[Bob Carriere]

Your new fabircated hinge looks very good.

We spent most of Saturday afetrnoon redoing the plumbing on the engine. Removing all the temporary rubber lines and replacing with steel lines. All went well until the bending tool broke..... got the PCV line done.... but I don't like it... once the tool broke our bends tended to flatten out... so that is for next weekend.

We also repalced the temporary vinyl steam line witha perfect copy of an original. I alwasy maintain that you cannot do a truck with out have a few others for spare. Well one donated the steam line and the bracket.... another donated the tiny clip that holds the gas and vacuum line fixed to the top of the water outlet. Grant found the right gauge of sheet metal and fabricated 4 steam line brackets.... why stop at one....will need them in the future anyways.

Funny how you can spend a whole day ficing a bunch of little things and when you look back you can hardly see what you have spent so much time on. ..... but we enjoyed ourselves.

One of the spare cab 12 donated a much needed 216 valve covers... this one is original and has the separate long tube spout in front for oil fill ups and the middle 1 1/2 inch tube to instal the small oil bath air filter on the valve cover.

Got a small NOS oil bath filter a while back from Andre Gibeau and found the sneaky studs/acorn nut/rubber grommelets that Stewart Loy gave me a few years ago.......that will allow me to instal the 216 valve cover on the 261... the disguise of the 261 is underway. Need to sandblast the valve cover and paint it..... will also need to epoxy the one remaining vent/slit in the valve cover to keep dust out of the valve train.

As any one else fitted a 216 cover on a 235/261...? any problem with the gasket.....??

Some stickyness was discovered on the throttle linkage.... gas pedal shaft seems to rub and bind on the brake pedal.... nice cruize control but not what I want. Will need to fiddle around that one as well. Want to make sure the carburator get wide open throttle when the accelorator button gets fully depressed.

Can any one explain why we have some 216 valve cover that measure approx. 25 inches and some measure 26 inches.... the longer one fits on a 261........ What is the short 25 inches valve cover for....?

Well next weekend is the opening of the Wabbit season..... hoping to get a big one with a large basket of Kocholate eggs.

Bob