Re: Howard's 47 Custom project

Posted by HH56 On 2013/4/21 11:42:42

Not a lot done this past week. Spent most of the little time I was actually doing physical labor on cleaning the space and relocating the junk around the car. At least I have more room to play and also a place to locate my new toys.

Did start blasting and cleaning some of the bolt on pieces. On the depressing side, opened up a large box that was stashed when the engine came back from the machine shop. In addition to pieces I already had in boxes, this box contained more. Added to the old engine parts which I thought was all that was inside, it was chock full of bolts and nuts and doodads which I can't possibly believe all came off that engine or car. I don't believe 47 Customs used a throttle guard but there was one in the box. Please enlighten me if it should go back on. There was also a curved oil filler tube instead of the straight one shown in pictures. Should the 47 356 be straight or curved?

Several brackets, pieces, clamps etc that look like they might have been used on older cars were also mixed in. I'm hoping the machine shop just chose to get rid of excess junk. Worse situation is I wound up with someone elses parts in addition to mine and that person was probably hurting. If mine and I have to figure out where all this goes on this car, forget it. On the upside, the box held a brand new set of repro spark plug wires and a distributor cap which I now won't have to order.