HM2034 build ...another Texas Hurricane

[FFR428]

That was fast turnaround on the powder coating. Nice!! Your making great progress!!

[NTX-CLANK]

Great turn-around on the coating!  With a week off, you will be moving right along, for sure.  Come on in, the water is fine!

We stuck engine and tranny in this week, so I am drooling over your wire routing and looms. I may have to follow your lead a bit on the dress-out...I will probably have to lose the huge air filter...

Did you order the aluminum wrap for forward of the foot box?  If not, what is your plan for finishing out  those gel coat surfaces? 

[Bruce N]

Great turn-around on the coating!  With a week off, you will be moving right along, for sure.  Come on in, the water is fine!

We stuck engine and tranny in this week, so I am drooling over your wire routing and looms. I may have to follow your lead a bit on the dress-out...I will probably have to lose the huge air filter...

Did you order the aluminum wrap for forward of the foot box?  If not, what is your plan for finishing out  those gel coat surfaces?

I did order the aluminum wrap. Think I'll paint them semi gloss black. What motor mounts did you use for the SBF?

[Bruce N]

Made some good progress today. I had the brake lines all done so installed those. I had assembled the Wilwood front brake kit so installed the front suspension. Working on the rear end. Hope to complete that tomorrow.

[NTX-CLANK]

Beautiful brake lines and routing. Will you be using the pressure sensor?  If so, where have you decided that should go?  I am waiting on placement after I review my wiring plan.

I went with OEM style mounts from Oreilly's. Power Torque B2257 and A2388.

Jim

[Bruce N]

Beautiful brake lines and routing. Will you be using the pressure sensor?  If so, where have you decided that should go?  I am waiting on placement after I review my wiring plan.

I went with OEM style mounts from Oreilly's. Power Torque B2257 and A2388.

Jim

I haven't decided on the switch yet. Like you I was going to see what made sense with the wiring. I may go with a pedal activated switch instead of using the pressure activated switch.

[Bruce N]

Kind of a frustrating day today. First I had an axle that would not go all the way into the housing when trying to tighten the retainer ring. Would come to dead stop just before the O-ring on the large seal. Ended up having to pull the other side and the pumpkin to figure it out. Come to find out on the drivers side axle slides through two sets of gears that are butted up against each other. They were a little out of alignment so the axle was hitting on the second gear instead of sliding all the way in. Was able to get aligned and everything put together.

Next I ran into part problems. ran out of 1/2 nylock nuts. They send to many 1/2" heim joints and not enough 5/8. Missing ton of spacers so I had to just make out of tubing I have laying around. But got most of it together and will run up to Ace Hardware in the AM for heim joints.

But making progress

[Kruse]

we recommend some good urethane mounts to limit engine movement and keep things stabilized. less movement on the side pipes.  Prothane is very good.

[Greg K]

Prothane Part #6-503-BL

we recommend some good urethane mounts to limit engine movement and keep things stabilized. less movement on the side pipes.  Prothane is very good.

[Bruce N]

Prothane Part #6-503-BL

we recommend some good urethane mounts to limit engine movement and keep things stabilized. less movement on the side pipes.  Prothane is very good.

Thanks 

[Bruce N]

Not a lot of progress today but did finish up the rear suspension after a couple trips to the hardware store Got the E-Brake installed and started planing fuel lines. Took the afternoon off and made a trip to summit and picked up in-tank fuel pump, filters, SS 3/8 line et. I'll start on that tomorrow.

[Redstang69]

This is a great build thread Bruce. The thing looks awesome so far. I'll be following closely as I've got HM-2037, done later this year hopefully.

[Bob Worley]

Looking great Bruce, I need to come by for a visit!

[Bruce N]

This is a great build thread Bruce. The thing looks awesome so far. I'll be following closely as I've got HM-2037, done later this year hopefully.

Thanks  These things are a great help for advice and ideas! I know your probably waiting as patiently as i was

[Bruce N]

Well not a whole lot to report  Had a wicked storm roll through Tuesday night and made a mess of things. Power was out most the night and my internet down till about an hour ago. I decided to wait till I see how some other things go together before running my fuel lines and battery cables. I did mount the reservoirs on the back of a chair so I could bleed the brakes and test all my lines and such. Only had one flare I had to pull off and lap a little and was fine, so was happy about that! I'm moving on to getting the tub set and install the aluminum panels. Will play with putting the body on and get familiar with how all that goes together. Missing my trans is really screwing up my schedule 

Oh and almost forgot. I got my in-tank pump installed and finished up. If anyone else is considering this look at it closely before you decide. I'm not sure everything I went through was worth it. There are some welded in ballasts inside the tank that make it impossible to fit the fuel basket flat on the forward (deep) part of the tank. I ended up having to modify the basket so it angled up on the slope of the tank floor. The intake hole in the basket is at the far end so that puts it at a higher level than it should be. I drilled another hole down further on the flat but I'm sure this will affect how it operates at extremely low fuel levels. Will just have to see. May have to pull it and build a whole new basket that will fit in the space available on the flat section. Also will need to cut out the trunk floor and build a short cover due to the fittings sticking up to far.

So not sure it was worth the trouble. But....It's done now...