2010 Front Engine Dragster Week 2010 12 30

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Ok, now for today’s update on progress and we did make progress!

Tom went through the pile of boxes that has been growing by the garage door and organized the parts that have been arriving to be bolted on to the dragster

PC300010_smallDon Goodman and Tom Deyle stopped by to lend a hand and brought some good luck along with them.Don removed the tape that has covered the intake for over a year, cleaned the surface and bolted on the carburetor. 
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Tom bolted the starter back in (the shims from Jegs has not arrived yet so the starter will have to come out again) and put the rod catcher pan back on. The pan requires no modification. It fits like a glove around the starter.PC300012_small                                         PC300020_small
PC300015_smallBoth Tom and Don collaborated and installed the transmission dip stick.
PC300017_smallI started blowing out the fuel lines. This meant removing all the fittings. I doped up all the treads of the fittings that screw into the fuel filter, fuel pump, and fuel regulator. This caused another problem in that with the Teflon pipe dope on the treads lubricated the treads which caused the fittings to screw deeper into the fuel filter, fuel pump, and fuel regulator. When I went to put the lines back in place they were short by a ¼ inch. I was able to fix this by carefully straightening out some of the bends in the pipes gaining back the ¼ inch needed to make the lines fit snugly.
PC300009_smallAll the wiring that had been threaded through the chassis has been pulled back out, as we are now going to run the wiring down the right side of the dragster.
PC300019_smallThe new battery has been set in place (up to this time we have been using the battery out of the trailer to mock things in place 

I spent most of the rest of the day running for parts.

I picked up the hoses and clamps needed to put the coolant system together and I think that will be one of the projects for the Official gathering of the car nuts this Saturday at 9:00 AM.

The blower engine may be hard blocked tomorrow (that is a whole other project).