It has been a busy week here. I was tired of hearing Sarah's rear brakes squeaking, so i fixed that Monday. Zach blew the trans cooler line off the Chevelle, and then broke a rear brake line a few days later. The best thing about building your car from the ground up is knowing exactly what is wrong and how to fix it. Both of Zach's issues were fixed for under $20 combined.
I also got the parts for the Camaro in this week. New floor mats, some manuals and literature, and the tune-up parts I needed. I installed the new headlight motor and some 1157A bulbs in the parking lights, so the lights are all set now. The vacuum advance wasn't working on the Camaro, and it didn't help that the timing was set at 4 degrees after TDC, not the 6 degrees before TDC that is the factory setting. I rebuilt the distributor with a new Accel electronic points conversion kit, 8140 coil and new vacuum advance, a little tuning of the carb with the vacuum gauge, and she runs much better. I took it out for a ride today, and Zach and I stopped in the park for a quick photo. We also installed a new waterneck and gasket to stop the weeping/leaking of the coolant on the intake. On our last drive around town we ran into my neighbor Vinny with his '68 Camaro convertible, and spent a while swapping stories till it got dark and were hungry for dinner.
