The Darwin Project

Nick and I took a week off at the end of June and went to Rhode Island to do service work with 67 other kids from our church, well worth it, and came back with a new perspective.

While we were gone I had the car over at my mechanic to figure out the brake problems. Turns out I had the wrong fitting at the front reservior on the master, not leaking enough to notice but enough to draw air into the system and give me a spongy pedal.
After getting the brakes adjusted and bled he took it for a short test run and found it wouldn't accelerate much past idle. No fuel to the carb again. He dropped the gas tank to find the sending unit was a giant ball of rust with just a pin hole allowing fuel to the carb and the inside of the tank was covered with rust. So, in went a new tank and sending unit. Thats where it was at upon our return from RI.

July 5 I took it to get new exhaust from the manifold to the muffler (muffler and tail pipe are like new), I figured two to three days and I'd have it back so I could get it to the front end shop and have it aligned. Well they over booked the shop and I didn't get the car back til the following Tues. But they did an awesome job at a reasonable price so it was worth the extra few days. I picked the car up that afternoon and headed for the alignment shop.
I was promptly notified the next morning that they could not align the front end with "that loose lower ball joint" on the right side... WHAT?...I put all new parts on when I did the disc brake conversion. Apparently got a bad lower ball joint from Just Suspension. I'm currently in the process of trying to get a replacement from them, hope it doesn't take more than a day or two.

Thats where it stands right now. Hopefully my next post will be a picture of the car heading down the road on its maiden voyage.