Getting back to work was complicated. This delay was due to the death of a family member of mine and the rain. I missed the trip yesterday, but Mr. Butler and Michael made a run to CNS junkyard in Walkertown, NC to scavenge for more parts for the mustang. With them they brought back rear brake caliper mounts, parking brake cables and various other odds and ends. Today we started with a modification of the rear brake mounts. Since we’ve upgraded to bigger Cobra brake components, the mounts needed to be made wider to accomodate the bigger rotors. I used an angle grinder to fix the problem. After about 30 minutes of shaving the metal, the mounts were installed and ready for use. While Michael removed the old parking brake cable and installed the new one, I worked on spacers for the motor mount. We ran into a complication where the motor mount is not going to bolt down where we though it was. The steering rack was up too high so I used a piece of flat bar to fabricate two spacers to place under the motor mount. This should eliminate the problem.
Since we were on a time crunch, we rushed to load the car onto Mr. Butler’s trailer to transport it to his house. Tomorrow we plan to escape the cool weather outside to go to his home shop once again. Mike and I then finished up the day by collecting all the needed parts for tomorrow’s adventure.
I'm sorry for the disappointment, but we forgot the camera. All of today's progress was not photographed and will be greatly missed.
Just one of those days, I guess!
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