It's Home Again

I had some problems with the 330 that Dennison worked on last summer, so I told Butch when the coupe was ready, I would swap cars.  Yesterday I went down and traded cars.

This time, they have driven the car almost 300 km during testing.

Now, less than 250 until the odometer rolls over at 100,000 km

I got a last minute call that there was a minor leak in the right differential hub.  The new seal wasn't quite right, but luckily, the same seal is used in a 250 GTO, so a spare for Jon Shirley's GTO was used to fix mine.

They detailed the car, specifically the engine compartment since that's where most the radiator water ended up.  It's so nice and clean, that I feel I should have white gloves before touching anything.  The two main issues were pretty easy to resolve.  The radiator cap was one I supplied.  I can remember taking it apart to have it cad plated and never made a rubber sealing washer where the cap seats on the radiator.  Obviously they didn't notice that it was missing.  A new replacement cap resolved that problem.  This cap has a rubber seal under the brash washer. The water temperature was about 70° C the whole time home.

The backfiring problem was an issue with a high tension lead from the coil to the distributor.  The coils have a tapered outside and the rubber boot on the wire tends to push the lead out of the coil.  I was warned to push them back on if a backfire developed.  After a while and some heat cycles, the boot will stretch and take the shape of the coil.

Another item I wanted addressed was to trim the leather tunnel cover.  It was too long and rested over the ash tray.  The right picture shows the new length.

One thing I did do was to move the tools from the 330 to the coupe.  Last time, neither I nor my friend in his 911 had any tools with us.

The drive home went much better that the last time.  No drama.  I did figure out that it's possible to have third gear engaged, but not fully forward.  Eventually, it slips back to neutral and if you put your hand on the shift knob, there is a vibration that's not there when it's properly seated. So, note to myself, really push the gear shift forward for third.

At home in the shop.