[99 to Life]

Dec 11th weekend.

I think I got my brakes bled pretty good so far. Fired it up and got some pedal which is a good sign. I just can't drive it yet cause A. there is too much snow in front of the garage and B. my clutch is still a POS. I am gonna try bleeding it more, but I have a new MC and slave on it. The line is old, but I am not sure that is the problem. I think I just need to bleed it a bunch more. But my (used) tranny just kind of feels weird. Like it won't go into gears when you run through them sometimes, namely 3rd. So I can only wonder how good this POS is. I don't like the shifting linkage though, seems like a lot of slop in it. Maybe hurst makes a short throw shifter that would fit on it.

Besides that, I got my tach hooked up. Also started on my seatbelts. 3point retractable. I had to mount the retracter to a piece of angle iron and mount that to my floor. Worked out just perfect. So now I got to do pass side and get carpeting done in the back and finalize my seat.

Lastly, something I really want to try for the gas gauge is this. I want to use the OG gauge but it is 30 ohms. The s-10 sending unit is 90ohms. So I wanted to make a new plate that would cover the s-10 tank opening. But have the 51' sending unit fit inside that plate. I would also have new fuel lines welded into the plate. So long and short the OG sending unit will mount to a plate that will fit directly into the s-10 tank, I will have my fuel lines mounted in the plate as well. I just have to talk to a couple friends that work in machine shops to see if I can get the plate milled out to spec. The OG sending unit is almost perfect depth to the bottom of the tank. If I can get this done. I am not guaranteeing it will be the most accurate "out of gas" reading ever, but I bet it will be close.