We had to make some small adjustments to a floor carpet piece that we received from the factory due to some fittings under the seats that were in the way, so Michael put his sewing skills to use to trim and restitch the carpeting.
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| Michael modifying the floor carpeting |
Various clamps holding the fuel lines were checked and torqued, then the fuel line fittings themselves were also torqued and marked with "torque-seal". A low-pressure test was run on the system (from the header tank to the engine) to look for possible leaks. The system was pressurized slightly with air, and it is indeed leaking, as it loses about 5psi of pressure over 5 minutes, so more investigation is required to track this down.
As mentioned in a previous post, we decided to remove the parking brake, so the parking brake cable, valve and all associated cabling and tubing was removed. A nice black plug was installed in the panel where the parking brake lever was previously located.
The left brake had previously been bled, but it has a slow leak at an elbow fitting near the tire. This fitting needs to be "clocked" correctly, but we found that one more turn to tighten it more was not possible. After some research, we found a few possible solutions. One is to use a better thread sealant (now on order), another is to use a new fitting that will have slightly different threads that will allow the correct clocking, and yet another possibility is to tap the threads a little more to allow the fitting to turn a little further. So we'll try one or more of these options to fix this issue. Hours: 12
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