May 2010. Well, let's see. The license plate came without any problem in about a week and a half. Also, I ended up tearing the rear housing off of the transmission to replace the drive gear on the output shaft. To get the correct ration for the speedometer, I also had to replace the driven gear and the carrier for it. The main gear had to be hammered onto the shaft since it was steel. I wasn't real happy about that but it had to be done. After assembly, I drove it to the end of the road, working fine, until I turned around and started home. Seems as if it liked 1st gear the best, the whole way home. What the Hel* did I do??? After talking with Dave, "I have a book I'm writing" guy, he told me to pull off the governor. I had noticed that when I had it apart, the gear looked funny. Seems the fellow that rebuilt the tranny didn't put a new one on and it stripped all the teeth off one side. Glad to be just out the road and not 100 miles away! As for the tach, JUNK! Dropped one to many times! I had to buy a new one. I have since gotten the trunk lid back. It's going to have to be repainted since it looks about 2 shades too dark! I can't win! I am still waiting for the rear spoiler and the new tach to be painted. Since we missed Christmas, I was hoping that it would be ready for my birthday (this weekend) but I know that will never happen. When these items are finished, there are lots of places to buff and a couple places to re-paint. All total, I've driven it probably 50 or 60 miles but not without a problem. After I came back from getting gas, I noticed a puddle of oil under the rear of the motor. I thought it might be tranny fluid but it turned out to be motor oil. Seems that the rear pan seal ruptured outward letting a small stream of oil escape. After talking with Tom, he said either pull the motor to fix it or jack it up about 6 inches and pull the pan. What the F***!!. It's brand new!!! I thought about it for a couple of days and came up with a plan. I would make a seal holder for the oil pan. A flat piece of steel, contoured to fit the curvature of the pan, with a 90 degree 1/4 inch piece of steel to push the seal in place. Tom said "IT WON'T WORK!!!!!!". Well as of the last time I drove it, not a drop anywhere. Now he wants to make one for his car. "A blind squirrel finds an acorn once in a while". Update on the tach. I went to Joe's last Friday and brought the cover for the old tach home. Since it was painted, I decided to try to fit the new tach guts into the old cover. That was a success. Looks nice and works too. One other thing. I had decided to clean some of the polishing compound off of the engine area so I covered it with a piece of plastic. Always remove anything covering an engine before you start it!!!!! Duh!!!
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