Well its been raining for most of the day yesterday and today, but I did get one item accomplished on my list of things to do.
I drilled and tapped the passenger side head for a 3/8" pipe thread temperture switch. I followed a method I read about from member ls1nova71.
Here is a pic of the drill and tap after drilling the hole to the correct size, the heavy grease traps the chips from the drilling and the tapping operations.
Here is the hole after drilling and tapping for the new sender. Sorry for the blury pic..
Now with the new sender installed. It is a Duralast #TU66 with 3/8" pipe threads. I works with the 1990 Suburban Instrument cluster I am going to use.
That's all for today. I hope to get underneath and check the pinion angle and measure for the driveshaft mods. If I can get that done in the morning, I can take the shaft to the shop to get modified and have it back later in the day I hope. Korbin is going to weld up a small pin hole in one of the header tubes for me at his friends shop since that is where my welder is while we are saving to get my shop built. If it goes well tomorrow, my plan is to get the wiring done to fire up the engine this week. Once it runs, I have to bleed the brakes and swap out the instrument cluster so I can drive it.
