My name is Earl, and I have a Stainless Steel bolt fetish =)

[YoungCR]

Replacing all the lines isn't a bad idea at this point along with cleaning out the fuel tank.

[Bassboy3313]

Earl said:

I pulled the fuel lines and rear brake line that ran up to the engine bay on Friday. I have decided to refresh all gas lines while I am at it. More on that later in this update.

Installed all of the new parts on the steering column Sunday:

Yesterday I pulled the gas tank....yes I have officially lost my mind

I will be cleaning the tank up, replacing all of the fuel lines, and cleaning up the underside of the car where the tank has been. I had a few fasteners snap under the car which has me quick frustrated. One of them was the stud for bolting the fuel filter to the car. I am trying to figure out how to remedy that situation currently. The other fasteners were the screws holding in the three mounts that ran the fuel and brake lines forward. Those will also be tricky to sort out. 

I took my tanks to get cleaned and lined to a radiator shop in Butler. They did a great job with fast turn around. Just a thought.

[Earl]

My tank is plastic

[Bassboy3313]

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[REKIII]

Bassboy3313 said:

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Are your live wells plastic or stainless?

[Bassboy3313]

Idk what you mean

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[REKIII]

I've never see n a bassboat without live wells.  Usually they are stainless or plastic.

[Bassboy3313]

I've never seen a bass guitar With live wells, so makes sense that your question was confusing. Carry on!

[B C]

Here we see a wild Bassboy in its natural habitat: 

[Earl]

Still waiting on the rest of the column parts to arrive so I can put it back in. 

The gas tank is cleaned and ready to be put back together. I need to order all of the lines and gaskets yet. I also need to clean up under the car and undercoat that section. 

Before

After

[Earl]

Been working on little things the past two days. 

I "rebuilt" the throttle pedal assembly. Everything is brand new besides the lever itself. My old pedal return spring was snapped and not doing anything. I don't recall the pedal ever feeling bad so I was surprised to see that.

Old

New

I also got pads for the brake and clutch pedals

The steering column is also back in the car now. I placed an order for the fuel lines above the tank and need to start wire wheeling and undercoating the tank area under the car.

[B C]

The dust and cobwebs were applied from the factory for lubrication. You will need to get another packet of dust and cobwebs for the new one.

[Earl]

Is this something that would benefit with a spray of white lithium grease? I also wondered the same for the retention spring on the steering column. I also figured it may fight off oxidation=)

[REKIII]

I don't think the lithium grease would hurt it.

[Earl]

Figured it didn't hurt to ask=)

[Earl]

Finished buttoning the column up yesterday

[REKIII]

It's going to suck getting the dash on around the steering wheel.

[Earl]

lol The column cover needs to come back off at that point too to remove the stalks. I can get the dash in and out in under a half hour at this point so I'm not worried=)

[Earl]

I have been really busy planning a GTG and what not lately but figured I would post some pictures of a few things to keep things lively in here

If you can't buy it, make it (new one is stainless)

I cleaned and painted the rear bumper carrier as well as the mounting brackets (and installed OEM hardware)

[Earl]

Finally scored a missing piece of the puzzle:

Racing Dynamics Non M lip

Unfortunately I wasn unaware that the lip is slightly different between the two non M bumper styles so I will have to make some reliefs in the top of the lip to fit around parts of the bumper vents. The good thing is that the lip isn't perfect and needs some fixing anyways.

You can see the small semi-circle reliefs now that are for fitting around the vertical slats in the wide slat style non m bumper. Those will be filled in as well.