Now I'm in for it.

[Aladin Sane]

I can't wait to get it back so I can work on the inside over the winter.

When I saw the car in blue, I almost chose to not add the stripes. I think it would have looked great just blue, but the image I have alway had of the finished project had the stripes, and I am glad I went ahead with them.

 

[Barry]

The white stripes make the blue BLUER!

 

[Aladin Sane]

I do plan to add a white tape pinstripe down the side aligned with the Alpine fender scripts in homage to the tiger bright side trim.

 

[dwolff706]

looking beautiful, I know you have been patient!

 

[Aladin Sane]

I would say resigned to the wait more than patient.

 

[belmateo]

Brain,
She is a beauty!
A couple of questions, is the grill an aftermarket item or from another car. The most important question, when is the car coming home to you?
So EXCITING!

 

[belmateo]

I would say resigned to the wait more than patient.

True That!

 

[Aladin Sane]

Brain,
She is a beauty!
A couple of questions, is the grill an aftermarket item or from another car. The most important question, when is the car coming home to you?
So EXCITING!

The grill is aftermarket. One of our members had a few of these water jetted out of aluminum. I think I may have bought the last one last spring.

No idea when the car will be coming home. They need to reinstall all the bright work. They have some work to do painting and installing the roll bar. I am having plates attached to the underside of the car with captive nuts so I can remove it if I want to. I am also having bungs welded into the roll bar for attachment of my shoulder belts. That was the main driver for getting a roll bar. I needed a higher mounting point for the belts.

 

[belmateo]

Fingers crossed that it will be done sooner rather than later.

 

[Aladin Sane]

I got a set of VDO gauges for my project the other day, so I spent a little time in the garage working on my dash. I got a new wood dash from GCAutowood. I dropped the new gauges in the holes. I then took a few minutes cleaning 54 years worth of gunk and corrosion off some of the bits that are transferring from the old dash to the new, like the warning lights, and the various switches. A few minutes with Dremel and some polishing compound did the trick.

Here is the original dash and gauges.


Gauges set in the new dash.


One cleaned, one not.




Here is the switch prior to removal and cleaning.


This is the cleaned up switch. I will need some new tags, as they did not clean up so well.

That is as far as I got today.

Does anyone have a tip for removing the washer pump? I can unscrew the nob, but the pump does not want to come free from the back of the dash.

 

[belmateo]

Brian, have you tried JB Blaster on frozen fasteners?

 

[Aladin Sane]

I use PB blaster all the time. But the pump does not appear to be screwed on.

 

[Gordon Holsinger]

For some time I had been casually looking for a series 5 to do a v6 conversion on. I was looking about on ebay recently and saw a 5 that someone had started a v8 conversion on. The firewall and trans tunnel work looked OK in the pics I got so I put in a low bid and won the auction. Now I need to transport the car from Virginia to Iowa and see what I have actually gotten. Wish me luck. Oh, and I will never try to pass this of as a Tiger.

 

[Gordon Holsinger]

Where in Va?

 

[Aladin Sane]

Where in Va?

The car had been owned by Clifton Fleshman of Colonial Beach, VA. I dont know any more than that. I bought it from a broker in VA named Ed Palmer.

 

[Gordon Holsinger]

The car had been owned by Clifton Fleshman of Colonial Beach, VA. I dont know any more than that. I bought it from a broker in VA named Ed Palmer.

I was wondering if it was near me I could check it out!

 

[sunalp]

Look inside the pump "housing" where the handle attaches. There's a nut in there that you have to remove.
I forget the size, I think it's a 3/8ths and can be loosened with a deep socket. I've also had luck with long needle
nose pliers to hold the nut while turning the pump body from behind the dash.

 

[Aladin Sane]

Thanks, that is just what I need to know.

 

[Aladin Sane]

Look inside the pump "housing" where the handle attaches. There's a nut in there that you have to remove.
I forget the size, I think it's a 3/8ths and can be loosened with a deep socket. I've also had luck with long needle
nose pliers to hold the nut while turning the pump body from behind the dash.

Yep, that did the trick. I an surprised, the pump actually functions. i will get the knob and bezel cleaned up and install it in the dash, but I am not certain I will ever have it hooked up to anything.

 

[Aladin Sane]

I am off work now until after the first of the year, so I swung by the shop to deliver the new wheels and tires and see if any progress had been made. Some had, but not much. Here is what the new tire wheel combo looks like. You can see she sits a little nose high,, but that should settle down once the engine is back in. We also spent some time talking about how we would fit the egg crate grill.