The Humble Bee
Thought today would be the day but not to be and considering what could have been don't mind a bit.
Got the bracket for the throttle and kick down cables fabbed an installed. Installed remaining hoses and started on fluids. Thermostat housing was leaking. No big deal, drained below level and pulled. Just another trip to AutoZone for gasket. Refilled and noticed another coolant drip which I had thought was migration from thermostat. Not so, traced to what appeared to be between DS head and block around intake. Called machinist rebuilder, he asked where I lived and driving time. He closed his shop and 15 min later was pulling into my driveway. Leak turned out to be intake and due to the compression washers he had to make cause the OFFY manifold has really small bolt wells. Everything's cool on that. he said to make sure to crank w/o plugs w/ mechanical oil pressure gage attached. Lemme see.....yep plug right into..................THAT EMPTY HOLE where the sending unit should be. THAT'S what's been nagging me since I ran the vac advance hose to dist'. DUH Nuther trip to AutoZone for the gage I was going to go with anyway. Manager said he was going to check out running a "mail tube" to my house. Crank maybe tomorrow. Now is cocktails on the patio. ( no Lokar return springs, return spring on trans )
Thought today would be the day but not to be and considering what could have been don't mind a bit.
Got the bracket for the throttle and kick down cables fabbed an installed. Installed remaining hoses and started on fluids. Thermostat housing was leaking. No big deal, drained below level and pulled. Just another trip to AutoZone for gasket. Refilled and noticed another coolant drip which I had thought was migration from thermostat. Not so, traced to what appeared to be between DS head and block around intake. Called machinist rebuilder, he asked where I lived and driving time. He closed his shop and 15 min later was pulling into my driveway. Leak turned out to be intake and due to the compression washers he had to make cause the OFFY manifold has really small bolt wells. Everything's cool on that. he said to make sure to crank w/o plugs w/ mechanical oil pressure gage attached. Lemme see.....yep plug right into..................THAT EMPTY HOLE where the sending unit should be. THAT'S what's been nagging me since I ran the vac advance hose to dist'. DUH Nuther trip to AutoZone for the gage I was going to go with anyway. Manager said he was going to check out running a "mail tube" to my house. Crank maybe tomorrow. Now is cocktails on the patio. ( no Lokar return springs, return spring on trans )