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Wednesday 30th November 2011

First task today was retrieving Juniors block and head from Redi-strip but instead of riding shotgun this time I drove! Reason being Wade had to make some phone calls. One of the calls was to Barry Smith to thank him for a restored rear number plate bracket for The Fossil. Barry had restored a '34, (maybe more than one? Barry?) some years ago and Wade had mentioned he didn't have a number plate bracket whereupon Barry said he did! So another piece of the puzzle falls into place. This led Wade to mention how he obtained the left tail light housing now on The Fossil. Although Wade had two left tail lights, the one from the original Fossil wasn't any good while the one from the LHD replacement was just plain wrong. Turned out Harvey knew a guy who claimed to have some '34 parts and he did, two to be exact, one of which is the left tail light now on The Fossil! Back to Barry Smith, a week or two back he'd picked up from Wade the pumpkin, now fitted with the high speed gears installed by Award Diffs, for his '38 Twelve club sedan. Wade asked how he'd gone re-fitting it to the twelve. Barry's reply was, combined with it's awkwidity(a new word copyrighted by Barry), that it took three men and a guy named Trolley Jack to do the job! And presently the issue of axle end play is being addressed.

Back at the workshop with the newly cleaned block and head a check was performed on the oil galleries running the length of the block. Now clean as a whistle, as evidenced by shining a light through them from one end while Wade observed from the other.

This morning Wade brought in the re-woodgrained windshield moulding as well as the above and below windshield moulding mouldings. Note, that's not a typo or a stutter! After a hand held trial fit of all three pieces, fitted the below windshield moulding with some difficulty, sorry awkwidity, which necessitated Wade again assuming the position. Got there in the end then turned to the windshield moulding itself. Unfortunately we were short of fasteners so, after thumbing through a catalogue and getting the requisite part numbers, tonight Wade will be ordering those required. Although Wade has the fasteners that came off the two '34's they are not acceptable for what will be a show quality vehicle. The above windshield moulding requires the windshield moulding to be fitted first so it too couldn't be mounted at this stage. Also cleaned up the front ashtray ready for painting as well as some other fasteners, which are hidden and need not be quite so particular in appearance.

My reports from the workshop between now and Christmas will be limited to Mondays and Tuesdays because of a casual job I'll be doing till then, see pic below!

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Dear Santa,

I have been a very good boy all year - I promise. Could I please have a set of 60 thou oversize racing pistons and an RO34 supercharger for my 38 282 Packard engine for Christmas?

Also my friend Wade would like a new spinal column made from titanium and my other friend Mal would like a new set of gasket punches and a suit that POR-15 won't stick to.

Thank you Santa. We love you!

Matty

I have a spare head

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That must come in handy!

And he's not from Tasmania either, he's originally from Texas!

A Texan in Australia...that must be interesting.

HOWDY....I mean G'Day

Hank

Yes, this one is as hard as the first one but with six holes.

Hmmmm I said I had a spare cylinder head. This one hasn't been drilled out to 14mm.......still 10mm. However, the part number is 316787???? Can't find that anywhere. Ideas?

John,

Cylinder heads usually have a casting number on them which is not the Part Number. Anyways, I think all the 6 cylinder heads should fit irrespective.