John S's Journal

Too much going on lately to spend much time on the GT but I am inching forward. Made the decision to send the original HS4’s to Joe Curto for a rebuild. I had a couple of his kits and was planning on doing them myself until I noticed more wear in the throttle shaft bushes so back to New York they go. Sounds like they’ll be there for quite awhile so I decided to mount the HS4’s from my wrecked ‘70 in the meantime. In doing so, I figured out that the float bowl lids were not quite right. The front one is correct but the rear one is wrong. It’s exactly the same as the front one so the hose routing is wonky. I always wondered why the ‘70 fuel and vent lines seemed awkward. Found some courtesy of the BST forum and should have them soon.

Picked up a fluid transfer pump and got the gearbox all filled up. Ditto for the engine and oil cooler. Got the battery on the charger and tomorrow’s mission is to finish plumbing up the heater and fill the cooling system. Hoping to see the float bowl lids in a couple days so I can button it up and light it off soon.

Thursday
Just a couple things today. Got the heater hoses routed and finished topping off the oil after a trip to O’Reilly’s for some more Castrol GTX.
Getting to the point where I’m looking around trying to find things to do while I wait on my flat bowl lids to arrive. Looks like Monday but lots of grandkid time over the next couple of days so not much time for car stuff.
I might try fit the fishmouth grille if I get a few minutes tomorrow.