Saturday, January 14, 2012

New Team Memeber

Forrest joined us on Wednesday to help work on the car. He brought along a piece of metal to cover the sunroof opening and installed it with 4 temporary screws. This should be enough to keep the rain out.

We pulled the 2nd engine out of storage and tried to fire it on the pallet. It was quite a kludge with the distributor from the good engine, the old carb and jumper cables, battery booster and various other wires running between the 2 engines. It turned over, but we couldn't get it to start. We discovered the 4the spark plug hole is "blocked". We got the plugs out to look at them and that one did not go all the way back in.

I ordered a gasket kit from Rock Auto. We'll put the 2nd engine on the stand and tear it down and refresh all the gaskets. We'll take care of the spark plug threads at that time.

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