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(05-27-08) I spent the long weekend working on the ripples and small dents and scratches on the body work. Got everything ground down, pounded out, puttied up and put on and sanded back, four coats of high build primer. I still need to finish prep on the rest of the straight panels and I just may get this thing painted in a month or two.
(06-08-08) After another drive down the driveway and back I find that the foot feed pedal is in fact too close to the brake pedal and the 2 inch lowering block contacts the steering shaft clamp when turning. I didn't notice this little issue until I tightened down all the steering column mounts. A redesign was in order. I figured the pedal still had to move two inches lower but about 1 1/2 inches to the right. The pedal arm is 3/8 rod so I got some 16 gauge 1/2 inch OD cold rolled tube and fashioned an offset adapter, cut the existing pedal arm, fitted it together, welded it up and now it really looks like it belongs there.
Orginal STAG Footfeed pedal.
The STAG footfeed with the adapter tube in place.
Completed footfeed modification with repositioned return spring tab.
Modified STAG footfeed installed. Now I need to fill the two holes I drilled for the original Herald footfeed pedal.
(06-13-08) I took the Herald for another drive on the driveway today and my son was able to capture a short video.
Heading out you can see where I took the ripples out of the front wing.
Coming back up the drive.
(07-04-08) I finally got a bit more body work done on the Herald. I finished the bonnet prep - primed and sanded, and working my way around the car started on the left door and rear wing. I have been a little distracted lately as I
flew out to Denver a few weeks ago to buy and drive back another 1970 GT6. This one at least is a daily driver and made the trip home (996 miles) in 16 hours. I'll start up a web page chronicling activities on this car soon.
I replaced the exhaust and rebuilt the front suspension on the GT6 this weekend as well. Along the way I found a couple of surprises. The ball joints were mounted with carriage bolts and at some point in it's life the left front
trunion failed, I can only guess that it was towed for some distance that way, grinding a good bit off the lower wishbone.
The GT6's left front wishbone - severely damaged.
With the Herald in the shop, I had to work on the GT6 in the garage. A pain having to run for tools all the time.
KC79650L now has it's own webpage.
(07-13-08) Spent another 10-12 hours sanding and priming and sanding and priming and sanding back some more.