the original fuel line, vapor line and 
> return lines. Installed the gas tank. Ran a new starter wire, mounted 
> the MSD pro coil, installed the oil fill tube. We figured out the 
> best place to mount the holley Blue fuel pump and mounted that. Then 
> we installed the new CE 3 way adjustable rear drag shocks. Plumed 
> the fuel pump to the gas tank. Bill took my holley 650 Dp home to 
> rebuild. 
> So I got alot done but I still have a long ways to go. I start work 
> tomorrow after being out since nov. So in a couple of weeks I will 
> have more $ for the gremlin but no time. I am hoping to fire it up in 
> 2 weeks. 
> Thanks for reading my long post. 
> Davis

Good deal man you got some serious work done there. Did you ever make the trip to pick up the Hornet Hatchback? I can't wait for the warm weather as I have some mechanical issiues to take care of on my new Hornet that I couldn't do this winter. And I also either need my tax refund check to come or the court case to award me the money I am owed so the brakes and the front end can be done.
"Doc"