Sunday, January 8, 2012

Back at it

It seems like September, October and November got away from me with a couple trips to China, a family reunion, some ministry work, a kitchen peninsula range hood install, and a backyard landscaping project. Thanksgiving I took the week off, but with a couple visitors over that week, I only got a few hours in on the project. Christmas I took two weeks off work, with a goal of getting back to work on the car.

Back in August I was struggling with power steering routing, and had a few other things that seemed like giant conundrums. Every project seems to have some of those. With a few months away, and several days to work through things, managed to get back to making forward progress. Power steering is now plumbed, heater box is reinforced and back in the car, and a host of other small tasks knocked off the to do list. Of course, for every couple of steps forward, there's a step back.

Friday, January 6th, the car made it's first movement under it's own power, only to find that park wasn't fully engaging - looks like the shifter linkage lever I built needs revision. I should have figured that one out when the car wouldn't start in park. Of course, the ebrake wasn't installed yet, so it was a quick run up and down the driveway, just long enough to turn the car around to have proof it actually moved. Ebrake is now installed, but there's a few more things to knock off before the true maiden run of the car - then lots of little stuff including windows, interior, and exterior trim before it's done. God willing, it will see the road this spring.

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