So I was all exited to get off work today. I just got my serp brackets back from the powder coaters and my new fuel just arrived yesterday. I was going to swing by the hardware store pick up some mounting bolts and walay have a kick ass looking engine. First I started mouning the brackets, the bolts were to long so I ran back to the store. I got the right bolts and bolted the brackets on. The it was time for my new edelbrock fuel pump. I put the new chrome fuel pump rod cover on and then went to mount the pump. There was an interfence issue and I will either have to find a different pump or grind some of the serp bracket back to make room. Either way its something I could handle and I will just have to take care of that at a later date. So I move onto start sorting out some of the serp bracket hardware (I pulled it from a juck yard about 3 years ago so if anyone has cut sheets please let me know) I bought a new alternator and was begining to mount and was trying to move the spacer on the back part of the bracket when it broke. It broke right off, i was just tapping it and it broke, ahhhh.
Well after I looked at the piece, it had obiviously been cracked before I had it coated, there was classic crack propagation evidence. You could see it had been that way for a while. The good news is that I now know that the alternator battery terminal is going to hit my new valve covers so I will have to figure out how to solve that problem as well.
If anything, I can look back at today and know that I have matured. If this would have happened to me five years ago there would have been a tool box full of tools imbedded in the garage drywall.
03-15-2008, 06:04 AM
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