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3-20-2011
Ok another long day. Spent the day fiddling with the diffuser. I also made a hose for the catch can. Looked at how I am gonna mount my camera. And then at the end of the day I went to do a leak check on all the brake hoses I installed plus the spot where I had to replace a brake line. Well they all looked ok. There was some moisture but could have been from when I first did the swap. So I dried those spots off and had the wife pump the brakes and all looked well. So I decided time to bleed the brakes. I went around to the right rear and before I could do anything I notice the brake line going to that side has a wet spot right in the middle of it. Dry at the wheel and dry on top of the pumkin. So I rub the line to see how wet it is. AS I do that all of a sudden drops start dripping out. It was rusty inside if that spring thing that is wrapped around the line. I must have disturbed it enough to get it to leak. So in that sense it's good it happened. But sucks that now I need to replace that line and might as well do the opposite side. So more work.
3-21-2011
Gee another day another brake problem. I had to tackle bending lines for the rear axle where it was leaking and well the stock line must have been 35 inches and the ones the parts store have are either 30 or 40 inches. So mine are now a little longer than before and not near as pretty. but they are new and work. But that was the easy part. I went to bleed the brakes after and couldn't get the front bleeders open. I snapped one and gave up on the other and headed out to the parts store AGAIN!!! SO the car now has 2 new calipers to go with everything else new. I will clean out the other bleeders from the old calipers so I can have them as back ups.
3-24-2011
OK I got some stuff done already today. The new passenger side altenator mount is done. Other than the aluminum tube that needs to be redone It came out nice. The belts are all lined up and the mount is sturdy. For those of you that don't know what I am taking about Olds motors can be tempurmental about having the accessories all on one side. I took off the A/C and relocated the altenator over to the passenger side one to make sure I had no problems and two so it has a more balcanced look and feel. I used the stock drivers side aluminum mount and simply flipped it drilled a hole and sanded the back down some as well as adding the aluminum tube as an upper brace.
Here are some pics of the diffuser after some trimming. It's starting to come together. It is by no means finished but it's getting there. I have 6 inches of clearance with it. I thought I might have to trim the bottom side but it looks like I can keep it that low.
Things yet to do include a new dash panel for my guages and switches. I am also trying to figure out how to seal up the top of teh radiator support so all the air goes through the radiator. Still trying to decide how I want to do it. I will probably incorporate the top radiator mount with it. I also will be making new bumper mounts and if time an airdam.
