{"id":129,"date":"2004-10-17T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-10-17T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-04-01T16:56:45","modified_gmt":"2011-04-01T16:56:45","slug":"bel-air\/making-start-plumbing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/?p=129","title":{"rendered":"Making a start on the Plumbing"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I bought all the connectors and pipe that I thought I needed to do the fuel and the brakes on the car, and made a start on it on Saturday. The plan involved changing the Holley over to a Demon carb that I had won on ebay ages ago. The carb swap was easy, although I had forgotten a connector tube, so I started on the pump. Unfortunately the outlets fouled the bodywork, so I took the pump off and then to bits to try and find a better angle. After about half an hour, I realised there wasn’t one and the only way the pump would clear would be to put the braided hose adaptors fully into the pump, but I could not get them anywhere near. I packed in for the night and decided to have another go on Sunday. It got no better then, as I discovered I’d oredered the wrong hose ends for the brakes, and forgotten one hose completely. I made up a small pipe to fit the carb, which took me about an hour of stabbing myself in the fingers with the braid, then made a few test ends with the tube flaring tool. I also swapped the end of the fuel tank pickup so that I could put braided hose on there as well. Doesn’t look like I’ve done much, but it took long enough. I’ll order all the missing bits tomorrow. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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I bought all the connectors and pipe that I thought I needed to do the fuel and the brakes on the car, and made a start on it on Saturday. The plan involved changing the Holley over to a Demon carb that I had won on ebay ages ago. The carb swap was easy, although I had forgotten a connector tube, so I started on the pump. Unfortunately the outlets fouled the bodywork, so I took the pump off and then to bits to try and find a better angle. After about half an hour, I realised there wasn’t one and the only way the pump would clear would be to put the braided hose adaptors fully into the pump, but I could not get them anywhere near. I packed in for the night and decided to have another go on Sunday. It got no better then, as I discovered I’d oredered the wrong hose ends for the brakes, and forgotten one hose completely. I made up a small pipe to fit the carb, which took me about an hour of stabbing myself in the fingers with the braid, then made a few test ends with the tube flaring tool. I also swapped the end of the fuel tank pickup so that I could put braided hose on there as well. Doesn’t look like I’ve done much, but it took long enough. I’ll order all the missing bits tomorrow. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}