Wednesday, August 30, 2006

Buick brakes all most done

Ok, first it was the waverunner and now Buick stuff. I'm fabricating stuff for the Buick since you just can't go call up a place and have new parts delivered to your doorstep. The 1961-63 Buick Specials (and other BOP cars) were the red-headed step children of the GM family. The only good thing that I suppose came from everything was the 215 V8 that went onto become the 3.5L Range Rover motors, that even eventually wound up in the MG's. Talk about coming full circle?

I've got the brake lines up and going. I'm adapting a Ford Granada dual master cylinder to my early brake setup. The hardest part so far has been adapting the pedal rod. I've had three attempts at this before settling on something that I think will work. That's the hard part of working on something -- figuring out what will work. We'll see how all this goes together tonight, hopefully getting brakes back on it. I'm hoping that with brakes and some cosmetic things, this will make the car easier to sell. I don't know if it will or not, but we'll see. At the very least, it's giving me a lot of practice on welding and fabrication work. I can cut in some new pieces on the rear quarter of the Buick to give me some more welding skills on the MGB frame.



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