Date Description
Friday, 02/01/2002
2 hours
Reinstalled glove box lock cylinder after rekeying
scapped and wire brushed springs in preparation for paint.
All things in place to reinstall rear springs in the morning.
Saturday, 02/02/2002
6 hours
Reinstalled rear springs. Man it is a good thing I have the manual.
Information is consise and lead me through the proceedure. Worked well.
Sunday, 02/03/2002
2 hours
Sold tie rods to a fellow in New York....on eBay. Draped new tarps
over car to test fit....works well..should consider making a cover out of them
Monday, 02/04/2002
1 hours
Shipped tie rods to New York by UPS.
Wednesday, 02/06/2002
12 hours
Worked on webpages for 12 hours....can you believe how long this
stuff takes???
Friday, 02/08/2002
1 hours
Got a line on an AC unit for the car in New York for $175US....not sure
Parts arrived in New York.
Sunday, 02/10/2002
3 hours
Finally won a set of seat covers on eBay for $31 US Ice Blue..not too bad
calculated an estimate of shipping costs etc for AC from New York.. 245US yikes
Monday, 02/11/2002
0 hours
AC deal fell through...the fellow didnt want to take the time to take
off car.....no biggie..will keep on looking.
Wednesday, 02/13/2002
3 hours
Went to Anderson Autoparts to look at trunk actuator, not sure it will work
also went to Wesman Salvage to find one...they have one on a 88LTD that will work
Will go back tommorrow to get after work.
Thursday, 02/14/2002
2 hours
Valentines day...what does she wish to do this day??
Took trunk latch off car to see if the it can be adapted for trunk release.
Friday, 02/15/2002
3 hours
Picked up trunk actuator and push button from Wesman Salvage
Had Eric at work help to see if the actuator will work.
worked at snakeing a wire along the right side of trunk lid in channels.
MOre fabrication on lock required.
Saturday, 02/16/2002
8 hours
Installed actuator in trunk with wiring direct through car to battery.
Unfortunately I found out that I was hooking up to the wrong side of the latch
I have to get below the keyed latch....DUHS!!
Cleaned up rust off the base of rear view mirror. Decided to reroute wires and
redo latch....had to rework the latch a little to allow the cable entrance and
attachment....WORKS GREAT...press the button and viola...trunk lid pops open.
Wednesday, 02/20/2002
2 hours
Seat covers arrived and pertronix ignitor arrived........
installed pertronix in the time stated......car started first time and
ran smooth......will have to wait to test just how much power there is now
checked on the sizing of seat covers and found the rear one to be too long.
call BP Upholstery to check to see if it can be altered...will take for him to see.
Thursday, 02/21/2002
1 hours
Bid and won Keyless entry and door lock kit from eBay.... 24.99 for the system
Friday, 02/22/2002
1 hours
Arranged with Hank to take car to college to check on winter work and align.
Saturday, 02/23/2002
6 hours
Took car to work, car pulled to right when braking.... will have to check.
Alignment done with checking toe, caster, camber... have printout. We were
only able to adjust toe..but I think we did it wrong because now the car tracks
down road straight with wheel cocked to the left....darn. Took play out of
steering box. Checked differential fluid....level okay. Removed front seat
Cleaned up road dirt from the travel to work.......hey put on 7.5 miles on the
car!!! Odometer reading is 9 miles NOW!
Monday, 02/25/2002
2 hours
Took front seat to BP Upholstery and dropped off and picked up rear seats.
Installed rear seat in car......LOOKS GREAT.... still have the old covers.
Tuesday, 02/26/2002
4.5 hours
Decided to try and make a car cover out of some paint tarps
I had, sewed them and adapted them to a pretty good dust cover for the
garage
Wednesday, 02/27/2002
1 hours
Keyless entry system arrived from Pennsylvania today!
checked out mounting and wiring locations..
Thursday, 02/28/2002
3 hours
Picked up and installed Front seat after it was recovered.
did a little more research into the keyless entry..this could be a
big job. Seems to be missing some parts. Contacted MyPushCart.com
and they are going to send out the missing door lock kit next week.