{"id":130,"date":"2004-10-24T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-10-24T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-04-01T16:56:45","modified_gmt":"2011-04-01T16:56:45","slug":"bel-air\/tighter-tight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/?p=130","title":{"rendered":"Tighter than Tight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/files\/BelAir\/2004\/10\/Tighter-than-Tight.jpg\" width=\"220\" height=\"223\" alt=\"Tighter-than-Tight.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I tried to fit the pump at various angles again and managed to find one that would just about fit with a few mm of clearance between the hoses and the mounts. Just to double check it all, I decide to fit the headers only to remember that they fouled the starter. A quick two minutes with the grinder gave a decent gap between the two and should help keep the starter from getting too hot. Once the headers were fully bolted up I checked the inlet line and moved onto the hard line.   <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/files\/BelAir\/2004\/10\/Headers-Clearanced.jpg\" width=\"220\" height=\"225\" alt=\"Headers-Clearanced.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p> I taped the filter on where I wanted it to be and straightened up the fuel line to fit it to the side of the frame. I realised it was impossible to cut the line accurately as the tank bolts to the underside of the body so I left it where it was and moved onto the brake lines. I started off at the front and fitted the nice anodised ends and T&#8217;s I bought from Speedflow then moved to doing the rear axle.  <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/files\/BelAir\/2004\/10\/Brake-Line-Fitting.jpg\" width=\"220\" height=\"204\" alt=\"Brake-Line-Fitting.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Once I&#8217;d finished the rear line, I set about cutting off the shock bar that I&#8217;d welded on a few weeks ago. I carefully cut through the welds with the air grinder before splitting it with a hammer and chisel. Once the bar was off I cleaned it all up, turned it round the RIGHT WAY and welded it all back on. A quick clean up of the welds and I called it a day <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/files\/BelAir\/2004\/10\/Shock-bar-done-right.jpg\" width=\"443\" height=\"259\" alt=\"Shock-bar-done-right.jpg\" \/>  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/sites\/default\/files\/BelAir\/2004\/10\/Tighter-than-Tight.jpg\" width=\"220\" height=\"223\" alt=\"Tighter-than-Tight.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I tried to fit the pump at various angles again and managed to find one that would just about fit with a few mm of clearance between the hoses and the mounts. Just to double check it all, I decide to fit the headers only to remember that they fouled the starter. A quick two minutes with the grinder gave a decent gap between the two and should help keep the starter from getting too hot. Once the headers were fully bolted up I checked the inlet line and moved onto the hard line.   <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/sites\/default\/files\/BelAir\/2004\/10\/Headers-Clearanced.jpg\" width=\"220\" height=\"225\" alt=\"Headers-Clearanced.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p> I taped the filter on where I wanted it to be and straightened up the fuel line to fit it to the side of the frame. I realised it was impossible to cut the line accurately as the tank bolts to the underside of the body so I left it where it was and moved onto the brake lines. I started off at the front and fitted the nice anodised ends and T&#8217;s I bought from Speedflow then moved to doing the rear axle.  <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/sites\/default\/files\/BelAir\/2004\/10\/Brake-Line-Fitting.jpg\" width=\"220\" height=\"204\" alt=\"Brake-Line-Fitting.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Once I&#8217;d finished the rear line, I set about cutting off the shock bar that I&#8217;d welded on a few weeks ago. I carefully cut through the welds with the air grinder before splitting it with a hammer and chisel. Once the bar was off I cleaned it all up, turned it round the RIGHT WAY and welded it all back on. A quick clean up of the welds and I called it a day <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/sites\/default\/files\/BelAir\/2004\/10\/Shock-bar-done-right.jpg\" width=\"443\" height=\"259\" alt=\"Shock-bar-done-right.jpg\" \/>  <\/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-130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130","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=130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}