As frustrating as this was, I'm taking it in stride. Giving a day to
fix the car is good for "Toyota Karma" so it will tirelessly deliver me
to my Ferrari restoration!
Not able to get too involved in my Ferrari today, I decided to go to
Jerry Curtis' shop to find the correct speedometer gear. Since my last
visit, I took the appropriate notes on the gear I would need for my transmission,
and found the correct one for my car. The mangled end you see at the elbow
of this gear is a grease fitting, so replacing it should be pretty simple.
Now that I had the housing, I still needed to figure out what to do
about a cable. My car has the speedometer cable housing, but is missing
the cable. Jerry told me about a kit I could buy at the autoparts store
that replaces broken cables. Since the Ferrari has a simple "square drive"
end on its cable, I could make mine from this kit.
Since one end has the square drive attached, you simply cut the rest
of the cable to length, and crimp the supplied end to the other end of
the cable. Who knew it would be this simple? Stay tuned to see if this
actually works!
Back at Francois' shop, he had a chance to braze on the guide tubes
for the battery bracket. If I had time today, I would have primed and painted
the part, but you know the story...it'll have to wait until next time!
Another project that wasn't going to take too much time was removing
the mislocated hangers on the stainless steel exhaust. I'm trying my best
to save these hangers to reattach them in the correct spot, so I carefully
cut the welds with a dremel tool. The correct location is marked with a
black sharpie.
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