Re: 51Packard's....51 Packard
Posted by Charles On 2010/11/8 20:42:03
11-08-10
Warm spell here which would mean more time for the car outside, but stupid daylight savings screwed me out of an hour of daylight. Now when I get home from work, I have about 15 min before it is so dark you need a flashlight. Today I took the solenoid off of my starter. I'm going to take it to work and see if we have a tap that I can use to fix the threads to the next smaller size.
The starter is in fine shape, just needed some freshening up so I hit it quickly with the wire brush in the angle grinder and gave it a coat of gloss black.
I also gave the brake backing plate a quick hit with the wire brush and painted it high temp gloss black. I'm not too concerned as to how it came out because I will have to take the brakes apart again next spring. I won't have time to make the new brake lines so I'll just put the old wheel cylinder back on with the old fluid for now. Don't want to keep the system dry all winter and I don't want to contaminate my new wheel cylinder with the old fluid.
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Warm spell here which would mean more time for the car outside, but stupid daylight savings screwed me out of an hour of daylight. Now when I get home from work, I have about 15 min before it is so dark you need a flashlight. Today I took the solenoid off of my starter. I'm going to take it to work and see if we have a tap that I can use to fix the threads to the next smaller size.
The starter is in fine shape, just needed some freshening up so I hit it quickly with the wire brush in the angle grinder and gave it a coat of gloss black.
I also gave the brake backing plate a quick hit with the wire brush and painted it high temp gloss black. I'm not too concerned as to how it came out because I will have to take the brakes apart again next spring. I won't have time to make the new brake lines so I'll just put the old wheel cylinder back on with the old fluid for now. Don't want to keep the system dry all winter and I don't want to contaminate my new wheel cylinder with the old fluid.
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