{"id":174,"date":"2006-02-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-02-12T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-04-01T16:56:46","modified_gmt":"2011-04-01T16:56:46","slug":"bel-air\/bit-squeeze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/?p=174","title":{"rendered":"Bit of a Squeeze"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a bit of a break from wiring, I fitted the front shocks on Saturday. The powder coat had filled the bolt holes so after a quick run through with a thread chaser I fitted them both with new hardware. With that done I made a bracket to hold the PCM in place behind the clock using some aluminium strip my mate John had given me. With it in place I made a longer bracket for the AC box to mount on the bottom of the dash and while I had the jigsaw out I cut the centre trim to fit the radio.I was concerned I&#8217;d get everything in and clear the wiper drive, so I fitred the pipework for the Vintage Air kit. Unsurprisingly it hit, and after a bit of messing about I called it quits for the day and to have a think. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/files\/BelAir\/2006\/02\/PCM-at-home.jpg\" width=\"443\" height=\"315\" alt=\"PCM-at-home.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>With a fresh set of eyes on Sunday I realised I could run the vent tubes over the top of the PCM but would struggle to get the glovebox and the stereo With the stereo from the Camaro squeezed in I found that it hit the wiper drive. The tubing was pushing it up, so I squeezed it oval with a tie wrap and tried again. This time it fitted and with a bit of moving about and so did the glove box. Back on to the wiring then, and I went through the PCM loom and capped off or removed any un-needed wires. I extended some of the wiring so that I could fit the new fuseboard and then taped it all up into a much neater looking run. It&#8221;s ready to connect in pernamently now, so I&#8217;ll strip and tin all the wires ready to do it. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/files\/BelAir\/2006\/02\/More-Shiny.jpg\" width=\"443\" height=\"288\" alt=\"More-Shiny.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a bit of a break from wiring, I fitted the front shocks on Saturday. The powder coat had filled the bolt holes so after a quick run through with a thread chaser I fitted them both with new hardware. With that done I made a bracket to hold the PCM in place behind the clock using some aluminium strip my mate John had given me. With it in place I made a longer bracket for the AC box to mount on the bottom of the dash and while I had the jigsaw out I cut the centre trim to fit the radio.I was concerned I&#8217;d get everything in and clear the wiper drive, so I fitred the pipework for the Vintage Air kit. Unsurprisingly it hit, and after a bit of messing about I called it quits for the day and to have a think. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/sites\/default\/files\/BelAir\/2006\/02\/PCM-at-home.jpg\" width=\"443\" height=\"315\" alt=\"PCM-at-home.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>With a fresh set of eyes on Sunday I realised I could run the vent tubes over the top of the PCM but would struggle to get the glovebox and the stereo With the stereo from the Camaro squeezed in I found that it hit the wiper drive. The tubing was pushing it up, so I squeezed it oval with a tie wrap and tried again. This time it fitted and with a bit of moving about and so did the glove box. Back on to the wiring then, and I went through the PCM loom and capped off or removed any un-needed wires. I extended some of the wiring so that I could fit the new fuseboard and then taped it all up into a much neater looking run. It&#8221;s ready to connect in pernamently now, so I&#8217;ll strip and tin all the wires ready to do it. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/sites\/default\/files\/BelAir\/2006\/02\/More-Shiny.jpg\" width=\"443\" height=\"288\" alt=\"More-Shiny.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-174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174","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=174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}