Taking a short break this afternoon, waiting for sun to get down a little to put shade in the front door of the shop, excellent time for updates.
The power steering pump is installed, this pump came off of a 86 bronco, complete with the bracket. i removed some sort of extra metal bracket and it then lined up fairly good. I had to shim it out some more from the bronco application. i think my lower pulley for some reason was about half inch further out. i used some washers as temp, i will replace with a better sleeve upon disassembly for painting and clean up. Only problem now is the connection at the power rack is different than the one that came with the donor hose. i will have to find some way to convert it. if nothing else just get a new hose made from scratch.
here is picture;
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The next big change has been the lower hose setup. I guess Tcrist felt sorry for me. He brought up this fancy dancy double bent tubing and gave it to me. Great improvement, thanks Mr. T.
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Next I did some cutting and grinding on the alternator bracket that also came off the 86 bronco. I still am not totally sold on it, but it will do for test firing the motor, and until I can find or make something else. maybe more grinding and forming it will make it better.
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Yesterday I took the ash tray from the 56 belair down to paint store to find the colors. Looks like the technical name is canyon red firemist, and heather firemist for the colors from 85 cadillac.
looks like all the base coats, primers, clear coats, etc will come to about 600.00. My first off the cuff guess and budget was about 1K.
I have spent another 30$ on the car, and logged in about another 7 hours so far with yesterday and today. gotta check the math to see what balance is.
later and have a good week next week to all of you.