Daily Log for: July 27,
2002
We had another near-catastrophe this week. Last Sunday we took the
'B on it's first road trip...a 55 or 60 mile run up to my parents house.
It was quite hot, with temps in the low 90's and high humidity. The
car ran great, although the temp gauge ran on or slightly above the 212 mark
most of the way, particularly on upgrades. I've found a solution to this
on the internet. Apparently the radiators that Moss sells are made
in China and they're junk, with just 3 rows. This is exactly what I
bought. I've read that they need to have a 4 row, L type core, so I
need to either get mine re-cored, or find the proper radiator somewhere.
Anyway, I left the car at my parents house because my brother's family
was heading up there later in the day, and I thought he'd like to drive it
home. Again, it ran great all the way home. My brother took it
to his house to look at a couple of things (the speedometer quit working
and he determined that the cable broke because we had a kink in it under
the dash). A couple of days later he was on his way to my house to
bring it back and it developed a really bad vibration, so he turned around
and took it back to his house. After a small amount of investigation,
he determined that the front u-joint on the drive shaft had lost an e-clip,
which in turn caused it to lose a cup. While the fact that it happened
is bad, it's really a good thing it didn't happen on the freeway, so we feel
quite lucky. We're getting close to the point where we'll do a 500
mile checkup, so we'll go through everything then to make sure it's all tight.
In the meantime, here's the latest pictures of the nearly completed project.
I need to get my brother to go out with me sometime to get some good
pictures, because his digital camera has much better resolution, resulting
in sharper pictures. We still need to install a couple of seals for
the quarterlights (I've read that MacGregor British Car Parts in Canada
sells the best rubber fittings, so I've ordered from them), and permanently
install the tunnel carpet and the battery cover carpet, but otherwise it's
complete. Looks a little different than the
starting pictures
, wouldn't you say?
