another day of sanding

[anlauto]

Thanks. Certainly a cool looking car

[RUNCHARGER]

It does look pretty cool. I'm 6'1" and can't really drive it, my knees are into the dash and my head is into the headliner so it isn't the car for me, Greg fits in it better though. I'm really limbered up now from having my body twisted like a pretzel and head under the dash figuring out what the original builder did with the wiring for a few days. There's Corvette wiring, Painless (painful) wiring and no diagrams of what went where so I had to chase a couple of circuits (worst one was the hazard flashers). Ended up being 2 bad grounds, 2 hot wires into the 4 way relay rather than 1 and a few other surprises. Glad that's over with.

[jimynick]

"Glad that's over with." LOL, I got a chuckle out of that one! I'll bet! He's lucky he has a guy like you to work on that thing, or he'd be selling his children to pay for all the remedial repairs you've done, both body and mechanical. 

[RUNCHARGER]

Ha, ha: Yes I'm thinking I don't really want to do that again. I had to get the 4 way flashers working and that was a chore, Some Corvette wiring, some Painful wiring and no guide or notes as to how everything connected or what wire did what. Found a couple of bad grounds and finally found the 4 way relay and found a bad ground and two power wires going to it! That was after a full day of cutting looms apart, not cutting wires wily, nilly and twisted around sticking my 64 year old head under the dash trying to make sense of anything. Found the good power wire then figured out how to wire the switched power into the Corvette column harness without frying anything. That was a happy day when I got through that. It was about as much fun as changing the engine in my Twin Turbo Dodge Stealth a few years ago. I think I've learned my lesson now though (I hope).

[jimynick]

" think I've learned my lesson now though (I hope)." LOL, reminds me of an old Red Skelton bit where he was playing "The Mean Wittle Kid" and he said "if I dood it, I get a whippin'.......I dood it!" Hell ,if we really learnt from our travails working on these things, we'd've got out LONG ago! Have fun!