November 16th, 2007

King Knight got us a line to hook up the cooling system for the transmission fluid, the only problem is we need two but one's a start. We began to bend the line into place. There was a momentary scare when we put a decent crease in the line, trying to bend it at a 90˚ angle, but luckily fluid still flows through it.

We also managed to get the throttle hooked up, but the engine mount for the throttle is too high for our shiny new carburetor so we will have do get a new one. Luckily King Knight says there are some that come off the base of the carburetor and he's seen them on a similar carburetor before. So as soon as we get that we can get the throttle hooked up properly.

On a separate note we managed to fix our passenger side door. It had been stuck for some time and we had assumed it was an issue with the door. When you tried to open it the door swung into the body and wouldn't open more than an inch or so. It turns out that the problem was again linked to one of the guys who was working on it last year. He had taken off some bolts that held the body to the frame, and the body had sunken in, only slightly but still enough to block the door. We pulled the frame out and now the door opens freely.

In the end we are still waiting on parts, but at least we are a couple steps closer. We still need to get the exhaust system hooked up, but that will come later, and we still have not found a key for the trunk, although we've been trying to find a way to get one made from the valet key we have.