The ongoing saga of my 1972 Fiat Spider restoration project.
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Tuesday, April 05, 2005

Heater core restoration


Tonight, since I am still lacking the 4th bolt for the water pump, I went to work on the heater core. I pulled it out last night and today/tonight, I cleaned out the vanes, flushed it out, sanded down the outside and gave it a light coat of rust-o-leum. Looks pretty nice. Re-installed and waiting for 2 gaskets I ordered today. Those should get here Friday, I hope.

Also cleaned and re-installed the crankcase breather. Not a hard job but it took me a while to figure out I could re-use some of the old rubber hose from the cooling system and get it done. Apparently the hose that connects the breather to the crankcase is hard to find or something.

Hopefully tomorrow I will have time to hit up Marshalls and get that bolt. I really want to get the cooling system going this weekend. That is the big hold up at this point. Getting all the hoses and parts back together. Once that's done I think I'll be able to try to start it. W00t!

Quick brain dump of things left to do:

  • Get water pump bolt
  • Get lengths of coolant hose from NAPA (small and large)
  • put V-belt back on and tighten
  • install radiator
  • install new overflow tank (probably need more hose for it too)
  • buy lots of coolant
  • buy new battery
  • put dash back together properly
  • drain fuel tank + re-fill with good gas
  • test electrical system
  • get out fire extinguisher, turn ignition key

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