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Not to shock anyone but my buddy Adam came over the other night with a six pack and he kicked me in the ***! We decided to get back working on the car a couple of nights a week until we can get it all finished up. We're gonna take small projects first and start crossing them off the "To Do" list. The first thing we decided to tackle was the fuel lines. I had purchased some Earl's braided hose and some worm gear clamps that looked like AN fittings but we were having some trouble with them and they looked pretty cheesy. We decided to make up some fuel lines using real AN fittings so we made a list of everything we needed and Summit had it on my porch in 48 hours. This is how they turned out.
I stuck them on today and I think they turned out pretty nice and I'll probably never have to worry about them again in my lifetime. I also used some of the leftover hose to replace the plain rubber PCV hose that I had run. Here's a pic of the hoses installed.
The next project is going to be working on the cooling system. I've got those shrink to fit hose clamps for the radiator hoses but my wife's blow drier wouldn't put out enough heat to shrink them, so I'm going to buy a cheap Harbor Freight heat gun this week. We'll just keep chipping away at these small projects and crossing them off of the white board I have hanging on the wall. Hopefully we'll get this thing on the road before winter sets in!
Not to shock anyone but my buddy Adam came over the other night with a six pack and he kicked me in the ***! We decided to get back working on the car a couple of nights a week until we can get it all finished up. We're gonna take small projects first and start crossing them off the "To Do" list. The first thing we decided to tackle was the fuel lines. I had purchased some Earl's braided hose and some worm gear clamps that looked like AN fittings but we were having some trouble with them and they looked pretty cheesy. We decided to make up some fuel lines using real AN fittings so we made a list of everything we needed and Summit had it on my porch in 48 hours. This is how they turned out.
I stuck them on today and I think they turned out pretty nice and I'll probably never have to worry about them again in my lifetime. I also used some of the leftover hose to replace the plain rubber PCV hose that I had run. Here's a pic of the hoses installed.
The next project is going to be working on the cooling system. I've got those shrink to fit hose clamps for the radiator hoses but my wife's blow drier wouldn't put out enough heat to shrink them, so I'm going to buy a cheap Harbor Freight heat gun this week. We'll just keep chipping away at these small projects and crossing them off of the white board I have hanging on the wall. Hopefully we'll get this thing on the road before winter sets in!