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Looking for project updates, huh? Here’s a couple from the past few months-
Had an oil leak on the 1/2 side. Not bad enough that I had to add oil, but it made a mess getting blown around in the heater sled. Heat also smelled of oil. Thought it was a pushrod tube leak, turned out to be a leak from the lower middle case nut. FML. There’s an oil galley passage just above the lower middle case stud, so there’s oil pressure there. The fix was pilling the head, sliding out the #1 jug, removing the case nut, cleaning and sealing around the stud, sealing back of washer, and installing a acorn nut. It’s been months now and it’s still dry.
I also had my Dell’s rebuilt. I bought them knowing they had been “rebuilt,” but the builder and quality was unknown. They looked good so we went with them. Lately they had been weeping, throttle shaft sticking, and a few other minor things. They got completely disassembled, blasted, ultrasonic cleaned, new shaft bearings, gaskets, etc., etc. Carbs are on point now….car has never run better.
Beam is 4″….if I were doing it all over again I probably would have gone just a little less narrow. The EMPI disc/spindle adds 0″ to the track….I think I was counting on 5/8″-3/4″ added per side.
I have a set of 356B brakes in my garage….I keep toying with the idea of asking KCW to refresh them and mixing things up. Polished drums, gloss black 356 wheels….hmmmmm…..
Here she is outside my deserted office yesterday, since I’m all “essential” and whatnot. 🙂 It’s been a pleasure to drive with so few out on the roads.
What’s happening here? Coil works fine, but there’s some beeswax type stuff wicking out of it. Does it mean the coil is getting ready to fail? Or normal for ones mounted upside down?Pulled the carpet and installed my Low Light Werks floor mats today. Dark green, like original for bamboo/green Ghias. I like them. Need to get better photos out of the garage.
Had some minor sputtering once the car was warm when taking off at low idle. After checking valves, fuel delivery, and points/condenser/timing/distributor/coil/plugs, I made new wires. Seems to have done the trick. I changed the routing so they don’t take that hard turn between the manifolds and shroud anymore, so now they’re shorter too. I suspect I probably fouled a wire from handling them repeatedly during maintenance. Went with the same Lowbrow 8mm cloth wire, this time in black.
Y’all have a good weekend.
My car has the air vent baskets in the nostrils, but had been missing the flat screen that goes over them. I found a solid pair that were a little grungy and clean them up. I had been wanting to try DIY electroplating so I gave it a go.
Soaked the screens in straight vinegar for several days to remove the crud.
After soaking, before wire-wheeling:
I used two pieces of zinc, vinegar & salt, and a cell phone charger to make a zinc electrolyte solution. After that I connected a copper wire to the screen, then the negative side of the cell phone charger to it. Positive to the zinc bar. Placed it all in the solution and plugged it in, letting each screen go for about 45 minutes, while turning it every so often. Below the solution is cloudy from the bubbles coming off of the screen, which is the zinc being pulled to it.
The screens were sort of a flat gray color when done, and a little splotchy. A very quick pass with 000 steel wool put some shine on and evened them out.
For a first attempt I have no idea if I did this right. They look ok and appear to have a zinc coating, so I guess time will tell if it holds up.
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