Hard-Copy Journal for 21 June, 2013

Got to Michael's house fairly early and began installing my carburetor onto Project Phoenix.  Mike got home from work shortly thereafter.  He didn't see me working on the car, but he did see that the garage was open.  This made him certain that his Harley was stolen.  This was amusing to me.  He helped me finish installing the carb.  We also installed the fuel pump.  He then rigged a wiring harness to see if we could get it to run.  It runs very well indeed.  No undue noise.  No smoke.  We then took the car off of the tire stands to see if it could move under its own power.  The moves in reverse and in first gear.  This is very promising.  We also tested that the emergency brake works.  It does marginally.  So, things that work: Engine, Transmission, Clutch, Parking brake.

Michael then went to sleep and I continued by removing the remainder of the interior that I could easily remove.  All major components are now out of the car.  Still need to remove the sound deadening foam from the floor and the heating box thing from the passenger well.  I also removed the rear trim piece to sell.  That was an annoying part to remove.  It was too hot to do anything else. 

No additional costs to report.


Video of Project Phoenix finally running.