37 Ford LS2 Continuation thread

[kwhizz]

Interesting day today......Since I had the doors at home for safe keeping, I can only bring one at a time safely in the back of the pick-up.....got the first one down and installed today.......Making "Progress"...



Remounted the Optima battery and installed a shut off switch for the Battery to make life easier.....then Dave got the Partstrain Interface Module installed today and after a little head scratching and dinking around, we jacked the rear tires off the ground and started the car to see if the GTO gauge module would work......

Look at the module.....Tach works, speedo works, fuel gauge works.....but the Temp gauge didn't and we got some errors in the display



Dave is going to get together with John at Speartech to try and resolve these issues.......But......We are moving foward very quickly.....

As we were checking the speedo (gonna have to recalibrate it) we noticed that the rear wheels were slightly wobbling.....Hummm!!! Lugnuts were tight.......Pulled the wheels off and everything looked O.K.......Put a Dial indicator on the Rotors and noticed that there was a lot of runout....Hummm!!!.....pulled the rotor off and couldn't see anything....put it back on and tighten it up and it still had runout.....Humm!!!......After checking again I noticed that there was a shiney spot on the chamfer on the rotor I.D. where it mounted against the axle flange........Determined that the chamfer from the factory was not large enough to clear the diameter on the axle flange that originally located the brake drum.......Being a "Spoiled Brat"....I just happened to have a lathe 10' away and machined it larger and reassembled everything ....Runout.....Gone......






Tomorrow I will get the other door installed and work on installing door hardware while Dave works on resolving the small issues with the gauge module.........

[CC Rider]

[m22mike]

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[Postsedan]

Nice lathe

Dan

[Xplantdad]

That's Ken for you

Looking great buddy!

[x Baldwin Motion]

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Nice lathe

Dan

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Sometimes the little things in life ARE important.

Looking good!!!

[Xplantdad]

So very cool!

[kwhizz]

Today the car went to Frameup Wheelworks in Waukegan, Ill for the A/C system check out and Charge.......



Billy working his "Magic" and it seems I only had one "O" ring that got damaged in assembly, after he found and repaired it...then we were good to go!!





Back home in the garage after being away for a year.........



Gonna get the door glass and some other stuff finished up over the weekend.....going for upholstry on Monday..........Hopefully getting some weight into the car will help get it a little lower.....Right now it sits like a 4 wheel drive car..........

Ken

[70 Forest Green Zee]

Ken...any progress on fixing the error codes in the dash module? I really need a ride in this beauty when it's finished....this is gonna be the coolest car in your stable....and you have many cool cars!

[kwhizz]

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Ken...any progress on fixing the error codes in the dash module? I really need a ride in this beauty when it's finished....this is gonna be the coolest car in your stable....and you have many cool cars!

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We have a couple of things to try tomorrow

Ken