thanks fellas.
I got the wheels and immediately dropped them off at the powdercoater. they look small in the boxes...
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but when you put them on something you already know the size of, like a shopping cart, its easy to see their size.
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I wanted to put the windshield in but without the hood on, it would have been a chore. so I laid the hood on and did it.
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the rubber gasket is from precision, I used the LMC gasket last time and it had curious lumpy/loose spots I had to touch up with urethane. this one fit better, so well I almost went hoarse swearing at it sometimes. I used blunt screwdrivers to wiggle here and shove there till it was in correctly.
since the hood was on I decided to hook up the hood hinges and springs, the hinges went ok but the drivers hinge just would not compress enough to get the bolt in. I used my big crowbar to lever the firewall side up, but since only one spring was hooked I also used a broom to hold the hood open. you can probably guess. the hood slipped off the broom, the big crowbar shot out from the force of the spring. it chipped the floor and ricocheted off my shin, the broom gave out under the weight of the hood and took out one of the overhead lights. all total I got a nice dent in the hood, a nice dent in the floor, a nice dent in the fender, a nice dent in ME, and I sat there in almost darkness because the overhead lights were daisy chained together. I figured it was enough for one day haha.