I am hoping that my granddaughter (10) or grandson (
will have a go in the junior dragster up the track next year, Rory though has got a few years to go yet. Anyway, what I done today.
I spent 8 hours down the garage today and not got a lot to show for it. The first thing I had to sort out was the back axle, when we pushed to car into the garage last night, we (As in the youngster who works down there) found diff oil on the insides of each tyre. When I took them off this morning I found the problem. Ages ago, I put the callipers from the back to the front to make it look neater, to do this you have to undo 6 bolts each side and swing the plates around and swap the callipers over from one side the other, Looks like I only put a couple of the bolts back in to see if I liked it or not and forgot about it. The oil was coming out of one of the missing bolt holes.
They are right behind and hidden by the disc's so I had to strip the whole lot back off, find and fit all the bolts and stick it back together again.
This done I looked to see if I could do anything with the throttle, it had a very long travel. Part of the linkage was a little chrome bracket, this did not fit my carb, I took it off and put it away. When looking for the axle bolts I found it and thought it might do the job to extend the bottom of the pedal. I took the pedal off and drilled an extra hole and bolted on the bracket, bolted it all back on, changed the angle of the cable and it works great.
The Cunning Coupe
The Cunning Coupe
The main job for the day was the wiring; I had already wired the main switch panel so I fitted it to where it’s going to sit. (I had to swap the ignition and fuel pump switches over as the ign switch looked to easy to knock off, I will be putting labels over the old ones.)
The Cunning Coupe
When I came home last weekend I thought I had put all of my parts into the van, but I forgot the master switch and solenoid, as I know where they are going to fit, it was not a problem. All the wires are sleeved and heat shrink at each end, I bought a plug kit so everything can be taken out of needed without stripping all the wiring.
The Cunning Coupe
That is about it for now, we are off to Eastbourne next weekend and with Christmas and the New Year, I won’t be doing much on the car until well into the New Year.
