a funny beginners mistake
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a funny beginners mistake
I recently was able to go home from my (at the time) temporary place of duty in 29 palms, California. before I started my journey to the lovely state of new jersey, i bought chrome perimeter bolt Chevrolet logo valve covers, an idle-6,000 rpm aluminum intake manifold, and a holly 4160 750 cfm carb, and a new chrome air cleaner with a matching Chevrolet logo.
upon arrival, i eagerly dove under the hood of my poor neglected 77 (named roxanne), for which ive been accumulating thousands of dollars worth of parts for over the past year, with little and infrequent time to put them all in. after about 6 hours of removing 35 year old decaying parts (with the use of a shovel as leverage to remove the most stubborn intake manifold i have ever come across, considering i was swapping the valve covers anyway) and spending hours trying to get the bolts for the new manifold to line in place, (the 30 Budweiser's didn't help my thought process very much) i began to reconnect all of those fun vacuum lines and what nots.
i then realized that i forgot to get the dual fuel inlet adapter, on my last day home, leaving me no time to find one, and didn't even get to hear my baby run.
upon arrival, i eagerly dove under the hood of my poor neglected 77 (named roxanne), for which ive been accumulating thousands of dollars worth of parts for over the past year, with little and infrequent time to put them all in. after about 6 hours of removing 35 year old decaying parts (with the use of a shovel as leverage to remove the most stubborn intake manifold i have ever come across, considering i was swapping the valve covers anyway) and spending hours trying to get the bolts for the new manifold to line in place, (the 30 Budweiser's didn't help my thought process very much) i began to reconnect all of those fun vacuum lines and what nots.
i then realized that i forgot to get the dual fuel inlet adapter, on my last day home, leaving me no time to find one, and didn't even get to hear my baby run.
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thats everything i did on my last trip home, the parts i installed are easy to distinguish
thats everything i did on my last trip home, the parts i installed are easy to distinguish
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Hi Roy,
I'm glad that you at least got home to work on it!!
Should you be using some of those "thousands of dollars" to address the "rotted frame"? I'd think I'd want to know about that before putting other money in the car.
Regards,
Alan
I'm glad that you at least got home to work on it!!
Should you be using some of those "thousands of dollars" to address the "rotted frame"? I'd think I'd want to know about that before putting other money in the car.
Regards,
Alan
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i got some replacement parts for the frame from zip-corvette, 23 inch sections with a sleeve, and the cross member, just haven't found the time to take the body off and set it all up in a rig so i can get to cutting and welding. in due time
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Too bad we're not neighbors, I have a few of those dual feed things laying around the shop here.
Its a funny thing about plumbing projects, of any sort - they always seem to require three times as many trips to the store than any other type of project.
PS. Thank you for your service!
Its a funny thing about plumbing projects, of any sort - they always seem to require three times as many trips to the store than any other type of project.
PS. Thank you for your service!
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