Stop in for a cup of coffee
It's a rarity for me to have a friday off work.
I am not sure what mopar related activities I will engage in today but I really want to try to get some measuring done on the disassembled 360
I had today off also...
Was up till 6 AM and woke up at noon...
The younger kid got me sucked in to working on the wiring on his 'new' Barracuda... It wouldn't start after he stopped last time he took it out and the brother smelled hot burning wires... We took the dash gauges out and looked at them... The alternator studs for the gauge wires were loose, so he took the cluster apart and tightened the studs for the alt gauge this week...
We also tested the fuel and temp gauges with the Hoppy electrical tester and they are working....
We were then going to put the gauges in, and I recommended to look at the tach and check the wires while the cluster was out and we could get better access to the tach... We found the wires all bunched up and not even connected, so we started making wires to meet up with them... Got most of them done, but forgot to add the wire for the radio power to the main power wire so we could keep his radio working and before we could fix them it was very late and dark, so we decided to wait and work on them next time... We plan to work on it some more this Sunday as he has to work tomorrow (Sat) if the weather is good....
He wanted to take the Barracuda to a dance at his local community college tonight, but we got sucked in deeper to the car to make it better and we just couldn't get it all done in time... But we did make good progress and are closer to getting it back together and running again...
I didn't get to do any of the things that I had planned to do today, but it was nice to spend some good father-son time on the Barracuda with him and teach him how to fix it... He's willing and eager to learn and is getting good at fixing stuff... I like that he's doing things that I am familiar with and am able to teach him... Pass along my knowledge and experience to the next generation...
I can run my other errands tomorrow after I catch up on some sleep....
