[Franz]

in reply to: Parkway projects #2583

We’ll take about it more later.

[Franz]

in reply to: Parkway projects #2582

Yeah, that is too low for a good driver. My red car drives like garbage…and wearing itself out with every mile.

[Franz]

in reply to: Toms rhd Oval Vert #2576

Hey Matt, on the left shocktower that we were talking about  😉  Can we put the original beam number “1131492”  in the middle with the other stuff.

• This reply was modified 5 years ago by Franz.

[Franz]

in reply to: Toms rhd Oval Vert #2572

I’m sure we have some decklid mounts here. Don’t buy any.

I have a 4 tab hood out back on my vert that Creig was gonna buy…if its better than yours we should trade.

[Franz]

in reply to: Parkway projects #2571

Drive-ability today. I was looking at the spring plates. We talked about notching them. I can’t see any marks from them bottoming out on the stops. It seemed to ride decent when I drove it. I’m going hold-off on the notches until I drive it again.

[Franz]

in reply to: Parkway projects #2570

I did my normal rounds on the engine, then went over and tidy’d up a few things.

• nut-zert on the coil
• re-routed a few wires and took off any plastic collars on connections
• swapped faulty electronic ignition for points
• increased idle jet to 55
• measure/marked true TDC
• adjusted advance base line and limit to 11-29 degrees
• hooked-up and adjusted choke
• removed the pre-heat flap from the air cleaner

Welded the spring brace back to the skin and touched up with some anthracite paint.

[Franz]

in reply to: 54 camping box #2568

The rest of the NOS brake parts made it yesterday. The master cylinder looks to be 55+

[Franz]

in reply to: 54 camping box #2513

The NOS wheel cylinders and shoe liners in damaged boxes.

[Franz]

in reply to: 54 camping box #2510

Yeah, it gets pinstripes. We have a little more finish work to do.

The nos taillights arrived yesterday. They are very nice.

[Franz]

in reply to: Dario's Projects #2503

Do you really want me to order you bumpers from WW right now? Big money.

[Franz]

in reply to: Kelly’s forever barndoor project #2501

I finished the semaphore resto yesterday.

I drilled out the original pivot pins and had to make new ones. Step machined .116 to .098 and drilled the ends with .077 so that they could be flared like a rivet. Pain in the ass!!!

Original lenses too. After a lot of clean up they look nice. I had to order the brass bulb holders that go in the lenses, then we can install them.

[Franz]

in reply to: Parkway projects #2446

Jdawg front and center. No joke about the oldmann not running very well. I just finished torquing heads, adjusting valve and running a compression test. The last picture has figures from the test. Looked good. I noticed some exhaust leaks. More tomorrow.

The decklid needs some welding around the spring mount. So that it’ll stay open.

[Franz]

in reply to: Bus vs bug nose cone height difference #2430

You’re trying to slam a bus?

Installing a bug nose cone into a bus allows the trans and engine to sit lower, reducing camber when the suspension is raised.

Installing a bus nose cone into a bug allows the trans and engine to sit higher, reducing camber when the suspension is lowered.

If you’re trying to do a transaxle raise on a bus, a nose cone swap is not going to help. You’re going to have to get creative with the shift rod.

 

[Franz]

in reply to: Toms rhd Oval Vert #2345

That looks sweet Matt. Can you put kcw on one of them somewhere somehow?

[Franz]

in reply to: Bankshot #2342

Killer day. Bankshot drives and we did a bunch of dumb stuff tonight. We even got a pre-tech inspection and a few pointers.

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