Since oddly shaded is being lazy and wont update her thread
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i guess ill have to do my best to update it in fast forward so we can catchup
Stuff went in
Gauges went in as my previous "ignorance is bliss" motto with the broken temp gauge ect, obviously didnt go too well
New steering wheel went in
and thats caught up pretty much to friday afternoon, when it was first started. we filled it with oil, hit the key and success it was alive, runs nice and smooth despite an exhaust manifold leak. however not all was well straight away, only hours after i decided to take it for a drive to a local car meet, sadly the shifter had been fitted wrong and was more or less a random gear selector, once at the meet i borrowed tools and corrected that, then i went to hit the key, dead battery, great, so got a jump start and made it around the corner before it started misfiring and carrying on due to lack of charge. long story short after i got home i found that the fan belt was loose
Anyways next day and me and Oddly cruised the little bugger down to the carwash to give both Al and my GD sedan a wash as we had a show/track day to attend the day after (no the GA didnt go on track, the engine is still being run in)
since it was dark by the time we were done i decided to check the alternator (of which is brand new) was charging, to my surprise it wasnt, then i seen the issue, the top bolt of the alternator had gone missing, so somehow i xiptied it in place and we set off, only to have issues a few k's up the road because of it, so i had another attempt at ziptieing and this time i was 90% succesful, but we decided it be best if i drove Al and Oddly drove my GD sedan. once home and i had convinced Karly to relinquish the Keys to my GD we got to work on fixing the alternator, only to find that once we had put the new bolt in and fiddled with how it was mounted that the fan belt no longer fit.... at 8pm on a saturday night and us due to leave for Queensland raceway at 4:15am. after a bit of messing around, stressing and yelling it was sorted... kind of. Next morning, 4:15 am and he roars to life and starts charging correctly with only a slight belt squeal (i think some SA members may have heard the belt squeal if they listened hard enough) every now and then. but it worked, and it drove out to Queensland raceway without a single problem.
TL;DR - Galant works, kind of, sort of, maybe
Cheers
VGJONO
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