Well the weather was nice so we went to the North East Georgia Swap Meet at Commerce, Georgia today. The buying crowd was thin but the vendors were selling cheap. Found a few interesting things. Bought some air tanks (4 tanks $40) that I had been looking for as an air supply for the air horns on my Super Duty. Bought a Flathead Bugle header ($5) to cut up for the bends. Bought a new lisle battery carrier ($5) to make getting the batteries out of my Golf Cart easier. And last but not least I bought a brand new bead breaker ($5) for 16.5 truck wheels. I used it 4 times already this afternnon. Had to break the beads on the Warrior wheels for the new tires.
Fed Ex brought the new front tires today. Got the new old tires off so that I could mount the new, new tires. 19 x 8 x 8 for the rear and 19 x 7 x 8 for the front.
I used 2 rear wheels so that I can run front brakes. I put 1 in the lathe and turned the sprocket flange off to clean it up. I like the finished results. Now all I have to do is make a bracket that will hold the front brake panel and the cable mount. All in one, clean and simple.
Turned some bushings to fit inside the lower frame rails for the stretch piece I need to add.
And did a little fitting work on one of the foot peg pieces. They are long but I will cut them to length and mount a nice set of pegs on them after the engine is finalized for position. It is rather wide... And the torque converter adds a bunch to it too.
So I managed to spend a somewhat productive afternoon on the Warrior. I think it is coming along nicely. But it still has a long way to go.
Spent the whole day Friday repining wires on the Mustang. Had to remove the existing plugs and then re-pin the wires back into the new plugs provided. All it amounted to was that we were lengthening the harness to reach the new position for the sensors and switches. Then the real pain in the rear was taking 1 of the 3 70 pin connectors for the PCM apart to splice a wire in and to add a wire to the plug. That alone took longer than all the other wire work combined. Got that done and called it a day. Tomorrow we are going to install the exhaust system and start putting the motor back together. Sent the PCM to Roush for a re-flash but it wont be back until Tuesday. We should get it pretty close to done tomorrow if the weather holds out. That gives us Monday if there is anything left to finalize and then install the PCM on Tuesday. Then it will be play time to see just how good it runs. Should be fun.
Doug