DeTomaso Mailing List: April 2001, Message #81

Stevie,
I just realized you could have had your car DONE already if you hadn't spent
so much time writing this Mikey magna carta biblical messages! :-)
MD, calling Bobby Byers again this morning!  

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	steven.liebenow@att.net [SMTP:steven.liebenow@att.net]
> Sent:	Tuesday, April 03, 2001 12:03 AM
> To:	Multiple recipients of list
> Subject:	MAN up to Butt in Goose!
> 
> Hey all!
> 
> Just had time to sit down and read a few posts!! A good 
> weekend/Monday was had by me in the garage so I feel real 
> good now!
> 
> MD!!!  You really need to work on that right pedal 
> thing....  BTW, Will you ever be allowed back to TWS??
> 
> Secondly, you want tires! Have Mikey get you some 727 
> specials! That should give you some topend! HAH!  Reminds 
> me of the Bill Cosby thing "200MPH" !!
> 
> Cal! Dammit! Get back to sanding!
> 
> Melton01: One word buddy! CRAFTSMAN!  The BIG box!
> 
> Nolan and Jack: If you guys can't post links to pictures 
> on ebay that take less than 5 minutes to load, I'm not 
> looking any more.  All I got to see was a cement block 
> building "somewhere in NJ" and then my computer quit 
> xferring data... what's up with that!?
> 
> Thomas! You crazy Swede you!  You're 'sposed to put a 
> lift in the garage to lift the WHOLE car! I'd take the 
> hoist back....  Glad you got your water leak fixed!  And 
> your first ride with the boy!  He'll come around, next 
> time Uma down the street see's you guys cruise by... and 
> as soon as he get's his driver's license... and has a 
> date with Uma... and need transpo!   HAH!  ...."oh dad, 
> can I have some kroners for gas! Tack!"... You'll never 
> see him again....
> 
> Cal: Keep sandin!   An old body & fender man once told me 
> this, after I asked him how to tell when it was smooth 
> enuf? "As soon as it feels as smooth as a woman's breast, 
> you're done sanding." I always had trouble with that 
> one.....  probably why I'm not a bodyman.... they all 
> felt pretty smooth on paper!
> 
> Mikey: Just where the hell are you!
> 
> Dan Jones: I wanna see an Autolite carb on your car at 
> Vegas this year!!
> 
>   So, what have I been doing besides busting chops!  I 
> been bustin' butt on my car!  Here's where we are:
> 
> Engine is ready to drop in place. Need to fab a sling etc 
> for proper placement.  When it came out, it was only a 
> short block. Now it's all growed up and is a long block! 
> Should be dropping it in Saturday, unless I get a job 
> before then and can quit wasting my time going to job 
> fairs..... and then can get some REAL time into the 
> Goose, by dropping the motor in!  What's my planner say 
> about tomorrow... damned job fair..... maybe Wednesday...
> 
> Valve covers are sitting in place, but due to new roller 
> rocker interferance, I had to remove the oil drippers in 
> the stock aluminum covers. Another item for ebay...."pay 
> for my Aussue heads fund!"
> 
> Fab'd a bracket to hold the dipstick tube to the head.  
> Seems the Aussies saw no need for a hole in the casting 
> there any longer.... could have drilled and tapped the 
> head, but it may have gotten messy going right into the 
> oil drain back area... used an existing blind hole 
> instead and made a bracket... It's going nowhere!
> 
> Fab'd a jackshaft support for the center of the jackshaft 
> to keep any unwanted oscillations down, just in case they 
> wanted to come to the party.... Thank goodness for drill 
> presses, or I'd still be out there recharging the 
> Makita...  Old Boss manifold had two points where the 
> support mounted on a horizontal plane. Street Boss intake 
> eliminated the need for them (or those bolt holes anyway) 
> and the Aussie heads are not drilled there anyway as 
> well!
> 
> Painted my distributor hold down clamp.  Slipped thru the 
> cracks somehow...
> 
> Distributor is only thing that I need to square away.  
> Have two choices, curve a vacume advanced version for 
> driveability and drop it in, or just stuff in the old 
> dual point Accel and replace it later. Risk is the 16 
> degrees initial advance that a Boss 302 wants with no 
> vacume advance....could be problems.  No wonder they 
> started hard and idled like crap!
> 
> Oil pan is off yet, but will be doing some engineering 
> work towards a "Goose Pan for the Masses" with increased 
> ground clearance and higher capacity. Stay tuned. Will 
> run old pan for now, replace later.
> 
> Removed under car cooling pipes! Boy, this was not a fun 
> thing!  Seems DeT wrapped each pipe right where each 
> little frame tab was, with rubber tape and something like 
> masking tape. Fast forward 30 years and imagine this 
> sandwich of tape, rubber, and tubing starting to settle 
> onto the metal support tabs....  Bottom line is that 
> these suckers were stuck good!  I felt great if I got an 
> eight inch of movement pushing back and forth, back and 
> forth, back and forth.... imagine this a whole lot 
> more.... until finally ya got a half inch! I almost wet 
> my pants when the pipe would let loose and move 4-6 
> inches! Once you had this much, it was all down hill as 
> you finally had some room to get a good pull!  
> 
> On a Goose, the pipes will come out the front! (THanks 
> Jeffery!!!) No engine pulling/lifting required, and you 
> can run one piece pipes, no joints!
> 
> Obtained stainless tubing for my under car cooling pipes, 
> and for my front "Goose Only" pipe that most of youse 
> guys (& gals) don't have to deal with. Now just need to 
> find a shop with 1 3/8" bending/forming tools.... 
> Borrowed the special Goose Pipe from another local Goose 
> owner. He will need stainless tubing too..... real 
> soon!!! No, he needs it already!
> 
> Tomorrow is a job fair.....
> 
> Need to cut off ground stud on rear crossmember of frame, 
> drill hole thru what remains and tap for screw....  This 
> stud has the unique ability to get stuck directly in the 
> middle of the round hole in the casting at the rear of 
> the ZF when you are trying to raise or lower it.... push 
> it in to clear the stud, ya can't raise or lower it cuz 
> the pilot shaft is in the clutch disc... get it out of 
> the clutch disc and the stud get's ya.... anyone see a 
> pattern here besides me????
> 
> All suspension pieces are bolted back securely in place. 
> Shocks have new bushings (old news..)
> 
> Replaced the bumper on the wife's Fiat.   Now how the 
> heck did that get in here!?  Who's moderating this board 
> anyway.....
> 
> End of brain dump!  Sleep well!
> Cal! Keep sanding!!!
> 
> Steve :)))))))
> 
> I better remember to pick up some oil.....and put the pan 
> on first....