I made a break for it in the middle of the day yesterday - drove up to the powder coating shop and dropped off the axle tubes, subframe, spring plates, bump stop brackets, reinforcement plate and trans mount...should all be ready in a couple of weeks. After that, I stopped by a semi-local speedometer repair shop and the owner tested both of my Gossen tachs. One appears to work - the other one does not. He suggested that I send them to Palo Alto Speedometer for repair. I called them when I got home and they were familiar with the name but not the specific tach. They were willing to bench test them for me and suggest a cost to repair them if they did not work. I sent them off today - hoping this isn't the box that the USPS decides to lose. They're insured but the process of finding one again would be a real bitch. I'll probably hear about them sometime next week at the earliest.
The annual family vacation is coming up at the end of next week - powder coated parts will be ready, tachs will be ready and the engine is about 3 weeks away from showing up. I called Chico and he told me about the progress of the engine build and we confirmed some other changes I requested. He said that he's about a week behind what he originally quoted and that time isn't likely to slip much more. It's nice to know that in about a month - I'll have all of the parts here to put it back together. I'll just have to find the time. Work is consuming a lot of my time right now...
No comments:
Post a Comment