Little steps…

Today’s progress on Sandy so far…

We discovered a potentially troubling oil leak when we rolled the car off the transport. Fortunately it turned out to be the fuel pump gasket rather than one of the nastier things it might have been. Unfortunately, one does not run down to the local parts store to buy a fuel pump gasket for a 1952 Plymouth Cranbrook. Instead, Crash channeled his inner kindergartener and did some tracing, cutting, and pasting in the gasket paper medium. A little gasket dressing, a skinned knuckle, and some swearing later and – voila! – no morr oil leak.

The other little step was to connect the exciter wire for the alternator to the ignition post on the ignition switch. And then to repair the two wires Crash tore of ouf their connectors in the process. Fortunately, that was all the excitement to be had (except for the alternator, which is happily charging the battery from idle).

A wiring update is pending as the team may have backed the wrong horse from a harness perspective…

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