Day 6, A very long day (it is 4AM PDT as I write) we just arrived at the Grand
Canyon! We started work on the Bugeye at about 8 AM Thursday. We left
Albequerque at 8:00 PM, after spending the day in Dave Porter's shop. The
original plan was voted down early and plan B was to remove the piston with
with bad bearing (rod bearing not main as reported yesterday). The machine
shop cleaned up the rod & cap, we reinstalled but still had play after
torqueing. A friend of Dave's (Jim ?) stopped by for a visit and said he had a
spare 1275 that had been rebuild some years ago just sitting in his garage. A
little negotiating and we had an engine. It was after noon when we started, at
thimes too many hands trying to assemble a little engine. Whoever did the
rebuild had the distributor drive 180 out, That slowed us down.
We dicided
to leave immediately after a short test drive and reinstall of the bonnet. We
would drive until we couldn't to try to catch up to our schedule. Driving at
night onthe Interstate is a new experience for us. No traffic and we could
cruise at our own speed as we were breaking in the "new" engine.We'll be here
until Saturday AM so no report Friday evening.
See you in San Diego.
Bob
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