e’ve been making some good progress on the car. The engine has been painted. The rollbars have been installed temporarily. We had a problem with the donor steering rack. I went to replace the inner rods to shorter length rods and found that there was power steering fluid inside of the dust boots which would suggest that the power steering rack seals were bad. Rather then rebuild the rack we ended up purchasing a reman rack from the local auto parts store. Waiting for the new steering rack kind of put a halt on things for a couple weeks but then once that came in there were lots of things that got done. I installed the new steering rack with new inner and outer rod ends. Dad came down last weekend and we did the final drilling and install of the steering shaft. We finished up the front and rear brake lines. Installed new brake pads all the way around, and bled the brake system. We have brakes now! We then decided to take our first little “ride” in the car. See below:
The engine after being painted. Turned out good.
All the brake lines routed to the distribution/safety block.
Dad is ready to drive!
Steering wheel installed.
We took the car out on the street for the first time.Now lets see how fast this can go!
