Sunday. Let's see. What did we do?
We started the day by troubleshooting turn signals. They mostly work. Still no brake lights.
Most of the day was spent running lines around the front trunk.
We ran the fuel lines up through the center hole near the steering gear. We folded the body clamps onto them. Then we cut out the holes through the Rennline smugglers box lid a little bigger and ran the fuel lines through them with grommets.
The heater lines that come out of the crossmember are now routed under the gas tank and come up through the sheet metal to the left (as you look at it from the front of the car) of the smugglers box.
I noticed that the heater lines are now very vertical and constitute the highest point on the car. Even though this is now higher than the fill tank, I think it will work because I'm going to use a vacuum filler. I may need to put a bleed valve in the top line. If I do, that'll be easy. Once I figure out where to source a bleed valve.
We then put the radiator back in, plumbed it in and plugged it in.
At this point we were still pushing to start the car.
We were, in fact, 1 hose clamp short so there was no way it was starting.
We decided we would stop once the fuel tank was mounted.
We installed the tank and had trouble matching it up with the mounting holes I had cut earlier in the day. It bumped up against the radiator box. Ultimately, this was where we stopped.
This week I'll have to disassemble the radiator - again - and then re-bend the side shrouds to shorten them probably an inch. And, really, it's only an inch at the bottom. The top is fine. In essence, I'm just making the rear shroud slightly more vertical.
I've ordered a new top shroud from Renegade as the previous one was trashed by one of the shops that worked on it. I had them send me only the back part. I'm going to install a piano hinge so that I can get access to the radiator. Most of the guys that build these cars just leave the front wide open. Mine has the chevy bowtie grid on the front so I can't just reach in there.
here's a teaser photo. It's very similar to final but not final.
Hal