Normally, I’d say that the engine is The Gearhead’s domain. But since it refuses to cooperate as of late, I’ve been called in to help trouble-shoot. Mostly that means that I listen as The Gearhead talks through the issues and possible solutions. I ask really probing and insightful questions like “huh?” and “what does that mean for us?” and “will we still be able to drive it to the show?”
Ok, so I’m not giving myself enough credit here. While I don’t claim to understand engines inside and out, they aren’t completely foreign to me so I can follow along pretty well. I figure that I’m involved in these conversations to help The Gearhead get to an end result as quickly and as pain-free as possible. If that means moving some things around in our resto-schedule, then I can do that.
So we started by yanking out the original engine with the plan to use another Kadett engine that The Gearhead bought earlier this year. As it turns out that there were some issues with it so he went hunting through storage and found yet another Kadett engine. He brought that one home and the hope is that he can take them both apart and, between the two, reassemble one good one.
So far, so good, although in the end, this reassembled engine won’t be all that reliable for highway miles which means that eventually we’ll have to replace it. I’m not one for rework, so this bugs me a little. However, on the other hand, it’s better than pulling the car to the show so I’m all for anything that will allow us to drive it in.
There will likely be more on this as The Gearhead works through the kinks today and tomorrow. Beyond that, the car should be back from the paint shop on Wednesday so we’ll be able to start putting it back together again later this week and into the weekend. First up: carpet!
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