Monday, June 17, 2002

Well, spent all weekend just trying to get the carb transplant done...the old, anemic q-jet is being replaced by a holley 750. Why did it take all weekend? Well, 1st problem is it rained ALL DAY saturday....and when I say all day, I mean exactly that. So, carb swap was done yesterday....kinda. I forgot some little things like carb studs...(u mean the bolts from the qjet wont work?) and an egr block of plate....of course NO ONE in town has a block off plate when I need one, but was practically tripping over them when I didn't....then of course there's the fact that I broke stuff getting the old carb off...(throttle linkage? I wont need that!) So now, she sits, AGAIN....one of these days, this'll be easy, I swear...
Startin to think hard about just puttin the damn thing somewhere and accumulating tools to do a sub-frame off resto....don't wanna, since I know I don't have the money or time, but the more stuff I replace on this thing, the more problems that show up that I need to fix be4 I can get to driving it....it's truly a basketcase. My 'ol carbuddy got his nova home, and got his old 85 Cutlass runnin (barely) I think he's happy, and as I said b4, I'll be damned if I ever ask nebody for help again. Need a new apt and job pretty quick, I think the project will have to sit AGAIN, while I take care of priorities....*SIGH* so much for having this thing ready to drive for the summer....