----Given the day and the fact that I have a bunch of Irish in me the beers won't be virtual tonight......Bill S

We've had 3 snowfalls in the last 2 weeks here so they salted up the roads again as recently as yesterday - which means I have not been able to test drive yet. Lots of rain forecast this week to hopefully clean things up and warmer temps next week - so it won't be long.

I am working on another minor issue in that the rear defogger blower has not been working. Yesterday I got out the old test light and verified I have power all the way through the switch and back to the blower plug in part of the harness at both high and low speeds. The motor gets warm when power is applied to it but does not spin. I took the motor (still the original 2/72 dated unit) out of the defogger housing and it will spin by hand but seems overly tight. I dropped it off at my local electric motor rebuilder and he will take a look at it. Hopefully an easy fix.

Two steps forward and one step back .............I decided to move the cars around yesterday and work on getting the garage set up for warmer weather. Roads are also now clean enough to allow for some behind the wheel time. Chevelle brakes work great but found another "minor" issue. The trans will not shift out of first gear. I assume this was a vacuum issue even though everything was hooked up - or so I thought. I sent Eric a picture of vacuum hose routing on the new carb, which I thought was the same as my old speed shop Holley it replaced - but it's not. I have the vacuum modulator and vacuum advance hooked up to the TCS port (this is a 70 specific carb) and there is not sufficient vacuum on the TCS port. Eric was kind enough to call me and walk me through how to get things re-routed. I need to search through my parts to see if I have the proper intake manifold fitting with another port to hood up the vacuum modulator line and then "T" into the choke line for the vacuum advance. To be clear this is not an issue on Eric's end - I had it plumbed incorrectly. I sent him the picture at 7:15 this morning and by 7:45 he had it diagnosed and solved. Onward!

----Jake,,,,So many variations of that vacuum fitting. I have several different ones so if you can find a picture of the right one I may be able to give you one!.....Bill S

Thanks for the offer Bill - I've got one coming.

My intake manifold fitting arrived yesterday and I installed it before I left to go do the tires on the 409. Took it for a quick test drive and the trans shifts as it should now. Also got a call from the electric motor guy and the defogger motor is ready to pick up - so I will get that on Monday. Finally coming together.

Finally back on the road - went over to the airport museum next door and snapped some pics with the evening sun.

Some video if it running while I was taking the pictures.

https://youtu.be/10BCHxwihHo

Proof that it runs well (way better actually) and the new Uniroyals produce much more smoke. If I only could figure out how to rotate the picture correctly. :stupid:

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