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The one design element that bugs me is the giant greenhouse. I don't care for modern aesthetics that do the exact opposite, but riding around in a short car with a giant bubble on top is kind of weird.That's my only complaint. I remember my friend's '72 Scamp was the same way.
HAHA man it the Jetsons don't ya know...that was the thing the auto designers did in the early to mid 60 was make more room man....all the hot rodders chopped the top and sectioned the body to get rid of the room....lol
I can remember my oldest brother's '50 Mercury "lead sled"... chopped and dropped, channeled, not a bit of bondo on it... sumbitch weighed about 500 lbs. more than stock!!! Those were the days!!
I bet a lot of people never heard of using lead instead of bondo. I had am MGB that had had work done on the hood before I got it with bondo that spider cracked something awful. The guy who re-did it was an old school guy who used lead. Never had a problem after that.
Looks like a real complex job.
I wouldn't say that. The most complex part of the job appears to be making sure that the holes you drill out are where they need to be. Measure three times, and drill once. If you make a mistake and have a few holes that are wrong, just tell your friends those are speed holes you put in, for lightening purposes.
Don't tell anyone, but you can buy a template with the holes already marked.
Yeah, I saw that. The cost of the templates is justified, based on amount of time it would take me to get the right metal, measure it, cut it out, cut the pilot holes, and then measure it all again.I am unsure if those templates will work for your application. Do you know if they will?
Don't tell anyone, but you can buy a template with the holes already marked.The hardest part to me looks like getting the spring out without killing yourself.
Yeah - this is what makes the job fairly complex. If you've done that type of job before and you've got the tools and the time, probably not a big deal. But compressing springs ain't in my genes.
No improvement. It loses pressure immediately after being shut off and conked out again at a red light on the way home. I wonder if the fuel pump may be failing or not holding pressure. I don't see any fuel leaks.It's a good thing fuel pumps aren't expensive.I replaced the fuel filter in the tank but have not replaced the one attached to the fuel pump. It's still the one I was using last week with the old crud-filled tank.
Yeah, I'd say that's one of your problems then. DO you have a Mity-vac, or something else that you could use to apply vacuum to one side of the fuel pump's diaphragm? I'm wondering if a bunch of rust particles and other debris didn't wipe out your pump's diaphragm.