John S's Journal

I’ve been putting up with a fuel pump inlet banjo bolt weeping lately and the new fiber washers arrived along with a new electronic voltage stabilizer so yesterday I took a few minutes to attend to both.

The fuel pump is easy to get to with the back raised up so the washer replacement was relatively quick. From what I’ve read, you really have to torque those down tight to get them to seal. Time will tell if the problem is solved.

The voltage stabilizer is mounted so high up that I just left the original one in place and mounted the new electronic version down lower on the bulkhead and just moved the wires down. Easy peasy.

The last job was to actually wire up the speakers to the little Bluetooth amp that I mounted in behind the radio console quite awhile ago. I thought it might be nice to have some tunes on my 160 mile round trip for today. The speakers came with the ‘70 roadster and never got used before it got wrecked. They are pretty decent JBL speaker wedge shaped box speakers and sit nicely on the back seat. I just need to put a charge port for my phone now. Between the streaming music and the Google map, the phone juice goes down quickly.

The trip to Amity and back was great. Met up with some familiar faces, car ran great albeit with an occasional alternator light flicker on the way home so that needs to be sorted. Loose belt, loose connection, old diode pack? I’ve got a 105 amp replacement that I fixed up if nothing else so we’ll see how that all shakes out.