I installed some parts!

[drooartz]

Saturday night I finally installed some parts on the Tunebug! The new rear backing plates (later style) were all assembled on the bench, as was the 3.9 differential. So out came the creeper and on went the parts.

I also took some time to clean up my work area, so I now have a bench vise mounted up, and an old laptop put into garage duty for greasy-hands BCF usage. It's not a huge space, but each project I finish up clears off some shelf space.

Next up is the parking brake assembly -- making that work with the later brakes. Questions to come later...

 

[bugimike]

Drew, I see you also made the same install as I did with my BE. I have a question. Since the new backing plates are mounted 45* off from the original BE set-up, how did you hook up the hand brake so that everything works properly? I never did hook up the hand brake, the angles seemed all wrong!

 

[jvandyke]

iBook for a garage spare? I wish my old iBooks would get through wife and kids intact enough to became a garage computer. That'd be cool.

 

[drooartz]

how did you hook up the hand brake so that everything works properly?

I haven't done that part yet! I took all the bits for the hand brake off the donor car (74 Midget). I'm hoping I can use those pieces to make it all work. I'll be asking lots of questions on this soon, as it's my next project.

iBook for a garage spare?

The iBook is a former school laptop (I work for a school district). We are charged to recycle them, so our IT group found a more cost-effective way to get rid of them.

It's small and slow, but works well as a browser and iTunes streamer.

 

[jlaird]

Your small corner of the world looks very nice.