Gramma's Car: the new project!

[njsteve]

Finally got the speedometer working accurately. The car originally had a 2.56 rear gear ratio and I guessed and put in a blue 43 tooth driven gear years ago when I did the 3.42 rear swap. That never helped much.

It turned out that the trans had an 18 tooth green drive gear which makes it impossible to get a driven gear with enough teeth to slow down the speedo. They dont make a 49 tooth driven gear. So I ended up getting a 15 tooth grey drive gear and a yellow 41 tooth driven gear and the speedo now reads exactly right.

So with 20 years of the wrong gear, the 79,000 on the odometer is probably 69,000 actual miles. [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/grin.gif[/img]

[njsteve]

Celebrated the first day of Spring with a nice drive in Gramma's car. I let my daughter drive the car a little, too. She drives like a gramma: slow, both hands on the wheel, head on a swivel. [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/grin.gif[/img]

We now officially have 1,000 miles on my son's engine rebuild. The car runs great, though he has a few years before he gets to drive anything other than a lawnmower, (which is what his sister learned how to drive on).

[SmallHurst]

This is one of the things I am looking forward to! I cannot wait to have my son help me out on building a car!!! Enjoy this for all it is worth!!