The Camaro got a new engine and trans a few weeks back, and the PCM needed to be re-flashed for the later trans. Unfortunately the extension that the laptop was plugged into wasn’t switched on and I ended up with a blank PCM when the battery went on the laptop. The camaro was at Zannetec so the ’55 had to give up it’s PCM to get it moving. I ordered another one from the US and some new flash chips to fix the dead one and waited patiently. The truck was also coming home from having it’s body blasted so the garage needed a massive tidy up which I did the next weekend.

With enough space to get the truck in it wasn’t so easy to work on the ’55. After a bit more tidying up and moving round I could move the truck out and have more space than I did a few weeks back. The PCM turned up this week, so out went the truck and I set about re-fitting it. I decided to turn it the other way up to give me more clearance on the wiper drive, and ground the fins off so that it would fit tighter to the dash. A new clamp on the top and I put it all back together again. I couldn’t test fire it as Tommy was asleep so I wired up the stereo while I waited. With that done and Tommy up I turned the key, the fuel pump whirred and nothing happened. The starter circuit wasn’t working. I decided to re-do it from scratch as I wasn’t happy with how it was done. After a few hours of messing I had one less relay and was ready to go. A turn of the key and it fired right up. It needs the ’55’s tune stuck on there now and I’m back where I was a few weeks ago.