Re: HA's 52 200 Grey Ghost

Posted by Hans Ahlness On 2014/3/20 21:40:01

Re: HA's 52 200 Grey Ghost

Well it has been really busy at work and at home, so I haven't gotten much time to work on things. But I've been plinking away at little things right after work, bead blasting parts and generally cleaning things and repainting. Tonight I cleaned up the air ducts and heater core box that I had removed from the firewall. I have to make new seals for the flapper valves, they are just seal materal sandwiched between two steel pieces.

I got the oil lines off the exterior of the engine, they were really on there. I'll see how the lines clean up, if they're dingy then I can make new ones. I am going to install a new oil pressure sender just on the theory that the old one is, well, old. And those are pretty cheap.

The local big car show is coming up in a couple weeks so I will get a chance to talk to folks who know more than I about vendors etc, like the gas tank and interiors and the like. It will be fun to go with a purpose for once, instead of just as a tourist.

Last night I ordered a wiring harness, so when that comes I can start working on getting that tailored to this car. I took my cue from BigKev and got a GM harness, why reinvent the wheel.

And yesterday my water pump came back from Gould, looks great and it was a very good price. I was going to order a kit and do it myself but the retaining pin was rusted off, and I couldn't figure out how to get it out. The guy I talked to at Gould said they see that all the time, so I said he could see this one too. Their price wasn't that much more than a kit would have been.