Garm's 1969 project

[jamesw]

Heck, it's all downhill if you break down...

[dbrick]

I thought he mentioned bad brakes earlier? What's plan B, Flintstone it?

[68DSU]

Plan B is a REALLY good friend to drive in front of you.

[Garm]

Tires (more pics under the Wheel/Tire forum)

[mraitch]

Garm - Linda & Monty hang out at my house - local Van Nuys - most weekends - give me a c all and come on by - free coffee & soda
Peter
818 448 3181

[notoptoy]

Make it free beer and I just may drive out from the Carolinas!

[Garm]

Peter, sounds great - I'm free on Sunday, racing on Saturday (not the Roadster... yet)

...will mow the grass for coffee. I'm pretty good at pruning fruit trees, too.

[Garm]

Lots of updates Pretty much spent the weekend doing a bunch of small stuff.

The heater works now. Yay.
The horns decided to start working today. One less thing to work on!

Emissions stuff totals 18 pounds, for the record. All off now:

[Garm]

Continued cleaning up water lines and added this oil breather kit.

[Garm]

Cleaned up the backup lights, switch and put in new bulbs. They work now!

1. Smartwax "carpet cleaner" - mild citrus cleaner, great for dirt on anything, gentle on gaskets!
2. Smartwax dressing - softens, reconditions and adds shine to vinyl, plastic, rubber, etc.
3. Turtle chrome polish for chrome parts.

[Garm]

Now I know why the tach doesn't work. It wasn't attached at either end!

Soooo... where does this end go? I'll have to check the diagrams.

[Garm]

Problem: I want the headrests all the way down. Looks better and lines up with my neck.

Removed the screws, pulled the headrests.. no extra holes!
Do people drill and tap new holes to reset the headrest height?
I will if I have to.

Position I found them in:


Where the hole should be to put them all the way down securely:

[Garm]

And finally.... I removed the front bumper (again) to fix the air scoop the leads to the bottom of the radiator.

Kind of liked the look without the bumper, sooo.... I checked our stock on "Password JDM" tow hooks and what do you know, nice fit for a "BRE style" Roadster!
The only problem is I had to use the rear only from two kits (kit is about $70 each from our store), so that makes them a little pricey. The "front" tow hook is too fat to fit through the hole with cutting one or the other.

What do you think?

[Garm]

oh yeah, this:

[notoptoy]

The wood shift knob is sweet. Tow hooks don't rock my world, but I like the bumper so....
The tach cable in the engine compartment should go to the pedestal base directly underneath the distributor.