Getting ready for Bonneville(rebuild)

[jl222]

 
  Troy painted the engine bay and trans covers Sat and i worked on a timing pointer and polishing fuel rails.

  Met with Steve Moody today going over EFI stuff . need to order 160 lb injectors, an injector driver module,and make up
a couple of injector looms.

                    JL222

[jl222]

 
Engine was ready to go yesterday, new painted dash with ECU mounted and installed. All we needed to do was adjust a few fingers on the clutch mount the bellhousing and starter and install the first unit of the Owens trans. Yeah right

The clutch fingers require a 1/4 in gap between the fingers and hat. we would set the gap but it would get closer with
final tightening pain in ass. finally got fingers set, bell housing on and starter adjusted.

  But the trans would not slide into all three clutch disk    I had purchased a clutch alignment tool for inserting into flywheel and the three disk before tightening the clutch. Work great slid in and out no problem, But trans would not go in. So we took out the input shaft on the Owens [ like we usually did but a pain because we have to take the hydraulic
throwout apart] did that and input shaft would not slide in. :x

  Bellhousing and starter need to come back off clutch loosened, Owens input shaft inserted and clutch tighten .

   JL222

  PS troy applied Dawn dishwashing soap to inside sidewalls of our FAT tires to stop slow air leaks. Hope it works it's
supposed to.

[ggl205]

" PS troy applied Dawn dishwashing soap to inside sidewalls of our FAT tires to stop slow air leaks. Hope it works it's
supposed to."

If not, try TireJect. It is NOT green slime but rather a watery fluid that finds its way to small leaks and seals them. Clean up is easy, even when it comes to changing a tire. I use it on my autos and will seal my front LSR tires with it too (small leaks at the two wheel halves).

John

[jl222]

" PS troy applied Dawn dishwashing soap to inside sidewalls of our FAT tires to stop slow air leaks. Hope it works it's
supposed to."

If not, try TireJect. It is NOT green slime but rather a watery fluid that finds its way to small leaks and seals them. Clean up is easy, even when it comes to changing a tire. I use it on my autos and will seal my front LSR tires with it too (small leaks at the two wheel halves).

John

   Thanks John    Were do you buy it?  We still need to seal our tires that we use  at El Mirage.

   Clutch and disk are aligned, bellhousing ,starter, and trans on and engine is IN, 

                   JL222

[jl222]

" PS troy applied Dawn dishwashing soap to inside sidewalls of our FAT tires to stop slow air leaks. Hope it works it's
supposed to."

If not, try TireJect. It is NOT green slime but rather a watery fluid that finds its way to small leaks and seals them. Clean up is easy, even when it comes to changing a tire. I use it on my autos and will seal my front LSR tires with it too (small leaks at the two wheel halves).

John

   Thanks John    Were do you buy it?  We still need to seal our tires that we use  at El Mirage.

   Clutch and disk are aligned, bellhousing ,starter, and trans on and engine is IN, 

                   JL222

   found it on the the internet 

[bvillercr]

Sorry I'm a little behind on the photos.  I'll try and catch up here.

120lb injectors on the bottom and 160s on top.



More fresh paint and we mounted our new Holley Dominator EFI.







Clutch installed and adjusting the fingers, what a pain!!

[bvillercr]

Bell housing and first trans mission is on an now the motor is ready to go in.







Oil and water lines attached.



We need to pair up the TPS from the Dominator to the connector of the FAST so we had to do some splicing.



Liquid tape first then electrical tape on each individual and more over the bundle.

[bvillercr]

We had to take the first transmission off today because we had a leak in the hydraulic clutch.  I don't think this O-Ring looks right



We installed the new shaft that connects the crank to the Procharger.  Now we just need to take the whole blower assembly to Brad Bosworth to weld the blower hub to the end of the shaft.



These dirty headers are in need of a serious cleaning and redcoat.  Going to be dropped off to Caps for a little make up.

[jl222]

Throwout bearing is repaired and ist trans installed after a battle but finally got her in then bolted up the other two trans with overdrive and the driveshaft installed.

  Blower hub welded tomorrow. Then back to shop and blower assembly installed. [hope so]

        JL222

                       

[bvillercr]

Photos of today's progress.

The blower plate resting on Brad Bosworths' welding table.









Blower plate installed quicker than normal.

[jl222]

Headers look really good, ceramic chrome coat. Just waiting on 90 tooth pulley from RCD and engine is finished

  Next EFI hook up.

                  JL22

[bvillercr]

Today we got a few things done.  We got the ballistic blankets over the transmissions so tomorrow we will button up the tunnel covers.



We cleaned up the blower tubes and will install those tomorrow as well.  We got our headers back and they look great!

 

[jl222]

  The best news is I got reservations at the Nugget hotel for Speed Week No camping at the bend

  I was complaining to Troy that i could never talk directly with the hotels, always through Expedia ECT, Did i try the hotel numbers in the rule book? No duh. Tried them got reservations..

Most fuel lines and blower tubes cleaned and installed today just waiting for a blower pulley and  some wiring hook up for the other two.

                      JL222

[ggl205]

" PS troy applied Dawn dishwashing soap to inside sidewalls of our FAT tires to stop slow air leaks. Hope it works it's
supposed to."

If not, try TireJect. It is NOT green slime but rather a watery fluid that finds its way to small leaks and seals them. Clean up is easy, even when it comes to changing a tire. I use it on my autos and will seal my front LSR tires with it too (small leaks at the two wheel halves).

John

   Thanks John    Were do you buy it?  We still need to seal our tires that we use  at El Mirage.

   Clutch and disk are aligned, bellhousing ,starter, and trans on and engine is IN, 

                   JL222

   found it on the the internet 

Yep, that is where I got mine.

John

[jl222]

  The best news is I got reservations at the Nugget hotel for Speed Week No camping at the bend

  I was complaining to Troy that i could never talk directly with the hotels, always through Expedia ECT, Did i try the hotel numbers in the rule book? No duh. Tried them got reservations..

Most fuel lines and blower tubes cleaned and installed today just waiting for a blower pulley and  some wiring hook up for the other two.

                      JL222

Also trans covers were installed and a little touch up paint.
Checked that transmissions were shifting [triggered by 3 toggle switches on steering wheel]

                      JL222