A little of this and that.

Well, my charcoal canister master piece I made to eliminate gas fumes in the garage didn't work. So I made a post to the 33 builders blog about my issue and got a response from another 33 builder, Bruce, from CA. He actually told me I should reroute my line for better access later and sent me a unit he said would stop the fumes and did it as a favor, no charge, nice guy. I rerouted the line and installed the unit he sent me and no more fumes : ) Here's what he wrote me about the unit he sent me, because I couldn't figure out what it was from. " The unit is used on about every Chinese and Honda small engine in the 200 to 340 cc class. I have used them an the last 6 hot-rods I have built----with no fumes in the garage after install, They seem to last about 8 years." Thanks Bruce.

I've also been trying to button down a bunch of small items that needed to come off  my to-do list. Because of needing to ship me the body unpainted from NC I started a search to find a painter here locally. I think I may have found one south of Fort Worth about 1 hour, Mansfield, from Flower Mound. Traudl and I drove down there on Monday and found they are a very large full service Hot Rod shop. They had a bunch of custom/vintage cars they were working on. The catch is, that in order for them to give me a good quote I have to trailer the car and body parts down for them to see, which makes sense, but costs money if I decide not to use them. If the quote is too high I will have spent $250 for shipping for nothing plus I will have to bring the car back home. They seemed like really nice folks and also seemed to know their stuff. Their name is House of Hot Rods and Classics http://www.txhouseofhotrods.com/  I will probably have the chassis and body parts shipped down to them next week sometime. Oh yes, I received the body parts on Tuesday and have stored them up on top of my lift. Lots of parts.

I had to shut down for a little while lately because a very close friend of ours from back in the sixties is very ill with cancer and is having a very difficult struggle with it. So Traudl and I decided to drive up to Kirksville MO to visit her. I'm really glad we made the trip. Traudl helped a lot with the driving so that made it much easier. I'm not used to those long drives, up and back we drove about 1500 miles and about 26 hours. That is a long haul, but I'm glad we did it.

                            Here's where I rerouted the fume discharge line to.

   
        Here is the canister that Bruce sent me to install, which worked great.

           This is the truck that delivered the parts of the car from NC. Big truck!

                         We were one of his last drop off on this leg. He had a small
                          plane in there yet to deliver.

                                      Taking the main body off  the truck.

                       We unloaded the smaller parts from the side of the truck.

                             Everything loaded up on top of the car lift.

                                Chassis back under the lift.

Working on odd jobs

We've been working on some odd clean up jobs. One of the horns connectors got broken so they had to be removed and new ones ordered. I decided to relocate them to a different location but the wires weren't long enough. So Bob and his son Frank were over and they extended the wire and got them wired up. I wanted to get the gas pedal installed but the problem was,  the piece that it would attach to possibly wasn't going to be strong enough. So my neighbor Jim had some angle iron and he helped us fabricate a doubler on the attachment point to make it stronger. I installed the gas pedal but at this point I'm not sure if there will be enough space between the brake and gas pedal. We're going to re-bleed the brakes on Sat, my neighbor Chris is coming over to help with that and I'll be able to tell better then.

I ran into another small problem (opportunity). I put 5 gallons of gas into the tank for the first time and the good news, thus far, is that there were no leaks. The bad news was that when I went back out into the garage later it smelled heavily of gas fumes. I thought I had a leak, but on investigating I found there were no leaks but did find that fumes were escaping from the fuel tank relief tube, I did some research and found that others were having a similar problem and found that some were making charcoal filter to catch the fumes. So I went to Oreilly's and bought a gas fuel filter, took out the filter from it and replaced it with charcoal from Pet Store used for fish.

My painting plans also went to pot. I called the person that was scheduled to paint the car in NC, Whitey Motor Car, to go ahead and start painting the body and parts. He called back and informed me, after having it for a year, that he wasn't going to be able to ship the painted car without the chassis attached. So new plan, I decided to have him ship me the body and parts unpainted and I will now need to find a painter here in our area. It's always something : ) I've also put together parts that were shipped to me by mistake, for shipment back to Whitby.

These are the boxes of parts to be shipped back to Whitby.

                                            Bob taking a test drive.

                                   Traudl decided she would also give it a go : )

                            Had the seat and steering wheel installed so we could
                             measure for the gas pedal.

                           The hose running from the right to the left was the one
                            leaking gas fumes out the bottom.

                          Courtney came over and decided she'd give it a go also.

                                    Now she's getting serious about going fast : )

                          She decided she'd rather be Vanna White and present the car.

                     Here's the charcoal filter I made to try and stop the gas fumes.

                                 Here the filter is installed inline.

Here's where we installed a doubler to strengthen the sheet metal attach point.

                              Got the gas pedal attached here to the cover.

Here's where the gas pedal cover is installed . May need some work still.

Got rear brakes installed now need to bleed the brakes.

We got the rear brakes installed today. My neighbor and friend Chris Kiser stopped in this morning and helped me get the rear brakes installed. We now have to bleed the brakes to get the air out of the lines. The Wilwood brakes are really high quality brakes.

                       This is Chris putting the caliper on the passengers side.

                                    Brake on and wheel back on.