![]() If that does not work, then it is cutting time. Tomorrow morning will pick up the commercial impact gun from Wayne. It is also a very skinny wrench, and I can get in on that bolt if it turns just a smidgen. In my tool chest I still have a Fiat branded wrench from that car. I drove it for a couple of years and then traded up to a 1959 Austin Healy Sprite. Love the little car as it got almost 50 mpg on the freeway, about 35 in town. In high school, some 50 years ago, I had a Fiat 600. I am still faced with getting a wrench on the back bolt if I can get it to turn. I will let it sit and see if I can detect any movement. While it was still hot I sprayed in some Kroil and it was sucked into the shackle. Well, a lot of smoke and burning rubber but no movement with my impact gun. I've got enough remnants to get that done. There evidently is a small wooden tool tray under there too. It should be the same for the '12 and up autowagons. I'm beginning a search for a sample in order to make a correct replacement. ![]() A component that's always been missing during my watch is the seat bottom, the panel that keeps your seat cushion and behind from falling into the spinning flywheel. Now to get some things done on the old Termite Transfer. A nice visit with Rob and Mike, Stoddard and Harvester traded places and we got in late. It was a nice event that included Frank Gable (with truck and trailer) and old friends Bob Metz and Phil Ritter who served as wingmen. Sunday a gaggle of us retrieved it from Burchill's. In order to get it ready for the Ford museum meet in September it needed some work. Somewhat of an interruption of that project is the Harvester. Photo of the initial stages of the upholstery pieces. The next project on 5054 will be the installation of the rear quarter interior panels so that I can install that back glass. "Been cramming in work on the Avanti and other things. Also going to pick up 3 gallons of Dextron auto transmission fluid as am going to change the transmission fluid when I get it back on all four wheels.īut, for your morning coffee, I have a Greg report. Raining hard so will be heading off to see if I can find some U bolts and rubber cushions for the Avanti spring. I am sure at some point I will get a "told you so" moment. Oh, Greg is not happy with me putting in a used spring. My banging and twisting dislodged it so it is now working.Īnd I paid for the springs last night so they will be on their way from NC today. On the good side, the top part of the shackle was evidently frozen tight. If the rear is this hard I can only imagine what the front is going to be like. Well, got one side cut, and then the grinding disc was done. OK, at least now I have enough room to use my air grinder to cut the bolt on each end to get the spring to drop. ![]() So with 150 lbs of air pressure managed to get it to budge maybe a quarter of an inch. Why not take my air hammer with a point edge and hammer out the bolt. Not! No amount of beating could I that bolt to budge. That done I figured it would be easy to take a long steel rod and my trusty sledge hammer to push the bolt out of the spring bushing. The nut came off with some Kroil and a significant amount of twisting with the breaker bar and long extension to get some more leverage. All I wanted to do is remove the rear end of the spring from its shackle mount. I worked over three hours and accomplished very little. If I was a mechanic working in a shop I would be fired. ![]()
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