10/2/2022
Day 6
Hours Worked: 4
Total Hours: 26
Today was a rather calm Sunday, not too much got done but one of the most enjoyable times I have had building so far.
We got the steering system all finished up. No photo but it looks awesome! Because there was no video we had to use a photo album we found that had some helpful stuff about assembling the steering column. I was thinking how I could possible make a couple videos for installing smaller subsystems like that. Might disassemble to steering system and make one because I was not able to find that much great content on it and if I had it would have taken 1/5 the time.
I have slowly been tapping out all of the control arms and it takes A LOT of time. I have broken both of my tapping wrench things and I destroyed the threads of one of the eye bolts which I will attempt to tap that out or may just end up ordering a new one. Anyone know exactly what the 1/4 eye bolt is?
Other than that nothing else really got done. It is nice to see things that come together on the car and it gets me excited when I can sit down in the frame and turn the wheel!
Questions:
Still need to know if anyone has the links to buying the c clips for attaching the brake pedal to the brake booster and the clutch master cylinder to the clutch line
Do I need the top brake pedal position sensor, I can't find any other one and I don't think we had one:
Is this going to hold it seems somewhat high up, not sure if the threads are going into the other half of the clamp. It doesn't seem to want to come off though which I suppose means something good:
Where on the engine is the brake booster vacuum line? I have the 2.4l ecotec, I will post some more pictures in the next post about which ones I think it might be.
Does anyone have a guide to the early model brake fluid reservoir relocation kit. I only found one for the late model.
Summary:
Things are coming together now. It is somewhat daunting looking at the engine harness currently but I am sure we will be able to figure it out. We are going to put in the engine as soon as we get the parts back from powder coating. Still do not have an ETA on the wiring harness but hopefully that comes soon. Going to do the ignition switch probably Monday or Tuesday this week and continue to tap out all of the holes for the front suspension. Still need a lot of the parts from powder coating to put that all together as well. I really am not sure what our pace is but maybe we can finish in 60 hours at the rate we are going. I suppose that would all depend on if we get the engine running perfectly the first time or not.
