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jlaird
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Today was intresting to say the least. I was going to install fuel tank etc., didn't happen.
Instead I started this morning with, bonnet rubber supports door latches, front shocks (one of which will go to Peter tomorrow as I have now decided it is a weak sister) and stearing rack and shaft. Boy is that rubber gromet thing a pain to install, the one on the stearing shaft where it goes through the fire wall. Then started messing with the hyd. lines. Had a heck of a time getting them screwed into the brass four way valve till I ground a bit off of the connector, not the flange, where it had spread. Anyway they are now mostly installed, need to pick up a few stainless bolts and nuts tomorrow for the clamps across the top of the fire wall.
Tomorrow I must go to the hardware for some small bolts and some washers and lockwashers, stainless steel. Also must stop my the machine shop and have the outer parts of the radius arm bushings removed, seems the rubber part only had popped out and I did not notice that the outer sleeve remained till I tried to install the new bushings.
Next I think will be the pedel box and the blanking plate, will make those gaskets and seal with the blue stuff, hate it when they leak water on your feet, also rusts the floor boards.
Miss Agatha does not look near so naked as she did. In fact she is starting to give me a bad time about the rest of her parts not being close by. Even the wife wanted to know what was next and how much. So I gave her a list of about 1000 dollars and she said OK wait a few weeks till we get our property tax bill, going up this year, but we don't know how much yet. That order will get all the rest of the suspension and brakes and wheels under her. Looking forward to that for sure. Wife has asked a dozen times about the interior, think she now understands that is the last bit, she can hardly wait for it to start looking like a Bugeye as she remembers.
The paint job is excellent, and the color "Old English White" is such a nice cream. Looks so different from everything else you see around.
We haveing fun now.
Instead I started this morning with, bonnet rubber supports door latches, front shocks (one of which will go to Peter tomorrow as I have now decided it is a weak sister) and stearing rack and shaft. Boy is that rubber gromet thing a pain to install, the one on the stearing shaft where it goes through the fire wall. Then started messing with the hyd. lines. Had a heck of a time getting them screwed into the brass four way valve till I ground a bit off of the connector, not the flange, where it had spread. Anyway they are now mostly installed, need to pick up a few stainless bolts and nuts tomorrow for the clamps across the top of the fire wall.
Tomorrow I must go to the hardware for some small bolts and some washers and lockwashers, stainless steel. Also must stop my the machine shop and have the outer parts of the radius arm bushings removed, seems the rubber part only had popped out and I did not notice that the outer sleeve remained till I tried to install the new bushings.
Next I think will be the pedel box and the blanking plate, will make those gaskets and seal with the blue stuff, hate it when they leak water on your feet, also rusts the floor boards.
Miss Agatha does not look near so naked as she did. In fact she is starting to give me a bad time about the rest of her parts not being close by. Even the wife wanted to know what was next and how much. So I gave her a list of about 1000 dollars and she said OK wait a few weeks till we get our property tax bill, going up this year, but we don't know how much yet. That order will get all the rest of the suspension and brakes and wheels under her. Looking forward to that for sure. Wife has asked a dozen times about the interior, think she now understands that is the last bit, she can hardly wait for it to start looking like a Bugeye as she remembers.
The paint job is excellent, and the color "Old English White" is such a nice cream. Looks so different from everything else you see around.
We haveing fun now.
