04.24.08
Mark Sets Up Our Web Site
Mark sent me an e-mail this morning with our new web address (www.electricar.us) and instructions on how to log on to administrate my own blog for the rebuild of the Bradley. I spent about two hours becoming familiar with the blog software and set up about half a dozen entries – with progress photos. This is going to be neat and it will probably wind up being – mostly – an on-line version of my (Microsoft Word) building log.
This afternoon and evening, I continued with cleaning and sorting parts. The master cylinder was examined and discarded. The tie rods had their ends removed and discarded; the hardware was saved for cleaning. I cleaned up the remaining of the (probably never to be used) rear brake hardware; I want to substitute disc brakes for the rear drum brakes. I also cleaned the bolts, washers and clamping plates that hold the half-shafts to the transaxle and rear stub axles. I cleaned up all of the hardware that mounts the transaxle to its rubber mounts. I removed the old rubber bushings from the spring plates. These will need to be replaced with new urethane ones. The spring plates went in the pile to be steam cleaned, as did the rear brake drums. I also picked up some small wire cone brushes for my Dremel and started removing the grime from the front brake caliper halves. I got two of the four halves done before I decided to call it a night. I ordered some straight wire brushes for the Dremel on line (not carried by my local Home Depot) and also received a set of pickle forks from Northern Tool today to be used in removing the ball joints from the front axle spiders.
