The Junkyard

Wednesday (the first sunny day we've had in a while) we made our second trip to the junkyard. We needed a hook for our e-brake line, a mount for our starter coil, and a new accelerator line. We found the hook and two accelerator lines, we decided to try one of the other mounts in the shop. At lunch today we put the hook in, fits perfectly, and in class later we got one of the accelerator lines in.

New Problems: for some reason the e-brake doesn't lock when pressed. we weren't able to get a mount we found on correctly so we don't know if it works. we have to find ways to secure the new accelerator line to the mount behind the carb and to the gas peddle (which is a different connection then our old line had), but at least now we have something to do other than wait for parts.

At the shop during Winter Break

A good portion of Friday, January 4th was spent working on the Lemans, despite the fact that school was out for winter break. The distributer on the car was loose, so we secured it with a distributer clamp that fit (after being modified a bit). We then spent a lot of time trying to take off the nut holding down a pulley on another power steering pump so we could put the pulley on ours. Having been told that the nut was reverse threaded, we spent many fruitless minutes trying to take it off, but it wouldn't so much as budge. We went out to lunch and when we returned, Dr. Knight informed us that the nut had not in fact been reverse threaded, and that he had taken it off with an impact gun. A little bit annoyed, but glad that the nut was off, we set to work taking off the pulley. The pulley was eventually taken off with the help of a few pry bars. We put the pulley on our power steering pump but found that it didn't line up correctly with the other pulleys. It was at this point that we all needed to go home, so we decided we would deal with this problem another day.