[AT] Just want to brag

[charlie hill]

Hi Bruce,  sorry to hear about your brother.

When you get the bugs out of that Z car take it to the track and give it a 
good run for him.  Then let us know how it runs.

Charlie

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <ROBBRUT at aol.com>
To: <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Wednesday, November 09, 2005 6:39 PM
Subject: Re: [AT] Just want to brag


> Thanks for the tip, Don.
> I just ordered it.
> It was just in time, since I need to rebuild the T-5 trans that is in a 
> 1979
> Datsun/Nissan 280ZX  that I got from my brother's widow a few weeks back, 
> just
> after he was killed.
> The car has a 407 cu in smallblock chevy (400 bored .030 over ) with a 
> host
> of other good go-fast stuff. (Holley d.p., Edelbrock, Lakewood, Dart,
> Centerforce, Hooker, Accel, Moroso, etc.)
> Only trouble is that the slave cylinder-to-master cyl. ratio was never 
> right,
> so the clutch never really fully disengaged.
> The result was/is a lot of double-clutching and some beat-up syncronizers 
> .
> Last saturday I swapped the camaro slave (1'' dia) that was in it for a 
> 4cyl
> S-10 (13/16" dia) by making an adapter plate and pushrod, and all is now 
> well
> in the clutch department.
> It is a beauty (original paint, no rust) on the outside, and it goes like 
> the
> hammers of Hades.
> I just wish my brother Rick was still here to enjoy how it works now, 
> since
> it had plagued him from the day he got it.
>
> -Bruce Thompson
> P.S. I'll be doing the same for his garden tractors soon, I guess
> _______________________________________________
> AT mailing list
> Remembering Our Friend Cecil Monson 11-4-2005
> http://www.antique-tractor.com/mailman/listinfo/at
>
>
> -- 
> No virus found in this incoming message.
> Checked by AVG Free Edition.
> Version: 7.1.362 / Virus Database: 267.12.8/163 - Release Date: 11/8/2005
>