Stockornaut to the rescue again....

Billie found the problem with my brake lights. It was of all things the headlight switch. It needs replacing and Billie had a used one in a parts car but it was seized in the dash so tight it wouldn't budge even after a bath in PB Blaster. I'm going to give Ralph a call per Billie's suggestion and see if he has a NOS '74 headlight switch.

Drove the hell out of the turbo bug. And changed the oil. maybe i shouldn't have done that in that order, .

Me and Tyler went to the gas station today and the battery cable from the hot post to the starter decided to take a crap. He was freaking out wondering how we were gonna get back home when it wouldn't crank. I told him to just sit there and I would push us home. I got the bus rolling pretty good from the pumps, (downhill) and hopped in and jumpstarted us. He had never seen a car started like that and was talking about it all afternoon.

Got home and pulled the bad cable off. Looks like it is corroded inside the sheathing, I will get a replacement tomorrow.

More body work today. First time using a stud welder...it was SWEET. (And a hell of a lot faster than the hammer and dolly I had been using although I did use that just to get as straight as possible in the end.) Finished treating all of the surface rust...that I could find...and I'm hoping that tomorrow is skim and primer day!!

I also scored a rear tire hanger for the truck so I can get the damn spare out of the way! Did the front brakes on the truck too. Great day!

Spent another 400 easy on some little bits to finish up the engine, new oil cooler, the rest of my full flow set up, chrome air deflectors that wrap around the cylinders, Teflon buttons, shims and crank spacer to get my end play dead on, engine compartment seal and back tin without holes for the non-heater, new red scat wires, cap, rotor, scat chromoly rocker shaft kit, scat swivel ball adjusting screws and copper head gaskets .040 to get my compression ration down to 7.8:1 so that's .030 deck height .098 cylinder spacers and .040 head gaskets.

Now that the beam is done, I went back to finishing up the fake vert decklid. I grafted one vent over months ago, so today I cut the other vent out and cut the hole in the decklid. This one fits much better than the first one. I had huge gaps to fill the first time, this one fits nice and snug. Unfortunately though, the welder is out of gas. Got to get a new tank this afternoon.

new brakes on the 08 accord this morning- pulled 4 screw/nails out of the rear tires- wtf- alot of people on our street getting new roofs!

ended up reordering the part im waiting on from long enterprises-hopefully be here monday.
no faith tht BFY is actually shipping -prob just more BS.

I had tires mounted and balanced on my American Racing wheels and installed them on the '68. I also installed new headlights and new trim rings.

I put the Centerlines on the waterbug. I also put two new brake light switches on the waterbug. I bought a new much needed steering damper for the waterbug at Stockornaut today. Billie drove the waterbug said he thought it was fine except that there is little or no flex to the front suspension. It feels like a fixed axle very stiff. Another front end coming from Stockornaut soon.

Drove it! Hell yeah!

Drove it to the hot rod show and won a top ten trophy.


I'm not a trophy kinda guy but ths one was sweet with it's retro gas pump, banjo wheel, and flaming pillars.

Congratulations Glenn.

NICE TROPHY, congrats