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Mark, thanks for the confirmation. Feather Brown it will be.

I hear you on the heat Howard. This past week here in So. Calif for sure has been brutal. It kept me out of the garage. Sunday we had a recorded temp of 111f.

Yeah, but whats the humidity levels out there in the wild wild west????
About 3 percent??????

So when it hits 100?+ then is the airconditoner used or the swamp coolers?????

One winder air condeeeeetioner running here for less than 10 hours and it has half filled a five gallon bucket with water. And that is.just one of 4.

Can't speak for Kev's area but for this area, the humidity has been quite high. Granted, not what you on the East are used to but instead of the normal 20% or so here it has been up in the 60% range for the last week. We are not used to that so coupled with the well over 100 degrees, it has been stifling.

There's been way too much emphasis placed on refrigeration in the post war era. I can go back many decades well into the 1950's . Many shops, dealersships as well as many office environments had no AC whatsoever.
Just get out there and sweat.

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We've recieved CA weather up here these last few days with temps in high 90s and low 100s a couple of days. Howard's coment on unusual humidity goes for Oregon too. The last couple of Summers have been unusually "sauna like" and this one looks to be more of the same.

Jim,

I was in Portland last August when you had temps that were nearly 100f. I took the Shanghai Tunnels tour, and people were dropping like flys from the heat and stuffy air.

Howard,

To Keith about sweating. Here locally our summer monsoons have arrived. We derive much of our yearly rainfall during this period. This morning I went outside to tidy up the '56 Packard I attempting to sell for a friend, and humidity hit me smack in the face as my porch gauge (we are used to single digit humidity) read 60-70%! I chuckled and thought of your comment of a couple of days ago and I did what you instructed. It actually felt good when a slight breeze found me. This is our 36th day in a row over 100 degrees (were are indoctrinated to believe its a dry heat most of the year) and I'm glad I'm not living in Phoenix or Las Vegas.

HH......I'm following your Clipper project with much interest.

Not a tremendous amount accomplished since the last post because of the heat and lack of being much in the mood to work. More mechanical stuff bolted on. Front brakes done and other little odds and ends looked at.

The new firewall piece arrived from Quiet Ride. It is a very nice copy and I'm pleased with it. A couple of holes are not cut and will have to be duplicated. Probably better that way anyway since they can use one basic piece for all and all might not have the same options. As Joe mentioned, the material they make it out of doesn't quite match the original cardboard pattern but it's decent and will be mostly hidden. Since mine will be about half covered with carpet anyway, the mismatch is not a big deal and so much nicer than the old one.

Since there were apparently no more of the already made pedal shaft repair kits, decided I had to do my own. Fortunately, the bushings were not in terrible condition and measured out well. That's good because they don't look to be the easily replaceable type.The shaft was where the wear was and sad to say I didn't look at it closely enough the first time and missed it completely.

The original shaft looks to be ordinary steel. McMaster didn't have 7/8 in regular so had to get an 8" length of precision shaft. It is hardened so had to do cutting with abrasives instead of cutting tools. Cut about 3/4" off and ground the necessary D notch in one end to fit the frame and the retaining ring groove in the other. Hardening goes only so deep so easy enough to drill the center for the grease passage. Got about 1/3 of the way before I needed a longer bit. Since I didn't have one or want to go to the store just then, had a different idea.

Decided since the clutch side was the badly worn spot and being at the far end of passage, it was not getting a full shot of grease. The grease guy probably quit when he saw grease coming out of the brake pedal since it's right next to the gun. I drilled & tapped the pedal bottoms for a zerk and will thread them in. Goes into the same space between the bushings where the original passage opens into. The bottoms are open and accessible so should be easy enough to hit both with a grease gun. If not, the original shaft method can be completed easily enough.

Anyway, that's my story and sticking to it.

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