With last weekend’s completed sale of my ’68 Corvair, I find myself with a little coin in the LeMans kitty. I’m still not clear on this whole irony thing, but isn’t it ironic that the first item I buy is a come-along (aka Cable Winch Puller)? The Corvair was parked up against the wall of the garage, so I needed to yank it out in the middle in order to get it off the dollies and rolled into its temporary home in the portable garage and a come-along was the right tool for the job. By the way, it’s very odd to type the Corvair, since it’s been fourteen years since I’ve only had one Corvair.
Anyway, last night, with the help of my future son-in-law, Jeff, the Corvair was moved out of the garage leaving only some tidying before the LeMans can be relocated there. With no rain in the forecast through this coming weekend, maybe that will happen sooner, rather than later.
Back to the real subject of this post, how to spend money. I was on the verge of buying a HEI distributor and high-performance spark plug leads on Amazon, but decided against it, since the first thing I need to do is tear down the engine and transmission, not dress it up. I’m starting with the engine and transmission since I know both have issues (broken piston skirt and balky shifting respectively). Once the car is in the garage, the plan is to immediately pull the engine and transmission and tear down each. That reminds me, I need to remember to back the car into the garage when it’s being moved. Once I make sure the the hard parts are reusable, I’ll buy a set of pistons from Egge, a re-ring kit off eBay, a ST-300 rebuild kit from autotran.us, and an ATF filter from RockAuto. Only after the drivetrain is back in place, will I worry about distributors and spark plugs.
I’m excited!
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