Almost ready for Moab!


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Posted by Tim Way on Thursday, April 14, 2005 at 12:54PM :

My '51 M37 is almost ready for Moab.

The paint is finished(ish). Now it's all green, instead of red, black, silver and green. Not the best job in the world, but good enough for pictures :-) I'll finish painting the interior when I get back.

New top arrived last night from Beachwood canvas. Ordered it Monday, it arrived Wednesday. That's some seriously fast shipping! It's the vinyl coated polyester version of the stock top with "fixed rear window". It looks great, but is a little tight. I hope it stretches a tad bit once it warms up.

My 24V fuel pump is installed, plumbed and wired with a primer button in the cab. I bypassed the mech pump but left in in place for now.

Lube/oil/filter last night. I was a little worried about changing the filter due to some conversations on this board about losing oil pressure after installing a new filter. The NAPA 1100 Gold I used did not effect oil pressure at all.

Now for the stuff that still needs done....

Finish wiring the headlights and front marker lights. No big deal here.

Install the Lock Right...I STILL don't have the thrust washers from MARS. My fault for waiting so long to order them. I REALLY hope they show up today. If they don't I have 2 options; go to Moab lockerless or install the locker using new fiber thrust washers. Neither option is great.

Tim-Counting down the hours until Saturday-Way
Albuquerque, NM



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