Details, Details, Details

Well folks.…The engine is finally fin­ished!!  All I can say is if it runs half as good as it looks, we are going to be in great shape!  Unfor­tu­nately, we got backed into a cor­ner with my sched­ule and will not be able to get it installed before I leave on Thurs­day.  The guys at Spring­field Auto Machine LLC are going to put it on a pal­let, shrink wrap it and store it until I get back.

The sus­pen­sion bush­ings ordered from Cooper’s Vin­tage Auto Parts finally arrived yes­ter­day, but were incom­plete, miss­ing one bush­ing for the rear upper con­trol yoke.  It has now been re-ordered and will  not arrive until after I am gone, so we were not able to get the rear axle and sus­pen­sion installed as I had hoped.  The new seat belts have arrived and will be installed when I return, before we put the axle back in.

Paul and I spent a cou­ple hours today fin­ish­ing the instal­la­tion of the stain­less steel brake line set and fuel line.  Try­ing to thread those pre-bent lines up through the frame was a real bear, but they are all in now and look great and should func­tion per­fectly.  The brake sys­tem is now com­plete, with a rebuilt mas­ter and booster, new brake cylin­ders on all wheels, all new lines, drums turned and new shoes all around.  Looks, like we will have no trou­ble stop­ping the “Gray Lady” when we finally do get her rolling!!

Finally, we have a com­plete new exhaust sys­tem on the way ordered from Cadil­lac Inter­na­tional, all new pipes, muf­flers and res­onators will be installed when I return.  Tomor­row I just need to orga­nize and clean the shop a lit­tle, clean up a few last minute details and we will be off until Octo­ber 24th.

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