A TCL First? '67 Rolls Royce project thread...

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had a bit of free time today to go through and clean things up and run a quick electrical test now that the interior is all back together.

its really nice to have back lighting for the gear indicator and the lighting for all the gauges works.
the ticking of the clock caught me off guard when i first hooked up the battery, its nice to see that working now also. rebuilding the turn signal switch seems to have made that a bit more reliable to use as well, still a bit looser than id like but it works every time now.

and the big headline.... the radio works now!
i have no idea what any of the buttons do (they seem to switch between medium and long-medium wavelengths from what i could decipher) but i managed to find one AM station that came in through the metal shop walls and the volume, balance/fader all work.
was really creepy for some reason listening to talk radio out of a single speaker...

anyway just waiting on brake parts to come in now, should only be a couple more days, and to pick up the front carpets and whatnot from the interior shop.
hoping next weekend we get some road test time - it looks like the weather is going to start to turn for the worse so we'll see how it goes...

5-13-2013

just got word the calipers and pads should be here tonight.
hopefully get those installed along with some new hard lines in another couple days.

plenty of good pics to come - both of the new parts and hopefully some stuff from jim of the teardown of the old stuff

5-16-2013

been a really busy week so far, but heres a couple shots of what ive managed to get started on...

all the new brake stuff - only thing still "used" are the castings, i think everything else has been replaced at this point.

seems everything to do with the rear brakes is a lot more expensive than the fronts... the main pads, the park brake pads, the pistons, etc

one corner done

thats likely to be the most difficult corner as both hardlines needed replacing...
fingers crossed.

5-21-2013

all the calipers and hardlines are on, and the brakes are partially bled (was having some disagreements with the choke and getting it started yesterday )
and the new front carpet and interior panels are here... and they look amazing!

ill have some pics tonight