Running out of time before the Challenge, I’m trying to tie up all the last few things. I can’t check any of the actually important stuff because the carb hat is off, the brake lines haven’t come in yet, and I don’t have the tires.
First off, there was a coolant line that had some sort of plug in it.
Yeah, not a plug. It was a fitting that had broken off in the radiator. The rest unthreaded easily and came right out.
I couldn’t easily find an M10x1.0-to-hose barb fitting, so I threaded what was left into the radiator and put a little JB Weld on it.
To clean up the carb hat a bit I took the throttle and choke links off and threw them into the ultrasonic cleaner.
Then I grabbed a can of this and went to paint.
Three coats went on, with some heat gun action in between.
It needs a little more cleaning up once the paint dries the rest of the way, but it’s coming out pretty nice:
I sanded and painted the spare coolant hard line and installed it. I also threw the coolant bottle in the ultrasonic cleaner and then mounted it up.
At some point, one of the terminals for the brake light switch broke off so I soldered on a new terminal.
Not the prettiest, but it should work for now.
The last thing I got wrapped up was installing the hood latch components and running the cables through the firewall.